Despite it's widespread and influential nature, very little
quantitative research on Wikipedia has taken page protection into
account systematically. This page contains software and data to help
-Wikipedia research do exactly this in their work.
+Wikipedia researchers do exactly this in their work.
Because a page's protection status can change over time, the snapshots
of page protection data stored by Wikimedia and `published by
Research`__. If you use this software or these data, we would
appreciate if you cite the paper:
- *Hill, Benjamin Mako and Aaron Shaw. "Page Protection: Another
- Missing Dimension of Wikipedia Research." Working Paper. 2015.*
+ *Hill, Benjamin Mako and Aaron Shaw. (2015) “Page Protection: Another Missing
+ Dimension of Wikipedia Research.” In Proceedings of the 11th International
+ Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2015). ACM Press. DOI:
+ 10.1145/2788993.2789846*
-__ FORTHCOMING
+__ http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-protection_opensym2015.pdf
Page Protection Software
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- `bzip2 compressed tab separated values`__ — Suitable for use
in other languages and statistical packages.
-__ FORTHCOMING
+__ http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-protection_opensym2015.pdf
__ README
__ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20150112/
__ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/
how it can be used to come to better findings in Wikipedia research,
please read `the companion paper`__.
-__ FORTHCOMING
+__ http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-protection_opensym2015.pdf
If you notice issues or bugs in our data or `code`__, contact `Benjamin
Mako Hill`__ or `Aaron Shaw`__.