Wiki-research-l July 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 03 Feb '21

03 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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Help spreading the word about our research
by Shani Evenstein 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Dear WikiFriends, I'm hoping you & yours are all well, safe and healthy in these unprecedented times we have all found ourselves in. I'm writing you today with my 'educator & researcher' hat on, with a special request to help Piotr Konieczny & I spread the word about a new global research we are conducting. While using Wikimedia-related assignments (Wikipedia, Commons, WikiBooks, WikiSource, Wikidata, Wiktionary etc) in the classroom has been used all over the world for over a decade, very little research was conducted about what instructors who have tried it actually think about the experience. We are hoping that answering the questions in the survey will help us better understand: - Whether this teaching approach is effective (or not) - What are some of the challenges experienced by instructors - How the process could be improved The questions are meant for any instructors running a wiki assignment, whether it is in k-12 or higher education, formal or informal educational setting. We are hoping the results will allow us to globally share experiences and learn from one another, so we can make it smoother, easier and more effective for educators joining these efforts. It is important to note that this would be the first time (that we know of!) that an academic research of this type has been conducted around the world, so we really need your help in spreading the word about it in your local communities. We're hoping that any of you, supporting such initiatives around the world over the years, would forward it to your local Education contacts and ask them to participate. The more instructors participating, the better. We realize that it would have been great to have the questionnaire in a variety of languages, but in order for us to process the data properly and not via third-party translations and keep the anonymity and privacy of participants, it was decided to release the survey just in English. Here is a link to the survey - https://tinyurl.com/yd6dfata <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fyd6dfata%3Ffbcli…> . Thank you all in advance, and of course, if there are any questions, Piotr & I are here. Stay healthy & safe! Shani. ----------------------------------------------- *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University. * Azrieli Foundation Research Fellow. * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology, Internationalization and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>. * Member of the Board of Trustees <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>. * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>. * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://benyehuda.org>. +972-525640648

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Knowledge Graphs in Action: Oct 6, 2020
by Sebastian Hellmann 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Apologies for cross-posting Dear all, Due to current circumstances, the SEMANTiCS Onsite Conference 2020 had, unfortunately, to be postponed till September 2021. To bridge the gap until 2021, DBpedia, the Platform Linked Data Netherlands (PLDN) and EuroSDR will organize a SEMANTiCS satellite event online, on October 6, 2020. We set up an exciting themed program around ‘Knowledge Graphs in Action: DBpedia, Linked Geodata and Geo-information Integration’. This new event is a combination of two already existing ones: the DBpedia Community Meeting, which is regularly held as part of the SEMANTiCS, and the annual Spatial Linked Data conference organised by EuroSDR and PLDN. We fused both together and as a bonus, we added a track about Geo-information Integration hosted by EuroSDR. For the joint opening session, we recruited four amazing keynote speakers to kick the event off. # Quick Facts - Web URL:https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/KnowledgeGraphsInAction - When: October 6, 2020 - Where: The conference will take place fully online. # Highlights - Hackathon (starts 2 weeks earlier) - Keynote by Carsten Hoyer-Klick, German Aerospace Center - Keynote by Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) - Keynote by Peter Mooney, Maynooth University - Keynote by Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California - Spatial Linked Data Country Session - DBpedia Chapter Session - Self Service GIS Session - DBpedia Member Showcase Session # Registration - Attending the conference is free. Registration is required though. Please register here to be part of the meeting: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/KnowledgeGraphsInAction # Program - Please check the schedule for the upcoming Knowledge Graphs in Action event here: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/KnowledgeGraphsInAction # Organisation - Benedicte Bucher, University Gustave Eiffel, IGN, EuroSDR - Erwin Folmer, Kadaster, University of Twente, Platform Linked Data Netherlands - Rob Lemmens, University of Twente - Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association - Julia Holze, InfAI, DBpedia Association - Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven - Peter Mooney, Maynooth University With kind regards, The KGiA Organization Team

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Wikipedia Citations: A comprehensive dataset of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia
by Giovanni Colavizza 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Dear all, we have recently released a dataset which might be of interest to some of you. Wikipedia Citations contains the nearly 30M citations to be found in English Wikipedia (as of May 1st 2020), of which approx. 4M are to scientific publications. Most of these 4M have also been equipped with identifiers (ISBN, DOI, etc.). All code is there for replication and updates. Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07022 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07022> Data and code: https://zenodo.org/record/3940692#.XyQjaPj7SL8 <https://zenodo.org/record/3940692#.XyQjaPj7SL8> We welcome feedback, ideas for collaboration and any question you might have in order to use the dataset for your research and work. Best regards, Giovanni Colavizza (with Harshdeep Singh and Bob West)

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Pilot project on Wikimedia gaps: looking for a research assistant
by Heather Ford 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Hi all, We are looking for someone with data visualisation experience to help us with a new pilot research project investigating gaps in coverage of Wikimedia in Australia (see ad below). We have received a small amount of money by UTS to run this pilot while we wait on the results of a proposed for a much larger project. The pilot will probably only be a few days work but there may be more work down the line. We would love to hear from anyone interested in working with us on this! Please email me if interested. Best, Heather. *Data visualisations expert * Heather Ford <http://hblog.org>, Head of Digital and Social Media at UTS <https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/digital-and-social-med…> in Sydney and Tamson Pietsch, Head of the Centre for Public History at UTS <https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/australian-centre…>along with collaborators, Wikimedia Australia <https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia> (including Pru Mitchell and [[User:99of9|Toby Hudson]]) are involved in a project to analyse Wikipedia’s scope and progress over the past twenty years (relating to Australia and possibly globally). We are looking for someone to help us to develop a series of visualisations for a pilot project. This will involve extracting data about en.wp.org <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QNnXCJyBPjFg0KzMhv8Did?domain=protect-au.…> articles (either from Wikipedia or via Wikidata) and comparing it to another dataset (possibly *https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/search <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/PMNTCGv097U2jAlXcQ_ELf?domain=honours.pmc…>)*, cleaning and coding data and, importantly, visualising the data using mapping and other visualisation tools. This is a pilot project with resources for a few days work which we would ideally like to happen over the next month. Experience with Wikimedia data analysis is a plus. Please contact Heather for more information or to express interest. --------------------------- Dr Heather Ford Associate Professor and Head of Discipline (Digital and Social Media <https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/digital-and-social-med…> ) School of Communication <https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/about-communication/we…>, University of Technology, Sydney <https://www.uts.edu.au/> (UTS) w: hblog.org / t: @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>

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Research, most influential and most surprising?
by Sven Andersson 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

Hi everyone! I'm looking for some reading. I hope this is an acceptable use of this list. Which are the core Wikipedia papers, that shaped understanding Wikipedia and Wikipedia research? Which are the papers or other research that taught you the most unexpected things about Wikipedia and ran contrary to your preconceived notions about the encyclopedia? M v h, Sven

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Upcoming Research Newsletter: New Papers Open For Review
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

Hi everyone, We’re preparing for the July 2020 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202007 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication time is 2 August 15:59 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: - Approaches to Understanding Indigenous Content Production on Wikipedia - Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements - From web to SMS: A text summarization of Wikipedia pages with character limitation - Gender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer - Gender, power and emotions in the collaborative production of knowledge: A large-scale analysis of Wikipedia editor conversations - Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership - Individual Factors that Influence Effort and Contributions on Wikipedia - Reverting Hegemonic Ideology: Research Librarians and Information Professionals as "Critical Editors" of Wikipedia - Tabouid: a Wikipedia-based word guessing game - The Diffusion and Influence of Gratitude Expressions in Large-Scale Cooperation: A Field Experiment in Four Knowledge Networks - Topological Data Analysis on Simple English Wikipedia Articles - Towards Extending Wikipedia with Bidirectional Links - Wiki HUEs: Understanding Wikipedia practices through Hindi, Urdu, and English takes on evolving regional conflict - Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians - Wikipedia Citations: A comprehensive dataset of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia - WikipediaBot: Automated Adversarial Manipulation of Wikipedia Articles - Wikipedia's Network Bias on Controversial Topics Masssly and Tilman Bayer [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter[2] WikiResearch (@WikiResearch) | Twitter

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Wikipedia citations from worldwide patents - New results/data
by cyril verluise 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

Hello all, I am new to the wikipedia researcher community, so I hope that I'm not mis-using this list. *PatCit* Together with Pr. G. de Rassenfosse <http://www.gder.info/>, we are working on an open-source project to extract, parse and consolidate worldwide Patent citations. This is PatCit, and you can learn more about it on the project GitHub <https://github.com/cverluise/PatCit> and in this short presentation <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11COlz64EZn8PipXvnDBBZI_bnDD0fpm6tyx…> . *Patent to wiki citations* Specifically, we found ~100k wiki citations (with a large majority of wikipedia articles) stemming from worldwide patents. We have parsed these citations (item, date, url, hostname) and made the dev table publicly available on BigQuery (see fp_wiki_dev <https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=npl-parsing&p=npl-parsing…>). A short presentation of this specific work is available here <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fX7rS4oRXQAZFDuqxSES7XpJp-2rZyKR9nH…> . *We need you!* Since we are new to the wikipedia research questions, we are looking for feedback, discussion, etc on how to make these data a true asset for the community. The project is thought to be by and for the community and we are deeply committed to open-source/access and FAIR principles. The overarching objective of the project is to stimulate interdisciplinary research to help better understand the various forms and dynamics of innovation. Happy for feedback, discussion,etc. Feel free to send us an email. Cheers, Cyril -- Cyril Verluise PhD Candidate - Paris School of Economics Fellow - Collège de France cyril.verluise(a)gmail.com cverluise.github.io [image: twitter] <https://twitter.com/cyrilverluise> [image: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyril-verluise-80184347/>

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COLING 2020 Third Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** COLING 2020 Third Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda First Call for Papers Workshop website: http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING 2020, Barcelona, Spain Accepted papers will be published in the COLING 2020 NLP4IF Workshop Proceedings Important Dates * Submission deadline: September 1, 2020 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2020 * Camera-ready papers due: October 20, 2020 * Workshop: December 12, 2020 NLP4IF (http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/) is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute or hamper the free flow of information on the Internet, their impact, and to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are controlled by any forms of censorship. We invite submissions of up to nine (9) pages maximum, plus bibliography for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers. For full submission guidelines, please refer to the workshop homepage. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Censorship - Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; - Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasures for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; - Detection of self-censorship; - Identifying potentially censorable content; - Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; - Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; - Disinformation - Dis-/Misinformation detection: fake/false/impostor news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; - Propaganda - Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website; - (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts; - Automatic generation of persuasive content; - Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media; - Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies; - Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media; - Automatic debiasing of news content; - Other relevant topics include ( but not limited to) - Identification of hate speech and offensive language; - Identity and private information detection; - Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; - Ethics in NLP; - “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/NLP4IF/ Formatting requirements: https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip *Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia* ∙ glciampaglia.com Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering <https://www.usf.edu/engineering/cse/> ∙ University of South Florida <https://www.usf.edu/> *Due to Florida’s broad open records law, email to or from university employees is public record, available to the public and the media upon request.*

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