Hello everyone,
The next Research Showcase, *Gaps and Biases in Wikipedia*, will be
live-streamed Wednesday, May 18, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. View your local
time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1652891400>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8FlunZ0mH4
You are welcome to ask questions via YouTube chat or on IRC at
#wikimedia-research.
This month's presentations:
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia
By Francesca Tripodi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
For the last five decades, sociologists have argued that gender is one of
the most pervasive and insidious forms of inequality. Research demonstrates
how these inequalities persist on Wikipedia - arguably the largest
encyclopedic reference in existence. Roughly eighty percent of Wikipedia's
editors are men and pages about women and women's interests are
underrepresented. English language Wikipedia contains more than 1.5 million
biographies about notable writers, inventors, and academics, but less than
nineteen percent of these biographies are about women. To try and improve
these statistics, activists host “edit-a-thons” to increase the visibility
of notable women. While this strategy helps create several biographies
previously inexistent, it fails to address a more inconspicuous form of
gender exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and
quantitative analysis of web-scraped metadata this talk demonstrates that
women’s biographies are more frequently considered non-notable and
nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies. This disproportionate
rate is another dimension of gender inequality on Wikipedia previously
unexplored by social scientists and provides broader insights into how
women’s achievements are (under)valued in society.
Controlled Analyses of Social Biases in Wikipedia Bios
By Yulia Tsvetkov (University of Washington)
Social biases on Wikipedia could greatly influence public opinion.
Wikipedia is also a popular source of training data for NLP models, and
subtle biases in Wikipedia narratives are liable to be amplified in
downstream NLP models. In this talk I'll present two approaches to
unveiling social biases in how people are described on Wikipedia, across
demographic attributes and across languages. First, I'll present a
methodology that isolates dimensions of interest (e.g., gender), from other
attributes (e.g., occupation). This methodology allows us to quantify
systemic differences in coverage of different genders and races, while
controlling for confounding factors. Next, I'll show an NLP case study that
uses this methodology in combination with people-centric sentiment analysis
to identify disparities in Wikipedia bios of members of the LGBTQIA+
community across three languages: English, Russian, and Spanish. Our
results surface cultural differences in narratives and signs of social
biases. Practically, these methods can be used to automatically identify
Wikipedia articles for further manual analysis—articles that might contain
content gaps or an imbalanced representation of particular social groups.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
Emily, on behalf of the Research team
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello everyone,
We are excited to announce the members of the Leadership Development
Working Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group>.
After receiving more than 60 applications, a panel of community members (4)
and Wikimedia Foundation staff (2) conducted an anonymous review. Fifteen
members were selected for the working group.
Diversity and representation were important considerations. We are happy to
share that the group has representatives from all 8 regions [1] (two from
each region, except US + Canada have one). The group size has expanded from
12 to 15 members to increase diversity. Together, the group members speak
at least 17 languages. Members hold different roles in the movement,
including: a meta-organizer, a community-elected Steward, a past Affiliate
executive director, and a jack-of-all-trades volunteer. The members range
in their years in the movement, from newer community members to community
members with more than 15 years of experience. Regarding gender, we have 7
women, 6 men, 1 non-binary and gender-fluid person, and 1 preferred not to
identify their gender.
Without further ado, let us introduce you to the members of the Leadership
Development Working Group:
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Vermont <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vermont>
Hello! I go by Vermont on Wikimedia projects. I'm a Wikimedia Steward,
admin and CheckUser on Meta-Wiki and the Simple English Wikipedia, and a
Merchandise Giveaways coordinator. I've joined this group in the interest
of supporting community and leadership development from a practical
standpoint, and promoting editor retention and development in line with
current movement priorities and Wikimedia's mission.
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Flavia Doria (XenoF <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:XenoF>)
Hi, I'm Flavia Doria (she/her), I'm Brazilian, living in Portugal since
2016, and I've been involved with the Wikimedia Movement since early 2020.
I'm currently working as Ambassador of the Portuguese-speaking community
for the Wikimedia Foundation. As a volunteer I'm part of the Wikipedia
group Wiki Editoras Lx, the first and perhaps only Lusophone group composed
only by women and non-binary people who edit within the gender theme. In my
group I work in several fronts such as training new users, organizing
events and promoting debate within the community. From the beginning, I
quickly became more involved in issues related to decision-making within
the Movement and the importance of including marginalized groups from our
community in these debates and how this inclusion is key to keeping
Wikimedia projects relevant to society.
I am also a communicologist and journalist, I have a special interest in
the social and political aspect of the Information and Communications
Technology debate, and have recently published an academic paper on gender
and Wikipedia and hope to do so more often.
Now as a member of the Leadership Development Working Group, I hope that we
can collectively learn how to use our resources to promote more autonomy
for our communities, especially those who fall outside of our standard
average user profile. I am excited to meet more people interested in this
debate and I look forward to working with all of you!
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Francesc Fort (TaronjaSatsuma
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TaronjaSatsuma>)
I'm Francesc, a Catalan-language editor from València. I've been a very
active editor for a
long time, but I haven't been that much involved with international
communities until 2019.
I'm very excited on discovering and learning new things about Wikipedia.
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Isaac Olatunde (T Cells <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:T_Cells>)
I am a food safety specialist and a volunteer contributor to Wikipedia for
more than 8 years, building capacity for new editors, nurturing, and
helping new editors to grow in Nigeria.
I co-founded the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, (now a charitable
organization in Nigeria) to support volunteers and continue to provide both
technical and administrative support for the volunteers.
During the peak of the COVID-19, Isaac led an initiative in partnership
with the Moleskine Foundation to create Wikipedia articles relating to
COVID-19 in local languages and produced a video in Yorùbà language to
educate the people with little or no education on how to avoid being
infected with COVID-19 and to highlight how Wikipedia is helping to fight
the pandemic. The video featured notable film actors in Nigeria.
I was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in
2020.
Having realized that millions of articles on Wikipedia are lacking photos
to illustrate them, I launched an international campaign called "Wikipedia
Pages Wanting Photos Campaign" in 2020 to engage volunteers during the
COVID-19 pandemic by encouraging Wikipedia editors across the world to add
images from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia articles.
In 2021, I co-lead an initiative to document and preserve Nigerian
languages that are not written or thought in Schools. More than 50
audiovisuals were created in the first stage.
I am a sysop on the Yoruba Wikipedia, a member of the Wiki Indaba Steering
Committee (WISCOM), and a former member of the Individual Engagement Grant
Committee and Project Grant Committee.
I am from an underrepresented community and one of the questions that often
come to my mind is "why are Africans not always included in leadership
roles within the movement?" WMF does a better job of including Africans but
it's often very difficult. Perhaps we usually do not make input on policy
discussions or participle in related discussions. Africans are part of the
movement, we should strive to participate in decision-making discussions as
much as possible. The Wikimedia movement is growing at a very fast rate and
leadership development is pivotal to our mission. This is my intrinsic
motivation for joining the leadership working group.
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Goodness Ignatius (Olugold <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Olugold>
)
My name is Goodness Ignatius (she/her) from Nigeria and my username across
all wikis is Olugold. I'm a member of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group
(IWUG). I am glad to be a part of this group and I'm here to collaborate
with other team members to support the group's mission.
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Iván Martínez (ProtoplasmaKid
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ProtoplasmaKid>)
I'm Ivan (User:ProtoplasmaKid), from Mexico, Wikimedian more than a decade
ago and Spanish Wikipedia editor since 2006 and admin since 2016. Former
2021 BoT candidate. Human Rights Defender and Activist. I would love to be
able to contribute to a better movement with shared knowledge in order to
enrich what we collectively know about leadership.
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Rocío Consales (La_Mantis
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuaria:La_Mantis>)
I am Rocío Consales and I have been participating in different instances of
the Wikimedia movement for more than 17 years. I was director, vice
president and president of the board of Wikimedia Chile.
I joined the working group to contribute from my experience with the
various lessons I have learned over the years.
I have a degree in Philosophy from the University of Chile and a Master's
Degree in Publishing (Publisher) from the Pompeu Fabra University from 2020
to 2021. I am a publisher, specialized in small format books. I currently
live in Luxembourg.
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Donia Domiaty (دنيا
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7>)
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren
Bennis. In any community, if we are ambitious to develop it, I think the
first step is to build leaders!
This is Donia Domiaty. an Egyptian medical student. I joined Arabic
Wikipedia for the first time in February 2019. By the end of 2019, I had
created more than 100 articles; more of them were in medicine. I
participated in the virtual Wikimania 2021 by 2 sessions; one of them was a
solo session. I am a member of many user groups, a winner of many
competitions, and an organizer of many edit-a-thons and photo competitions
whether local in Egypt or throughout the whole Arabic community.
Despite being a 21-year-old medical student, I have 3-year-experience of
leading groups, inside and outside wikiprojects.
For what is inside wiki projects, I founded and managed Wikipedian Editor
Project, a project that reaches all Arab countries through online workshops
and edit-a-thons to encourage more volunteers to participate and edit on
Arabic Wikipedia and learn more about sister projects, during the previous
2 years, I led my project and tried to make some participants leaders for
initiatives and events related to the project. On the other side, in many
communities other than the Wikimedia community, I was nominated to be head
of HR in many projects inside or outside my university. Being an HR manager
for a long time made me deal with many leaders in many fields, which helped
me improve my leadership and negotiation skills this is what inspired me
that Leadership is an acquired skill and anyone can acquire it by working
on themselves.
A leader has good communication skills, inspiration, creativity,
decision-making skills, and many other skills. And we need Leader
characters in all Wikimedia communities.
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Nada Alfarra (Nada kareem22
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nada_kareem22>)
I am Nada Alfarra, I am an intern doctor from Palestine. I am a member of
Wikimedia Levant. Being a member of such active group enhances my eagerness
to upgrade my leadership skills and experience. I have organized workshops
to document Levantine authors' works on Arabic Wikipedia and co-organized
an online Interwiki Women Collaboration 2020 workshop. I have also guided
few newcomers in Wikimedia Levant to members to use Photoshop for editing
photos and uploading to Wikimedia Commons. This is the outcome of my
experience as an online project coordinator for a project to enrich the
digital Arabic content for children with 100 stories translated from
English to Arabic. I am a long-life learner and I believe that Leadership
Development Working Group will guide my journey to influence people to be
more proactive, cooperative and decision makers and this group will connect
me with mutual minds where I can learn better and have our collective
endeavors be more effective.
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Gnangarra <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra>
Wikimedian since 2006, creator of Commons Quality Images and what has been
adopted as basic image requirements. Admin on Commons, retired in good
standing as an admin on en.Wikipedia after 13 years service. Two years as
President of Wikimedia Australia, and 4 as Vice President. Various terms on
VRT, part of the development of ESEAP and COT for the cancelled 2020
Wikimania, then on the COT for Wikimania 2021 created the scholarship
process for that. Lead the development of Nyungar Wikipedia, ran multiple
workshops given many talks including to on National Radio and Television
shows. My goal now is to pass on my knowledge, encourage new leaders to
step up and take the movement into the future.
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Imelda Brazal (brazal.dang
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brazal.dang>)
Hi! I am Imelda, a volunteer Wikimedian from the Philippines. I joined this
group to be able to share my experiences, both as an organizer and editor
of different Wikiprojects, in developing a shared understanding of what
leadership is and how we can leverage this shared definition to improve
editing and organizing experience of every volunteer around the Movement,
especially of those communities around the East and Southeast Asian
countries.
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Jan Lukas Hobrock (Jan Lukas Hobrock
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Jan_Lukas_Hobrock>)
Hi everyone, my name's Jan! I live in Germany, where I currently study
Biochemistry. I have been a soft skills trainer for a couple of student
NGOs for a little over a year; right now, I'm aiming at professionalising
this hobby of mine and get some of my ideas implemented. So when I read
about the Leadership Development working group, I immediately applied as I
see huge potential in leadership training for the movement. I'm excited to
start developing thoughts about the way the we might provide capacity
building.
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Dmitry Erokhin (Erokhin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Erokhin>)
Erokhin has been a member of the Wikimedia Movement for over 12 years. He
was a member of Wikimedia Russia for 5 years. As one of the members of
Wikimedia RU, I have organized and conducted several wiki expeditions and
wiki tours in Russia and other countries. I have interacted with different
bodies of state power, local government, commercial and non-commercial
organizations, and private persons to transfer their resources to free
licenses, and increase their integration into Wikipedia. First and
foremost, I work on Wikimedia projects in Russian, and in languages of the
peoples of Russia and the former Soviet Union. There is a desire and time
to develop the Wikimedia movement in North Asia and Central Asia, and the
rest will follow. I am motivated by the opportunity to improve and develop
my skills and competencies for better participation in the Wikimedia
Movement, to be more useful and more effective to the community and the
Wikimedia Foundation.
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Nitesh Gill (Nitesh Gill
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nitesh_Gill>)
I am Nitesh and my user name is Nitesh Gill. I belong to Punjab, India. I
am pursuing my PhD in Punjabi Literature. I am active editor of Punjabi
Wikipedia since 2015. I am a contact person of Punjabi Wikimedians User
Group and admin on Punjabi Wikipedia. I have participated and conducted
many activities. I am also leading and coordinating a few projects in
volunteer capacity. Nowadays, I am trying to focus that others who are long
time Wikimedians come forward and take a lead on their own. The same thing
I am doing in my community. When I came to know about this working group I
read about it and I want to be becoming a part of it. The group has
potential to encourage people to take initiative for their own communities
or people. I believe I will be play a good part in this group.
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M. Rafiul Bahar Rafi (Mrb Rafi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mrb_Rafi>)
From the experience of several years of fieldwork in the Wikimedia Movement
in South Asia, I can feel the urge to unify the process of creating and
nurturing leadership in the movement. This is very much needed to secure
the sustainability of the movement; especially for the underrepresented
communities, this can be a game-changer. The process of leadership
development may vary due to the social and geographical context of any
target Wikimedia community, I’m very much interested to learn about
different Wikimedia communities from all over the world and working with
them closely to identify the scopes and processes to develop leadership
there and for the same reason, I considered joining the Leadership
Development Working Group.
A big welcome to the members of the Leadership Development Working Group!
The members of the group will have a 1-year term and begin meeting at the
end of May 2022. The group will be supported by a facilitator, Jyotsna Sara
George <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JGeorge-WMF>, who will work
closely with the group to support their collaboration and process. We look
forward to sharing more information once the group begins their work
together!
Sincerely,
Community Development Team
[1] The 8 regions are: Middle East and North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa;
East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP); South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation (SAARC); Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Central
Asia; Northern and Western Europe; United States and Canada; Latin America
(LATAM) and the Caribbean
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] *Wikimedia Community User Group* *Rwanda *[2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. The group aims to improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project
websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally in
Kinyarwanda & English. They also invest in projects that sensitize and
train different communities in Rwanda about Wikipedia with much emphasis on
Kinyarwanda Wikipedia*.*
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda
Regards,
*Camelia Boban*
*Chair*
*Affiliation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>*
Hi everyone,
Communication with app users was mentioned in a conversation on this list
just a couple of days ago. The team behind the Wikipedia app for iOS are
working on the talk pages in the app. If you want to help them with that
work, you can take this survey:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GBcHczQGLbQWTY
The survey is available in English, German, Hebrew and Chinese.
Regards,
//Johan Jönsson
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Hello everyone,
The Community Development team will be leading its second community call on May
25th, 2022 @ 15:00 UTC - 16:30 UTC on zoom <https://zoom.us/>.
You can join the call on the scheduled date and time here
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81408843170?pwd=OVcwblBrQjR6WXpNVFNmZHJYWEFadz09>
.
This will be our second community call! Read the first community call
please visit our meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/Community_Calls#Commu…>.
The Community Development team would like to provide the opportunity for
volunteers who are interested in presenting their current work
related to capacity
building. The allotted time for speakers is 5-10 minutes each.
What is expected in the call?
We invite presenters to share about past/current projects/ programs or
training that have taken place or are currently happening in their
community.
We also invite volunteers to connect about community projects they would
like to share or need. The Community Development team would like to
encourage this call to be a safe space to share ideas, ask questions and
get to know more Wikimedians from all parts of the movement.
If you are interested in speaking at the call, please sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGFgYSlnV7wK0azqNkfP5PY6ZYw70UnhT…>.
Although the primary language of the call is English, we are committed to
providing simultaneous translation to the best of our ability. Please use
the same sign up sheet
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGFgYSlnV7wK0azqNkfP5PY6ZYw70UnhT…>
to indicate your language preference so that we can do our best to
accommodate translation support as needed.
To participate in the community call:
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Second community call: May 25, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:30 UTC on Zoom
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81408843170?pwd=OVcwblBrQjR6WXpNVFNmZHJYWEFadz09>
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Sign up
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGFgYSlnV7wK0azqNkfP5PY6ZYw70UnhT…>
to speak at the second community call. The application closes on May
18th, 2022.
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Use the sign up sheet to confirm your interest to speak on the call here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGFgYSlnV7wK0azqNkfP5PY6ZYw70UnhT…>
.
We are excited to see and hear from you in our call! If you have any
questions, please feel free to email the Community Development team at
comdevteam(a)wikimedia.org.
Thank you,
The Community Development team
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Thanks Bobby and Douglas for your interest. Sorry, I missed the time in my
earlier email, the details for the office hour are as follows:
*Event: AKI Office Hour*
*Date: 4th May 2022*
*Time: 3:00pm to 4:00pm GMT+00*
*Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87653338679
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87653338679>*
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
Warmest regards,
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:04 PM Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks Felix. I would love to attend. What time on 4 May 2022 will the
> open office hour take place? I seem to have missed that bit.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas.
>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 12:42, Bobby Shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for sharing this Felix,
>>
>> Our chapter is definitely getting involved and we shall see you at the 4
>> May meeting.
>>
>> Best,
>> Bobby Shabangu
>>
>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 11:57, Felix Nartey <fnartey(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> More than 1 billion people live on the continent of Africa but just
>>> about 27 thousand Africans contribute to the African story on Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> Are you ready to help put back the African narrative in the hands of its
>>> people?
>>>
>>> The partnership & community programs team at the WMF is forming a
>>> partnership with the African Union to encourage content creation from the
>>> continent. The project seeks to empower Wikimedia communities on the
>>> continent by creating access to the network and the resources of the AU.
>>>
>>> You can read more about the project in our recently published diff post
>>> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/21/setting-our-sights-on-knowledge-equit…>.[1]
>>> Please do not hesitate to contact us via campaigns(a)wikimedia.org if you
>>> have further questions or join us at the AKI office hour on 4 May 2022
>>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87653338679&sa=D&s…>
>>> to meet partner institutions, engage and contribute to making this
>>> storytelling project a success! [2]
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> [1] -
>>> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/21/setting-our-sights-on-knowledge-equit…
>>> [2] - https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87653338679
>>> --
>>>
>>> Felix Nartey
>>>
>>> Senior Program Officer, Campaigns
>>>
>>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
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