We are starting a new research project on understanding the use of maintenance templates as part of a formal collaboration (see project brief, internal only).
We are planning to work on the following during Q2:
Description
Description
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | MGerlach | T408523 [EPIC] Understanding the use of maintenance template | |||
| Open | MGerlach | T406203 Start formal collaboration on understanding the use of maintenance templates | |||
| Resolved | Dzahn | T409894 Grant Access to ldap/nda for AnkitaM | |||
| Resolved | Request | MGerlach | T409893 Requesting access to analytics-privatedata-users for AnkitaM | ||
| Resolved | BTullis | T410389 Request kerberos identity for AnkitaM |
Event Timeline
Comment Actions
weekly update:
- I put together a notebook to collect relevant cleanup-templates across Wikipedia (see data and code)
- this starts from cleanup-templates in English Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Template_index/Cleanup and the templates contained in Category:Cleanup_templates. This yields ~500 different templates
- we then get the corresponding templates in other Wikipedia language versions using the Langlinks-API. This yields ~8K templates across all Wikipedias.
- we also add Wikidata qids (to match templates across languages) and all redirect titles (in order to extract usage of aliases in wikitext).
Comment Actions
weekly update:
- no update this week
- will have coordination meeting with collaborators next week
Comment Actions
weekly update:
- scoped the project with collaborators. they will start drafting a meta-page.
Comment Actions
weekly update:
- created project page on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_the_use_of_maintenance_templates
- next step: set up MOU/NDA
Comment Actions
weekly update:
- reached out to Legal for MOU/NDA
- started technical onboarding (e.g. creating accounts in phabricator, wikitech etc)
Comment Actions
weekly update:
- officially set up formal collaboration (see announcement on wiki-research-l)
- now working on onboarding to stat-machines (see subtasks)
Comment Actions
weekly update:
- collaborators can now access stat-machines
only blocker is kerberos access in order to use hive tables in spark T410389: Request kerberos identity for AnkitaMresolved- next step is to start collecting the dataset of templates being added/removed
Comment Actions
weekly update
- starting data collection of revisions where maintenance templates are added or removed