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Wiki Workshop 2020 Announcement and Call for Papers
by Leila Zia 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

Hi everyone, We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2020 will be held in Taipei on April 20 or 21, 2020 (the date to be finalized soon) and as part of the Web Conference 2020 [1]. In the past years, Wiki Workshop has traveled to Oxford, Montreal, Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San Francisco. You can read more about the call for papers and the workshops at http://wikiworkshop.org/2020/#call. Please note that the deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 17. All other submissions should be received by February 21. If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this list or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com. Looking forward to seeing you in Taipei. Best, Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation Bob West, EPFL Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://www2020.thewebconf.org/

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SEMANTiCS 2020 || Extended Submission Deadline April 25, 2020
by Sebastian Hellmann 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

Apologies for cross-posting Dear all, due to several requests we decided to extend the deadlines for the R&I track. The new dates are as follows: Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time - originally April 18) Paper Submission Deadline: May 08, 2020 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time - originally May 1) Reviews due by June 08, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time - originally June 1) Notification of Acceptance: June 12, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: July 01, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Once the new Abstract Deadline has expired we will open paper bidding and ask you to indicate your interest by selecting 2 - 3 papers. The final assignment will take place closely after the Paper Submission Deadline has ended. For details please go to: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls Stay tuned and stay safe! With kind regards, Eva Blomqvist & Paul Groth -- R&I Track Chairs --

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COVID-19 Related Data & Analysis
by Diego Saez-Trumper 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Hello everybody, I've just sent some information about data that we are collecting about COVID-19 related Wikipedia activity. I'm starting this new thread just to keep the information handy for all of you: * General information: https://wikimediafoundation.org/covid19/data/ * More detailed data: http://covid-data.wmflabs.org/ (Note that this an experimental site, it might be unstable or slow) Please also check this analysis done in collaboration with researchers at IBS/KAIST & Max Plank: * Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic <https://medium.com/@diegosaeztrumper/open-data-and-covid-19-wikipedia-as-an…> Best Diego

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 175, Issue 18
by Ludovic Bocken 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Hello everyone, Could you please let me know of Wikimedia research initiatives about the coronavirus crisis? Is there anyone in the Wikimedia community interested in collaboration for the different AI/ML/NLP challenges ? https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge/ta… https://covid-global-hackathon.devpost.com/ https://devpost.com/hackathons?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=coronavirus&challenge_… Take care ! Best regards, Ludovic BOCKEN lbocken(a)gmail.com www.ludovicbocken.com Skype: ludovic.bocken http://www.linkedin.com/in/ludovicbocken 2222 Rue Hochelaga, Montréal, QC H2K 4N8 +1 (514) 649 0755 *Avis de confidentialité* Le présent message transmis par télécopie est confidentiel, et son contenu peut être protégé par le secret professionnel. Il est à l’usage exclusif de son ou sa destinataire. Toute autre personne est par les présentes avisée qu’il lui est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si la ou le destinataire ne peut être joint ou vous est inconnu, nous vous prions d’en informer immédiatement l’expéditeur ou l’expéditrice et de détruire ce message et toute copie de celui-ci. Le mar. 24 mars 2020 à 20:21, <wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> a écrit : > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [Announcement] Daily Social Media Traffic Report for > English Wikipedia articles (Jonathan Morgan) > 2. Re: [Announcement] Daily Social Media Traffic Report for > English Wikipedia articles (john cummings) > 3. Re: [Announcement] Daily Social Media Traffic Report for > English Wikipedia articles (Jonathan Morgan) > 4. [job] Fwd: Post-doc postion at Max Planck Institute for > Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany (Leila Zia) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:02:09 -0700 > From: Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Daily Social Media > Traffic Report for English Wikipedia articles > Message-ID: > < > CANiB+Xq5bObtpPaLdV-zAVNQXEQkHiwWNvWBRKdSWjizZ_sqjA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Gerard, > > It's a pilot, so it's not available for other wikis yet. If we receive > community feedback that indicates that the resource is welcome and is being > used, we will definitely lobby for making this resource available for all > wikis, on a long-term basis. > > If you would like to see this resource maintained, experiment with it and > provide feedback > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Social_media_traffic_report_p… > > > ! > > Best, > Jonathan > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:53 PM Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hoi, > > Does this work for any Wikipedia? If so, where can I find it for the > Dutch, > > the German, the French, the Chinese, the Russian Wikipedia?? > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 20:24, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > The WMF Research team has published a new pageview report of inbound > > > traffic coming from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit.[1] > > > > > > The report contains a list of all articles that received at least 500 > > views > > > from one or more of these platforms (i.e. someone clicked a link on > > Twitter > > > that sent them directly to a Wikipedia article). The report is > available > > > on-wiki and will be updated daily at around 14:00 UTC with traffic > counts > > > from the previous calendar day. > > > > > > We believe this report provides editors with a valuable new information > > > source. Daily inbound social media traffic stats can help editors > monitor > > > edits to articles that are going viral on social media sites and/or are > > > being linked to by the social media platform itself in order to > > fact-check > > > disinformation and other controversial content[2][3]. > > > > > > The social media traffic report also contains additional public article > > > metadata that may be useful in the context of monitoring articles that > > are > > > receiving unexpected attention from social media sites, such as... > > > > > > - the total number of pageviews (from all sources) that article > > received > > > in the same period of time > > > - the number of pageviews the article received from the same > platform > > > (e.g. Facebook) the previous day (two days ago) > > > - the number of editors who have the page on their watchlist > > > - the number of editors who have watchlisted the page AND recently > > > visited it > > > > > > We want your feedback! We have some ideas of our own for how to improve > > the > > > report, but we want to hear yours! If you have feature suggestions, > > please > > > add them here.[4] We intend to maintain this daily report for at least > > the > > > next two months. If we receive feedback that the report is useful, we > are > > > considering making it available indefinitely. > > > > > > If you have other questions about the report, please first check out > our > > > (still growing) FAQ [5]. All questions, comments, concerns, ideas, etc. > > are > > > welcome on the project talkpage on Meta.[4] > > > > > > 1. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HostBot/Social_media_traffic_report > > > 2. > > > > > > > > > https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/15/wikipedia-unaware-would-be-youtube-fact… > > > 3. > > > > > > > > > https://mashable.com/2017/10/05/facebook-wikipedia-context-articles-news-fe… > > > 4. > > > > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Social_media_traffic_report_p… > > > 5. > > > > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Social_media_traffic_report_pilot/… > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Jonathan > > > > > > -- > > > Jonathan T. Morgan > > > Senior Design Researcher > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF) > > > > > (Uses He/Him) > > > > > > *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or > > > weekends* > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > (Uses He/Him) > > *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or > weekends* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:54:54 +0100 > From: john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Daily Social Media > Traffic Report for English Wikipedia articles > Message-ID: > <CA+WGNV7zqyjYKayhRvmHuMXx1LOmpmB=hqcHW9sRt-F= > rpOS6Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Jonathan > > This is really great, my initial thought is these metrics describe part of > the role Wikipedia is playing in combating disinformation/fake news, > reliable sources etc. You link to this in your email to the Mashable > article but this isn't described on the meta page. This is a very popular > topic of research and I'm sure would be interesting to people researching > this and would help people to find it. > > > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 16:03, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Gerard, > > > > It's a pilot, so it's not available for other wikis yet. If we receive > > community feedback that indicates that the resource is welcome and is > being > > used, we will definitely lobby for making this resource available for all > > wikis, on a long-term basis. > > > > If you would like to see this resource maintained, experiment with it and > > provide feedback > > < > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Social_media_traffic_report_p… > > > > > ! > > > > Best, > > Jonathan > > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:53 PM Gerard Meijssen < > > gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hoi, > > > Does this work for any Wikipedia? If so, where can I find it for the > > Dutch, > > > the German, the French, the Chinese, the Russian Wikipedia?? > > > Thanks, > > > GerardM > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 20:24, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > The WMF Research team has published a new pageview report of inbound > > > > traffic coming from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit.[1] > > > > > > > > The report contains a list of all articles that received at least 500 > > > views > > > > from one or more of these platforms (i.e. someone clicked a link on > > > Twitter > > > > that sent them directly to a Wikipedia article). The report is > > available > > > > on-wiki and will be updated daily at around 14:00 UTC with traffic > > counts > > > > from the previous calendar day. > > > > > > > > We believe this report provides editors with a valuable new > information > > > > source. Daily inbound social media traffic stats can help editors > > monitor > > > > edits to articles that are going viral on social media sites and/or > are > > > > being linked to by the social media platform itself in order to > > > fact-check > > > > disinformation and other controversial content[2][3]. > > > > > > > > The social media traffic report also contains additional public > article > > > > metadata that may be useful in the context of monitoring articles > that > > > are > > > > receiving unexpected attention from social media sites, such as... > > > > > > > > - the total number of pageviews (from all sources) that article > > > received > > > > in the same period of time > > > > - the number of pageviews the article received from the same > > platform > > > > (e.g. Facebook) the previous day (two days ago) > > > > - the number of editors who have the page on their watchlist > > > > - the number of editors who have watchlisted the page AND recently > > > > visited it > > > > > > > > We want your feedback! We have some ideas of our own for how to > improve > > > the > > > > report, but we want to hear yours! If you have feature suggestions, > > > please > > > > add them here.[4] We intend to maintain this daily report for at > least > > > the > > > > next two months. If we receive feedback that the report is useful, we > > are > > > > considering making it available indefinitely. > > > > > > > > If you have other questions about the report, please first check out > > our > > > > (still growing) FAQ [5]. All questions, comments, concerns, ideas, > etc. > > > are > > > > welcome on the project talkpage on Meta.[4] > > > > > > > > 1. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HostBot/Social_media_traffic_report > > > > 2. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/15/wikipedia-unaware-would-be-youtube-fact… > > > > 3. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://mashable.com/2017/10/05/facebook-wikipedia-context-articles-news-fe… > > > > 4. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Social_media_traffic_report_p… > > > > 5. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Social_media_traffic_report_pilot/… > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jonathan T. Morgan > > > > Senior Design Researcher > > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > User:Jmorgan (WMF) < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF) > > > > > > > (Uses He/Him) > > > > > > > > *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or > > > > weekends* > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > > > > -- > > Jonathan T. Morgan > > Senior Design Researcher > > Wikimedia Foundation > > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > > (Uses He/Him) > > > > *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or > > weekends* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:55:39 -0700 > From: Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Daily Social Media > Traffic Report for English Wikipedia articles > Message-ID: > < > CANiB+Xp-YMiY9tkZtuo1HAmoH8NA9BMCpriPUztSvehmzgToyw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Stuart, > > This is possible. I talked to Isaac Johnson about this today. Basically, > we'd need to build a regularly-updated database of articles-by-wikiproject > (by parsing the wikiproject template on the talkpage, say). Then we could > list all wikiprojects associated with each article and/or create some bot > that notified each wikiproject if an article within its scope exceeded some > traffic parameter. > > But this is a lot of work, but I've captured the proposal here > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_talk:Social_media_tra… > > > for future reference. Thanks! > > Jonathan > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:22 PM Stuart A. Yeates <syeates(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > My immediate thought is how to connect this to the wiki projects for each > > article, because wiki projects are the primary sources of expert > knowledge > > and have the resources to deal with many issues. > > > > Cheers > > Stuart > > > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, 8:24 AM Jonathan Morgan, <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > The WMF Research team has published a new pageview report of inbound > > > traffic coming from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit.[1] > > > > > > The report contains a list of all articles that received at least 500 > > views > > > from one or more of these platforms (i.e. someone clicked a link on > > Twitter > > > that sent them directly to a Wikipedia article). The report is > available > > > on-wiki and will be updated daily at around 14:00 UTC with traffic > counts > > > from the previous calendar day. > > > > > > We believe this report provides editors with a valuable new information > > > source. Daily inbound social media traffic stats can help editors > monitor > > > edits to articles that are going viral on social media sites and/or are > > > being linked to by the social media platform itself in order to > > fact-check > > > disinformation and other controversial content[2][3]. > > > > > > The social media traffic report also contains additional public article > > > metadata that may be useful in the context of monitoring articles that > > are > > > receiving unexpected attention from social media sites, such as... > > > > > > - the total number of pageviews (from all sources) that article > > received > > > in the same period of time > > > - the number of pageviews the article received from the same > platform > > > (e.g. Facebook) the previous day (two days ago) > > > - the number of editors who have the page on their watchlist > > > - the number of editors who have watchlisted the page AND recently > > > visited it > > > > > > We want your feedback! We have some ideas of our own for how to improve > > the > > > report, but we want to hear yours! If you have feature suggestions, > > please > > > add them here.[4] We intend to maintain this daily report for at least > > the > > > next two months. If we receive feedback that the report is useful, we > are > > > considering making it available indefinitely. > > > > > > If you have other questions about the report, please first check out > our > > > (still growing) FAQ [5]. All questions, comments, concerns, ideas, etc. > > are > > > welcome on the project talkpage on Meta.[4] > > > > > > 1. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HostBot/Social_media_traffic_report > > > 2. > > > > > > > > > https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/15/wikipedia-unaware-would-be-youtube-fact… > > > 3. > > > > > > > > > https://mashable.com/2017/10/05/facebook-wikipedia-context-articles-news-fe… > > > 4. > > > > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Social_media_traffic_report_p… > > > 5. > > > > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Social_media_traffic_report_pilot/… > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Jonathan > > > > > > -- > > > Jonathan T. Morgan > > > Senior Design Researcher > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF) > > > > > (Uses He/Him) > > > > > > *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or > > > weekends* > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > (Uses He/Him) > > *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or > weekends* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:21:19 -0700 > From: Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] [job] Fwd: Post-doc postion at Max Planck > Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany > Message-ID: > <CAK0Oe2sY= > pgY7ovuK1vL5ONq3YFMiGniTzYJjH_yQKOo8BKQSg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Some of you may be interested in the position below. > > Best, > Leila > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: MPIDR - Career <career(a)demogr.mpg.de> > Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:17 AM > Subject: Post-doc postion at Max Planck Institute for Demographic > Research, Rostock, Germany > To: > > Dear Sir or Madame, > > Hopefully this message finds you well. We would like to distribute the > attached post-doc ad on behalf of Emilio Zagheni in his Laboratory of > Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for > Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. The details of the job > vacancy and how to apply can be found here rsp. in the attached PDF: > > > > https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdocs_res… > > > > Please kindly distribute these vacancies among your fellow researchers > and students at your institution. > > > > Data protection notice: > > We use your data exclusively to inform you about current news from the > MPIDR. 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If > you are uncertain about the validity of this message, please check the > mail header or ask your system administrator for assistance. > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 175, Issue 18 > ************************************************ >

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Wikipedia Trademark
by Thomas Stieve 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Hello all, I am writing an academic article. For this research, I am creating an index, which I would like to call the "Wikipedia Global Consciousness Index." Do I have to worry about the trademark? Tom -- Thomas Stieve Ph.D. Candidate School of Geography and Development University of Arizona

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Scribe gadget ready for first deployments
by Lucie Kaffee 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Hello everyone, We have been working on Scribe over the past months. Scribe is an addition to the editing interface of MediaWiki, that eases new users into creating new Wikipedia articles. Scribe’s focus is to teach new editors the importance of references and following the Wikipedia standards. Find more information on Scribe here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scribe It is currently deployed on test Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scribe_demo_video_mid-march.webm Scribe lets an editor select from a list of suggested sections, which are based on the existing articles in your Wikipedia. Then, Scribe suggests references from the web for each section, based on the existing references in your Wikipedia. We have developed Scribe as a gadget that does not interfere with your usual editing flow. We are currently looking for feedback, therefore we would like to deploy the extension on your Wikipedia. Would you be interested in offering Scribe to editors on your Wikipedia and use it to give us feedback on its usability? You can let us know via mail or on this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scribe/Get_involved We are running a first trial, in which we would offer a list of < 200 articles in a red links list, which can be created with Scribe for testing purposes. The gadget is not enabled by default and would only work on the list of articles provided in the red links list. Thanks, Lucie, Hady, Eugene (Scribe team) -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee

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Asperges, ADHD and editors
by RhinosF1 - 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Evening all, I hope everyone is doing well given the crazy world we’re living in. I was having a conversation with a few users on Discord today and we were wondering whether wikimedia (or users of other similiar sites would be fine) disproportinately fall into the category of having aspergers, ADHD and other simmilar conditions. It would be even better if anyone knew what sort of areas these users were more likely to work in. Following a chat with Issac in #wikimedia-research, I understand there isn’t much support for this kind of research as users may not want to reveal this information and there is no clear reason for collecting the information but if anyone knows of past research or has any information, that would be helpful. Stay Safe, RhinosF1 -- Thanks, Samuel

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The March 2020 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

The March 2020 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2020/March In this issue: 1 "Uncertainty During New Disease Outbreaks in Wikipedia"2 "Analyzing Wikipedia Deletion Debates with a Group Decision-Making Forecast Model"3 "Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial"4 "'This is exactly how the Nazis ran it': (De)legitimising the EU on Wikipedia"5 "The Dynamics of Peer-Produced Political Information During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign"6 "Wikipedia2Vec: An Efficient Toolkit for Learning and Visualizing the Embeddings of Words and Entities from Wikipedia"7 "Introduction to Neural Network based Approaches for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs"8 "Automatic Fact-guided Sentence Modification"9 "Transforming Wikipedia into Augmented Data for Query-Focused Summarization"10 "Knowledge Graphs and Knowledge Networks: The Story in Brief"11 "Strangers in a seemingly open-to-all website: the gender bias in Wikipedia" - *** 11 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Masssly and Tilman Bayer --- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/WikiResearch/ * Receive this newsletter by mail: Research-newsletter Mailing List - Wikimedia

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MOSS launches COVID-19 Solutions Fund
by Jonathan Morgan 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

FYI: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/31/moss-launches-covid-19-solutions-f… >From the announcement: *"Mozilla is announcing today the creation of a COVID-19 Solutions Fund as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS). Through this fund, we will provide awards of up to $50,000 each to open source technology projects which are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. * *The MOSS Program, created in 2015, broadens access, increases security, and empowers users by providing catalytic funding to open source technologists. We have already seen inspiring examples of open source technology being used to increase the capacity of the world’s healthcare systems to cope with this crisis. For example, just a few days ago, the University of Florida Center for Safety, Simulation, and Advanced Learning Technologies released an open source ventilator <https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/open-source-ventil…>. We believe there are many more life-saving open source technologies in the world.* *As part of the COVID-19 Solutions Fund, we will accept applications that are hardware (e.g., an open source ventilator), software (e.g., a platform that connects hospitals with people who have 3D printers who can print parts for that open source ventilator), as well as software that solves for secondary effects of COVID-19 (e.g., a browser plugin that combats COVID related misinformation)."* -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> (Uses He/Him) *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or weekends*

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New Wikimedia Technical Blog
by Sarah R 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hi all, We just launched [[WM:Techblog]] <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/>, a new place to share stories from the Wikimedia technical community with the world. Yay! We created this venue to provide a central place for people to share stories about the technical work that they do— like: - How to run a top ten website that is all Open Source? - How do we make our codebase more modular and future-proof? - How do we come together to work on technical projects? - How to develop a product for many different languages? - How do new tools and bots help run Wikimedia projects? - What can we learn from data science and research? - And, much more… Check out these posts for examples: Computational knowledge: Wikidata, Wikidata query Service, and women who are mayors! <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/03/24/computational-knowledge-wikidata-…> By Trey Jones Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/03/24/parsoid-in-php-or-there-and-back-…>, By S.Subramanya Sastry and C.Scott Ananian Wikimedia projects have many intersections with the larger Open Source community. It’s our hope that the technical blog will create more visibility and conversations and provide information to a wider audience of people who are interested in our work. If you are interested in writing a blog post, read the editorial guidelines <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines> to learn about what would make a good story and how to get published! We manage the process of reviewing and publishing posts here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/Technical-blog-posts Thanks to everyone who contributed to making the blog possible. There were many! For the WM Techblog team, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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