Hi Pine,

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

At the same time, I'd appreciate getting a more precise understanding of how WMF is defining the word "harassment".

This is a policy question and wiki-research-l and analytics mailing lists are not the best place to discuss it.​ (I'm not sure where it is, maybe policy public list?)

If you are interested about learning how a specific research effort has handled this question, I suggest you reach out to the researchers in that effort. In the case of  Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale, Section 3 should give you a relatively detailed description of how this question was approached.

Best,
Leila

Pine

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Leila Zia <leila@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Dan,

Thanks for your note. :)

On the Research end, Dario is still a big supporter of the efforts
around research to help us better understand harassment (as you
noticed in our commitments to the annual plan) and with Ellery's
departure, I've been helping him a bit to make sure we can move
forward on this front. More specifically, and while we're continuing
the research with Nithum and Lucas who were Ellery's collaborators on
the Detox project, we recently initiated
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Study_of_harassment_and_its_impact
with Cristian and Yiqing from Cornell University. We are very excited
about this new collaboration as Cristian has years of experience in
spaces that are very relevant to the socio-technical problems related
to harassment. I think you will enjoy reading that page which signal
the early directions of the research.

The whole harassment research team meets every 2 weeks, if you're
curious what's going on on this front and on our end and you want to
listen in, please ping me. And, thank you for the offer to help. We
may take you up on that. :)

Best,
Leila

--
Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation


On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Dan -- we are actually in touch with Detox as part of the Community
> Health initiative. They are doing their first quarterly check in this
> quarter so expect some updates then. Ping me offlist if you want more info.
>
> -Toby
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm reflecting on this work and how awesome it was.  I see that it's
>> continued in our annual plan under the Community Health Initiative, but I
>> am afraid it's taking a secondary role without Ellery and others to drive
>> it.  On
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/AbuseFilter
>> it's only featured as a question under the #Functionality section.
>>
>> I just wanted to point this out and offer to help if I can be of use.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ellery Wulczyn <ewulczyn@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Today we are announcing
>> >
>> > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/07/scaling-understanding-of-harassment/>
>> > the
>> > first results of the collaboration between Wikimedia Research and Jigsaw
>> > on
>> > modeling personal attacks and other forms of harassment on English
>> > Wikipedia. We have released
>> > <https://figshare.com/projects/Wikipedia_Talk/16731> a corpus of 95M
>> > user
>> > and article talk page comments as well as over 1M human labels produced
>> > by
>> > 4000 crowd-workers for a set of 100k comments. Documentation on our
>> > methodology and future work can be found in our paper Ex Machina:
>> > Personal Attacks Seen at Scale <https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08914> (to
>> > appear at WWW2017) and on our project page on meta
>> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox>. If you are interested
>> > in contributing to the project, please get in touch via the project talk
>> > page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Detox>. Another
>> > great
>> > way to get involved is to label a set of comment in the Wikilabels
>> > discussion quality campaign <http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/>.
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