CommunityData:Message Walls

Useful Resources

• Notes on Wikia Dumps CommunityData:Wikia Dumps
• Notes on the code -- Now with a diagram! CommunityData:Message Walls Code

Task Management

Overview

• By first week of October, we have a complete dataset
• By end of October, we build all variables, and start analysis
• By end of November, we conduct and finish data analysis
• Sneha gets a lot of writing done during dissertation boot camp (Dec 4-15)
• By January, have a solid draft ready for CSCW second round

Next Steps (Nov 30)

• (Nate) Update code diagram to say we're using wikiList.3.csv
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Next Steps (Oct 5)

• (Salt) Verify which dumps are good
• (Nate, Salt) Make sure Sneha gets a path to the tsv files from wikiq output
• (Sneha) Run inclusion criteria code
• (Sneha) Update code diagram

Next Steps (Sept 28)

• (Salt) Verify which dumps are good
• (Salt) Rerun wikiq to get encoded urls DONE
• (Salt) Write R code to define edits as either newcomer or non-newcomer
• (Nate) Finish refactoring build wiki list code (DONE)
• (Nate) Make code architecture diagram (DONE)
• (Nate) Continue work on bot and admin scraper (DONE)
• (Nate, from last week) Convert dates to lubridate (DONE)
• (Sneha) Contact Danny Horn to get information on message wall rollouts
• (Sneha) Determine inclusion criteria for wikis, and write python code to subset the ones we want

Next Steps (Sept 20)

• (Nate) Convert all dates to lubridate

Next Steps (Aug 24)

• (Sneha) Add list of variables to build to the wiki
• (Salt) Verify whether the wiki dumps are solid
• (Nate) Generate 'contributor experience' variables for every edit in the dataset
• (Nate) Generate bot and admin data for the larger wiki dataset

Next Steps (Aug 15)

• (Salt) Edit build wikilist code to map filenames with message wall transition dates
• (Sneha) Continue preliminary analysis with 25 wikis
• (Nate) Continue investigating what dumps we can get from wikiteam

Next Steps (Aug 1)

• (Salt) Make file with mapping between urls and the newly scraped dumps.
• (Nate with Mako's help) Figure out what's going on in the wiki mapping code
• (Sneha) Plan for visit in September
• (Sneha) Continue preliminary analysis with 25 wikis

Retreat Tasks

• Document and organize the git repository.
• Data exploration / preliminary analysis.

Next Steps (July 18)

• (Salt with Nate's help) Add new dumps to wikilist
• (Nate) Update wikiteam mapping.
• (Sneha) (Using wikiq data) Check that dumps, even if valid xml, have message wall data.
• (Sneha) create list of subsetting characteristics (inclusion criteria for Wikis) for study.
• (Sneha) create exploratory plots for a larger set of wikis of different sizes.
• (Sneha) Request new dumps for missing wikis.

Next Steps (July 11)

• (Sneha) (Using wikiq data) Check that dumps, even if valid xml, have message wall data.
• (Sneha) create list of subsetting characteristics (inclusion criteria for Wikis) for study.
• (Sneha) create exploratory plots for a larger set of wikis of different sizes.
• (Sneha) Request new dumps for missing wikis.
• (Salt) Download wikis available on Special:statistics. Done
• (Nate) Scrape admin and bot edits using a script from Mako. Done

Next Steps (June 27th)

• (Sneha) (Using wikiq data) Check that dumps, even if valid xml, have message wall data.
• (Sneha) Take a look namespaces 1200-1202 to understand what they mean. Done
• (Sneha) create list of subsetting characteristics (inclusion criteria for Wikis) for study.
• (Sneha) create exploratory plots for a larger set of wikis of different sizes.
• (Salt) Download wikis available on Special:statistics.
• (Salt) Request new dumps for missing wikis.
• (Nate) Scrape admin and bot edits using a script from Mako.
• (Nate) Finish identifying wikiteam mapping Done.

Next Steps (June 20th)

• (Nate) Improve wiki list by identifying wikis that turn off the feature without turning on first (Done)
• (Nate) Get muppet wiki Dr. Horrible Wiki edit weeks for Sneha (Done)
• (Nate) Do brute force mapping using revision ids and and hashing texts (Done)
• (Sneha) Will play with Dr. Horrible data (Done)
• (Sneha) create list of subsetting characteristics for study

Next Steps (June 13th)

• Build a new dataset of dumps of the ~4800 wikis (Salt/Nate) (May take more than a week to generate all the new dumps)

• Build a msgwall version of the build_edit_weeks file from the anon_edits paper (Nate)

• Do analysis of alt history wiki and update (Sneha)

• Create list of criteria to identify wikis we want to use in this study (Sneha)

Next Steps (June 6th)

• Identify list of Wikis we will analyze from the tsv file.

• Attempt to obtain a good dump for each of these wikis. See CommunityData:Wikia Dumps for information.

• • This may depend on mapping between the urls in the tsv file and the dumps. Consider using HTTP redirects from the url under <siteinfo>.

• Modify Wikiq to give an error message if the closing </mediawiki> tag is missing.

• Sneha to take a look althistory data from Nate.

• Nate will write a version of build_edit_weeks for the message wall project

• Check back next meeting Tuesday (June 13th)