History: XML dumps and research needs for WMF projects

• Session time: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 9 AM
• Facilitator: Ariel Glenn
• Participants: Kevin Crowston, Victor Grishchenko, Daniel Kinzlerm Roan Kattouw, Andreea Gorbatai

Discussion topics:

• Proposals for new information in the XML dumps, for various ways to segment the dumps into smaller chunks or produce samples
• Types of usage statistics people want to see produced, navigation path statistics
• Proposal to collect and provide search terms from Lucene and Google searches, track search successes and failures
• Shared researcher collaboration and computing platform for sharing dumps, samples, tools, research results and for providing disk space and computing power

There will be a wiki page at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Research_Data_Proposals which will contain the list of proposals; please add items there.