Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2021-11-02, at 12:00-13:00 UTC (5am PT/8am
ET/1pm CET). Please note the time change! We are experimenting with our
Office hours schedules to make our sessions more globally welcoming.
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g. about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
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You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
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You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour. However, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
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You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
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You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Emily on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be on October 27, 16:30 UTC (9:30am
PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The Wikimedia Foundation Research Team will
present on knowledge gaps.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Qg98EVmuI
Speaker: Wikimedia Foundation Research Team
Title: Automatic approaches to bridge knowledge gaps in Wikimedia projects
Abstract: In order to advance knowledge equity as part of the Wikimedia
Movement’s 2030 strategic direction, the Research team at the Wikimedia
Foundation has been conducting research to “Address Knowledge Gaps” as one
of its main programs. One core component of this program is to develop
technologies to bridge knowledge gaps. In this talk, we give an overview on
how we approach this task using tools from Machine Learning in four
different contexts: section alignment in content translation, link
recommendation in structured editing, image recommendation in multimedia
knowledge gaps, and the equity of the recommendations themselves. We will
present how these models can assist contributors in addressing knowledge
gaps. Finally, we will discuss the impact of these models in applications
deployed across Wikimedia projects supporting different Product initiatives
at the Wikimedia Foundation.
More information:
* Section alignment:
meta:Research:Expanding_Wikipedia_articles_across_languages/Inter_language_approach#Section_Alignment
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Expanding_Wikipedia_articles_acros…>
* Link recommendation:
meta:Research:Link_recommendation_model_for_add-a-link_structured_task
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Link_recommendation_model_for_add-…>
* Image recommendation:
meta:Research:Recommending_Images_to_Wikipedia_Articles
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Recommending_Images_to_Wikipedia_A…>
* Equity in recommendations:
meta:Research:Prioritization_of_Wikipedia_Articles/Recommendation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Prioritization_of_Wikipedia_Articl…>
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Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Data gap in API. Hey all, does anyone know if there is a plan to get the
API loaded with data for Oct 21st. Seeing a lot of language versions
missing data just for that day, even if they have data the day before and
after. Languages I've noticed with the gap include: Arabic, Chinese,
Russian, Japanese, Turkish, VIetnamese, Thai, and Portuguese. I'm sure
there are others as well
One example seen below:
https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=zh.wikipedia.org&platform=all-acce…