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
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 :)
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."
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
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/
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
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
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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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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
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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