Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-09-24/Technology report


 * For the search logs - that's kind of embarrassing especially given that I'm pretty sure its a re-occouring topic on wikitech-l about how we do not release search logs for the very reason they were taken down... Bawolff (talk) 18:43, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The data should be available for researchers. The benefits for the community are significant. To avoid spam harvesting, the data could be put behind a registration wall or such. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 19:43, 26 September 2012 (UTC)


 * It's more than embarrassing. Every time this topic (releasing search logs) has ever come up, the AOL search data leak is mentioned. It seems Wikimedia wanted to join the club? I'm kind of shocked. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:05, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Non-difference in PEF-1 success rate
There was no significant difference in the success rate of editors in the PEF-1 experiment. When I arrived, this report stated that there was an insignificant decrease in quality. This is both false and misleading. There was actually an insignificant increase in quality in the reported statistics. However, this detail is irrelevant since the statistical test failed to identify a meaningful difference and other analyses from the report reversed the comparison. The best we can report to a lay audience is that no change was observed. See meta:Research:Post-edit_feedback/PEF-1. -- EpochFail (talk 19:55, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Quite right, I misread the chart. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 21:20, 26 September 2012 (UTC)