Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2021-08-03, at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/6pm
CEST).
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 can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are
welcome to also just hang out. 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 some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
-
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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin 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
--
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Z. Blace,
you can watch the recording of this showcase on youtube [1].
Also, you can find the recordings of previous Research Showcases in this
collection [2].
Best,
Martin
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfLQLgwU3oDFiGaU3K7pUVoW
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 7:39 PM Željko Blaće <zblace(a)mi2.hr> wrote:
> Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting research on almost the
> same topic :-/
>
> Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-(
>
> Best Z. Blace
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am
> >> PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to
> >> close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from
> McGill
> >> University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
> >>
> >> Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
> >>
> >> Talk 1
> >> Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada)
> >> Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia
> >> Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the
> way
> >> that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these
> systems,
> >> contributions arise organically with little to no central governance.
> >> Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad
> >> oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty
> and
> >> skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately,
> we
> >> still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these
> systems
> >> and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate
> >> through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural
> experiment
> >> to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles
> affect
> >> the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to
> other
> >> articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content
> >> leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both
> content
> >> consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find
> significant
> >> attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both
> >> analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate
> >> policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of
> >> information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention
> >> contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total
> attention
> >> flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important
> >> policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information
> >> networks.
> >>
> >> Talk 2
> >> Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
> >> Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist
> Interventions
> >> Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its
> >> biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of
> >> knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents
> >> are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools,
> and
> >> enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements
> >> intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a
> recent
> >> study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract
> digital
> >> knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are
> >> successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be
> missing,
> >> but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases
> that
> >> limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more
> granular
> >> and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments
> and
> >> identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist
> movements
> >> in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Janna Layton (she/her)
> >> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
> >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Janna Layton (she/her)
> > Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
> > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
> >
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Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all,
The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am
PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to
close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill
University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
Talk 1
Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada)
Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia
Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way
that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems,
contributions arise organically with little to no central governance.
Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad
oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and
skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we
still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems
and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate
through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment
to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect
the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other
articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content
leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content
consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant
attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both
analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate
policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of
information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention
contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention
flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important
policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information
networks.
Talk 2
Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions
Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its
biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of
knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents
are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and
enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements
intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent
study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital
knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are
successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing,
but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that
limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular
and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and
identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements
in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
--
Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2021-07-13, at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/6pm
CEST).
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 can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are
welcome to also just hang out. 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 some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
-
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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[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
--
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation