Wikimedia Research Newsletter wikiresearch@identi.ca
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2013-09-04T20:42:32Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
74% of German Internet users use Wikipedia at least occasionally (academics: 88%), 32% once per week or more often http://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/index.php?id=397Finn Årup Nielsen shared this.
2013-08-22T13:46:35Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Wikipedia Weekly podcast, episode 96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode96 - some #WikiSym coverage from 10:30-20:002013-08-20T01:25:20Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Open Strategy between Crowd and Community: Lessons from Wikimedia and Creative Commons" http://www.dobusch.net/pub/uni/Dobusch-Kapeller-2013-WMCC-AOM2013_SUBMISSION-Version.pdf (draft paper)2013-08-20T00:47:14Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Comparing the Usage of Global and Local Wikipedias with Focus on Swedish Wikipedia" http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1776 (enWP not competing w local WPs)2013-08-20T00:37:14Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Reliable Sources for Indigenous Knowledge: Dissecting Wikipedia’s Catch–22" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indigenous_Knowledge_for_Wikipedia.pdf2013-07-28T17:13:20Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Density of references increasing on German Wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belegdichte.svg (but still less than 1 per 2 kB of text)2013-07-27T05:53:38Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Damage detection and mitigation in open collaboration applications" http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~westand/docs/dissertation.pdf (dissertation about Wikipedia vandalism)2013-07-26T14:04:12Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Bioinformatics researchers on the use of Wikibooks to publish handbook on next-gen sequencing http://intl-bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/21/bib.bbt045.full https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Sequencing_(NGS)2013-07-26T13:55:37Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Link rank of biographies, 9 language Wikipedias http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6259 "Global heroes": Napoleon (PageRank #1) & Michael Jackson (2DRank #1)2013-07-24T06:36:12Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Methods for Exploring and Mining Tables on Wikipedia" http://poloclub.gatech.edu/idea2013/papers/p19-bhagavatula.pdf Online demo: http://downey-n1.cs.northwestern.edu/public/2013-07-23T16:02:44Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
90% of Wikipedia articles of "equivalent or better quality than their Britannica counterparts" in blind expert test http://massamateurism.blogspot.com/p/synopsis.html#_ftnref2Mike Linksvayer likes this.
2013-07-16T01:09:08Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Analysis of Existing Technological Platforms for the Collaborative Production of Open Textbooks" including Wikibooks http://ariadne.cti.espol.edu.ec/xavier/papers/Pincay-EDMEDIA2013.pdf2013-07-16T01:09:06Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
"Analysis of Existing Technological Platforms for the Collaborative Production of Open Textbooks" including Wikibooks http://ariadne.cti.espol.edu.ec/xavier/papers/Pincay-EDMEDIA2013.pdfMike Linksvayer shared this.
2013-07-12T02:19:34Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
How should one quote Wikipedians in research papers - anonymously or by name? @hfordsa's approach: try to ask users http://ethnographymatters.net/2013/06/27/onymous-pseudonymous-neither-or-both/Evan Prodromou, Greg Grossmeier likes this.
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2013-07-09T16:40:25+00:00 via web To: a(n) person, Public
RT @vrandezo A visualization of Wikidata geographical data, updated daily. Display connections, zoomable, clickable. http://ur1.ca/ekx952013-07-05T15:39:12+00:00 via web To: Public
RT @Infodisiac New blog post: Edit/Revert patterns on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/12hinOL Strong seasonal patterns in revert counts.2013-07-04T18:02:30+00:00 via web To: a(n) person, Public
RT @tomayac #Wikipedia weekly page view stats (2008–mid 2013) in a Google-Trends-like style: http://ur1.ca/ej4ji . Made by @hfmuehleisen.2013-07-01T15:35:10+00:00 via web To: Public
RT @bkeegan "Highlighting entanglement of cultures via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles" http://ur1.ca/ehy3q #Wikipedia2013-06-28T18:59:53+00:00 via web To: Public
The latest Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: http://ur1.ca/egwht E.g.: Benefit of WikiProjects on quality2013-06-24T08:51:19+00:00 via web To: Public
"Wikipedia and Encyclopaedism: A Genre Analysis of Epistemological Values" http://ur1.ca/efaff (e.g. statistical comparison w. Britannica)