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On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 4:51 PM Kinneret Gordon <kgordon(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 17,
at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1705512600>. The theme for this showcase
is *Connecting Action with Policy*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Presenting the report "Unreliable Guidelines"By *Amber Berson and Monika
Jones*The goal behind the report Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources
and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias was
to understand the effects of the set of reliable source guidelines and
rules on the participation of and the content about marginalized
communities on three Wikipedias. Two years following the release of their
report, researchers Berson and Sengul-Jones reflect on the impact of their
research as well as the actionable next steps.Why Should This Article Be
Deleted? Transparent Stance Detection in Multilingual Wikipedia Editor
DiscussionsBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Arnav Arora*The moderation of
content on online platforms is usually non-transparent. On Wikipedia,
however, this discussion is carried out publicly and the editors are
encouraged to use the content moderation policies as explanations for
making moderation decisions. However, currently only a few comments
explicitly mention those policies. To aid in this process of understanding
how content is moderated, we construct a novel multilingual dataset of
Wikipedia editor discussions along with their reasoning in three languages.
We demonstrate that stance and corresponding reason (policy) can be
predicted jointly with a high degree of accuracy, adding transparency to
the decision-making process.
Best,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>