Hi all,
The Research team https://research.wikimedia.org/ at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new Formal https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations Collaboration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations with Marija Sakota https://people.epfl.ch/marija.sakota?lang=en (EPFL https://dlab.epfl.ch/) to work collaboratively on generating edit summaries for Wikipedia edits https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Edit_Types/Edit_Summaries. We prioritized this work as part of work on identifying and helping to close data gaps https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)/Content_tagging/Data_gaps but there are also potential benefits for moderators or supporting newcomers in understanding under our knowledge integrity program https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-integrity.html.
Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would like to share with you:
* Marija has already done amazing work https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10012 in developing a model for recommending article descriptions and supporting our Android team in making these recommendations available to editors https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Machine_Assisted_Article_Descriptions .
* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the corresponding research page on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Edit_Types/Edit_Summaries and you can also track the work on Phabricator (T354565 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354565). This work is also done in collaboration with Robert West https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/, our long-time Research Fellow.
* I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the project.
Best, Isaac