and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions Best regards, antanana
2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>: > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread? > Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :) > > בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46, "Leila Zia" <[email protected]> כתב: > > > Hi all, > > > > ==Background== > > In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that > > helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation > > at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how > > we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to > > build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions, > > capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of > > knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of > > interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results > > of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via > > a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that > > study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital > > traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering > > behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read > > the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 . > > > > ==What do we want to do now?== > > There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and > > the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we > > observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures. > > For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more > > languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English, > > Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been > > helping us translating all survey related documents to these > > languages.:) > > > > ==What about your language?== > > If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like > > to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways > > described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I > > cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however, > > I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The > > decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do > > the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate > > the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple > > of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community, > > and your willingness to help us document the results for your language > > at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ > > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour > > (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable > > documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee > > that on our own for many languages.) > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > > -- > > Leila Zia > > Senior Research Scientist > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
