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Would you have ideas on getting the word out about the tool ?
Some of the ideas I have are:
Another video like the Umlaut edit visualisation.
Using the slider in some other simple tools (https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikislider has the code to the slider as a separate component, the code is old and has not yet been updated with the code being used in the replay edits tool currently).
Seeding it with other users who might be interested ?
By Copying "importScript( 'User:Jeph_paul/common.js' );importStylesheet( 'User:Jeph_Paul/common.css' );" into your common.js it can be used as a userscript.
I think another video with the new replay version is a good idea, videos are probably the easiest way to present the tool to other users.
I tested the user script, but the play button didn't show up. See screenshot (i made you a new commons:Category:Replay Edits). The problem could be hard to locate, HTTPS? java script? Should i try the mwloader instead of importScript?
Asking other users to test is a good idea. I can "seed" on german Wikipedia, if you like ;-) Do you have some ideas for specific questions? How open are you for the inevitable additional feature requests (flying pink unicorn that shits rainbows)?
I think the replayer is a great tool to show people that Wikipedia editing is not a black box operation, and actually not that difficult. All the best --Atlasowa (talk) 18:09, 13 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the offer to seed it on german wikipedia & sorry for getting back this late. The tool has support for multiple languages now & also has il8n support. I have added some german phrases I got from google translate (Have only added german translations, wasn't sure if google translate would give me accurate results, but the user can access articles from all the listed language wikipedia's).Also added a suggestion dropdown as you type the article name (This should be useful I guess).
I'll take a look at the userscript & fix it.
Th idea behind asking q's was to know if there would be a usecase for the cases like last 20 edits etc you mentioned. (My UX friend is busy with her work, but we'll get the ball rolling on this.)
Made a few UI fixes like adding the arrows between the steps in the homepage. Shall we go ahead and sees it on the german wiki while making the UI/UX other changes paralelly ?
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What would it take to revamp the View History tab, in terms of community consensus? If we came up with a plan with layout & feature set would it be accepted? Are there plans already on doing this? Is someone working on them? The replay edits tool could be a part of it, we could probably use the graph or other pieces from it. --Jeph paul (talk) 19:25, 3 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, I filed your observation there. Thanks for looking into the matter! Please login on phabricator. --Nemo08:12, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
I won't participate at phabricator because it demands my emailaddress. BTW, i am disappointed in you, Nemo. You're whipping up a crowd for forcing mobile anonymous editing based on bad information and anecdotal tales. I think you know perfectly well that this will open a firehose of crap on hundreds of wikis. It will severely burn small wikis, it will burn out patrollers, it will burn new editors (they will remember their first revert forever), it will burn trust between communities and WMF, and it will burn subsequent trials to allow mobile anonymous editing (when we'll actually have usable UI for mobile editing). If you care to explain what you're really trying to accomplish: i'm listening. --Atlasowa (talk) 10:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
Right. [1] Can't you just use a temporary email address?
I'm very sorry that you see it that way. I definitely don't "know" all those things, it's more likely that the effect will be rather minimal. I also see a contradiction between saying at the same time that FlaggedRevs works so well on de.wiki and that unregistered edits are an unstoppable flood.
What I'm trying to accomplish is simply reason, as always in my life. I think you overestimate my ability to to "whip up a crowd". My job is merely to push people to think (and speak) about some things I feel important. --Nemo15:13, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
Yes, that is a good thing :-) It's also a good thing if this discussion makes some wikis volunteer to opt-in to mobile anonymous editing, so that we get real experience and more feedback. And a third good thing would be to influence WMF development for mobile web with a reality check.
Hi Nemo: Regarding the mobile anonymous editing drop to nearly nothing after 2015-01-09 until 2015-01-25, i see that there was Research:WikiGrok/Test3 (Test began: 2015-01-14 Test ended: 2015-01-21; Target: 16% of all users, stable mobile site, enwiki - so NOT logged in users only). May be related, maybe not. Thus the bug could come back eventually with another WikiGrok testing(?) --Atlasowa (talk) 08:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
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I've also put down some of the preliminary inferences regarding editor activity on en. Each graph has a selector on top of the page that allows you to filter it. On taking the cursor to the left end of the selector you'll get a resize cursor, you should then be able to redraw/drag the selection.
I put together a presentation for the research team at the foundation - http://slides.com/cosmiclattes/edit-activity-graphs-analysis/. It also has some of the preliminary results. It has links to the graphs & says how to interpret & play with them. Let me know if you need any help in interpreting them or if you have other metrics you'd like to see graphed. I've added the data for de too.--Jeph paul (talk) 04:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hi Jeph paul, this is a really good presentation! I like your analysing "Article Edit Activity" :-) I agree with these observations:
Only the articles created till 2007 see continued editing.
The articles in the subsequent cohorts see very little edit activity.
Newly created articles rapidly lose all editing activity.
2) A big, big part of "Article Edit Activity" is housekeeping/maintenance: fixing wikilinks, typos, adding categories, vandalism patrol, cleaning up templates, etc. As opposed to: article writing, adding or updating text that is article "content" on the topic.
While I think these are the "wrong" questions:
Do we have a problem in surfacing editable articles?
Are we losing editors because they can't find content they can edit? Content they can contribute to?
This sounds a lot like the attitude primarily amongst WMF and developers, that there are those masses of volunteers that just need to be told what to do, by a bot or a software that assigns tasks. This is not how things work, and it's patronizing and also this targeting is really bad. And the answer is not "better targeting" of task assignments by extensive user profiling (again an attitude primarily amongst WMF and developers). Volunteers choose their own tasks. Volunteers need to be given tools to choose their tasks (i.e. feed of new edits by category) and tools to effectively getting done their work (i.e. easier refs by Citoid).
The real question is: How do we find (1), motivate (2) and keep (3) productive editors for Wikipedia?
(1) Productive, knowledgable editors mostly find Wikipedia themselves, not the other way around ("organic" editor acquisition), our best (but still uneffective) shot at finding editors for Wikipedia are University/student assignment programs to edit wikipedia with mentors.
(2) "Motivation" is also self-motivation of editors. But Wikipedia provides a lot of negative feedback (reverts, rules) and should provide more positive feedback (i.e. thanks-notifications for IPs, newbies)
(3) "Keeping" productive editor by not making Wikipedia super-complex (learn wikitext markup, learn editing Templates, learn Wikidata, learn Lua, learn Flow, learn operating a bot, learn to install multiple user scripts, learn Phabricator, etc. etc.) Also, this trend of growing user profiling makes me think about leaving. I am here to volunteer knowledge, not to provide extensive personal data about myself. WMF is collecting more and more data for the sake of maybe-this-could-be-useful-sometime-for-someone and will likely put those data dumps online for anyone interested (including marketing companies, "big data") with a CC-0 licence!
I digress ;-) BTW, I think 2 aspects of Wikipedia editor activity that are under-analysed are:
The edit activity on article cohorts filtered to show only 5% levels.
This shows the article cohort edit activity for de - filtered at atleast 5% levels. (Atleast 5% of the articles created in that cohort are continuing to get atleast 5 edits a month). What we see here is that there is a very steep fall from Dec 05 onward. In fact the fall is very dramatic in a month or two's time the editing pattern has suddenly changed. You might ask me why I'm looking at the 5% levels and not say 30% or 3%, this dramatic change is seen only at 5% level onward. Assuming our assumptions of 5 edits a month being a useful metric of activity etc are correct. We are seeing something that cannot be explained by the low hanging fruit theory, that will show a fall in activity but nothing as steep as this over a few months. I find it difficult to understand that by Nov - Dec 05, all interesting/ important articles were over and suddenly sustained edit activity on the newly created articles nose dived. Having said all this, I have not read the paper fully, I'm still going through it. I think we should dig further. Maybe after say Dec 05, the way people found new articles to edit changed? Wild Guess, show me a random article changed its algorithm or weight ?
Again having said all this, because the articles created after Dec 2005 receive lesser edits mean that they are of a lower quality ? Is the baseline quality of articles created these days higher?
When I ask the question 'Are we losing editors because they can't find c ....' I'm thinking on the lines of building tools to help the user find new content where the editor can contribute to and less of lets give the editor a recommendation of articles he can edit. Also with my limited knowledge of recommendation systems I'm not sure if they can be accurate for a new comer. Also here a recommendation system not only has to match interests it also has to match skills to. For ex, I'm really interested in say DHT's but I'm probably not going to be able to add any value to the articles. I think there are probably simpler tools we can build that'll go a long way in surfacing editable content.
I'm just getting started with the questions & the graphs. We keep talking on and off. Why don't we collaborate more closely. I'll try to get a few others who might be interested like Shyamal. We can have a common set of questions we can investigate. We can develop investigative tools like the graphs or metric others could borrow. I can bring in my data viz skills. You guys can bring in your skills. We can do more working together.--Jeph paul (talk) 16:08, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Enwp retention vs active editors: the famous "holy shit" slide from 2011.
Hi Jeph paul,
What happened to Wikipedia in 2005-2007 is very well known, no real need for further analysis. Wikipedia was catapulted from an obscure website by some encyclopdia-geeks, that nobody knew and nobody cared about, to a top10 website that everyone found in search results and read and that was reported about. The "sexy new thing". Mass influx of new editors, Wikipedia flooded in articles. See the stats at Wikipedia.org_is_more_popular_than...#Wikipedia.27s Alexa ranking milestones_.283_month_average.29 and User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia. What happened in 2005-2007 has nothing to do with 2015, it's a completely different game now. I see no use in digging into prehistory. Trends from the last 5 years, that is useful to learn from, yes. --Atlasowa (talk) 19:12, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hi Atlasowa,
Looking at the past may or may not be useful. My larger point is, if we join forces & get like minded people to join us we could do a lot of analysis and produce very interesting insights. We can access most of the edit data publicly through the toollabs db slaves. We can decide on a common set of questions we want to investigate. I can build the graphs and we can get the ball rolling.--Jeph paul (talk) 19:31, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Yes! Yes, absolutely, Jeph paul. The thing is, this stuff is extremely complex. So many factors at play, incredibly difficult. It's best to identify simple, limited questions that can be analysed and that have real impact for Wikipedia. For example, captchas: Which language wikipedias use captchas at which step (new article creation? user account creation? every IP edit? ...) and from which date on, so we can analyse impact across time and across languages. Or mobile edits. --Atlasowa (talk) 20:27, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
BTW, have i already forced you to read my collection at de:Benutzer:Atlasowa/editor_motivation (mostly english)? Have a look at the graphs. You are not at all an exception with: "I'm really interested in say DHT's but I'm probably not going to be able to add any value to the articles." --Atlasowa (talk) 20:33, 23 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hi Atlasowa, You had asked me to look at it once before but I've only skimmed through them :-). I've collated some of my questions/ideas on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_Analysis_%26_Graphs/Ideas, can you add the stuff you'd like to investigate. Usage of VE & mobile editing are already on my list. I'll move them over to a separate page/project over the weekend. I'm planning to use the edit activity style graphs to look at the usage patterns of VE/mobile editing. We could also look at the activity of just the new comers on VE/mobile etc. Let me know if there are other graphing/ visualizations techniques you'd like me to use. I looked at the mediaiwki db schema and couldn't find any tables related to captchas. I'm probably missing something.
Re captchas: I wouldn't expect tables related to captchas in this db. We would need to digg deep in each Wikipedia configuration history to find the diffs that activate some captchas. And also abuse filter configurations of every WP... and ... well, it's complex. There was some analysis for portuguese WP which had a brutal captcha requirement (for any and every edit?), see CAPTCHA at the Portuguese Wikipedia, 22 Mar 2011, deactivation request and results.
The articles edited by new comers in the pt wiki.Atlasowa Speaking of pt, this is the plot for the edit activity of new comers on pt. It shows the cohorts of articles edited by editors in their first month. I found this interesting because, what this plot shows is that there are a set of articles/many articles that have never been edited by logged in registered editors in their first month. I've not seen this in any other language I have looked at. I haven't yet put this plot online and hence the screen grab.
Lets start with the mobile edits to start with. We can plot similar graphs for registered & logged in mobile editors. We can look at what article cohorts they are editing. Are they creating articles etc? We can also probably do size of edits on article cohorts but its going to be really tricky. I'm adding up all the bytes added by editors in a cohort. Also there were cases where some cohorts had a net negative addition in some months & I didn't know how to sensibly plot it. But lets try to figure this one out. I'm not sure how to plot ip's since there is no notion of a joining date for an ip, again something we'll have to figure out. I'll try to get the plots for registered/logged in mobile editors for the smaller wiki's by tomorrow. Lets move the thread to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_Analysis_%26_Graphs/Ideas, its gotten way to long here already. --Jeph paul (talk) 18:36, 24 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hi Atlasowa, I've applied for an IEG for the graphs Grants:IEG/Editor_Behaviour_Analysis. I'm working on the mobile edits graphs. I have a graph showing the articles edited by mobile users, first look no surprises there. Also the anon users seem to be reinforcing the logged in users or the vice versa. Next I'll be looking at the editors doing edits on mobile(Are they new comers or the older editors etc). I'll ping you once I put them online.--Jeph paul (talk) 18:45, 29 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
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