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Re: [Wiki-research-l] research on topic coverage
by abdelwaheb turki 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Dear Ms., I thank you for your answer. I propose you to ask Wikipedia Content gap researchers about that. I recommend Mr. Marc Miquel who studied cultural content gap across different Wikipedias. I saw his research in WikiIndaba 2018. His research is excellent and absolutely well developed and I was proud as a Programme Committee member to meet him in that conference. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki ________________________________ De : Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> de la part de wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Envoyé : samedi 24 mars 2018 13:00 À : wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Objet : Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 12 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. research on topic coverage? (Bruckman, Amy S) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:27:34 +0000 From: "Bruckman, Amy S" <asb(a)cc.gatech.edu> To: "Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] research on topic coverage? Message-ID: <FC8DE639-DACC-4F42-B648-218EC63685C0(a)gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi everyone! I was just re-reading Halavais & Lackaff’s 2008 paper on topic coverage in the English Wikipedia. Has anyone redone or extended that analysis more recently? Also, has anyone mapped comparative topic coverage for different languages? Thanks for your help! — Amy ------------------------------ 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 151, Issue 12 ************************************************

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research on topic coverage?
by Bruckman, Amy S 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Hi everyone! I was just re-reading Halavais & Lackaff’s 2008 paper on topic coverage in the English Wikipedia. Has anyone redone or extended that analysis more recently? Also, has anyone mapped comparative topic coverage for different languages? Thanks for your help! — Amy

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Research Showcase March 21, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT | 18:30 UTC)
by Sarah R 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACevHs0sMMw As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#March_2018>. Over the past years, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation and some of our formal collaborators have been focused on doing research and building technologies that can help editors across Wikimedia languages find tasks for contributions. While the early effort was heavily focused on article recommendation for creation (horizontal expansion), in 2016 we started a new direction of research with a focus on vertical expansion of Wikipedia articles. The two talks in the March 2018 Research Showcase will share some of what we have learned from this research. More specifically, we will talk about Wikipedia category network as a great signal for creating templates/structures for Wikipedia articles as well as ongoing research to learn what content (sections) are missing from Wikipedia across its many languages. The two corresponding abstracts with more details are below. Join us! :) Using Wikipedia categories for research: opportunities, challenges, and solutionsBy *Tiziano Piccardi, EPFL*The category network in Wikipedia is used by editors as a way to label articles and organize them in a hierarchical structure. This manually created and curated network of 1.6 million nodes in English Wikipedia generated by arranging the categories in a child-parent relation (i.e., Scientists-People, Cities-Human Settlement) allows researchers to infer valuable relations between concepts. A clean structure in this format would be a valuable resource for a variety of tools and application including automatic reasoning tools. Unfortunately, Wikipedia category network contains some "noise" since in many cases the association as subcategory does not define an is-a relation (Scientists is-a People vs. Billionaires‎ is-a Wealth). Inspired to develop a model for recommending sections to be added to the already existing Wikipedia articles, we developed a method to clean this network and to keep only the categories that have a high chance to be associated with their children by an is-a relation. The strategy is based on the concept of "pure" categories, and the algorithm uses the types of the attached articles to determine how homogenous the category is. The approach does not rely on any linguistic feature and therefore is suitable for all Wikipedia languages. In this talk, we will discuss the high-level overview of the algorithm and some of the possible applications for the generated network beyond article section recommendations. Beyond Automatic Translation: Aligning Wikipedia sections across multiple languagesBy *Diego Saez-Trumper*Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles. For editors, they can be used as an entry point for creating and expanding articles. For readers, they enhance readability of Wikipedia content. In this talk, we present an ongoing research to align article sections across Wikipedia languages. We show how the available technology for automatic translations are not good enough for translating section titles. We then show a complementary approach for section alignment, using Wikidata and cross-lingual word embeddings. We will present some of the use-cases of a methodology for aligning sections across languages, including improved section recommendation, especially in medium to smaller size languages where the language itself may not contain enough signal about the structure of the articles and signals can be inferred from other larger Wikipedia languages. Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP
by Kerry Raymond 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Do we have any data on frequency of reverts of users (or more particularly new users) based on characteristics of the article being developed? There is a proposal about "in-context help and onboarding" of new users: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding where I am suggesting that we don't allow new users to edit articles of higher importance, higher quality, higher readership, or higher page-watcher-ship, or about living people because I strongly suspect that this is where new users are at much higher risk of reverting. I take this approach during training, I suggest the topics they edit and choose what I regard as "low risk" ones (and provide some sources). This produces almost no reverts of their first edits which I think is very important in gaining confidence with basic editing skills. So I was curious about whether anyone has crunched such data or has data that could be easily crunched to confirm or deny my hypotheses. Kerry

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CICM 2018: Update on Invited Speakers, Workshops and 2nd CfP
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 11th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2018 - August 13-17, 2018 RISC, Hagenberg, Austria http://www.cicm-conference.org/2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces. It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these areas and their integration. CICM 2018 will feature 3 invited speakers * Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, University of Tokyo * Bruno Buchberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University * Adri Olde Daalhuis, University of Edinburgh and 4 affiliated workshops * Computer Algebra in the age of Types * Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians * Formal Verification of Physical Systems * Mathematical Models and Mathematical Software as Research Data We invite submissions in all topics relating to intelligent computer mathematics, in particular but not limited to * theorem proving and computer algebra * mathematical knowledge management * digital mathematical libraries CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and invites submissions of very different forms: 1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNAI: * regular papers (up to 15 pages) present novel research results * project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize existing results * system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages) present digital artifacts 2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for presentation based on their relevance for the community. * informal papers may present work-in-progress, project announcements, position statements, etc. * posters and system demos will be presented in special sessions 3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students a forum to present early results receive constructive feedback and mentoring. * Important Dates * Formal submissions - Abstract deadline: April 15 - Full paper deadline: April 22 - Reviews sent to authors: May 21 - Rebuttals due: May 27 - Notification of acceptance: June 4 - Camera-ready copies due: June 8 - Conference: August 13-17 Informal submissions and doctoral programme Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early travel plans while others submit spontaneously. - First round submission deadline: April 22 - Second round submission deadline: July 31 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2018

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Proposal: machine learning based image categorisation tool for the Wikimedia Commons
by Linas Vaštakas 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Hello. I are writing to announce a proposal we have posted for a machine learning based image categorisation tool for the Wikimedia Commons. Our proposal is available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Grants:Project/AICAT We have already attracted some useful feedback from the Commons App and also discussed cooperation with the Commons: Structured Data project, however, we would be keen to get more feedback on the project. Please drop us a line if you have ideas or if you would like to help. In addition, if you would like to see this happen, we would appreciate an endorsement on the project page - that would help us show there is wider interest among the Community. Thanks! Best wishes, Linas Vastakas

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Wikimania 2018, Wikidata in Medicine
by abdelwaheb turki 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your answer. I will answer do a proposal to Wikimania conference 2018 entitled "Wikidata in Medicine: What, why and how" in which I introduce Wikidata as a medical knowledge database, I give an overview of successful experiences of medical applications of Wikidata, I show the useful functions that Medical Wikidata can do when completed, and I give to developers ideas of how Medical Wikidata can be automatically enriched based on eHealthMe, MeSH and Medline. I ask what is the best format for such proposals. I also ask if you are working on similar topics and like to merge your Wikiindaba proposal with this one or if you have some comments and questions about my proposal. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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WikiIndaba 2018, WikiResearch in Africa
by abdelwaheb turki 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. I have the great honour to inform you that WikiIndaba conference 2018, the third conference of African Wikimedia community, will be held from March 16th to March 18th, 2018 in Tunis, Tunisia. During this important conference, I will have a presentation about the situation of WikiResearch in Africa. The slides are shared in https://1drv.ms/p/s!AiC69hcGxSVPmhtT2TE8UJcp2qW7. I ask if they are excellent now and if you can give me useful comments about it. You can find what I will say during the presentation as comments to the slides. I ask if you can reformulate this as well. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Call for Registration and Scholarship Applications for the Web Science Summer School 2018 (WWSSS'18)
by Ujwal Gadiraju 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hi, Apologies for cross-posting. **** Call for Registration and Scholarship Applications for the Web Science Summer School 2018 **** (http://wwsss18.webscience.org/) *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Scholarship applications by : 15 April 2018 Official registration open : 19 March 2018 Early bird registration by : 7 May 2018 WWSSS summer school : 30 July - 5 August 2018 The Web Science Summer School 2018 (WWSSS'18) will be held in Hannover, Germany. It is hosted by L3S Research Center and will take place from 30.07.18 till 04.08.18. Web Science is the emergent study of the people and technologies, applications, processes and practices that shape and are shaped by the World Wide Web. Web Science requires mining and understanding data from the Web, requiring both technical skills for handling big (Web) data as well as fundamental understanding of the social, psychological or legal aspects underpinning online activities. The WWSSS'18 will address the inter-disciplinary field of Web Science by focusing on lectures which tackle the aforementioned challenges in topics such as data science and data mining, big data processing, information retrieval, Web governance as well as the sociology and psychology of online interactions. (http://wwsss18.webscience.org/index.php/schedule/) The program includes keynote talks from prominent researchers in Web Science. Alongside lectures from experienced researchers, that will address major trends in Web Science, the Summer School will provide hands-on training in data processing, analysis and methods, team work, and opportunities to present current research. Participants shall work on specific tasks linked to the datasets provided, and will be mentored by local instructors. All teams will present the results of their work on the last day of the school. (http://wwsss18.webscience.org/index.php/speakers/) *** SCHOLARSHIPS & REGISTRATION *** Registration is open to everyone interested with a registration fee of 200 EUR (175 EUR for early bird registration). Full time-students enrolled for Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in computer science, digital humanities and related fields may apply for scholarship grants funded by the SoBigData project. The organizing committee will evaluate all applications. Every attendee with a successful application will receive a fee waiver. In addition, a minimum budget 300 EUR is reserved for every successful applicant for travel and accommodation refunds. More details are available on the website. **** CONTACT DETAILS **** Follow the updates at http://wwsss18.webscience.org/, and do not miss the chance to be a part of this enriching experience! Please feel free to contact the chairs of the summer school or the local organization team if you have any queries: wwsss18(a)l3s.de. Best, Ujwal -- Dr. Ujwal Gadiraju L3S Research Center Leibniz Universität Hannover 30167 Hannover, Germany DE811245527 Phone: +49. 511. 762-5772 Fax: +49. 511. 762-19712 E-Mail: gadiraju(a)l3s.de Web: www.l3s.de/~gadiraju/

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Upcoming reboot of stat100[56] and analytics1003 (Hive, Oozie) for kernel security upgrades
by Luca Toscano 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Hi everybody, tomorrow EU morning (Wed Mar 7th) I'd need to reboot stat100[56] and analytics1003 for kernel security updates. Hive and Oozie (Analytics Hadoop cluster) will not be available for a (hopefully) brief period of time. Please let me know if there is an important work that you are doing that cannot be stopped and the maintenance will be postponed accordingly :) Tracking task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188594 Thanks! Luca (on behalf of the Analytics team)

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