Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 17, at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here. The theme for this showcase is Connecting Action with Policy.

You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM. As usual, you can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live. 

This month's presentations: 

Presenting the report "Unreliable Guidelines"

By Amber Berson and Monika Jones

The goal behind the report Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias was to understand the effects of the set of reliable source guidelines and rules on the participation of and the content about marginalized communities on three Wikipedias. Two years following the release of their report, researchers Berson and Sengul-Jones reflect on the impact of their research as well as the actionable next steps.

Why Should This Article Be Deleted? Transparent Stance Detection in Multilingual Wikipedia Editor Discussions

By Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Arnav Arora

The moderation of content on online platforms is usually non-transparent. On Wikipedia, however, this discussion is carried out publicly and the editors are encouraged to use the content moderation policies as explanations for making moderation decisions. However, currently only a few comments explicitly mention those policies. To aid in this process of understanding how content is moderated, we construct a novel multilingual dataset of Wikipedia editor discussions along with their reasoning in three languages. We demonstrate that stance and corresponding reason (policy) can be predicted jointly with a high degree of accuracy, adding transparency to the decision-making process.

Best,

Kinneret

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Kinneret Gordon Lead Research Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation