Hey everybody,
TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA
("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial
intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism
while also making life better for newcomers.
We plan to hold this chat on June 1st at 21:00 UTC/14:00 PST in the /r/iAMA
subreddit[1]. I'd love to answer any questions you have about these topics
questions, and I'll send a follow-up email to this thread shortly before
the AMA begins.
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For those who don't know who I am, I create artificial intelligences[2]
that support the volunteers who edit Wikipedia[3]. I've been fascinated by
the ways that crowds of volunteers build massive, high quality information
resources like Wikipedia for over ten years.
For more background, I research and then design technologies that make it
easier to spot vandalism in Wikipedia—which helps support the hundreds of
thousands of editors who make productive contributions. I also think a lot
about the dynamics between communities and new users—and ways to make
communities inviting and welcoming to both long-time community members and
newcomers who may not be aware of community norms. For a quick sampling of
my work, check out my most impactful research paper about Wikipedia[3],
some recent coverage of my work from *Wired*[4], or check out the master
list of my projects on my WMF staff user page[5], the documentation for the
technology team I run[9], or the home page for Wikimedia Research[8].
This AMA, which I'm doing with with the Foundation's Communications
department, is somewhat of an experiment. The intended audience for this
chat is people who might not currently be a part of our community but have
questions about the way we work—as well as potential research collaborators
who might want to work with our data or tools. Many may be familiar with
Wikipedia but not the work we do as a community behind the scenes.
I'll be talking about the work I'm doing with the ethics of AI and how we
think about artificial intelligence on Wikipedia, and ways we’re working to
counteract vandalism on the world’s largest crowdsourced source of
knowledge—like the ORES extension[6], which you may have seen highlighting
possibly problematic edits on your watchlist and in RecentChanges.
I’d love for you to join this chat and ask questions. If you do not or
prefer not to use Reddit, we will also be taking questions on ORES'
MediaWiki talk page[7] and posting answers to both threads.
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES
3.
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfa…
4.
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-expand-the-ranks-of-…
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)
6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES
7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES
8. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research
9. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team
-Aaron
Principal Research Scientist @ WMF
User:EpochFail / User:Halfak (WMF)
Hi all,
We are preparing to conduct some research into the process of how Requests
for Comments (RfCs) get discussed and closed. This work is further
described in the following Wikimedia page: https://meta.wikimedia.o
rg/wiki/Research:Discussion_summarization_and_decision_support_with_Wikum
To begin, we are planning to do a round of interviews with people who
participate in RfCs in English Wikipedia, including frequent closers,
infrequent closers, and people who participate in but don't close RfCs. We
will be asking them about how they go about closing RfCs and their opinions
on how the overall process could be improved. We are also creating a
database of all the RfCs on English Wikipedia that have gone through a
formal closure process and parsing their conversations.
While planning the interviews, we thought that the information that we
gather could be of interest to the Wikimedia community, so we wanted to
open it up and ask if there was anything you would be interested in
learning about RfCs or RfC closure from people who participate in them.
Also, if you know of existing work in this area, please let us know.
Thank you!
Amy
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Amy X. Zhang | Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL | http://people.csail.mit.edu/axz
| @amyxzh
Hello all,
I recently attended the 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) and put together a small report/reflection for Aaron Halfaker regarding some of the work that was presented there that I found interesting. If you’d like to check the report out, it can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hall1467/CHI_2017_Report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hall1467/CHI_2017_Report>. CHI is a yearly human-computer interaction conference and is a common venue for studies on peer production communities such as Wikipedia.
Feel free to leave questions or comments in the talk page! Have a great rest of the week.
Andrew
Call for Submissions to the Doctoral Programme
10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2017 -
July 17-21, 2017
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017
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* Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 5. June 2017
* Notification of acceptance: 8. June 2017
Further information see below
NEWS: Invited Speakers at CICM 2017
- Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh)
- Przemysław Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Grant Olney Passmore (University of Cambridge)
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to
investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra,
automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user
interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their
integration can lead to synergies offering significant added
value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM)
offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great
challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas.
CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating
related conferences and workshops to advance work in these
subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008),
Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011),
Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), Coimbra (Portugal 2014),
Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016).
This is a call for papers for CICM 2017, which will be held in
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017. CICM 2017 also invites work-in-
progress papers.
The principal tracks of the conference are:
* Track: Calculemus (chair: Matthew England)
* Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Olaf Teschke)
* Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Florian Rabe)
* Track: Systems & Data (chair: Osman Hasan)
* Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: Adnan Rashid)
The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Herman
Geuvers. The local arrangements are coordinated by Jacques
Fleuriot. The publicity chair is Serge Autexier.
CICM is also an excellent opportunity for graduate students to meet
established researchers from the areas of computer algebra, automated
deduction, and mathematical publishing.
The Doctoral Programme provides a dedicated forum for PhD students to
present and discuss their ideas, ongoing or planned research, and
achieved results in an open atmosphere. It will consist of
presentations by the PhD students to get constructive feedback,
advice, and suggestions from the research advisory board, researchers,
and other PhD students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an
experienced researcher from the research advisory board who will act
as a mentor and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their
intended and ongoing research.
Submission to the doctoral programs are possible until 5. June, details
of the submission process are given below.
*Important Dates*
- Submission deadline (Abstract + CV): 5. June 2017
- Notification of acceptance: 8. June 2017
*Submission*
- Submission by e-mail to the DP chair Adnan Rashid
Email: adnan.rashid(a)seecs.edu.pk
Web: http://save.seecs.nust.edu.pk/adnanrashid/
More details on the conference are available from
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017
Hi all,
Some of you on this list do research in the area of bias on Wikimedia
projects. If you do, the workshop on Data and Algorithm Bias (DAB)
2017 [1] can be a good venue to submit your work. DAB 2017 is part of
CIKM [2] which is a great conference to attend as well. :)
Best,
Leila
[1] http://dab.udd.cl/2017/
[2] http://www.cikm2017.org/
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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi, folks,
Is there a way to find all historical Wikipedia Good Articles (GAs)?
I checked the following page, which seems only include the current GAs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
**** DEADLINE EXTENSION****
Due to several requests the SEMANTiCS 2017 conference extends its
submission deadlines.
3rd Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference
13th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 11 -14, 2017
http://2017.semantics.cc
The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of
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 should follow the ACM
ICPS guidelines for formatting
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must
not exceed 8 pages in lenght for full papers and 4 pages for short
papers, including references and optional appendices.
Research & Innovation Papers are published within ACM ICP Series.
Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: extended: May 31, 2017 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: extended: June 7, 2017
(11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls
or contact the Research and Innovation Chairs:
Catherine Faron Zucker, faron [@] i3s.unice.fr, Université Nice Sophia
Antipolis
Rinke Hoekstra, rinke.hoekstra [@] vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam
As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS’17 proceedings will be published by
ACM ICP (pending).
SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot
topics:
* Data Science (special track, see below)
* Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
* Corporate Knowledge Graphs
* Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
* Data Quality Management
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
Following the success of previous years, the ‘horizontals’ (research)
and ‘verticals’ (industries) below are of interest for the conference:
Horizontals
* Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
* Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
* Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
* Semantics in Big Data
* Text Analytics
* Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
* Semantic Information Management
* Document Management & Content Management
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking
* Smart Data & Semantics in IoT
* Semantics for IT Safety & Security
* Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
* Community, Social & Societal Aspects
Data Science Special Track Horizontals
* Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale
graphs)
* Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics)
* Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design,
Crowdsourcing)
* Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance)
Verticals
* Industry & Engineering
* Life Sciences & Health Care
* Public Administration
* e-Science
* Digital Humanities
* Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
* Education & eLearning
* Media & Data Journalism
* Publishing, Marketing & Advertising
* Tourism & Recreation
* Financial & Insurance Industry
* Telecommunication & Mobile Services
* Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology
* Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids
* Food, Agriculture & Farming
* Safety, Security & Privacy
* Transport, Environment & Geospatial
For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls