Hi all,

The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] has officially started a new Formal Collaboration [2] with Djellel Difallah (NYU Abu Dhabi) to work collaboratively on sockpuppet detection [3] as part of the Improve Knowledge Integrity program [4] and link recommendation [5] as part of the Address Knowledge Gaps program [6]. You may recognize Djellel as a former member of the Research team and we are glad to be able to continue to collaborate with him as he rejoins academia!

Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would like to share with you:

* We aim to keep the research documentation for these projects in the corresponding research page on meta (sockpuppet detection) [3] and phabricator ticket (link recommendation) [5].

* We are thankful to Djellel for agreeing to spend his time and expertise on these projects in the coming year, and to those of you who have worked with us to improve these models.

* I will act as the point of contact for the sockpuppet detection research and Martin Gerlach (cc'ed) will act as the point of contact for the link recommendation research in the Wikimedia Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to one of us (directly, if it cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about a specific project.

Best,

Isaac Johnson

[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations

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

[4] https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-integrity.html

[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252822

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