Analytics/Research and Data/2014

Readership

• 4 reports on readership trends
  • Feb '14 slides
  • July '14 m:Research:Mobile trends slides
  • Sep '14 slides
  • Dec '14 slides
• m:Research:PageView definition & implementation
• m:Research:Activity session @ [arxiv.org/abs/1411.2878 paper] accepted to WWW'15
• Geodump proposal m:Research:Geo-aggregation of Wikipedia pageviews
• Stanford collaboration for improving link coverage in Wikipedia: m:Research:Improving_link_coverage

Quality

• Missing information in Wikidata/Wikipedia
• Newcomer article creation research (paper slides video)
• Discussions of value-added in Wikipedia (video, slides)
• m:Research:Revision scoring as a service
  • IEG funded with User:He7d3r and User:とある白い猫

Engagement

• Mobile
• Signup trends
• Mobile activation/user engagement
• m:Research:WikiGrok
• m:Research:Asking anonymous editors to register & m:Research:Anonymous phenomena
• [[:m:Research:Activity sessions] (paper accepted at WWW'15)
• Moodbar paper (paper accepted at CSCW '15) 10.1145/2675133.2675181
• m:Research:Anonymous mobile editing in Italian Wikipedia
• m:Research:HHVM newcomer engagement experiment

Research code and data

• Metrics standardization (slides)
• Fundraising a/b testing pipeline
• Datasets
  • DOI / PubMed citations 10.6084/m9.figshare.1299540]
  • AFT corpus - via datahub.io
  • English Wikipedia Reverts - via datahub.io
• Libraries
  • Python
    • MediaWiki Utilities - http://pythonhosted.org/mediawiki-utilities/
    • MediaWiki streaming - https://github.com/halfak/MediaWiki-Streaming
    • MediaWiki OAuth - http://pythonhosted.org/mwoauth/
    • Deltas - http://pythonhosted.org/deltas/
    • Wikiclass - http://pythonhosted.org/wikiclass/
  • R
    • WMF utilities - https://github.com/wikimedia-research/WMUtils
    • URL handling and manipulation tools - http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/urltools/
    • Integration with standard cryptographic libraries for data anonymisation/sanitisation purposes - http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openssl/
    • Mediawiki API client library - https://github.com/Ironholds/WikipediR
    • Generalised session reconstruction toolkit - https://github.com/Ironholds/reconstructr
    • User agent parser - https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-r
    • Geolocation toolkit - https://github.com/Ironholds/rgeoip
    • General-purpose MediaWiki tools https://github.com/Ironholds/MWUtils

Outreach and stuff

• Research showcase -- 21 talks streamed on YouTube, Hundreds of youtube views per event
• Wikimania 2014
  • Research hackathon
  • WikiCredit - Calculating & presenting value contributed to Wikipedia (slides, video)
  • Hi,_my_name_is 192.195.83.38: unmasking anonymous editors on Wikipedia
  • Expanding the encyclopedia: trends in article creation on Wikipedia (slides, video)
  • ...
• Regular research updates via @WikiResearch (over 2K followers as of end of 2014) and the monthly research newsletter
• Wikipedia research group discussion @ CSCW '14
• m:Research:Open Collaboration Systems Workshop @ CSCW'15 (schedule)
• Wikipedia Research panel @ NatCom '14
• <some workshop> @ ICWSM '15
• Invited talks
  • Oxford Internet Institute
  • University of Michigan
  • INRIA
  • University of Minnesota
  • ISI Foundation
  • DensityDesign Lab
  • Public Library of Science

What's next

• Revision scoring as a service
• WikiCredit service and Value-added datasets
• Mashups (link needed)
• m:Research:MediaWiki_events:_a_generalized_public_event_datasource
• m:Research:Increasing_article_coverage