Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, September
23, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC, and will be on the theme of knowledge gaps.
Miriam Redi will give an overview on the first draft of the taxonomy of
knowledge gaps in Wikimedia projects. The taxonomy is a first milestone
towards developing a framework to understand and measure knowledge gaps
with the goal of capturing the multi-dimensional aspect of knowledge gaps
and inform long-term decision making.
YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDsKPsz64o
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentation:
A first draft of the knowledge gaps taxonomy for Wikimedia projects
By the Wikimedia Foundation Research Team <https://research.wikimedia.org/>
In response to Wikimedia Movement’s 2030 strategic direction
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20>,
the Research
team <https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html> at the Wikimedia Foundation
is developing a framework to understand and measure knowledge gaps. The
goal is to capture the multi-dimensional aspect of knowledge gaps and
inform long-term decision making. The first milestone was to develop a
taxonomy of knowledge gaps which offers a grouping and descriptions of the
different Wikimedia knowledge gaps. The first draft of the taxonomy is now
published <https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12314> and we seek your feedback to
improve it. In this talk, we will give an overview over the first draft of
the taxonomy of knowledge gaps in Wikimedia projects. Following that, we
will host an extended Q&A in which we would like to get your feedback and
discuss with you the taxonomy and knowledge gaps more generally.
- More information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Knowledge_Gaps_Index/Taxonomy
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Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>