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Protection log dataset
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Dear all, Some time ago someone, possibly on this list, posted an announcement about a researcher-friendly dataset covering all page protection log actions. Does anybody remember it? I understand that the logging table is also dumped as part of the regular database dumps, but being it a snapshot it is hard to reconstruct when a page gets in and out of protection. I am pretty sure I didn't dream it but since I cannot find it I thought it would worth checking with my fellow wiki researchers. Cheers, *Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia* • Assistant Professor University of Maryland • College of Information Studies (iSchool) glciampaglia.com • ischool.umd.edu

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 16
by Emily Lescak 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Hello everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, November 16, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. Find your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1668619830>. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFanZoHjUnY Members of the Research team will collect questions on IRC at #wikimedia-research and YouTube. This month's theme is 'Libraries and Wikipedia Knowledge.' In the first talk, Laurie Bridges (Oregon State University) and Michael David Miller (McGill University) will co-present on Wikipedia and Academic Libraries. Abstract: In 2021 an open-access edited book, Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project <https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11778416>, was published, featuring 20 chapters from over 50 authors. In this presentation, Laurie Bridges, one of the co-editors, will discuss the process for creating and publishing an OA-edited book. Michael David Miller, one of the chapter authors, will discuss his chapter about contributions to local Québécois LGBTQ+ content in Francophone Wikipedia. The second talk will be on Ethical Considerations of Including Gender Information in Open Knowledge Platforms, presented by Nerissa Lindsey (San Diego State University). Abstract: In recent years, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) have sought to leverage open knowledge platforms such as Wikidata to highlight or provide more visibility for traditionally marginalized groups and their work, collections, or contributions. Efforts like Art + Feminism, local edit-a-thons, and, more recently, GLAM institution-led projects have promoted open knowledge initiatives to a broader audience of participants. One such open knowledge project, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Wikidata Pilot, has brought together over seventy GLAM organizations to contribute linked open data for individuals associated with their institutions, collections, or archives. However, these projects have brought up ethical concerns around including potentially sensitive personal demographic information, such as gender identity, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity, in entries in an open knowledge base about living persons. GLAM institutions are thus in a position of balancing open access with ethical cataloging, which should include adhering to the personal preferences of the individuals whose data is being shared. People working in libraries and archives have been increasingly focusing their energies on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their descriptive practices, including remediating legacy data and addressing biased language. Moving this work into a more public sphere and scaling up in volume creates potential risks to the individuals being described. While adding demographic information on living people to open knowledge bases has the potential to enhance, highlight, and celebrate diversity, it could also potentially be used to the detriment of the subjects through surveillance and targeting activities. In our research we investigated the changing role of metadata and open knowledge in addressing, or not addressing, issues of under- and misrepresentation, especially as they pertain to gender identity as described in the sex or gender property in Wikidata. We reported our findings from a survey investigating how organizations participating in open knowledge projects are addressing ethical concerns around including personal demographic information as part of their projects, including what, if any, policies they have implemented and what implications these activities may have for the living people being described. You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase We hope you can join us! Warm regards, Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research team -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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Prototyping a collaborative training tool that can support real-time collaborative writing.
by aaa8＠st-andrews.ac.uk 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

We are studying online Wikipedia training and editing to prototype and evaluate a collaborative training tool that can support Wikipedia trainers to train newcomers to Wikipedia remotely, and we want to invite you to participate in our research study anonymously. If you agree to participate in this study, please click on the following questionnaire link so we can find out how familiar you are with Wikipedia and whether you have any experience in Wikipedia editing. It will take ~2 mins to complete. At the end, you will be redirected to an online social ideation and voting tool called Tricider to view, comment, and vote on others' ideas about designing an online Wikipedia training tool and to add your ideas for others to discuss and vote on. Please beware of the Tricider website's adverts that would look like part of the listed ideas. https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GuEdzPOGFaFrRc Your contribution is important. Thank you. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the researchers. Their details are below: Contact Details Researchers: Abd Alsattar Ardati (aaa8(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) Dr Sara Thomas (sara.thomas(a)wikimedia.org.uk) Dr Richard Nevell (richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk) Dr Kirsty Ross (ksrh1(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) Supervisors: Prof Ian Gent (ian.gent(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) Dr Alexander Voss (alex.voss(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) Dr Uta Hinrichs (uh3(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) Dr Angela Miguel (arm14(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) School of Computer Science University of St Andrews Jack Cole Building North Haugh St Andrews KY16 9SX +44 1334 46 3262

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WMF Research Fund
by Emily Lescak 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hi all, We are excited to see increased awareness about the Wikimedia Research Fund this year as compared to last year. We are receiving more inquiries from prospective applicants, the number of views of the relevant pages is significantly more than last year [1], and we are seeing good engagement in office hours. We are learning that there are quite a few researchers who have initial ideas about projects that can benefit from input from existing Wikimedia research, editor, organizer, or developer communities to strengthen their proposals. Because we don't have one shared way to match or introduce people to one another, we are starting to encourage people to start a project on MetaWiki [2] and consider reaching out to wiki-research-l or their relevant chapter or user group to seek input or look for collaborators. This means that the traffic for emails that come to this list between now and December 16, the Research Fund's Stage I deadline [3], may increase. The content of the emails may also ask for your input. Please offer input to the extent that you have time and interest to help those who wish to join our research community have a higher chance of success and a welcoming experience. The questions of how to welcome newcomers to our community and how to help them be productive require dedicated attention. We hope that we can pick up this topic with at least some of you in the coming year. :) If you have questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reach out. Best, Emily [1] https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=meta.wikimedia.org&platform=all-acce… <https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=meta.wikimedia.org&platform=all-acce…> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_project [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech… -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 19
by Emily Lescak 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

Hello everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. Find your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1666197004>. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-ULyARpU4 Members of the Research team will collect questions on IRC at #wikimedia-research and YouTube. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday! October 2022 marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of Wikidata ( www.wikidata.org). In ten years, this project has become the largest community-driven free knowledge graph in the world, enabling a common knowledge base for Wikimedia projects. The language-independent nature of Wikidata has greatly improved the maintenance and consistency of knowledge across Wikipedia language editions, fostering knowledge equity in Wikimedia. In addition, since Wikidata is a collaborative project that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike, it is also widely used in third-party applications delivering knowledge as a service for all. The Wikimedia Research community has devoted significant effort and resources in studying the foundations, capabilities and applications of Wikidata, from the complex requirements of representing real-world knowledge in a multilingual environment to the needs to assess the quality of data and sources in Wikidata. To learn more about the state of the art of Wikidata and research challenges in the era of AI/ML, we will celebrate this tenth anniversary with a panel that will bring together established researchers/practitioners in this field. The panel will be moderated by Denny Vrandečić (WMF) with panelists Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Elena Simperl (King's College London), Katherine Thornton (Yale), and Markus Krötzsch (Technical University of Dresden). You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase We hope you can join us! Warm regards, Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research team -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: Requesting access to Revision Deletion
by Andrew Otto 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Hello! I don't think I have the authority to grant this approval as stated. We can't make this data public, but if you find a research sponsor at the Wikimedia Foundation, we can grant you access to private data internally if you sign an NDA. Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ#collaborations for more information on how to contact the WMF Research team and propose a formal collaboration. I am also CCing the wiki-research-l mailing list. Good luck! -Andrew Otto On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 3:27 AM Thiago Freitas <thiago(a)iiia.csic.es> wrote: > Dear Andrew Otto, > How are you? > > I'm Thiago Freitas, a PhD student from the Artificial Intelligence > Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) in Spain. We are working on detecting > hate speech in online communities and we are interested in the Wikipedia > use case, specifically the Revision Deletion data, which is not publicly > available. > > I am writing this email to "coordinate obtaining a comment of approval > on this task from the approving party" as described in the required task > in Phabricator. We have already published work on detecting norm > violations on Wikipedia > (https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2022/pdfs/p427.pdf and > bit.ly/3t08QCg) with data available online, now we are looking to > further improve the quality of our research on hate speech detection > with this additional dataset. We will use this data to build different > machine learning models with experiments in several approaches. I would > be glad to provide further information about our work. Thank you so much > for your attention. > > Best regards, > Thiago Freitas >

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Request for full details or link if any
by Asher 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Dear Coordinator, Thank you for adding me in the Wikimedia research mailing list. I truly appreciate this. I would love to know more about how the platform works or what are expected of the members of this platform. If there is a link, could you please refer me to that? Thank you. Kind regards, Ngozi Perpetua Osuchukwu Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund
by Leila Zia 28 Sep '22

28 Sep '22

Hi all, We're really excited to announce the launch of the second *Wikimedia Research Fund *with the goal of diversifying the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and supporting the Wikimedia Movement in deeper understanding of the projects, decision making, and building new technologies. If you are a Wikimedia researcher or you are interested in becoming one, you can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects. You can even propose to repeat a past study in a given language in another language! More info at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech… . *Apply by December 16, 2022* and/or spread the word! If you have questions, please reach out to us at research_fund(a)wikimedia.org, Meta-Wiki [1], here, or in one of our upcoming office hours (schedule will be shared in [2] soon!) Best, the Research Fund committee chairs Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Start [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…

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CfP CSCW2022 Workshop - Ethical Tensions, Norms, and Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work
by Sohyeon Hwang 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Hello! I am sharing a CfP that I think will be of interest to the wiki research community, given its topic :) Apologies if you run into this cross-posted elsewhere. We are sharing a CfP for a workshop: "Ethical Tensions, Norms, and > Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work", to be held Nov 13 > during CSCW 2022 (virtual this year). > > This one-day workshop, broken up into two sessions to accommodate > international participation, will convene to reflect on and interrogate the > relationship between online volunteer work and the industries that rely on > and profit from them. Online volunteer work such as moderating forums and > participating in open source projects not only underpins today’s digital > infrastructures, but also helps companies generate immense profits. > However, there remains a lack of ethical norms around using volunteer labor > for corporate interests, opening opportunities for unchecked extraction of > online volunteer work at scale. Through a series of talks, a panel, and > small group discussions, this workshop makes a call for increased attention > to ethical issues in the extraction of online volunteer work. > > We invite individuals interested in presenting their work to submit a 2-4 > page extended abstract by Sept 21, 2022 to: > https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=eeovw22 > > Accepted abstracts will be guaranteed a presentation slot. For individuals > interested in attending without presenting, we will later have an > application form (capped at 50 people) on our website so stay tuned! > -- sohyeon

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Post-doc
by Heather Ford 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Dear friends, My colleague and I are looking to hire 0.5 FTE, 3 year post-doc for our ARC Discovery Project re. Wikipedia in Australia called "Wikipedia and the nation's story: Towards equity in knowledge production" (which is also about platform bias, representation, digital inequality, knowledge democracy, data feminism & others). Ping me if interested! Unfortunately limited to those with Australian work rights. I'd be grateful if you could share with your networks. All best, Heather. --------------------------- 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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