Wikimedia Research/Showcase/Archive/2014/08
August 2014
editAugust 20, 2014 Video: Commons? YouTube
- Everything You Know About Mobile Is WrW^Right: Editing and Reading Pattern Variation Between User Types
- By Os Keyes: Using new geolocation tools, we look at reader and editor behaviour to understand how and when people access and contribute to our content. This is largely exploratory research, but has potential implications for our A/B testing and how we understand both cultural divides between reader and editor groups from different countries, and how we understand the differences between types of edit and the editors who make them.
- Wikipedia Article Curation: Understanding Quality, Recommending Tasks
- By Morten Warncke-Wang: In this talk we look at article curation in Wikipedia through the lens of task suggestions and article quality. The first part of the talk presents SuggestBot, the Wikipedia article recommender. SuggestBot connects contributors with articles similar to those they previously edited. In the second part of the talk, we discuss Wikipedia article quality using “actionable” features, features that contributors can easily act upon to improve article quality. We will first discuss these features’ ability to predict article quality, before coming back to SuggestBot and show how these predictions and actionable features can be used to improve the suggestions.