We're thrilled to announce that applications to attend WikiCite 2018 are
now open <https://goo.gl/forms/hV6rXRCdQ3fAK9v13>.
[image: WikiCite 2018.png]
WikiCite 2018 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018> is a 3-day
conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an
open repository of bibliographic data to support the citation and
fact-checking needs of Wikimedia projects, and possibly, to serve as an
open infrastructure for research, education, and information quality across
the web.
WikiCite 2018 expands efforts started with WikiCite 2016
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016> and WikiCite 2017
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017> to explore these
possibilities by leveraging Wikidata—Wikimedia’s structured knowledge
base—and to develop open source tools to improve citation management and
verifiability strategies for free knowledge. Since then, the amount of
bibliographic data in Wikidata has grown exponentially, allowing us to
glimpse the possibilities of a truly open, universal library and citation
graph, while also exposing significant social and technical challenges.
This year presents a pivotal moment for WikiCite, wherein its emergent
community — consisting of Wikimedians, librarians, LODLAM practitioners,
software engineers, data scientists, and open knowledge advocates — must
grapple with possible growth scenarios, address critical gaps, and set a
course for the project’s future
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiCite/Roadmap>. If you are
passionate about tending Wikipedia’s root system (references!), or believe
in the broader possibilities of contributing to the bibliographic commons,
WikiCite 2018 presents an unprecedented opportunity to meet fellow dreamers
and hackers, and to help shape this vital effort.
This year’s event will be hosted at the David Brower Center
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower_Center> in Berkeley,
California, USA, November 27-29, 2018. Applications to attend the event
(including travel support requests
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018/Travel_funding>) are open
until *September 17, 2018*:
*WikiCite 2018 application form*
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfZdLgVZYUQfj99SSeUsj-uwe3BdHgjRQ…>
We hope you will join us!
–The WikiCite 2018 organizing committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018#Organizing_committee>
This application will be conducted via Google Forms—a third-party service,
which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy
and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018_Application_Form_Privac…>
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Good morning/afternoon/night everyone,
If you are an editor of the French, Italian or English Wikipedia, and you
are curious about how to contribute to technologies for improving
verifiability of Wikipedia articles, please read on—we need your help!
In the context of the Knowledge integrity
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Integrity> program, we (the
WMF Research
team <http://research.wikimedia.org>) are studying ways to flag unsourced
statements needing a citation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>
using machine learning, with the aim of identifying areas where adding high
quality citations is particularly urgent or important. Following the
success of the first labeling campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>,
we now need to collect additional, high-quality labeled data regarding
why sentences
need citations.
You are invited to participate in a second annotation task
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.
We used your input from the last experiment to generate a taxonomy of
reasons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>
why editors add citations. With this taxonomy now embedded in the
interface, the annotation experience will be much faster and fun.
If you are interested in participating, please go to
http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/ (replace enwiki with itwki or frwiki
if you speak Italian or French), login, and from *'**Labeling Unsourced
Statements II’**,* request one (or more) workset. For each task in a
workset, the tool will show you an unsourced sentence in an article and ask
you to annotate it. You can then label the sentence as needing an inline
citation or not, and specify a reason for your choice from a drop-down
menu. If you can't respond please select 'skip'. You can also sign up by
(optionally) adding your name on this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>
to receive updates about future campaigns and results from this research
If you have any question/comment on this project, please let us know by
contacting miriam(a)wikimedia.org or leaving a message on the talk page of
the project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Identification_of_Unsourced_S…>.
Thank you for your time!
Miriam and Dario
Hey all,
we had a productive “strategy meetup” at Wikimania with a group of about 20 people, to talk about the future of WikiCite and a roadmap for source metadata in Wikidata more generally.
The motivation for this meetup was a set of concerns around scalability and “growing pains” around bibliographic and citation data in Wikidata, as well as the need (that many in the community have expressed) for a clearer goal, value proposition, and scope for WikiCite.
The result is a series of notes fleshing out 4 possible scenarios for the future of bibliographic data as structured data—from a centralized scenario to a fully federated one—discussing their possible risks and benefits at the technical, social, and governance level:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiCite/Roadmap
The question these notes try to address is whether Wikimedia should aim to build a “bibliographic commons”, and if so, what it would look like, and where it should live.
This document is not a formal proposal or an RfC open for a vote, but a conversation starter to evaluate what type of future makes most sense for this data and the communities and stakeholders that will benefit from it. A shared understanding on what we’re building towards is also going to help us inform the program of the upcoming WikiCite 2018 conference in November (the application process will open in a few days).
If you wish to share your thoughts on these four scenarios, please chime in on wiki, rather than replying here, to avoid thread splintering (I’m cross-posting this on a few mailing lists).
Dario
on behalf of the meetup participants