To illustrate our recent post on Wikipedia clickstream ‘rabbit holes,’ the Wikimedia Foundation’s Mikhail Popov used R code to create a net neutrality clickstream. An overview of core graph theory terms is provided, along with brief introductions to R packages igraph, ggplot2, and ggraph. While some familiarity with R is necessary, he includes a list of free resources for learnin... Read more
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How we made that net neutrality clickstream diagram
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Celebrate Wikipedia’s birthday by joining your local library in the #1Lib1Ref campaign
The annual #1lib1ref campaign asks librarians to add a citation to a reliable source to Wikipedia—and it’s easy to get involved.... Read more
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New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is releasing a monthly clickstream dataset. The dataset represents—in aggregate—how readers reach a Wikipedia article and navigate to the next. Previously published as a static release, this dataset is now available as a series of monthly data dumps for English, Russian, German, Spanish, and Japanese Wikipedias.... Read more
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How I make video ‘newsreels’ for social media—so you can too
As a video producer and storyteller for the Wikimedia Foundation, I’ve produced a few ‘silent newsreels,’ a video format enjoying a renaissance in the age of social media. Now I’m sharing what I know with the greater Wikimedia movement.... Read more
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On the year where “a very fundamental human right—the right to access information” was challenged: Raju Narisetti, Wikimedia Foundation Board member
New Wikimedia Foundation board member Raju Narisetti says, “We will look back at 2017 as a year where there were systematic and sustained challenges worldwide to a very fundamental human right—the right to access information.” We talk with him about some of the challenges the Wikimedia projects may face.... Read more
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Inspire New Readers campaign: Raise awareness of Wikipedia where you live
Recent research shows that only 33 percent of Internet users in India, 19 percent of internet users in Iraq, and 39 percent of Internet users in Brazil have heard of Wikipedia. Those numbers differ dramatically from the United States and France, where 87 and 84 of internet users, respectively, have heard of Wikipedia. How would you raise awareness of Wikipedia where you live? A new campaign wants ... Read more
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Designing for offline on Android
We’ve introduced a number of improvements to the Wikipedia Android app to better serve these app users who have restricted or low-bandwidth access to the internet. ... Read more
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A new platform to explore statistics about Wikimedia projects
Meet Wikistats 2, a new public dashboard and dataset for metrics related to how people read and contribute to Wikimedia projects. ... Read more
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Wikimedia Research Newsletter, September 2017
French medical articles have “high rate of veracity”; quality comparisons across languages; perceptions of credibility
With contributions by: Nicolas Jullien, Leila Zia, Tilman Bayer and FULBERT... Read more -
Mailbag: What is going on with Wikipedia and the monkey selfie? We love monkeys and photographers, let us tell you more…
Answering your questions about Wikipedia, the monkey selfie, and copyright on the Wikimedia sites.... Read more
