OK, I did it :) I don't write in the Russian Wikipedia as much as I do in Hebrew and English, but it should be OK.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-06-21 9:57 GMT+03:00 Leila Zia <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this > thread? > > > [Amir, you are aware of this but I'm hoping by saying it here we can > change the outcome.] > > At the moment, all text is translated to Russian but we don't have any > volunteer as a point of contact for Russian Wikipedia. The PoC is > needed to communicate the notifications from us to the ruwiki > community and also transfer anything we should know from that > community back to us. I have made having a PoC a (soft?) requirement > for running the survey in a language. If you are from ruwiki and you'd > like to be the PoC, please ping me immediately (I expect up to 3 hours > of your time to be spent in the next 2 months). > > If we don't find a PoC in the next 12 hours or so, we will need to > make a call whether to run in ruwiki or not. I'd love for us to run > the survey in ruwiki, especially as volunteers have already spent time > and care on the translations and there is little we (the broader > Wikimedia community) know about ruwiki. :) > > Here is the list of languages and their PoCs, if you're curious: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages# > Participating_languages > > Best, > Leila > > > > > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
