Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-11-29/Recent research

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@HaeB and Miriam (WMF): your "aggregated clickstream data" link for the Gildersleve and Yasseri "Inspiration..." paper is broken, and does not appear to be in the paper itself. EllenCT (talk) 00:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch - it was meant to go to m:Research:Wikipedia clickstream; fixed now. (The paper/preprint linked to https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305770.v22 instead, as the particular revision of the dataset that was used.) Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:30, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The bot census paper is interesting! I like this bit "The Wikipedia bots of today are human delegates...we impute roles to the bots; these roles should be understood to be heavily tied to the roles human Wikipedia editors choose to play." As a bot operator, it's interesting to think of WugBot as my "delegate" and the ways its actions reflect me and my personality. though the authors describe it in terms of role theory, it reminds me a bit of the intermediary/mediator division in actor-network theory as well. Wug·a·po·des 01:35, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]