*Hey everybody,If you are an editor of the French, Italian or English
Wikipedia interested to contribute in building technologies for improving
missing citation detection in Wikipedia articles, please read on.As part of
our current work on verifiability
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Integrity>, the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Research team <http://research.wikimedia.org> is studying ways
to use machine learning to flag unsourced statements needing a citation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statements>.
If successful, this project will allow us to identify areas where
identifying high quality citations is particularly urgent or important.To
help with this project, we need to collect high-quality labeled data
regarding individual sentences: whether they need citations, and why. We
created a tool for this purpose and we would like to invite you to
participate in a pilot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statements/Citation_Reason_Pilot>.
The annotation task should be fun, short, and straightforward for
experienced Wikipedia editors.If you are interested in participating,
please proceed as follows: - Sign-up by (optionally) adding your name in
the sign-up page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statements/Citation_Reason_Pilot/Sign_Up>.-
Go to
http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/
<http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/>, login, and from 'Labeling
Unsourced Statements’, request one (or more) workset. Each workset takes
maximum 5 minutes to complete and contains 5 tasks. There is no minimum
number of worksets, but of course the more labels you provide, the better.-
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 choices. -
If you can't respond, please select 'skip'. If you can respond but you are
not 100% sure about your choice, please select 'Unsure'.If you have any
question/comment, please let us know by sending an email to
miriam(a)wikimedia.org <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_Statements/Citation_Reason_Pilot>.
We canrelatively easily adapt the tool if something needs to be
changed.Thank you for your time!Miriam and Dario*