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notes from watching "Why We Read Wikipedia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY
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Abstract available at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2016.

  • why is wikimedia foundation doing this research in end of 2016, instead of like, every single year?

  • they didn't calculate response rate for the surveys

  • wikimedia foundation knows the pagerank of articles...???

  • in questions they talk about getting the same survey responses for a large sample of articles, to be able to predict reader intentions just by looking at the article

  • did they post the slides somewhere?

  • i'm not sure we can make many updates to our work based on the talk because my guess is a lot of it is skewed toward popular culture/sports, where we don't write many articles

    in other words, if the same sort of survey could be run on the types of pages we tend to write (tax forms, books by libertarian authors, timelines) then we would be able to make more updates on what sort of information we should prioritize.

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