Wiki-research-l March 2018

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Wikipedia Research policy
by song＠cs.umn.edu 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to participate in studies. At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots. The policy proposal can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal is being described at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia community, we would like additional input about the proposal, and would welcome additional help improving it. Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research -- Bryan Song GroupLens Research University of Minnesota

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[Analytics] Beeline as Hive client
by Madhumitha Viswanathan 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hi all, For all Hive users using stat1002/1004, you might have seen a deprecation warning when you launch the hive client - that claims it's being replaced with Beeline. The Beeline shell has always been available to use, but it required supplying a database connection string every time, which was pretty annoying. We now have a wrapper <https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/production/modules/role…> script setup to make this easier. The old Hive CLI will continue to exist, but we encourage moving over to Beeline. You can use it by logging into the stat1002/1004 boxes as usual, and launching `beeline`. There is some documentation on this here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Cluster/Beeline. If you run into any issues using this interface, please ping us on the Analytics list or #wikimedia-analytics or file a bug on Phabricator <http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics>. (If you are wondering stat1004 whaaat - there should be an announcement coming up about it soon!) Best, --Madhu :)

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What percentage of digital assistants cite Wikipedia?
by Stella Yu 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

Curious, what percentage of digital assistants (Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Google) cite Wikipedia when a person asks a question? Does the current Wikipedia mobile app support voice search? Are there any reports on this? Thanks in advance! Sincere regards, Stella -- Stella Yu | STELLARESULTS | 415 690 7827 "Chronicling heritage brands and legendary people."

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Wiki Workshop 2018 Announcement and Call for Papers
by Leila Zia 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi everyone, We are excited to announce that the 5th annual Wiki Workshop [1] will take place in Lyon on April 24, 2018 and as part of The Web Conference 2018 (a.k.a. WWW2018) [2]. You can access the call for papers at http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#call . Please submit your ongoing or completed research related to Wikimedia projects to the workshop. Note that 2018-01-28 is the submission deadline if you want your paper to appear in the proceedings, and 2018-03-11 is for all other papers.[3] Following the past year's model, the workshop will have a set of invited talks (Jon Kleinberg and Markus Kroetzsch have already accepted our invitation [4] \o/), a poster session, and more. Questions and comments are welcome. Otherwise, we're looking forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Lyon in April. :) Best, Leila, on behalf of the organizers [5] [1] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/ [2] https://www2018.thewebconf.org/ [3] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#dates [4] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#speakers [5] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#organization -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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#MisinfoWeb track at the Web Conference 2018: Panel and Program update
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 31 Mar '18

31 Mar '18

Dear all, As many of you know already, this year the Web Conference <https://www2018.thewebconf.org> will feature an alternate track on *Journalism, Misinformation, and Fact Checking*, jointly organized by Kristina Lerman, Takis Metaxas, and me. We are happy to announce that the final program is up on the website: https://www2018.thewebconf.org/program/misinfoweb/ Aside from the twelve accepted research presentations, we are particularly happy to announce that we have assembled an exciting panel. See below for more information about it. We hope to see you in Lyon, and if you have any question feel free to reach out at misinfochairs(a)www2018.thewebconf.org Cheers, Giovanni, Kristina, and Takis *The effects of “Fake News” on Journalism and Democracy* *Online propaganda and misinformation appeared along with the first search engine in the mid-90’s and it became harder to detect in the last decade with the development of social media applications. Yet, in the last few years it spread widely in the form of the so-called “fake news”, falsehoods online formatted and circulated in such a way that a reader might mistake them for legitimate news articles. How big of a problem is it, how technology and policy can help us address it, and what are the implications for Journalism and Democracy?* - Daniel Funke <https://www.poynter.org/person/dfunke> (Poynter Institute) - Katherine Maher <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Katherine_(WMF)> (Wikimedia Foundation) - P. Takis Metaxas <http://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmetaxas/> (Albright Institute for Global Affairs, Wellesley College) – Moderator - An Xiao Mina <https://about.me/anxiaostudio> (Credibility Coalition and Meedan) - Soroush Vosoughi <http://soroush.mit.edu/> (MIT Media Lab) -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <glciampagl(a)gmail.com> ∙ Assistant Research Scientist IU Network Science Institute <http://iuni.iu.edu/> ∙ glciampaglia.com News 🕫 *WWW 2018* ∙ Alternate track on Journalism, Misinformation, and Fact Checking: https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/misinformation-cfp/

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Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation
by James Salsman 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Leila, since https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03235.pdf worked so well, is it going to be implemented widely, or is it shelved? Does it need advocates?

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trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial]
by Leila Zia 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Hi all, Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the past weekend: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_reports#Wiki_Indaba_20… Best, Leila

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Upcoming research newsletter: new papers open for review
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Hi everyone, We’re preparing for the March 2018 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201803 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on April 1 UTC. If you can't make this deadline but would like to cover a particular paper in the subsequent issue, leave a note next to the paper's entry in the etherpad. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Highlights from this month: • A Brief History of Human Time: Exploring a database of 'notable people' • A Comparison of the Historical Entries in Wikipedia and Baidu Baike • A Hybrid Model for Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles • Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors • Capturing the influence of geopolitical ties from Wikipedia with reduced Google matrix • Community Detection with Metadata in a Network of Biographies of Western Art Painters • Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders • Is Catalonia an Independent Country? Tracking Implicit Biases in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs • Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata • Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata • Mining Cross-Cultural Differences of Named Entities: A Preliminary Study • Modeling the Wikipedia to Understand the Dynamics of Long Disputes and Biased Articles • Neural Wikipedian: Generating Textual Summaries from Knowledge Base Triples • Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata • Sentiments in Wikipedia Articles for Deletion Discussions • The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Wikipedia Editing • The rise and decline" in a population of peer production projects • Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web • Using big data and network analysis to understand Wikipedia article quality • Visualizing the Flow of Discourse with a Concept Ontology Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial]
by abdelwaheb turki 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Dear Ms., I thank you for your answer. As a Programme Committee member of WikiIndaba 2018 and as the author of WikiResearch in Africa: Situation and Challenges also presented in the Research Showcase of WikiIndaba 2018, I was honoured to receive your report. I really greet the efforts of Wikimedia Foundation to raise WikiResearch in Africa and would like to contribute in this context. We can discuss about that if you want to. Concerning the role of Wikimedia Foundation concerning and as I already said after your presentation, I think that the matter is the lack of connection between LangCom and African language regulatory institutions. Another matter can be the difficulty of reaching LangCom. In fact, messages from communities to LangCom mailing list take days to be processed by moderators and then published. There is also a problem of contacting LangCom using Phabricator and Meta. Absolutely, such matters should be fixed. Finally, just for information concerning Wikimania proposal about using Wikidata in Medicine, I should inform you that I am Csisc who posted it in Wikidata talk page of Wikimania 2018. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki ________________________________ De : Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> de la part de wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Envoyé : vendredi 23 mars 2018 13:00 À : wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Objet : Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 11 Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wiki-research-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] (Leila Zia) 2. Re: trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] (Gerard Meijssen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:41:46 -0700 From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] Message-ID: <CAK0Oe2ufs6Q33Y6thyGua4P3r6MejnXzybrAoNXsimueW7oMyQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi all, Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the past weekend: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_reports#Wiki_Indaba_20… Best, Leila ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:13:31 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] Message-ID: <CAO53wxVaE3DPkbbQfeUo1XH1HJETzAzJrzXt=tn_SMTcvLj+SQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hoi, I have read your comments on the WIki Indaba. Sad to hear that you could not make it. As a movement it is not our task to serve the "2000" languages that you mention. It is our task to serve the languages that we support in our existing Wikipedias. The difference is significant. When people aim to help themselves, their culture, their language by investing their efforts in a Wikipedia, we have a process that recognises this and that leads to the start of a Wikipedia. Thanks to the Incubator, translatewiki.net we provide a native interface in all our languages. There are strong arguments why we should invest more in other languages like the top 25 languages minus English and in the other languages. The easiest argument is that English is less than 50% of our traffic. Where you talk about subjects that people are likely to read, there are many predictive models possible. The big issue in current approaches is that they start with what we know from projects particularly the English Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia is biased and consequently many subjects that may be of a higher relevance in other languages or cultures will not be suggested when English Wikipedia and its traffic is the yard stone to measure by. Often there is more and better information in other Wikipedias. Arguably thanks to Wikidata it becomes easier to find a more composite view of the subjects people may be interested in. Anyway, thank you for reporting on your virtual presence; you made a difference in this way. Thanks, GerardM On 23 March 2018 at 00:41, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the > past weekend: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_ > reports#Wiki_Indaba_2018 > > Best, > Leila > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ------------------------------ End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 11 ************************************************

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] research on topic coverage?
by James Salsman 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Amy Bruckman wrote: > I was just re-reading Halavais & Lackaff’s 2008 paper on topic coverage in the English Wikipedia. > Has anyone redone or extended that analysis more recently? I've been keeping track of the length articles on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_popular_vital_articles every six months for the past six years. It's great news in that improvements as measured by byte count and controlled for maintenance templates has been growing at a constant rate, basically four bytes per day. I've never published anything on it and don't plan to, hoping that someone who can use the academic publication credit will some day. Plotting ORES scores over time is easy now, and should make it sufficiently interesting to journal editors. My favorite article on the topic is https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.23687 It has a lot of citing articles: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=13904159020… > Also, has anyone mapped comparative topic coverage for different languages? Yes, e.g. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/395144380424/popculture-paper… Best regards, Jim

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