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
--
Isaac Johnson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)> (he/him)
-- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation
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