Wiki-research-l November 2020

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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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Requesting access to deleted pages for research purposes
by Mackenzie Lemieux 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Dear Wiki Community, My name is Mackenzie Lemieux and I am a neuroscience researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and I am interested in exploring biases on Wikipedia. My research hypothesis is that gender or ethnicity mediate the rate of flagging and deletion of pages for women in STEM. I hope to retrospectively analyze Wikipedia's deletion history, harvest the biographical articles about scientists that have been created over the past n years and then confirm the gender and ethnicity of a large sample. It appears that we can identify deleted pages with Wikipedia's deletion log <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log>, but to actually see the page that was deleted we need to be members of one of these Wikipedia user groups: Administrators <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators>, Oversighters <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight>, Researchers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researchers>, Checkusers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser>. Does anyone have advice on how to obtain researcher status or is there anyone willing to collaborate who has access to the data we need? Warmly, Mackenzie Lemieux -- Mackenzie Lemieux mackenzie.lemieux(a)gmail.com cell: 416-806-0041 220 Gilmour Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6P 3B4

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Me
by smontgomery＠megaputer.com 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Hello, everyone! First, let me introduce myself. My name is Sam, and I am a data analysis intern at a company called Megaputer Intelligence. My comapny makes a software which which has a lot of promise in improving various Wikimedia projects, so I am hoping that my work here will lead to a collaboration between Megaputer and the Wikimedia foundation. Right now I am trying to produce a better anti-vandalism bot for English Wikipedia which involves working with a dataset of edits classified as vandalism or not vandalism. The problem that I am having is that some of the pages I need to access have been deleted or suppressed. Could someone tell me where is the right place to apply for researcher rights so that I can access these? Thanks, Sam at Megaputer

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Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours December 1, 2020
by Martin Gerlach 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

Hi all, Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly Office hours on 2020-12-01 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET). To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to attend) can be found here [4]. Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to support you in: - You have a specific research related question that you suspect you should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it. For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors in my wiki? - You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future. - You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates: if you are interested in building relationships with the academic institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those of you interested more closely in this space. - You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5]. Hope to see many of you, Martin (WMF Research Team) [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html [2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours [3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours [5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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Upcoming Research Newsletter: New Papers Open For Review (November 2020)
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi everyone, We’re preparing for the November 2020 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202011 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication time is November 29 ca. 14:00 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 below. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. *Highlights from this month:* - A general method for estimating the prevalence of Influenza-Like-Symptoms with Wikipedia data - Deriving Geolocations in Wikipedia - Edit Wars in a Contested Digital City: Mapping Wikipedia’s Uneven Augmentations of Berlin - Extracting N-ary Facts from Wikipedia Table Clusters - Is Wikipedia succeeding in reducing gender bias? Assessing changes in gender bias in Wikipedia using word embedding - Modelling User Behavior Dynamics with Embeddings - Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia - Neural Relation Extraction on Wikipedia Tables for Augmenting Knowledge Graphs - Neural Relation Extraction on Wikipedia Tables for Augmenting Knowledge Graphs - NwQM: A neural quality assessment framework for Wikipedia - Spontaneous versus interaction-driven burstiness in human dynamics: The case of Wikipedia edit history - Structured Knowledge: Have we made progress? An extrinsic study of KB coverage over 19 years - The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Peer Production - Using Natural Language Generation to Bootstrap Missing Wikipedia Articles: A Human-centric Perspective - Wikipedia Edit-a-thons as Sites of Public Pedagogy - Wikipedia: A Challenger's Best Friend? Utilising Information-seeking Behaviour Patterns to Predict US Congressional Elections - Women's representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis *Masssly and Tilman Bayer* [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter [2] WikiResearch (@WikiResearch) | Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiResearch>

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3rd DBpedia Stack Online-Tutorial, Dec 8, 2020
by Sebastian Hellmann 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

Apologies for cross-posting Over the last year, the DBpedia core team has consolidated great amount of technology around DBpedia. This tutorial targets developers (in particular of DBpedia Chapters) that wish to learn how to replicate local infrastructure such as loading and hosting an own SPARQL endpoint. A core focus will also be the new DBpedia Stack, which contains several dockerized applications that are automatically loading data from the DBpedia databus. The third tutorial will be held on December 8, 2020 at 17:30 CET and it will cover the following topics: - Using Databus collections (Download) - Creating customized Databus collections - Uploading data to the Databus - Using collections in Databus-ready Docker applications - Creating dockerized applications for the DBpedia Stack #Quick Facts - Web URL: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/tutorials/3rd-dbpedia-stack-tutorial - When: December 8, 2020 at 17:30-18:30 CET - Where: The tutorial will be organized online.Registration is required though. - Databus: https://databus.dbpedia.org/ #Registration Attending the DBpedia Stack tutorial is free. Registration is required though. After the registration for the event, you will receive an email with more instructions. Please register here to be part of the meeting: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/tutorials/3rd-dbpedia-stack-tutorial #Organisation - Milan Dojchinovski, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association - Jan Forberg, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association - Julia Holze, InfAI, DBpedia Association - Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association We are looking forward to meeting you online! With kind regards, The DBpedia Team

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Save The Date: Tuesday December 1st - WikiCred Demo Hour
by Ahmed Medien 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Wikimedians Strengthening Knowledge and News Credibility on the Internet https://www.wikicred.org Hi everyone, Join us, Wikimedians, and other journalists, professionals, academics from the credibility space for the second WikiCred Demo Hour on Tuesday, December 1st at 12 pm EST / 5 pm UTC. Here's the event agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Blz4OAXypJe8yqMHFt4nQDufan2ZcmTWvHs5uXW…>. You can sign up <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzV…> here and we will send you a Zoom link a few days before the event. *About WikiCerd* "WikiCred" is an initiative by Hacks Hackers and several other partners such as the Credibility Coalition, MisinfoCon, and Wikimedians interested in the conversation about credibility and trust in the entire information ecosystem. *About WikiCed Demo Hour* The WikiCred Demo Hour is a regular monthly online meetup that brings together members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from the online credibility space and reliable news. Our calls are held on the first Tuesday of every month, with ongoing discussions on our Slack channel. Ahmed + WikiCred Team wikicred.org Partners <https://www.wikicred.org/#who-we-are> / Projects <http://wikicred.org/#projects> / Funders <http://wikicred.org/#funders>

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 18, 2020: Interpersonal Communication Between Editors
by Janna Layton 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Hello, everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 18, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC, and will be on the theme of interpersonal communication between editors. Interpersonal communication, for example via talk pages, plays a crucial role for editors to coordinate their efforts in online collaborative communities. For this month’s showcase we have invited 2 speakers sharing their research on getting a deeper understanding of interpersonal communication on Wikipedia. In the first talk, Anna Rader will give an overview on editors’ communication networks and patterns, and the different types of dynamics commonly found in the way that users interact. In the second talk, Sneha Narayan presents recent work investigating whether easier interpersonal communication leads to enhanced productivity and newcomer participation across more than 200 wikis. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G35OEDJ53bY As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase This month's presentations: Talk before you type - Interpersonal communication on Wikipedia By Dr Anna Rader, Research Consultant Formally, the work of Wikipedia’s community of volunteers is asynchronous and anarchic: around the world, editors labor individually and in disorganized ways on the collective project. Yet this work is also underscored by informal and vibrant interpersonal communication: in the lively exchanges of talk pages and the labor-sharing of editorial networks, anonymous strangers communicate their intentions and coordinate their efforts to maintain the world’s largest online encyclopaedia. This working paper offers an overview of academic research into editors’ communication networks and patterns, with a particular focus on the role of talk pages. It considers four communication dynamics of editor interaction: cooperation, deliberation, conflict and coordination; and reviews key recommendations for enhancing peer-to-peer communication within the Wikipedia community. All Talk - How Increasing Interpersonal Communication on Wikis May Not Enhance Productivity By Sneha Narayan, Assistant Professor, Carlton College What role does interpersonal communication play in sustaining production in online collaborative communities? This paper sheds light on that question by examining the impact of a communication feature called "message walls" that allows for faster and more intuitive interpersonal communication in a population of wikis on Wikia. Using panel data from a sample of 275 wiki communities that migrated to message walls and a method inspired by regression discontinuity designs, we analyze these transitions and estimate the impact of the system's introduction. Although the adoption of message walls was associated with increased communication among all editors and newcomers, it had little effect on productivity, and was further associated with a decrease in article contributions from new editors. Our results imply that design changes that make communication easier in a social computing system may not always translate to increased participation along other dimensions. - Paper <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359203> -- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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You’re Invited to Submit A Session Proposal for MozFest 2021
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts in advancing wikis. Please find below the call for proposals for MozFest 2021. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki From: Ahmed Medien<mailto:ahmed@hackshackers.com> Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2020 10:52 PM To: wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikidata] You’re Invited to Submit A Session Proposal for MozFest 2021 Hello, MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world. That’s why I’m excited to invite you <https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/> and your community to participate in the first-ever virtual MozFest! Submit A Session Idea for MozFest This Year<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/> I am on the openness space and we're particularly looking forward for open science projects. We’re excited to use the programming that we’ve honed over a decade of festivals – participant-led sessions, immersive art exhibits, space for spontaneous conversations, inspiring Dialogues & Debates – to address current and global crises. Through our Call for Session Proposals (where you're invited to propose an interactive workshop to host at the festival), we’ll seek solutions together, through the lens of trustworthy artificial intelligence. Anyone can submit a session – you don’t need any particular expertise, just a great project or idea and the desire to collaborate and learn from festival participants. Since it’s online this year, we’re especially eager to see session proposals from those that haven’t been able to attend in year’s past due to travel restrictions. If you or someone you know is interested in leading a session at MozFest this year, you can submit your session idea here<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>! The deadline is November 23. Best regards, Ahmed Medien

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Call for tutorials: The Web Conference 2021
by Robert West 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Dear all, TL;DR: Please consider submitting proposals for tutorials to be held at The Web Conference 2021: https://www2021.thewebconf.org/authors/call-for-tutorials/ Submission deadline: 30 Nov 2020 Tutorial dates: 19-23 April 2021 This year we feature a special track for interactive hands-on tutorials. Hands-on tutorials may be challenging to organize in an online-only setting, but keeping up the hands-on component is especially important in these times where ever more interaction is becoming remote and asynchronous. With an engaging hands-on tutorial, we can make a real difference in people's lives, now more than ever! Bob West (EPFL) Marinka Zitnik (Harvard) ================== More info: We invite tutorial proposals on current and emerging topics related to the World Wide Web, broadly construed, i.e., including mobile and other Internet- and online-enabled modes of interaction and communication. Tutorials serve an educational function and are expected to provide a balanced perspective on a field of research. It is expected that tutorials target audiences with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds: beginners, developers, designers, researchers, practitioners, users, lecturers, and representatives of governments and funding agencies who want to learn about emerging research areas or develop advanced skills in areas about which they are already knowledgeable. Only a subset of those profiles can be addressed in each tutorial. Tutorial proposals are welcome in both technological (such as algorithmic and software issues) as well as socio-economic domains (such as market design, interaction design, and collaboration technologies). To bridge the gap between research and real-world applications, we are accepting tutorial proposals in the following two categories: (1) Hands-on tutorials are targeted at novice as well as moderately skilled users, with a focus on providing hands-on experience to the attendees. The pace of the tutorial should be set such that beginners can follow along comfortably. The covered tools and systems must have a proven track record of success in the community. Hands-on tutorials introduce the motivation behind the tools and the associated fundamental concepts and work through examples to demonstrate applications in real-world use cases. We also welcome proposals for creative and unconventional training sessions, such as hackathons, competitions/challenges, etc. as long as participants can learn practical skills and participate in an active way. (2) Lecture-style tutorials cover the state-of-the-art research, development, and applications in a specific data mining related area, and stimulate and facilitate future work. Tutorials on interdisciplinary directions, bridging scientific research and applied communities, novel and fast growing directions, and significant applications are highly encouraged. We also encourage tutorials in areas that may be different from the mainstream conference but are still very much related to the Web Conference mission and objectives of gaining insight from data. The conference is paying particular attention to themes around the Web’s impact, technical and socio-technical advances that enhance and expand Web platforms and technologies, and issues of democratizing access to Web information and knowledge. Tutorials on these themes are highly encouraged. Hands-on tutorials feature in-depth hands-on training on cutting edge systems and tools of relevance to the Web Conference community: data mining, machine learning, crowdsourcing, computational social science, security/privacy/trust, semantics & knowledge, systems, user experience & accessibility, mobile computing. All tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program and will be available free of charge to the attendees of the conference. A tutorial can be for half a day, i.e., 3-4 hours of audience interaction, including questions, or a full day, which corresponds to 7 hours. Teams of 2-3 presenters are encouraged, though single-presenter tutorials are possible. Preference will be given to applications that involve at least one expert in the areas covered by the proposal. Registration fees will be waived for tutorial presenters.

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