Hi all,
I am currently working on a research concerned with modelling user
behaviour on Wikipedia. The idea is to design a field experiment over a
random sample of Wikipedians in order to examine their risk preferences and
define (dis)utilities that will be used in a utility-maximisation model.
I have already submitted an abstract that got accepted for the
biennial Foundations
of Utility and Risk Conference 2020 <https://www.furconference.org/> and my
future plans include presentation of the concept at other research
conferences (including Wikimania 2020).
You can visit the project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Modelling_Behaviour_in_a_Peer_Prod…>
of this research on Meta. Your questions and comments are welcome at any
time. Thank you!
Best regards,
Kiril
Just now I asked the following question on the Technical Talk
livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CRsiwYM9w
10:19 AM: Page 20 of Robert West's 2016 Stanford thesis, "Human
Navigation of Information Networks" says, "We have access to
Wikimedia’s full server logs, containing all HTTP requests to
Wikimedia projects."
10:19 AM: The text is at
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~west1/pubs/West_Dissertation-2016.pdf
10:19 AM: Page 19 indicates that this information includes the "IP
address, proxy information, and user agent."
10:20 AM: This is confirmed by West at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0NPhT-fsE&t=25m40s
10:20 AM: Does the Foundation still share that identifying information
with research affiliates? If so, how many are them world-wide; if not,
when did sharing this information stop?
10:25 AM: MediaWiki @James Salsman I see your question, but donfly.
Can we reach out to you after the talk?
10:25 AM: MediaWiki: sorry hit enter too soon!
10:26 AM: MediaWiki: I don't have the full-context of the thesis to
ask kate to answer the question on the fly. Can we reach out to you
after?
10:26 AM: James Salsman: With whom am I corresponding?
10:27 AM: James Salsman: Sarah?
10:28 AM: MediaWiki: Yes! That's me!
10:28 AM: James Salsman: Would it be easier to ask, "how many research
affiliates does the Foundation share server logs with IP addresses?"
10:29 AM: MediaWiki: Yes, I can ask that.
10:30 AM: James Salsman: Thank you.
At 10:34, the messages with the the URLs I posted were removed from
the chat log.
At 10:36, the chat stream was removed from the video, which was
replaced with the text, "Chat is disabled for this live stream," and
now is completely missing.
I am still interested in getting an answer to this question, but
disturbed by the removal of links to sources. Could I please have an
explanation?
Sincerely,
Jim
Apologies for cross-posting
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SEMANTiCS - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September
7 - 10, 2020
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/
====
= Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaiitime)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2020
(11:59pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59
pm,Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020
(11:59pm, Hawaii time)
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
= Submission via Easychair on
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Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2020 EU are planned to be published by Springer
LNCS & CEUR. All proceedings will be made available open access.
SEMANTiCS 2020 EU particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
* 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
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
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* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Blockchain and Semantics
We especially encourage 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.
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
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== Research and Innovation Track ==
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes 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 must follow the guidelines
given in the author instructions, including references and optional
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who
will judge it based on its innovativeness, appropriateness, and impact
of results in terms of effectiveness at solving real problems.
= Important Dates:
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time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2020 (11:59 pm,
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* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Reviews will be carried out in a single-blind mode.
Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages and short papers of
6 pages. Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS
format. The detailed Call for Research and Innovation papers is
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progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller
contributions in all fields related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data
in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications
with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test
or that are yet in the conceptual phase but are worth discussing, and
also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and
potential research or business partners.
= Important Dates:
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Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 22, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: August 01, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
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online.
== Industry and Use Case Track ==
Focusing strongly on industry needs and ground breaking technology
trends SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal
with semantic processing of data and/or information. A special focus of
Semantics 2019 will be on the convergence of machine learning techniques
and knowledge graphs. Additional topics of interest are Enterprise
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Data
Integration, Linked Data & Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text
Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions should have
a strong focus on real-world applications beyond the prototypical stage
and demonstrate the power of semantic systems!
= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2020 (11:59
pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2020 (11:59 pm,
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dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research and commercial project consortia meetings.
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Hawaii time)
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show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
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Hawaii time)
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pm, Hawaii time)
== Special Calls ==
Special calls or sub-topics are dedicated towards specific topics that
are of special interest to the SEMANTiCS community. In case we receive a
sufficient amount of high quality submissions these topics will become
special tracks within the conference program. For 2020 SEMANTiCS
Amsterdam encourages submissions to the following sub-topics:
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Blockchain and Semantics
Each sub-topic is managed by a distinct committee and encourages
submissions from the scientific or industrial domain. Scientific
submissions will undergo a thorough review process and will be published
in the conference proceedings in case of acceptance. Industrial
submissions will be evaluated and selected according to the quality
criteria of the industry track. We are looking forward to your submissions!
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
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Hi all,
Summary: You can read Research Report No 1 which is an overview of
what the Research team [1] at Wikimedia Foundation has been busy with
in the past six months and what's ahead of us at
https://research.wikimedia.org/report.html . You can even do
cmd/ctrl+p and download the report as pdf. I have signed up to send
out this report twice a year, in December and June.
==Purpose==
Communicating in written with you on a biannual basis about what we
are working on and what's in our minds when it comes to research on or
about Wikimedia projects.
==Motivation==
* We receive emails from those of you in the community and external
researchers asking about what we're working on now and what's ahead of
us in the next 6 months to a year. I read this as there is a need for
better/more communication about what we do.
* We do write grant reports for organizations who give grants to
Wikimedia Foundation. I have now been involved in a few of them for
our team and I see them as really nice summaries of what's going on in
a team and what's ahead. I felt it's a loss to not tell a similar
story to the public. I talked with Jonathan Curiel, Senior Development
Communications Manager at Wikimedia Foundation, and he was up for
doing this together.
==Scope==
The focus is on our team, what's in our minds, what we do, and some of
the important trends or events we're part of or we think we should be
aware of. The report has a narrow scope compared to the wealth of work
that is being done in the Wikimedia Movement. For a broader scope, I
continue to recommend efforts such as
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter .
Last but not least: this is an experiment. I am committed to do it for
a few times and we assess the usefulness of it then. If you have
feedback, please let me know. (I will be out of office for a good part
of the holidays ahead. If you don't hear back from me immediately, I
will come back to you in the second week of January.)
Best,
Leila
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello colleagues,
I'm forwarding this announcement to additional email lists.
Most public WMF meetings that are livestreamed on Youtube remain
available for replay after the meeting, and I'm guessing that this one
will be also.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and
Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @
6PM UTC
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello folks,
Just a reminder that this talk will take place Wednesday 26 February 2020
at 6 PM UTC.
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:57 PM Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 1! This talk will take
> place on *26 February 2020 at 6 PM UTC*.
>
> This month's talk will be in an interview format. You are invited to send
> questions ahead of time by replying to this email, or you can ask during Q
> & A section of the live talk by asking through IRC or the Youtube
> Livestream.
>
> Title: Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia
>
> Speaker: Kate Zimmerman, Head of Product Analytics at Wikimedia
>
> Summary:
>
> How do teams at the Foundation use data to inform decisions?
>
> Sarah R. Rodlund talks with Kate Zimmerman, Head of Product Analytics at
> Wikimedia, about what sorts of data her team uses and how insights from
> their analysis have shaped product decisions.
>
> Kate Zimmerman holds an MS in Psychology & Behavioral Decision Research
> from Carnegie Mellon University and has over 15 years of experience in
> quantitative and experimental methods. Before joining Wikimedia, she built
> data teams from scratch at ModCloth and SmugMug, evolving their data
> capabilities from basic reports to strategic analysis, automated
> dashboards, and advanced modeling.
>
> The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CRsiwYM9w
>
> During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
> #wikimedia-office
>
> You can watch past Tech Talks here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
>
> If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
> here:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
>
> Note: This is a public talk. Feel free to distribute through appropriate
> email and social channels!
>
> Many kindnesses,
>
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
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Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the February 2020 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202002 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our writing deadline is 27 February 23:59 UTC. If you can't make this deadline but would like to cover a particular paper in the subsequent issue, leave a note next to the paper's entry below. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
- Analysis of the quotation corpus of the Russian Wiktionary
- Automatic Fact-guided Sentence Modification
- Computational Fact Validation from Knowledge Graph using Structured and Unstructured Information
- Dynamical systems' models for the prediction of multi-variable time series. Wikipedia's traffic example
- Female Librarians and Male Computer Programmers? Gender Bias in Occupational Images on Digital Media Platforms
- Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction
- No More “Double Dipping” on Featured Snippets—Does It Matter?
- Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia
- Science through Wikipedia: A novel representation of open knowledge through co-citation networks
- The Positioning Matters. Estimating Geographical Bias in the Multilingual Record of Biographies on Wikipedia
- Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Flood
- Wikipedia2Vec: An Efficient Toolkit for Learning and Visualizing the Embeddings of Words and Entities from Wikipedia
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter[2] WikiResearch (@WikiResearch) | Twitter
The January 2020 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2020/January
In this issue:
1 Wikipedia as a learning resource (for programmers)2 Briefly3 Other recent publications3.1 "A systematic literature review on Wikidata"3.2 "Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata"3.3 "Extracting Literal Assertions for DBpedia from Wikipedia Abstracts"3.4 "Getting the Most out of Wikidata: Semantic Technology Usage in Wikipedia’s Knowledge Graph"3.5 "Who Models the World?: Collaborative Ontology Creation and User Roles in Wikidata"3.6 "The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits"3.7 "Following the footsteps of giants: Modeling the mobility of historically notable individuals using Wikipedia"3.8 "GeBioToolkit: Automatic Extraction of Gender-Balanced Multilingual Corpus of Wikipedia Biographies"3.9 "On the Relation of Edit Behavior, Link Structure, and Article Quality on Wikipedia"3.10 "Learning to Retrieve Reasoning Paths over Wikipedia Graph for Question Answering"3.11 "Collectively biased representations of the past: Ingroup Bias in Wikipedia articles about intergroup conflicts"3.12 "People tend to do more when collaborating with more people" on Wikipedia
*** 13 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
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Hi all,
join us for our monthly Analytics/Research Office hours on 2020-02-26 at
17.00-18.00 (UTC). Bring all your research questions and ideas to discuss
projects, data, analysis, etc…
To participate, please join the IRC channel: #wikimedia-research [1].
More detailed information can be found here [2] or on the etherpad [3] if
you would like to add items to agenda or check notes from previous meetings.
Best,
Martin
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[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
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Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Good morning,
The scoping review I have been working on since last June, that
investigates Wikipedia as a health information resource, was published in
PLOS ONE yesterday. You may access it at:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228786
Denise Smith (Mcbrarian)
*Denise Smith*, MLIS
Librarian
Health Sciences Library
1280 Main St. West.
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8