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Research Showcase, December 21, 2016
by Sarah R 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 (UTC). YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2016>. The December 2016 Research Showcase includes: English Wikipedia Quality Dynamics and the Case of WikiProject Women ScientistsBy *Aaron Halfaker <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)>*With every productive edit, Wikipedia is steadily progressing towards higher and higher quality. In order to track quality improvements, Wikipedians have developed an article quality assessment rating scale that ranges from "Stub" at the bottom to "Featured Articles" at the top. While this quality scale has the promise of giving us insights into the dynamics of quality improvements in Wikipedia, it is hard to use due to the sporadic nature of manual re-assessments. By developing a highly accurate prediction model (based on work by Warncke-Wang et al.), we've developed a method to assess an articles quality at any point in history. Using this model, we explore general trends in quality in Wikipedia and compare these trends to those of an interesting cross-section: Articles tagged by WikiProject Women Scientists. Results suggest that articles about women scientists were lower quality than the rest of the wiki until mid-2013, after which a dramatic shift occurred towards higher quality. This shift may correlate with (and even be caused by) this WikiProjects initiatives. Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration. A Study of Tor Users and WikipediansBy *Andrea Forte*In a recent qualitative study to be published at CSCW 2017, collaborators Rachel Greenstadt, Naz Andalibi, and I examined privacy practices and concerns among contributors to open collaboration projects. We collected interview data from people who use the anonymity network Tor who also contribute to online projects and from Wikipedia editors who are concerned about their privacy to better understand how privacy concerns impact participation in open collaboration projects. We found that risks perceived by contributors to open collaboration projects include threats of surveillance, violence, harassment, opportunity loss, reputation loss, and fear for loved ones. We explain participants’ operational and technical strategies for mitigating these risks and how these strategies affect their contributions. Finally, we discuss chilling effects associated with privacy loss, the need for open collaboration projects to go beyond attracting and educating participants to consider their privacy, and some of the social and technical approaches that could be explored to mitigate risk at a project or community level. -- Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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"Is Wikipedia Woke?"
by Pete Forsyth 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

This feature article from Bloomberg BusinessWeek does, IMO, a great job of exploring and contextualizing Wikipedia's diversity issues. The reporters really did their homework on this one, taking the time to explore all angles. There are certainly a few factual errors, the most egregious are probably the confusing between policy and guideline on paid editing, and the conflation of Wikipedia and WMF in a couple places. Thoughts? Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set. by Dimitra Kessenides and Max Chafkin December 22, 2016 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/how-woke-is-wikipedia-s-… -Pete -- [[User:Peteforsyth]]

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"Paradigm for Parity" group for gender process
by Neotarf 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

"How A Group Of CEOs Plans To Solve Gender Inequality At Their Companies" https://www.fastcompany.com/3066402/the-future-of-work/how-a-group-of-ceos-… Includes a roadmap https://www.paradigm4parity.com/solution#plan and toolkit. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57e9765e9f7456c76dc1c1c0/t/5845cd816…

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Fwd: [Affiliates] AffCom call for new members
by Sydney Poore 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

For your consideration. It is important to have more diversity in membership of the committee and those giving feedback about the nominees. Sydney ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Maor Malul" <maor_x(a)zoho.com> Date: Dec 17, 2016 11:44 AM Subject: [Affiliates] AffCom call for new members To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Affiliates discussion list" <affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Dear all, The Affiliations Committee – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for new members! If you are interested in joining us, please submit an application by 31 December 2016. Based on the successful experience of last call, this one will include too a public review and comment period. All applications will be posted on Meta, and all members of the community are invited to provide comments and feedback about each candidate, always keeping a friendly tone. The full call for candidates, which contains more information on the committee's work, membership criteria, and instructions for how to apply, can be found on Meta at https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Affiliations_Committee/MassMessages/Call_for_candidates_-_December_2016 We invite all community members to consider to apply or invite those members that you think could make it cool as AffCom members. We make a special call to women since AffCom is worried to keep or increase its women quota among its members. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or any other member of the committee. Regards, M -- "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain." Maor Malul Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve> Member, Wikimedia Israel | www.wikimedia.org.il <http://wikimedia.org.il> Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee Phone: +972-52-4869915 <+972%2052-486-9915> Twitter: @maor_x _______________________________________________ Affiliates mailing list Affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/affiliates

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New publications on harmful online speech
by Neotarf 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University has four new publications online. https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/99716 “Understanding Harmful Speech Online: Research Note” is a summary of current research, with several pages of links at the end. One phrase that stood out: "Munger also recently conducted an experiment among groups of users on Twitter considered harassers on the platform and found that counter speech using automated bots can impact and reduce instances of racist speech if 'that subjects… were sanctioned by a high-follower white male'.” Two papers are from the Global South. "Grassroots Perspectives on Hate Speech, Race, & Inequality in Brazil & Colombia" has an entire section on "counter-speech", or counter narratives, a term that seems to be gaining some currency. "Preliminary Findings on Online Hate Speech and the Law in India" talks about inciting sectarian violence with fake news. Finally, for an understanding of the definitions of hate speech, forget the Wikipedia article, which embarrassingly uses the words "politically correct" and "Newspeak" in the introductory paragraphs, sourced to opinion pieces by two bloggers who did not even use the words. The paper “Defining Hate Speech” gives a thought-provoking overview of various approaches to identifying hate speech in a text. One such framework developed by Parekh noted “three essential features” of hate speech: (1) “it is directed against a specified or easily identifiable individual or, more commonly, a group of individuals based on an arbitrary or normatively irrelevant feature;” (2) the speech “stigmatizes the target group by implicitly or explicitly ascribing to it qualities widely regarded as undesirable;” and (3) “because of its negative qualities, the target group is viewed as an undesirable presence and a legitimate object of hostility.” Also this, food for thought about criteria for communication on Wikipedia's talk pages: "...Ward’s definition, noting that a speaker should be seen as employing hate speech if 'their attacks are so virulent that an observer would have great difficulty separating the message delivered from the attack against the victim'.”

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Statement by Wikimedia Board on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces
by Pine W 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

This email might interest others who would like to know what next steps WMF is considering address this set of issues, in terms of policies, practices, and technical developments. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrick Earley <pearley(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement by Wikimedia Board on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> I want to thank the Board for this letter, and for their focus on this problem. What specific work should we be doing to make progress around this issue? Harassment is a complex problem, and there are no easy solutions. Nor is there likely to be a single solution; improvement will have to be made through a number of initiatives and coordinated approaches. Wikimedia volunteers have offered many different approaches to the problem, through consultations, workshops, the Inspire campaign, conference sessions, and discussion. The Support and Safety team has been collating these ideas, exploring the issue in the broader context of online communities, and delving into academic research on the topic. >From these conversations and research, we have identified some categories/areas for improvement: - Better blocking tools and detection - the Wikimedia community works hard on the front lines keeping our users safe from harassment, through monitoring noticeboards and recent changes for problems, investigating “sock” accounts used to abuse contributors, and placing blocks on problematic users. Improvements to blocking tools, and the ability to detect harassing comments sooner can empower contributors to be more effective at these tasks. - Reporting and evaluation tools - The current systems for reporting harassment are overburdened and can be unclear to users, and there are limited tools that admins and stewards can use to evaluate the cases and make good decisions. New tools, developed in collaboration with functionaries and communities, can improve the experience of reporting, investigating and managing harassment cases. - Training for better handling of both in-person and online harassment - Better training can give contributors the tools and skills to handle harassment situations quickly and empathetically, document cases, and provide good advice to targets of harassment. - Policy and enforcement - Wikimedia communities have developed a variety of processes, policies, and approaches to dealing with behavioural problems. As a movement, we need to identify which are working well, and share those successes. We also need to identify where our approaches are not working well, identify the problems, and try new solutions based on research and data. - Coordination with other platforms on harassment approaches and tools, and keeping up with current academic research - Our communities are not the only ones struggling with the problem of online harassment. We need to work more closely with other platforms, researchers, online communities, and experts to make sure we are aware of successful techniques, new research, and useful tools. The above areas are not the only areas where improvement can be made - right now, contributors are brainstorming other approaches through the Community Wishlist process.[1] We also encourage contributors to reach out to the Support and Safety team at ca(a)wikimedia.org with ideas, or contact me privately at pearley(a)wikimedia.org. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Christophe and the rest of the Wikimedia Foundation trustees > for dedicating time and thought to this important topic. > > I'm optimistic that if we collaborate together as a community we can > make a difference in the level of harassment on Wikimedia projects and > maybe even other parts of the internet. > > Sydney > Sydney Poore > User:FloNight > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Christophe Henner <chenner(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > As many of you know, over the past couple of years the Wikimedia > Foundation > > has taken a focused look at community health—particularly in regards to > > harassment. The Foundation's Board has been monitoring and discussing > this > > issue over the past year with great interest. We have prepared a > statement > > offering our thoughts on this topic, and providing a clear mandate for > the > > Foundation’s leadership to fully engage on this issue. > > > > Our statement is below and has been posted on Meta-Wiki, where it is set > up > > for translation: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ > Board_noticeboard/November_2016_-_Statement_on_Healthy_Community_Culture,_ > Inclusivity,_and_Safe_Spaces > > > > Since the Foundation was established, we have been invested in building a > > positive community culture. As part of these efforts, we have monitored > the > > projects for instances of harassment, escalating our capacity to respond > in > > recent years. Thanks to the work of the Foundation's Support and Safety > > Team, we now have data in the form of the 2015 Harassment Survey[1] about > > the nature of the issue. This has enabled us to identify key areas of > > concern, and step up our response appropriately. This research shows that > > harassment has a negative impact on participation in our projects. This > has > > implications for our ability to collect, share, and disseminate free > > knowledge in support of the Wikimedia vision. Our statement speaks to the > > Board's duty to help the Foundation fulfill its mission. > > > > The Board is committed to making our communities safer and will not > accept > > harassment and toxic behavior on Wikimedia projects. We believe this > matter > > deserves the Foundation's attention and resources, and have confirmed > this > > responsibility at our latest Board meeting on November 13th. The > questions > > that lay before us all now are how to best address this threat, rather > than > > if we should attempt to do so. > > > > The Board especially appreciates and applauds the work being done to > > address this important issue by many community leaders across the > movement > > and teams within the Foundation. We look forward to seeing this > cooperative > > work not only continue, but expand. Finally, we encourage everyone who is > > interested in helping the Foundation address this threat to our vision > and > > mission to engage in the upcoming discussions around this issue. > > > > On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, > > > > Christophe Henner, Board Chair > > > > María Sefidari, Board Vice Chair > > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Harassment_survey_2015 > > > > > > Statement by the Wikimedia Board on Healthy Community Culture, > Inclusivity, > > and Safe Spaces > > > > > > At our Board meeting on November 13, and in Board meetings in September > and > > June, we spent considerable time discussing the issues of harassment and > > hostility on the internet generally, and more specifically on the > Wikimedia > > projects. > > > > This is an important issue. Approximately 40% of internet users, and 70% > of > > women internet users, have personally experienced harassment.[1] Of > people > > who have reported experiencing harassment on Wikimedia projects, more > than > > 50% reported decreasing their participation in our community.[2] Based on > > this and other research, we conclude that harassment and toxic behavior > on > > the Wikimedia projects negatively impacts the ability of the Wikimedia > > projects to collect, share, and disseminate free knowledge. This behavior > > is contrary to our vision and mission. > > > > Our communities deserve safe spaces in which they can contribute > > productively and debate constructively. It is our belief that the > Wikimedia > > Foundation should be proactively engaged in eliminating harassment, > > promoting inclusivity, ensuring a healthier culture of discourse, and > > improving the safety of Wikimedia spaces. We request management to > dedicate > > appropriate resources to this end. > > > > We urge every member of the Wikimedia communities to collaborate in a way > > that models the Wikimedia values of openness and diversity, step forward > to > > do their part to stop hostile and toxic behavior, support people who have > > been targeted by such behavior, and help set clear expectations for all > > contributors. > > > > [1] 2014 Pew Research Center Study, found at: > > http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/ > > > > [2] 2015 WMF Harassment Survey, found at: > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/ > Harassment_Survey_2015_-_Results_Report.pdf > > > > > > > > Christophe HENNER > > Chair of the board of trustees > > chenner(a)wikimedia.org > > +33650664739 > > > > twitter *@schiste* skype *christophe_henner* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Patrick Earley Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation pearley(a)wikimedia.org (1) 415 975 1874 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Fwd: [hifa] Are there gender differences in access and use of digital health tech?
by Sydney Poore 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Thought would be of interest. Sydney ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Amy Lee, USA" <amy.lee(a)jhu.edu> Date: Dec 6, 2016 1:21 AM Subject: [hifa] Are there gender differences in access and use of digital health tech? To: "HIFA - Healthcare Information For All" <HIFA(a)dgroups.org> Cc: Hi all, When planning for a digital health program, people often assume that women have less access to the internet or are less likely to use technology than men. The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project [https://www.k4health.org/] wondered if this assumption is actually true and surveyed Global Health eLearning (GHeL) Center [https://www.globalhealthlearning.org/] users to understand how gender plays a role in GHeL online engagement. I recently wrote about my experience working on this activity and our findings in a new post on The Exchange, K4Health’s Medium Publication – Online Learning: Are There Really Differences Between Men and Women? [ http://bit.ly/2geRpc1] The main takeaway for me is that there were more similarities than differences between men and women. For example, the top three reasons both men and women gave for taking courses were interest in topic, desire for technical knowledge, and interest in improving job prospects. We’d love to hear your own experience looking at gender and digital health. Have you found that men and women are similarly engaged in your programs and activities? Or do some types of tools and services show a difference in access and use?? Please feel free to share with relevant contacts and colleagues. Best, Amy Amy Lee Program Specialist, Knowledge for Health (K4Health) CCPk4health Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Phone: 410-223-1645 Email: amy.lee(a)jhu.edu Web: ccp.jhu.edu| www.k4health.org HIFA profile: Amy Lee is a Program specialist at The Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs in the United States of America. amy.lee AT jhu.edu __________ Thank you to all HIFA Financial Supporters in 2016: British Medical Association (lead funder), Africa Health, Afro-European Medical & Research Network, Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Commonwealth Nurses Federation, Council of International Neonatal Nurses, ecancer, Elsevier, Foundation of Mother & Child Health, Global Health Media Project, Haiti Nursing Foundation, International Child Health Group (RCPCH), International Foundation for Dermatology, International League of Dermatological Societies, International Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health, Joanna Briggs Institute, The Lancet, LiveWell Initiative (Nigeria), mPowering Frontline Health Workers, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, Medic Mobile, Network for Information and Digital Access, Next GenU, Palliative Drugs, Partnerships in Health Information, Physicians for Haiti, Public Library of Science (PLOS), Research Square, Royal College of Midwives, The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust, WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation & Health, Wiki Project Med Foundation, Your MD, Zambia UK Healthworkforce Alliance To send a message to the HIFA forum, simply send an email to: hifa(a)dgroups.org HIFA: Healthcare Information For All: www.hifa.org HIFA Voices database: www.hifavoices.org You are receiving this message because you're a member of the community HIFA - Healthcare Information For All. View this contribution on the web site https://dgroups.org/_/r67bl4pa A reply to this message will be sent to all members of HIFA - Healthcare Information For All. To reply to sender, send a message to amy.lee(a)jhu.edu. To unsubscribe, send an email to leave.HIFA(a)dgroups.org

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How may Trump win effect the WP working environment
by LB 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

In light of Trump boasting of grabbing women "by the pussy" and of him calling Clinton a "nasty woman" on national TV during a formal presidential debate, I wonder what effect, if any, his election may have on the WP working environment. Since the election there have been numerous reports of women and minorities being openly attacked by emboldened men and women and who supported Trump and his... values. Apparently this was the case in Englad post-Brexit, too? Has anyone else thought about this? Lightbreather

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