X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/redirect-tools/blobdiff_plain/3a525ac0d1fcf0faf67a770f8a3cae007115d87a..HEAD:/docs/homepage.rst diff --git a/docs/homepage.rst b/docs/homepage.rst index a0f8ad6..ffe7719 100644 --- a/docs/homepage.rst +++ b/docs/homepage.rst @@ -58,12 +58,13 @@ Dimension of Wikipedia Research`__ — a short paper that we have written to accompany this dataset and these tools. If you use this software or these data, we would appreciate if you cite the paper: - *Hill, Benjamin Mako and Aaron Shaw. "Consider the Redirect: A Missing - Dimension of Wikipedia Research." In Proceedings of the 10th - International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2014). ACM - Press, 2014.* + Hill, Benjamin Mako & Shaw, Aaron. (2014) "Consider the Redirect: A + Missing Dimension of Wikipedia Research." In *Proceedings of the 10th + International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2014)*. ACM + Press. `doi: 10.1145/2641580.2641616`__ -__ http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-consider_the_redirect.pdf +__ https://doi.org/10.1145/2641580.2641616 +__ https://doi.org/10.1145/2641580.2641616 Generating Redirect Spells ============================= @@ -110,13 +111,33 @@ You can download the dataset in the following formats: - `bzip2 compressed tab separated values (178MB)`__ — Suitable for use in other languages and statistical packages. -__ http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-consider_the_redirect.pdf +__ https://doi.org/10.1145/2641580.2641616 __ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20121001/ __ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ __ enwiki_201210-redirect_spells-v1.RData __ http://www.r-project.org/ __ enwiki_201210-redirect_spells-v1.tsv.bz2 +Limitations +=============== + +Taking redirects into account is one important step that Wikipedia +researchers should take but it is hardly a panacea. As just one example, +in conversations after the publication of this paper, we have realized +that page moves may lead to additional challenges in interpreting view +data and in some cases to challenges in interpreting redirect data +itself. This work reflects a step toward increased validity but it is +incomplete. + +Depending on the research question, a complete picture may need to take +redirects, moves, other administrative actions, changing ways of +measuring views, bot and bot-assisted editing, along with other +currently unidentified features, into account. We hope to extend our +work with redirects and explore these issues and we hope other +researchers will join us in these efforts to build a better +understanding, tools, and datasets that can improve Wikipedia research. + + More Information ================== @@ -124,7 +145,7 @@ For details about the dataset, why it is important, and for examples on how it can be used to come to better findings in Wikipedia research, please read `the companion paper`__. -__ http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-consider_the_redirect.pdf +__ https://doi.org/10.1145/2641580.2641616 If you notice issues or bugs in our data or `code`__, contact `Benjamin Mako Hill`__ or `Aaron Shaw`__. @@ -141,7 +162,7 @@ __ http://projects.mako.cc/source/ ---- -ⓒ Copyright `Benjamin Mako Hill`__ and `Aaron Shaw`__ :: `Creative Commons BY-SA`__ :: Updated: Thu Jul 3 13:22:29 PDT 2014 +ⓒ Copyright `Benjamin Mako Hill`__ and `Aaron Shaw`__ :: `Creative Commons BY-SA`__ :: Updated: Sun Dec 11 16:43:57 PST 2016 __ http://mako.cc/academic/ __ http://aaronshaw.org/