Hi all,
I'd like to make sure you're aware of the following event, especially
the second talk which is scheduled to start on 2019-11-20 at 10:00 PST
- 18:00 UTC. The presentation will show the latest research on
Wikipedia reader motivations and gaps. I'm bringing this research to
your attention as for the first time we were able to sample the
readership (traffic) from countries in Africa for French and English
Wikipedias. While the presentation will not do a deep dive in Africa's
readership (as we did the study in 14 languages in many regions of the
world) it can still give you more insights about the readers from your
continent. :)
If you cannot watch the meeting at the specified time, you can always
watch it afterwards as it will be recorded.
Best,
Leila
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From: Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:23 PM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 20,
2019 at 9:30 AM PST, 17:30 UTC
To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
<analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 20,
2019, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation from Martin
Potthast of Leipzig University on text reuse in Wikipedia and other
presentation from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Isaac Johnson on the
demographics and interests of Wikipedia’s readers.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIko_V1k09s
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without
By Martin Potthast, Leipzig University
We study text reuse related to Wikipedia at scale by compiling the first
corpus of text reuse cases within Wikipedia as well as without (i.e., reuse
of Wikipedia text in a sample of the Common Crawl). To discover reuse
beyond verbatim copy and paste, we employ state-of-the-art text reuse
detection technology, scaling it for the first time to process the entire
Wikipedia as part of a distributed retrieval pipeline. We further report on
a pilot analysis of the 100 million reuse cases inside, and the 1.6 million
reuse cases outside Wikipedia that we discovered. Text reuse inside
Wikipedia gives rise to new tasks such as article template induction,
fixing quality flaws, or complementing Wikipedia’s ontology. Text reuse
outside Wikipedia yields a tangible metric for the emerging field of
quantifying Wikipedia’s influence on the web. To foster future research
into these tasks, and for reproducibility’s sake, the Wikipedia text reuse
corpus and the retrieval pipeline are made freely available. Paper
<https://webis.de/publications.html#?q=wikipedia%20ecir%202019>, Demo
<https://demo.webis.de/wikipedia-text-reuse/>
Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Demographics and Interests
By Isaac Johnson, Wikimedia Foundation
Building on two past surveys on the motivation and needs of Wikipedia
readers (Why We Read Wikipedia
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2016>; Why
the World Reads Wikipedia
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018>),
we examine the relationship between Wikipedia reader demographics and their
interests and needs. Specifically, we run surveys in thirteen different
languages that ask readers three questions about their motivation for
reading Wikipedia (motivation, needs, and familiarity) and five questions
about their demographics (age, gender, education, locale, and native
language). We link these survey results with the respondents' reading
sessions -- i.e. sequence of Wikipedia page views -- to gain a more
fine-grained understanding of how a reader's context relates to their
activity on Wikipedia. We find that readers have a diversity of backgrounds
but that the high-level needs of readers do not correlate strongly with
individual demographics. We also find, however, that there are
relationships between demographics and specific topic interests that are
consistent across many cultures and languages. This work provides insights
into the reach of various Wikipedia language editions and the relationship
between content or contributor gaps and reader gaps. See the meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…>
for more details.
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Wiki Loves Africa lovers
Early 2020, the 6th edition of Wiki Loves Africa will take place. The
2020 theme will be *"Africa on the move"* aka *"Transportation"*. You
can participate to *Wiki Loves Africa *to increase the coverage of
Africa onto the wikimedia projects and more generally on the internet.
If you are planning to host events focused on Wiki Loves Africa, and you
need funding for the events, you will be able to apply for a Rapid Grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid>.
*IMPORTANT* : this year, all Wiki Loves Africa related requests MUST be
made between the 1st and the 15th of December.
For the formely participating teams, submitting a rapid grant should be
fairly easy. But plan ahead with your team to define your program and
finalize your budget.
For the new teams (or individuals) who want to join but do not know
exactly what to do, please read
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020 for more
information and get in touch with the organizing team.
For all interested, please add your name/UG/country onto the meta page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020
Finally, if any of you is keen to help the global team, please get in
touch. We need you :)
And please relay that message....
On behalf of the team
Florence
Librarians and library lovers,
>From *January 15th to February 5th* we will be joining together around the
world to make Wikipedia more reliable. You can participate in *#1Lib1Ref *by
simply adding a citation to Wikipedia's content!
That's all we ask and imagine: a world in which every librarian (or
archivist, reference professional, and scholar) adds 1 more reference to
Wikipedia. This is the fifth year of the #1Lib1Ref campaign and we couldn’t
be more excited to support another year of activities.
Full resources and guides for participating are available on the campaign
website <http://1lib1ref.org/> (http://1lib1ref.org).
If you are planning to host a coffee hour
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit>
or a edit-a-thon focused on #1Lib1Ref, and you need funding for the event,
you will be able to apply for a Rapid Grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid>. For the best chance
of approval, requests should be made in the month of November, since
requests related to #1Lib1Ref will be given priority by the Grants team
during November.
You can make sure your contribution is counted by using the Program and
Events Dashboard for your event, institution, or region, and using the
#1Lib1Ref
hashtag in your edit summary. Login to start a new event or join an
existing one for the January campaign here:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2020/overv…
Please tell your library and library-loving friends about #1Lib1Ref in
January. We need everyone's help to make Wikipedia more reliable!
You can join the 1Lib1Ref community via the Libraries (
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org), and 1Lib1Ref (1lib1ref(a)lists.wikimedia.org)
mailing lists, or by joining the Wikimedia + Libraries User Group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group
You can learn about last year's campaign and what we learnt in our recently
released blog post on Wikimedia Space:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/10/29/what-we-learned-from-1lib1ref-2019/
Cheers,
The Wikipedia Library team
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You are welcome, Gabriel.
Regards
Isaac
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 9:54 AM Gabriel Amuzu <amuzugabrieljoe(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Hello Isaac,
>
> The question have been perfectly answer by you.
> I am clear on everything you mentioned in the explanation.
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards.
>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, 9:13 pm Isaac Olatunde, <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Gabriel,
>>
>> Only stewards, administrators and file movers are allowed to rename
>> images (and other files) on Commons.
>>
>> That being said, users can request a file rename by first activating the
>> gadget RenameLink via Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets subsection
>> "Interface: Files and categories". Then an additional menu option "rename
>> request" appears in the top menu. Subsequently an administrator or file
>> mover (renamed) will evaluate and execute or reject the request.
>>
>> I apologize if I misunderstood your question.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Isaac
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 9:39 PM Gabriel Amuzu <amuzugabrieljoe(a)gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> It is good to have proper description of images or media how ever I want
>>> to ask if there is any prevellage given to the person who posted thY
>>> particular image or video to late rename it if it was wrongly labelled?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Amuzujoe
>>>
>>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, 3:08 pm , <
>>> african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to
>>>> african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>
>>>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>>>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>>>> african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>
>>>> You can reach the person managing the list at
>>>> african-wikimedians-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>
>>>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>>>> than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Today's Topics:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Ingo Koll)
>>>> 2. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56
>>>> (WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria)
>>>> 3. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Isaac
>>>> Olatunde)
>>>> 4. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56
>>>> (Isla Haddow Flood)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Message: 1
>>>> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:47:35 +0200
>>>> From: Ingo Koll <ikoll(a)gmx.de>
>>>> To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11,
>>>> Issue 56
>>>> Message-ID: <ddf22bce-9591-723b-843f-03fcbd412596(a)gmx.de>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the
>>>> language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa
>>>> might be undergoing maintenance".
>>>>
>>>> Is that functional?
>>>>
>>>> Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not
>>>> have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting
>>>> and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers Ingo - Kipala
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb
>>>> african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
>>>> > t Play on ISA
>>>> > (Adjoa Linda Fletcher)
>>>>
Dear Isa, dear Isaac, thanks for taking the trouble to react to my lines.
As for access - this seems to be ok now. It was not a question of which
language. I understand now the tool is not designed for cleaning up. I
think the tool is helpful - well for salvaging some material. It would
be more helpful if there was a way of getting directly to category
editing. And it is not ideal that the list of categories is cut off at
end of line. If there is a way to re-sorting the display, so that the
long line "Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2019 | Images from Wiki Loves
Africa 2019 in Tanzania" would be pushed to the end to make the author-
relevant categories visible?. And as obviously there is material that
looks miplaced and of poor quality - why not include a "delete" proposal
button (just proposals..)?
I went thru a number of the images and added Swahili captions. My
impression is: some usable, a majority of unusable material.
Isa, you wrote: "competitions like Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves
Earth are specifically designed to attract people into contributing to
Wikipedia in an easy and fun way." Im am a big fan of "fun and easy".
Just I do not see the contributions to wikipedia if images are unusable.
One or 2 years ago I shared here a random evaluation I had done of
images from past competitions. I saw then that the vast majority of the
checked images was not used anywhere on wikipedia. My impression was
they were not used because they were -even if sometimes beautiful-
rather useless for an encyclopedia, and that the vast majority probably
will never be used for any article. That why I started asking myself
why we should spend time, effort and money on collecting
encyclopedically useless pictures.
Has anything changed in this aspect? Are images a contribution to
wikipedia just because something is uploaded unto commons?
Isaac, you wrote: "It would be counterproductive to not accept images
that are not properly described or categorized." - Please allow me to
see this the other way round. My understanding of common is as a
supportive tool for article authors. I do not find it productive to fill
space with lots of badly (even not at all) categorized or poorly (even
uselessly) described images.
Cheers
Ingo
Am 13.11.2019 um 17:08 schrieb
african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
> competitions like Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Earth are specifically designed to attract people into contributing to Wikipedia in an easy and fun way. The more barriers, the less fun, the fewer people, the fewer interesting and diverse pictures.
Hello,
It is good to have proper description of images or media how ever I want to
ask if there is any prevellage given to the person who posted thY
particular image or video to late rename it if it was wrongly labelled?
Regards
Amuzujoe
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, 3:08 pm , <
african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to
> african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> african-wikimedians-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Ingo Koll)
> 2. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56
> (WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria)
> 3. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Isaac Olatunde)
> 4. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56
> (Isla Haddow Flood)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:47:35 +0200
> From: Ingo Koll <ikoll(a)gmx.de>
> To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11,
> Issue 56
> Message-ID: <ddf22bce-9591-723b-843f-03fcbd412596(a)gmx.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
>
> Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the
> language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa
> might be undergoing maintenance".
>
> Is that functional?
>
> Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not
> have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting
> and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized.
>
> Cheers Ingo - Kipala
>
>
> Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb
> african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
> > t Play on ISA
> > (Adjoa Linda Fletcher)
>
Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the
language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa
might be undergoing maintenance".
Is that functional?
Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not
have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting
and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized.
Cheers Ingo - Kipala
Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb
african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
> t Play on ISA
> (Adjoa Linda Fletcher)