Hi all,

The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started 2 new collaborations to work with us as part of the Addressing Knowledge Gaps program [1]. We are thankful to them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on these projects in the coming 5 months.

Ai-jou (Aiko) Chou started as a contractor with the Research team on February 1st. Based in Taiwan, she will be working on improving the Image Recommendation algorithm [2], to find good images for unillustrated Wikipedia articles, and support its productization. She will additionally work on longer-term projects related to image recommendations, such as the development of image classifiers trained on Commons categories [3].

Marc Miquel started as a contractor with the Research team on January 26th. He will be working on the taxonomy of knowledge gaps [4], specifically in developing metrics for gaps related to content (gender, geography, etc.) [5]. Marc brings extensive experience in this space from his work on the Cultural Diversity Observatory [6].

We aim to keep the research documentation for these projects in the corresponding research pages on meta [3,5]. Miriam Redi and I will act as the point of contact for these projects in the Wikimedia Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have comments or questions about the project (directly, if it cannot be shared publicly) .

Best,

Miriam and Martin

[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-gaps.html

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_task...

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Prototypes_of_Image_Classifiers_Tra...

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Knowledge_Gaps_Index/Taxonomy

[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Developing_Metrics_for_Content_Gaps...)

[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diversity_Observatory