Hi all,
If you are actively using IP addresses of not-logged-in editors of the
Wikimedia projects for your research or intend to do so in the future,
please read on. Otherwise, you can stop here.
As you know, IP addresses can provide a wealth of information about
not-logged-in editors, including sensitive information such as their
location and organization. This can pose a privacy risk to these editors.
To mitigate this, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is currently working on a
project to mask IP addresses and limit their exposure and storage on our
platform.
The IP masking project can have an impact on your work. Given that the
Research team represents the needs of the Wikimedia research community in
the Wikimedia Foundation, we are reaching out to you to notify you of the
upcoming changes. We do this in coordination with the team responsible for
IP masking.
The change: When WMF launches the IP masking, future edits from
not-logged-in users (sometimes referred to as unregistered users) will no
longer be attributed to their IP addresses. Instead, they will be assigned
auto generated temporary usernames that will be tied to a cookie on their
browsers. As long as the cookie persists, the edits will be attributed to
that user. After a certain period of time (tentatively one year), the
cookie will automatically expire. Users who need access to IP addresses to
protect Wikimedia projects from vandalism or other abuse will be able to do
so on a limited basis and for a limited period of time.
No change. IP addresses of not-logged-in users in the historical data will
remain unchanged. The IP masking rollout will affect future edits (relative
to the time of rollout) only.
Timelines: The projected timeline for early pilot (in 1-2 wikimedia
projects) rollout is between October-December 2023. The team doesn’t yet
have a projected timeline for a complete rollout of this change to all
Wikimedia projects.
What we have considered to offer instead. We understand the importance of
IP addresses for research purposes. To that end:
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The Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html> and Security
<https://security.wikimedia.org/> teams did an initial exploration of
whether we can offer one or more alternative datasets that can support
existing research that utilizes IP addresses. We concluded that we will not
be able to offer country level data –the most common use-case of IP
addresses to the best of our knowledge – at the revision level at this
point in time.
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The Research team will consider exploring the option to offer a
user-group level access to researchers who need to have access to this
data. The priority of this work will depend on other priorities of the
Research team as well as an impact assessment based on what we hear from
the researchers who currently work with this data. (See the next paragraph.
)
Impact on your research: If this change creates a significant burden on you
or your research, we want to hear from you by April 30, 2023. You can
communicate this impact by leaving a comment in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332034. If there is an impact that you
cannot communicate publicly, please write an email to Niharika Kohli <
nkohli(a)wikimedia.org> (IP Masking, Product Manager, also in CC) & myself <
lzia(a)wikimedia.org> (Head of Research). We commit to reviewing all comments
we receive by the deadline, and we commit to exploring ways to support you
to reduce the impact on you and your work. We also ask for your
understanding. If this data is not essential for your work, please consider
using the many other data sources that we make publicly available,
including but not limited to those listed in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data.
Sharing your expertise. If you have conducted research or are aware of
research that the team should take into account as WMF moves forward with
IP masking, please share that with the team on the project’s talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Ab…>
.
Stay updated. You can stay updated about this project through the project’s
dedicated page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_M…>
.
Please consider this email as a one-time courtesy notification. We may not
send reminders. As a result, if your work may be affected, please take a
note of this email and reach out to us by the deadline. :)
Thanks,
Leila
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation has developed a set of ML/AI systems that have
been shaping editing behaviour on Wikipedia. How these tools have
impacted the efficiency and fairness of moderation work will be
discussed in "Balancing Open Participation and Information Quality in
Wikipedia Using Machine Learning", a talk by Benjamin Mako Hill of the
University of Washington. The talk is part of the 2023 Lecture Series of
the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence:
https://www.ofai.at/events/lectures2023
Members of the public are cordially invited to attend the talk via Zoom
on Wednesday, 15 February at 18:30 CET (UTC+1):
URL:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282442460?pwd=NHVhQnJXOVdZTWtNcWNRQllaQWFnQT09
Meeting ID: 842 8244 2460
Passcode: 678868
Talk abstract: Peer produced information goods like free/open source
software and Wikipedia are both increasingly important and increasingly
under threat. This talk will describe how Wikipedia has sought to
balance its commitment to open editing and its desire to allow
participation from unvetted and anonymous users with its need to
maintain high information quality in its articles. I will focus on the
way that a set of ML/AI systems developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
allow scholars to measure the value of contributions from anonymous
users and the surprising way that these systems can also be used by the
Wikipedia community to shape editing behavior. I will argue that use of
these ML/AI systems can both improve the efficiency of moderation work
while also making moderation actions more fair to anonymous contributors
who are the source of substantial vandalism by reducing reliance on
social signals and making norm violations by everyone else more visible.
Speaker biography: Benjamin Mako Hill is an Associate Professor in the
University of Washington Department of Communication and an Adjunct
Associate Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design &
Engineering, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering,
and the Information School. He is a member of Community Data Science
Collective which he founded with Aaron Shaw. At UW, he is also Affiliate
Faculty in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the
eScience Institute, and the "Design Use Build" (DUB) group that supports
research on on human computer interaction. He is also a Faculty
Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at
Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative
Social Science at Harvard.
--
Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12
https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/
Hi everyone,
The call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out:
https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/#call Submit your 2-page abstracts by March
23 (all submissions are non-archival). The workshop will take place on May
11, 2023. For more information, see the workshop website [1].
If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this list
or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in this year's edition.
Best,
Pablo Aragón, Wikimedia Foundation
Martin Gerlach, Wikimedia Foundation
Evelin Heidel, Wikimedistas de Uruguay
Emily Lescak, Wikimedia Foundation
Francesca Tripodi, University of North Carolina
Bob West, EPFL
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/
—
We invite contributions to the 10th edition (!) of Wiki Workshop, which
will take place virtually on May 11, 2023 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC).
Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year, aimed at
bringing together researchers who study all aspects of Wikimedia projects
(including, but not limited to, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons,
Wikisource, and Wiktionary) as well as Wikimedia developers, affiliate
organizations, and volunteer editors. Co-organized by the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Research team and members of the Wikimedia research community,
the workshop facilitates a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the
organizations that serve Wikimedia projects and the researchers actively
studying them. New this year: Building on the successful experiences of
organizing Wiki Workshop in 2015 <https://wikiworkshop.org/2015/>, 2016
<https://wikiworkshop.org/2016/>, 2017 <https://wikiworkshop.org/2017/>,
2018 <https://wikiworkshop.org/2018/>, 2019 <https://wikiworkshop.org/2019/>
, 2020 <https://wikiworkshop.org/2020/>, 2021
<https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/>, and 2022 <https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/>
and based on feedback from authors and participants over the years, we are
introducing a few updates to the research track of the workshop for 2023:
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This 10th edition will take place as a standalone event (rather than in
co-location with a conference, as in previous years).
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We have changed the format of submissions and will only accept 2-page
extended abstracts (following the successful IC2S2 model).
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Submissions are non-archival, so we welcome ongoing, completed, and
already published work.
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We are excited to share that the authors of Wiki Workshop 2023 will have
the opportunity to receive feedback, improve their work, and submit the
extended version of their research paper to a special issue of the ACM
Transactions on the Web, which will have a dedicated open call for papers
later in 2023.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
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new technologies and initiatives to grow content, quality, equity,
diversity, and participation across Wikimedia projects
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use of bots, algorithms, and crowdsourcing strategies to curate, source,
or verify content and structured data
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bias in content and gaps of knowledge on Wikimedia projects
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relation between Wikimedia projects and the broader (open) knowledge
ecosystem
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exploration of what constitutes a source and how/if the incorporation of
other kinds of sources are possible (e.g., oral histories, video)
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detection of low-quality, promotional, or fake content (misinformation
or disinformation), as well as fake accounts (e.g., sock puppets)
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questions related to community health (e.g., sentiment analysis,
harassment detection, tools that could increase harmony)
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motivations, engagement models, incentives, and needs of editors,
readers, and/or developers of Wikimedia projects
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innovative uses of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for AI and NLP
applications and vice versa
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consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
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dynamics of content reuse across projects and the impact of policies and
community norms on reuse privacy, security, and trust
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collaborative content creation
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innovative uses of Wikimedia projects' content and consumption patterns
as sensors for real-world events, culture, etc.
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open-source research code, datasets, and tools to support research on
Wikimedia contents and communities
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connections between Wikimedia projects and the Semantic Web
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strategies for how to incorporate Wikimedia projects into media literacy
interventions
This year’s Wiki Workshop solicits extended abstracts (PDF format, maximum
2 pages, including references). Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit
will be automatically rejected. Authors may include 1 additional page with
figures and/or tables (including captions) only. Initial submissions
require names and affiliations of authors, 5 keywords, a title, abstract,
and a main text outlining the contribution, methods, findings, and impact
of the work, whichever is relevant. Submissions will be non-archival and as
a result may have already been published, under review, or ongoing
research. All submissions will be reviewed by multiple members of the Wiki
Workshop Program Committee. The names of the authors will be revealed to
the reviewers, whereas reviewers will remain anonymous to authors. Authors
of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their research in a
pre-recorded oral presentation with dedicated time for live Q&A on May 11,
2023. Accepted abstracts may be shared on the website prior to the event.
The template for formatting the submission as well as the submission link
to easychair will be made available by February 23.
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Martin Gerlach (he/him) | Senior Research Scientist | Wikimedia Foundation
[Apologies for multiple postings.]
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Final Call for Papers: 28th International Conference on Conceptual
Structures (ICCS 2023)
September 11th-13rd, 2023, Berlin, Germany
Website: https://iccs-conference.org/
Twitter: @iccs_confs
Contact us: contact(a)iccs-conference.org
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About ICCS
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The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on
the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge at the
crossroads of artificial intelligence, human cognition, computational
linguistics, and related areas of computer science and cognitive
science. The ICCS conferences evolved from seven annual workshops on
conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering hosted by John F.
Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and
reasoning (KRR) paradigms have been getting more and more attention.
With the rise of quasi-autonomous AI, graph-based representations
provide a vehicle for making machine cognition explicit to human users.
ICCS 2023 will take place in Berlin, Germany, in September 2023.
Scholars, students and industry participants from different disciplines
will meet for several weeks of conferences, workshops, summer schools,
and public events to engage with the broad topics, issues and challenges
related to knowledge in the 21st century.
Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously
unpublished research on the formal analysis and representation of
conceptual knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI). All papers will
receive mindful and rigorous reviews that will provide authors with
useful critical feedback. The aim of the ICCS 2023 conference is to
build upon its long-standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on
providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based
systems. In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that
address graph-based representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g.
Bayesian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual
Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Graph
Databases, Diagrams, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, etc.) from a
modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint.
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Invited Speakers
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The following speaker will give keynote talks in addition to the
technical programme:
- Camille Roth (French National Centre for Scientific Research, Centre
Marc Bloch)
- Henrik Müller (TU Dortmund University)
- Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark)
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Topics
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- Topics include but are not limited to:
- Existential and Conceptual Graphs
- Graph-based models for human reasoning
- Social network analysis
- Formal Concept Analysis
- Conceptual knowledge acquisition
- Data and Text mining
- Human and machine reasoning under inconsistency
- Human and machine knowledge representation and uncertainty
- Automated decision-making
- Argumentation
- Constraint satisfaction
- Preferences
- Contextual logic
- Ontologies
- Knowledge architecture and management
- Semantic Web, Web of Data, Web 2.0, Linked (Open) Data
- Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
- Metaphoric, cultural or semiotic considerations
- Resource allocation and agreement technologies
- Philosophical, neural, and didactic investigations of conceptual,
graphical representations
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Important Dates (Extended)
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- Abstract registration deadline: April 3, 2023 (AoE)
- Submission deadline: April 10, 2023 (AoE)
- Paper Reviews Sent to Authors: May 21, 2023 (AoE)
- Rebuttals Due: May 28, 2023 (AoE)
- Notification to authors: June 7, 2023 (AoE)
- Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2023 (AoE)
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Submission Details
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We invite scientific papers of up to fourteen pages, short contributions
of up to eight pages, and extended poster abstracts of up to three
pages. Papers and poster abstracts must be formatted according to
Springer’s LNCS style guidelines and not exceed the page limit. Papers
will be subject to double-blind peer review, in which the reviewers do
not know the author's identity. We recommend using services like
https://anonymous.4open.science/ to anonymously share code or data.
Anonymized works that are available as preprints (e.g., on arXiv or
SSRN) may be submitted without citing them. Submission should be made
via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2023. All
paper submissions will be refereed, and authors will have the
opportunity to respond to reviewers’ comments during the rebuttal phase.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings,
published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. Poster submissions will
also be refereed, and selected poster abstracts might be included in
the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper
or poster must register for the conference and present the paper or
poster there. Proceedings will be indexed by DBLP.
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Organizers
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General Chair:
Robert Jäschke, Information Processing and Analytics, Humboldt
University of Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs:
Manuel Ojeda Aciego, Dept. Applied Mathematics, University of Málaga, Spain
Kai Sauerwald, Artificial Intelligence Group, FernUniversität in Hagen,
Germany
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Program committee
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- Bernd Amann – Sorbonne Université – LIP6, France
- Simon Andrews – Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- L’ubomír Antoni – Univ. P.J. Safárik, Slovakia
- Pierre Bisquert – INRAE, France
- Tanya Braun – Univ. of Münster, Germany
- Peggy Cellier – IRISA/INSA Rennes, France
- Pablo Cordero — Univ. de Málaga, Spain
- M.Eugenia Cornejo — Univ. de Cádiz, Spain
- Diana Cristea – Babes-Bolyai Univ. Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Licong Cui – The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
- Harry Delugach – Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
- Dominik Endres – Univ. of Marburg, Germany
- Jérôme Euzenat – INRIA, France
- Marcel Gehrke – Univ. of Lübeck, Germany
- Raji Ghawi – Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany
- Ollivier Haemmerlé – IRIT, Univ. Toulouse le Mirail, France
- Tom Hanika – Univ. of Kassel, Germany
- Dmitry Ignatov – National Research Univ., Higher School of Economics,
Russia
- Hamamache Kheddouci – Univ. Claude Bernard, France
- Petr Krajca – Univ. Palacky Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Ondrej Krídlo — Univ. P.J. Safárik, Slovakia
- Leonard Kwuida – Bern Univ. of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Domingo López-Rodríguez — Univ. de Málaga, Spain
- Philippe Martin – UEA2525 LIM, Univ. of La Réunion, France
- Jesús Medina — Univ. de Cádiz, Spain
- Amedeo Napoli – LORIA Nancy (CNRS – Inria – Univ. de Lorraine), France
- Sergei Obiedkov – National Research Univ., Higher School of Economics,
Russia
- Carmen Peláez-Moreno – Univ. Carlos III Madrid, Spain
- Heather D. Pfeiffer – Akamai Physics, Inc., USA
- Uta Priss – Ostfalia University, Germany
- Christian Sacarea – Babes-Bolyai Univ. Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Diana Sotropa – Babes-Bolyai Univ. Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Francisco Valverde-Albacete — Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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Hi Everyone,
There is only about a week left to submit your program idea for Wikimania 2023. Whether in person in Singapore or online wherever you are, pre-recorded or live, an interactive workshop, panel discussion, lecture, lightning talk or an awesome poster, submissions close Tuesday, March 28.
The theme for this year's Wikimania is "Diversity, Collaboration, Future", and there are 11 tracks to choose from including Research under the "Research, Science and Medicine" Track.
Take a look at more than 100 submissions (https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2023_Program_submis…) already received, perhaps you’ll discover an opportunity to collaborate with a fellow Wikimedian. As of this writing, there are three (3) submissions under the "Research, Science and Medicine" Track: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2023_Program_submis… . Maybe yours is the one we are looking for!
You can also reach out to us on the help page (https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Help_desk), our official email address wikimania(a)wikimedia.org or on Telegram (https://t.me/wikimaniachat) . All the information you need is available on wiki. Making a submission is easy and we encourage each of you to create one … if you haven’t already.
For more information about program submissions, go to https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
For FAQs go to: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/FAQ
We look forward to your submission/s. Take this opportunity to show your program content to Wikimedia's largest attended event!
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Chair, Program Subcommittee
Event lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Dear all,
Excited to share that my article "Investigating the potential of the
semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-023-11664-1>" has finally
been published in an excellent journal "Education and Information
Technologies" by Springer Nature. This has been a long time coming, and
essentially the very first publication directly from my PhD research.
It's worth noting that to those who know Wikidata, the article would
probably not share anything new you haven't heard before; but it really was
a missing piece in academic research, in terms of making the case for
Wikidata as a learning platform for educators and researchers who are not
familiar with it, so it's really great to finally have such a resource
available.
It's also a good moment to thank again the amazing Wikidata Community, and
specifically all the people who filled out the questionnaire way back when
and later interviewed, for this to happen. In this specific article, I was
directly drawing from the work of Martin Poulter, Richard Knipel & Andrew
Lih, João Alexandre Peschanski, Toby Hudson & Daniel Mietchen.
Thank you all for the inspiration!
Best,
Shani.
PS -- if you can't view the link and are interested, do drop me a line and
I'll send the PDF your way.
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, focused on Gender and Equity on Wikipedia, will
be live-streamed Wednesday, March 15, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your
local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1678897840>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4MzJgDIzo
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:
Men Are elected, women are marriedː events gender bias on Wikipedia
By *Jiao Sun, University of Southern California*Human activities can be
seen as sequences of events, which are crucial to understanding societies.
Disproportional event distribution for different demographic groups can
manifest and amplify social stereotypes, and potentially jeopardize the
ability of members in some groups to pursue certain goals. In this paper,
we present the first event-centric study of gender biases in a Wikipedia
corpus. To facilitate the study, we curate a corpus of career and personal
life descriptions with demographic information consisting of 7,854
fragments from 10,412 celebrities. Then we detect events with a
state-of-the-art event detection model, calibrate the results using
strategically generated templates, and extract events that have asymmetric
associations with genders. Our study discovers that the Wikipedia pages
tend to intermingle personal life events with professional events for
females but not for males, which calls for the awareness of the Wikipedia
community to formalize guidelines and train the editors to mind the
implicit biases that contributors carry. Our work also lays the foundation
for future works on quantifying and discovering event biases at the corpus
level.
- Paperː Sun, J. & Peng, N. (2021). Men Are Elected, Women Are Married:
Events Gender Bias on Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International
Conference on Natural Language Processing, 350-360.
<https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.45.pdf>
Twitter reacts to absence of women on Wikipediaː a mixed-methods analysis
of #VisibleWikiWomen campaignBy *Sneh Gupta, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
University*Digital gender divide (DGD) is visible in access, participation,
representation, and biases against women embedded in Wikipedia, the largest
digital reservoir of co-created content. This article examined the content
of #VisibleWikiWomen, a global digital advocacy campaign aimed at
encouraging inclusion of women voices in the global technology conversation
and improving digital sustainability of feminist data on Wikipedia. In a
mixed-methods study, Sentiment Analysis followed by a Feminist Critical
Discourse Analysis of the campaign tweets reveals how digital gender divide
manifested in the public response. An overwhelming majority of tweets
expressed positive sentiment towards the objective of the campaign. An
inductive reading of the coded tweets (n = 1067) generated five themes:
Feminist Activism, Invisibility & Marginalization of Women, Technology for
Women Empowerment, Gendered Knowledge Inequity, and Power Dynamics in the
Digital Sphere. Twitter discourse presented many agitated digital users
calling out the epistemic injustice on Wikipedia that goes beyond the
invisibility of women. Their tweets reveal that they want an equal social
platform inclusive of women of color and varied identities currently absent
in the Wikipedia universe. Extracting ideas, values, and themes from new
media campaigns holds unparalleled potential in the diffusion of
interventions and messages on a larger scale.
- Paperː Gupta, S., & Trehan, K. (2022). Twitter reacts to absence of
women on Wikipedia: a mixed-methods analysis of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign.
Media Asia, 49(2), 130-154.
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356909618_Twitter_reacts_to_absenc…>
Warm regards,
Emily
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
The Wikimedia Research Showcase [0] is almost ten years old and we're using
this upcoming birthday as an opportunity to step back and reflect on the
past, celebrate the contributions by our speakers and many of you who have
participated in the discussions, and plan for its future. We invite you to
complete this brief survey [1] to share with us your perspectives on the
Showcase's value, ideas for improvement, and potential topics and speakers
we can feature in the future. We anticipate that the survey will take less
than 10 minutes to complete. We appreciate your response by March 31, 2023.
Please review our privacy statement [2] prior to completing the survey.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Emily Lescak and Leila Zia
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
[1]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdi3kZ9xLO5XX3HQx1AlCchf4Sd7Mchhl…
[2]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Research_Team_Event_Feedback_Su…
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Leipzig, Germany
Workshops and Tutorials
September 20 - 22, 2023
https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws
====
SEMANTiCS 2023 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation
and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse
practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a
rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants
seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest
developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on
all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2023 and proposals bridging
or introducing new perspectives in these areas. Workshops and tutorials
may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking
or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where
applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon
request as well.
=Important Dates for Workshops=
* Proposals WS *Extended* Deadline: March 15, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2023 (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: June 06, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23
=Scope & Goals=
Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2023 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the
SEMANTiCS website and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS
2023 workshops and tutorials can be incubators for industrial and
scientific communities that form and share a particular research and
development agenda. They provide a forum for presenting 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/commercial project consortia meetings.
=Setup and Requirements=
SEMANTiCS 2023 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full day
long. Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after
the main SEMANTiCS 2023 EU conference (20th, 21st, and/or 22nd of
September 2023). Details will be communicated on time.
Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets
(only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or
keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will be charged a
marginal fee to cover the basic costs.
Workshop and tutorials proposals must include the following information:
* outline of the themes and goals of the event, including a title and a
brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2023 website
* a statement addressing why the event is important, why the event is
timely, how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2023 and the field of semantic
web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a
high-quality introduction of the topic
* related workshops and conferences, i.e., specifying if this is a
continuation of a workshop series or is a new workshop to address an
emerging issue. Please provide information about past versions of this
workshop and other related workshops (including URLs and
submission/acceptance counts, if available).
* a statement addressing the quality assurance criterion that will be
used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and
the presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation
by event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality
assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be
responsible for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be
responsible also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and
call for papers) and proceedings production.
* structure of the event and plans for generating and stimulating
discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event
* desired minimum and maximum number of event participants, expected
number of participants, and (in case of previously held events) number
of registered attendees and web site for previous editions of the event
* a description of the intended audience and the expected learning outcomes
* desired prerequisite knowledge of the audience
* proposed duration of the event (i.e., half or full day), different
sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance
with the SEMANTiCS program)
* any equipment, room capacity, or other logistic constraints
* full contact information of all organizers of the event and main
contact person; a brief description of each organizer's background,
including relevant past experience in organizing events
Proposals for workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via
Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem23
=Review and Evaluation Criteria=
Workshop and tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2023
Workshop Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2023 organizing committee,
according to the following criteria:
* The potential to advance the state of semantic web research and practice
* The quality assurance criterion proposed by the organizers to select
high-quality papers for workshops and presenters for tutorials
* The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event
* Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics
* The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2023 events
=Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)=
* 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 and Computational Linguistics
* Social and Human aspects of Semantic Web
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
* Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as law,
medicine, life sciences, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities, etc.
We especially invite 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.
Workshop proposals on emerging themes for the topics listed above are
encouraged.
In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process,
please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair.
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Jennifer D’Souza - jennifer.dsouza(a)tib.eu
Anisa Rula - anisa.rula(a)unibs.it
Workshop & Tutorial Chairs