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| full name = Aaron <span style="border: 1px solid #666;margin-right: 1px;padding: 0px 2px; border-radius: .2em;">Halfak</span>er
| image name = Halfaker,_Aaron_Sept_2013.jpg
| hover text = Aaron Halfaker, Science Man
| job title = SeniorPrincipal Research Scientist
| organization = Wikimedia Foundation
| short quote = ''Think big.  Measure what you can.  Build better technologies.''
| about me = Hi. I'm [[:en:Aaron Halfaker|Aaron Halfaker]].  I'm a scientist.  See [[#Projects|projects]] and [[#Publications|publications]] below.  I've been a Wikipedian since 2008.   I mostly build tools and run studies, but I make edits where I can.  In 2011, I started working with the Wikimedia Foundation as a [[:en:Scientist|research scientist]].  This is my staff account.  See my volunteer account, [[User:EpochFail]], for my non-staff work.  

| about my work = I use the scientific method to explMy job is to build understanding about and support fore the structure and function of open knowledge projects likocio-technical fabric of the Wikipmedia.  My goal is to identify problems/opportunities and to use this knowledge to improve/extend the [[:en:Sociotechnical system|socio-technical]] infrastructure that makes them work.   movement.  I tend to focus on our computer mediated spaces (Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, Wikisource, etc.) and quality dynamics (patrolling, curation, newcomer training, etc.)⏎
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See [[:m:Research:The Rise and Decline|The Rise and Decline]] for an example of my research and [[:m:Research:Revision scoring as a service|Revision scoring as a service]] for an example of an experimental technology I'm actively working on.

| contact me = 
* E-mail: ahalfaker{{@}}wikimedia.org
* Website: [http://halfaker.info http://halfaker.info]
* Twitter: [http://twitter.com/halfak http://twitter.com/halfak]
* On IRC, I go by "halfak".  
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== Publications == 

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=== Peer reviewed ===
*'''Halfaker, A.''', Keyes, O., Kluver, D., Thebault-Spieker, J., Nguyen, T., Shores, K., Uduwage, A., Warncke-Wang, M. (2015). User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-activity Time, WWW'15. ACM. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.2878v1.pdf pdf])
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=== Other ===
* English Wikipedia newcomer quality over time ([[:meta:Research:Newcomer quality|writeup]], [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/analysis-of-the-quality-of-newcomers-in-wikipedia-over-time/ blog])
* '''Halfaker, A.''', Riedl, J. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6163451 Bots & Cyborgs: Wikipedia's Immune System], 2011. ''IEEE Computing'', 45(3), 79-82.


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