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 everyone,
We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2020 will be held in
Taipei on April 20 or 21, 2020 (the date to be finalized soon) and as
part of the Web Conference 2020 [1]. In the past years, Wiki Workshop
has traveled to Oxford, Montreal, Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San
Francisco.
You can read more about the call for papers and the workshops at
http://wikiworkshop.org/2020/#call. Please note that the deadline for
the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 17. All
other submissions should be received by February 21.
If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this
list or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com.
Looking forward to seeing you in Taipei.
Best,
Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
Bob West, EPFL
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://www2020.thewebconf.org/
Hi all,
Summary: You can read Research Report No 1 which is an overview of
what the Research team [1] at Wikimedia Foundation has been busy with
in the past six months and what's ahead of us at
https://research.wikimedia.org/report.html . You can even do
cmd/ctrl+p and download the report as pdf. I have signed up to send
out this report twice a year, in December and June.
==Purpose==
Communicating in written with you on a biannual basis about what we
are working on and what's in our minds when it comes to research on or
about Wikimedia projects.
==Motivation==
* We receive emails from those of you in the community and external
researchers asking about what we're working on now and what's ahead of
us in the next 6 months to a year. I read this as there is a need for
better/more communication about what we do.
* We do write grant reports for organizations who give grants to
Wikimedia Foundation. I have now been involved in a few of them for
our team and I see them as really nice summaries of what's going on in
a team and what's ahead. I felt it's a loss to not tell a similar
story to the public. I talked with Jonathan Curiel, Senior Development
Communications Manager at Wikimedia Foundation, and he was up for
doing this together.
==Scope==
The focus is on our team, what's in our minds, what we do, and some of
the important trends or events we're part of or we think we should be
aware of. The report has a narrow scope compared to the wealth of work
that is being done in the Wikimedia Movement. For a broader scope, I
continue to recommend efforts such as
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter .
Last but not least: this is an experiment. I am committed to do it for
a few times and we assess the usefulness of it then. If you have
feedback, please let me know. (I will be out of office for a good part
of the holidays ahead. If you don't hear back from me immediately, I
will come back to you in the second week of January.)
Best,
Leila
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
--
Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for statistics about the edits that are reverted on the English Wikipedia. This is for purposes of explaining to the public what Wikipedia’s quality control processes are like. If hard numbers aren’t available, I’m also interested in educated guesstimates.
1) An often-quoted statistic is that 7% of edits are reverted. Is this still believed to be true?
2) According to https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/19/scoring-platform-team/, 2.5% of edits are vandalism. There are other common reasons for reverting, and I’m wondering if anyone has studied their frequency. Does anyone know what percentage of all edits are reverted for being:
a) Spam (as perceived by the reverter)
b) Copyright violation
c) Violations of the Biographies of Living Persons policy
3) Do statistics on the number of edits per day on the English Wikipedia (i.e. 164,000 edits per day) include edits that are blocked by the spam blacklists or by edit filters?
4) How many edits per day on the English Wikiepdia are prevented (blocked) by the spam blacklists?
5) How many edits per day on the English Wikiepdia are prevented by the edit filters?
6) What percentage of all reverts are made by users of Huggle and Stiki?
7) What proportion of vandalism is quickly reverted? A 2007 study (Priedhorsky et al) found that 42% of vandalistic contributions are repaired within one view and 70% within ten views - have any newer studies been done on this?
Thanks in advance!
Su-Laine
Vancouver, BC
Apologies for cross-posting
====
SEMANTiCS - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September
7 - 10, 2020
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/
====
= Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaiitime)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2020
(11:59pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59
pm,Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020
(11:59pm, Hawaii time)
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
= Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem20eu#
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2020 EU are planned to be published by Springer
LNCS & CEUR. All proceedings will be made available open access.
SEMANTiCS 2020 EU particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics
* Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
* Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* Reasoning, Rules and Policies
* Natural Language Processing
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
-------
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Blockchain and Semantics
We especially encourage contributions that illustrate the applicability
of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate
the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
== Research and Innovation Track ==
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes papers on novel
scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the
conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must follow the guidelines
given in the author instructions, including references and optional
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who
will judge it based on its innovativeness, appropriateness, and impact
of results in terms of effectiveness at solving real problems.
= Important Dates:
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Reviews will be carried out in a single-blind mode.
Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages and short papers of
6 pages. Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS
format. The detailed Call for Research and Innovation papers is
available here: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
== Posters and Demos Track ==
The Posters and Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in
progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller
contributions in all fields related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data
in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications
with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test
or that are yet in the conceptual phase but are worth discussing, and
also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and
potential research or business partners.
= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 22, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: August 01, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings are planned to be published via CEUR
Workshop Proceedings and should follow the guidelines of the Springer
LNCS format. The detailed Call for Poster and Demos papers is available
online.
== Industry and Use Case Track ==
Focusing strongly on industry needs and ground breaking technology
trends SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal
with semantic processing of data and/or information. A special focus of
Semantics 2019 will be on the convergence of machine learning techniques
and knowledge graphs. Additional topics of interest are Enterprise
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Data
Integration, Linked Data & Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text
Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions should have
a strong focus on real-world applications beyond the prototypical stage
and demonstrate the power of semantic systems!
= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2020 (11:59
pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Presentation: August 24, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Submit your presentations here:
http://2020-eu.semantics.cc/submission-industry-presentations
== Workshops and Tutorials ==
Workshops and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for
presenting widely recognised contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research and commercial project consortia meetings.
= Important Dates for Workshops:
* Proposals WS Deadline: March 23, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
= Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
* Proposals Tutorial Deadline: May 11, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 01, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
== Special Calls ==
Special calls or sub-topics are dedicated towards specific topics that
are of special interest to the SEMANTiCS community. In case we receive a
sufficient amount of high quality submissions these topics will become
special tracks within the conference program. For 2020 SEMANTiCS
Amsterdam encourages submissions to the following sub-topics:
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Blockchain and Semantics
Each sub-topic is managed by a distinct committee and encourages
submissions from the scientific or industrial domain. Scientific
submissions will undergo a thorough review process and will be published
in the conference proceedings in case of acceptance. Industrial
submissions will be evaluated and selected according to the quality
criteria of the industry track. We are looking forward to your submissions!
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
Is there a way to attend remotely?
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 8:46 AM Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaffee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> We are organizing an event for Research and Wikimedia to exchange about
> research done in the field and for researchers and Wikimedia community
> members to work together on new ideas. The idea derived from the fact that
> many researchers reusing Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects
> often are not yet integrated with the community. This makes their work a
> lot more difficult than necessary. At the same time, many research
projects
> are useful for the community, but not yet integrated into Wikipedia and
co.
> We want to change this and facilitate the exchange between researchers and
> Wikimedia community members in an event, where we bring people interested
> in similar topics together. If you are either doing research in the
> Wikipedia space or are a community member of one of the Wikimedia
projects,
> please come by on the 8th of February. More details below.
> Please spread the event invitation in your communities!
>
> Best,
> Lucie
>
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-and-wikimedia-tickets-90824421289
>
> *Description*
> We are organizing an event for Wikimedians and researchers to exchange!
> Come along and learn more about research happening around Wikimedia and
> what Wikimedians can teach you about the different Wikimedia projects!
> A large part of the computer science research community is exploring
> Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects. In the fields of natural
> language processing (NLP) as well as semantic web, Wikipedia and Wikidata
> are often used as a fundamental part of the research world. At the same
> time, the community of Wikidata and Wikipedia could make use of a variety
> of tools developed by researchers. However, currently, the gap between
> things explored in research and actual applications in Wikidata and
> Wikipedia needs bridging. Therefore, we want to build a community of
> Wikidata community members and research to exchange needs, existing tools,
> open challenges and research question to foster an environment, where both
> communities can benefit from the exchange.
> The ideal is to have all the different approaches and commonalities under
> one umbrella to foster exchange and support of different research
> communities and their approaches.
> OpenSym and the WikiWorkshop are already doing that for the people
> submitting to and attending computer science research conferences. But
> without the exchange with the community, there is a lack of communication,
> creating silos of missing exchange.
>
> *The Goal is*
> to connect the researcher and the Wikimedia community to enable an
exchange
> that could ultimately lead to the research projects being implemented as
> tools for Wikipedia. And vice-versa: More research projects build on
> community needs.
>
> *We invite*
> *Researchers*
> Anyone who does or is planning to do research on or around Wikimedia
> projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikidata and others.
> *Wikimedians*
> Anyone in the community, who is interested in improving the research
> happening around Wikimedia - you don’t need any experience in research.
> Wikipedia editor, Wikidata data magician, whatever you do in Wikimedia
> projects, your feedback will be highly valuable.
>
> *What we need from you*
> We would ask all researchers to bring an A2/A3 poster about what they are
> doing in Wikimedia that we can put up so that we can create an easy way to
> exchange on different projects. If you don’t have a project yet, don’t
> worry- just bring a poster with topics you find interesting, and you might
> be able to meet other researchers already working in your field of
> interest. (If you struggle with printing the poster beforehand, please
> reach out to us a few days in advance.)
>
> *Event*
> We will spend a day exchanging on recent challenges around Wikimedia.
> Besides the posters, we aim to form working groups for the afternoon to
> work on topics of shared interest and possibly propose a project of common
> interest.
>
> --
> Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
> _______________________________________________
> Wiki-research-l mailing list
> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
>
Travis
Hello everyone!
We are organizing an event for Research and Wikimedia to exchange about
research done in the field and for researchers and Wikimedia community
members to work together on new ideas. The idea derived from the fact that
many researchers reusing Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects
often are not yet integrated with the community. This makes their work a
lot more difficult than necessary. At the same time, many research projects
are useful for the community, but not yet integrated into Wikipedia and co.
We want to change this and facilitate the exchange between researchers and
Wikimedia community members in an event, where we bring people interested
in similar topics together. If you are either doing research in the
Wikipedia space or are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects,
please come by on the 8th of February. More details below.
Please spread the event invitation in your communities!
Best,
Lucie
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-and-wikimedia-tickets-90824421289
*Description*
We are organizing an event for Wikimedians and researchers to exchange!
Come along and learn more about research happening around Wikimedia and
what Wikimedians can teach you about the different Wikimedia projects!
A large part of the computer science research community is exploring
Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects. In the fields of natural
language processing (NLP) as well as semantic web, Wikipedia and Wikidata
are often used as a fundamental part of the research world. At the same
time, the community of Wikidata and Wikipedia could make use of a variety
of tools developed by researchers. However, currently, the gap between
things explored in research and actual applications in Wikidata and
Wikipedia needs bridging. Therefore, we want to build a community of
Wikidata community members and research to exchange needs, existing tools,
open challenges and research question to foster an environment, where both
communities can benefit from the exchange.
The ideal is to have all the different approaches and commonalities under
one umbrella to foster exchange and support of different research
communities and their approaches.
OpenSym and the WikiWorkshop are already doing that for the people
submitting to and attending computer science research conferences. But
without the exchange with the community, there is a lack of communication,
creating silos of missing exchange.
*The Goal is*
to connect the researcher and the Wikimedia community to enable an exchange
that could ultimately lead to the research projects being implemented as
tools for Wikipedia. And vice-versa: More research projects build on
community needs.
*We invite*
*Researchers*
Anyone who does or is planning to do research on or around Wikimedia
projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikidata and others.
*Wikimedians*
Anyone in the community, who is interested in improving the research
happening around Wikimedia - you don’t need any experience in research.
Wikipedia editor, Wikidata data magician, whatever you do in Wikimedia
projects, your feedback will be highly valuable.
*What we need from you*
We would ask all researchers to bring an A2/A3 poster about what they are
doing in Wikimedia that we can put up so that we can create an easy way to
exchange on different projects. If you don’t have a project yet, don’t
worry- just bring a poster with topics you find interesting, and you might
be able to meet other researchers already working in your field of
interest. (If you struggle with printing the poster beforehand, please
reach out to us a few days in advance.)
*Event*
We will spend a day exchanging on recent challenges around Wikimedia.
Besides the posters, we aim to form working groups for the afternoon to
work on topics of shared interest and possibly propose a project of common
interest.
--
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
Forwarding.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Brooke Storm <bstorm(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 1:03 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] PyCon Financial Assistance and Development Sprints
Info
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Foundation Optional <
foundation-optional(a)wikimedia.org>, <tech-all(a)wikimedia.org>
Hello Folks!
For the Python enthusiasts on these lists, I’m signal boosting this message
with info on PyCon dev sprints and financial assistance for the conference
from a former Wikimedia colleague.
I plan to attend PyCon this year and am also hoping to figure out setting
up a development sprint around some Wikimedia Cloud Services and Toolforge
code.
Brooke Storm
SRE
Wikimedia Cloud Services
bstorm(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:bstorm@wikimedia.org>
IRC: bstorm_
--------- Forwarded message ————
<snip>
I wanted to mention - feel free to pass this on publicly and in personal
invitations - that PyCon North America, mid-April in Pennsylvania,
offers financial assistance to people who would like to attend:
https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/ <
https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/>
The deadline for requesting financial assistance is 31 January.
PyCon loves to cross-pollinate with other free and open source
movements, and I know there are many Python developers in Wikimedia
tech. If Wikimedians want to use the April 20-23 in-person sprints
https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/ <
https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/> (will be editable soon)
to work on Wikimedia-related Python tools together, that would be cool!
Best wishes.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Changeset Consulting
https://changeset.nyc <https://changeset.nyc/>
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Hello Researchers,
Contribution patterns in online communities follow a power distribution
which is known as the 1% rule [1], as Wikipedia told me.
However, the steepness of the distribution can be more or less strong: 50%
of your edits could be contributed by 2% or by 0.002%, the latter showing a
stronger imbalance.
I wonder if there are any estimates/rules-of-thumb of what imbalance is
problematic when seen from the perspective of community health.
I also wonder if there is research on how technology contributes to such
imbalances and how it might be mitigated – e.g training, user-friendliness,
documentation…
(based on my assumption that a steep curve is less desirable, since the
power is more concentrated, the system more fragile and the redistribution
of power more constrained)
Jan
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
--
Jan Dittrich
UX Design/ Research
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit
teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi all,
We, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation, have received some requests
over the past months for making ourselves more available to answer some of
the research questions that you as Wikimedia volunteers, affiliates' staff,
and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Starting January
2020, we will experiment with monthly office hours organized jointly by our
team and the Analytics team where you can join us and direct your questions
to us. We will revisit this experiment in June 2020 to assess whether to
continue it or not.
The scope
We encourage you to attend the office hour if you have research related
questions. These can be questions about our teams, our projects, or more
importantly questions about your projects or ideas that we can support you
with during the office hours. You can also ask us questions about how to
use a specific dataset available to you, to answer a question you have, or
some other question. Note that the purpose of the office hours is to answer
your questions during the dedicated time of the office hour. Questions that
may require many hours of back-and-forth between our team and you are not
suited for this forum. For these bigger questions, however, we are happy to
brainstorm with you in the office hour and point you to some good
directions to explore further on your own (and maybe come back in the next
office hour and ask more questions).
Time and Location
We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month 17.00-18.00 (UTC) in
#wikimedia-research IRC channel on freenode [1].
The first meeting will be on January 22.
Up-to-date information on mediawiki [2]
Archiving
If you miss the office hour, you can read the logs of it at [3].
The future announcements about these office hours will only go to the
following lists so please make sure you're subscribed to them if you like
to receive a ping:
* wiki-research-l mailing list [4]
* analytics mailing list [5]
* wikidata mailing list [6]
* the Research category in Space [7]
on behalf of Research and Analytics,
Martin
[1] irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-research
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[3] https://wm-bot.wmflabs.org/logs/%23wikimedia-research/
[4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
[5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
[6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
[7] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/tags/research
--
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation