Hi Dan,
Thanks for your note. :)
On the Research end, Dario is still a big supporter of the efforts around research to help us better understand harassment (as you noticed in our commitments to the annual plan) and with Ellery's departure, I've been helping him a bit to make sure we can move forward on this front. More specifically, and while we're continuing the research with Nithum and Lucas who were Ellery's collaborators on the Detox project, we recently initiated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Study_of_harassment_and_its_impact with Cristian and Yiqing from Cornell University. We are very excited about this new collaboration as Cristian has years of experience in spaces that are very relevant to the socio-technical problems related to harassment. I think you will enjoy reading that page which signal the early directions of the research.
The whole harassment research team meets every 2 weeks, if you're curious what's going on on this front and on our end and you want to listen in, please ping me. And, thank you for the offer to help. We may take you up on that. :)
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Dan -- we are actually in touch with Detox as part of the Community Health initiative. They are doing their first quarterly check in this quarter so expect some updates then. Ping me offlist if you want more info.
-Toby
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm reflecting on this work and how awesome it was. I see that it's continued in our annual plan under the Community Health Initiative, but I am afraid it's taking a secondary role without Ellery and others to drive it. On https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/AbuseFilter it's only featured as a question under the #Functionality section.
I just wanted to point this out and offer to help if I can be of use.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ellery Wulczyn ewulczyn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Today we are announcing
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/07/scaling-understanding-of-harassment/ the first results of the collaboration between Wikimedia Research and Jigsaw on modeling personal attacks and other forms of harassment on English Wikipedia. We have released https://figshare.com/projects/Wikipedia_Talk/16731 a corpus of 95M user and article talk page comments as well as over 1M human labels produced by 4000 crowd-workers for a set of 100k comments. Documentation on our methodology and future work can be found in our paper Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08914 (to appear at WWW2017) and on our project page on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox. If you are interested in contributing to the project, please get in touch via the project talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Detox. Another great way to get involved is to label a set of comment in the Wikilabels discussion quality campaign http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/.
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