Justin0x2004

Call for participation in the interview study with Wikidata editors

Dear Justin0x2004,

I hope you are doing good,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King’s College London, and I work on a project as part of my PhD research that develops a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I would love to talk with you to know about your current ways to choose the items you work on in Wikidata and understand the factors that might influence such a decision. Your cooperation will give us valuable insights into building a recommender system that can help improve your editing experience.

Participation is completely voluntary. You have the option to withdraw at any time. Your data will be processed under the terms of UK data protection law (including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018). The information and data that you provide will remain confidential; it will only be stored on the password-protected computer of the researchers. We will use the results anonymized to provide insights into the practices of the editors in item selection processes for editing and publish the results of the study to a research venue. If you decide to take part, we will ask you to sign a consent form, and you will be given a copy of this consent form to keep.

If you’re interested in participating and have 15-20 minutes to chat (I promise to keep the time!), please either contact me at kholoudsaa@gmail.com or kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmmFHaiB20nK14wrQJgfrA18PtmdagyeRib3xGtvzkdn3Lgw/viewform?usp=sf_link with your choice of the times that work for you.

I’ll follow up with you to figure out what method is the best way for us to connect.

Please contact me if you have any questions or require more information about this project.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoudsaa (talk) 12:21, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Zip codes

Hello Justin. I noticed these zip codes added to an item when a zip code range already existed. postal code (P281) is designed to accept ranges so that individual zip code entries are not necessary, so please do not add individual ones in the future if a valid range already exists. Thanks. — Huntster (t @ c) 02:27, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@Huntster: I created a discussion here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#postal_code

Justin0x2004 (talk) 13:56, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

• Yeah, please add ranges instead. Space on Wikidata isn't unlimited. --- Jura 19:34, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
• Please stop your batches and undo them. --- Jura 19:37, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

  @Jura1

  I don't think sacrificing data representation is a good move for Wikidata.

  It is Wikidata. Not WikiUserInterface. Not WikiSpaceIsLimitedData.

  I'm not trying to be fussy but maybe zipcodes are a forcing function to address the underlying concerns.

  Please see:

  https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2021/10#postal_code Justin0x2004 (talk) 19:45, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

  • Why didn't you continud that discussion and attempt to address the concerns raised?

You seem to ignore it instead and sacrifice New York City's item on Wikidata to make some point (in your words: "force" to "address underlying concerns"). --- Jura 19:51, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

@Jura1 I didn't ignore the discussion. I started it. And then I continued to use postal code (P281) as it is intended (as a reference to a singular code). Justin0x2004 (talk) 19:54, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

You say "as intended", but postal code (P281) is specifically designed to use ranges, so this is not really correct. It is intended to function with ranges. — Huntster (t @ c) 21:40, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

@Huntster The inclusion of the emdash in the regex (to accommodate ranges) is a kludge.

The meaning of the property postal code (P281) is "code" singular.

Justin0x2004 (talk) 23:10, 30 October 2021 (UTC)