CommunityData:Message Walls

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Analysis

  • Test code and
  • Complete analysis by 3rd week of December

Writing

  • By end of January - complete draft of paper


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
  • (Nate) Write python code to create training set
  • (Nate and Salt) Link missing dumps to online dump sources
  • (Sneha) Write R code for analyzing data at the edit weeks level

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.
    • 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)