Dear all,
I hope this message finds you in good health and spirits. It brings me
great pleasure to share with you the first Annual Activity Report of the
Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group.
The report can be accessed here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Wikimedians_User_Group/Annual_Repo…
Please take a moment to review the report and feel free to reach out if you
have any questions or feedback.
Best regards,
Iflaq
(Lead Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group)
Hi Everyone,
We are inspired by the fun activities led by communities and organizers in
the 2023 edition of the WikiForHumanRights Campaign. Every contribution did
count and we truly appreciate your participation. We see the value of our
collective effort in bridging the knowledge gap on Right To A Healthy
Environment on Wikimedia Projects. And we would like to learn from you how
we can co-create a more exciting experience for the future.
Please help us understand your experiences, lessons, challenges and
recommendations by participating in this 5-10 minute survey to inform the
planning of the next edition. Please click this link WikiForHumanRights
2023 Evaluation Form (google.com)
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScl-iBEdwjCjmuIJCpn4PAv-rMs7IMwtvD…>
to go to the survey.
We encourage regional coordinators, regional campaign committees, regional
advisors, organizers and individual participants who directly or indirectly
participated or supported the campaign to complete this survey. We would
appreciate your feedback on or before 24 July 2023.
Please see the survey privacy statement for more information on privacy and
data handling
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:WikiForHumanRights_2023_Campaig…
.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments via
campaigns(a)wikimedia.org
Kindly,
Euphemia
Hello everyone,
The next Research Showcase, focused on *Improving knowledge integrity in
Wikimedia projects*, will be live-streamed Wednesday, July 19, at 9:30 AM
PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1689784256>.
The event is on the WMF Staff Calendar.
YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/_8DevIsi44s?feature=share
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtube.com/live/_8DevIsi44s?feature%3…>
You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also
watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Assessment of Reference Quality on WikipediaBy *Aitolkyn Baigutanova, KAIST*In
this talk, I will present our research on the reliability of Wikipedia
through the lens of its references. I will primarily discuss our paper on
the longitudinal assessment of reference quality on English Wikipedia,
where we operationalize the notion of reference quality by defining
reference need (RN), i.e., the percentage of sentences missing a citation,
and reference risk (RR), i.e., the proportion of non-authoritative
references. I will share our research findings on two key aspects: (1) the
evolution of reference quality over a 10-year period and (2) factors that
affect reference quality. We discover that the RN score has dropped by 20
percent point, with more than half of verifiable statements now
accompanying references. The RR score has remained below 1% over the years
as a result of the efforts of the community to eliminate unreliable
references. As an extension of this work, we explore how community
initiatives, such as the perennial source list, help with maintaining
reference quality across multiple language editions of Wikipedia. We hope
our work encourages more active discussions within Wikipedia communities to
improve reference quality of the content.
- Paper: Aitolkyn Baigutanova, Jaehyeon Myung, Diego Saez-Trumper,
Ai-Jou Chou, Miriam Redi, Changwook Jung, and Meeyoung Cha. 2023.
Longitudinal Assessment of Reference Quality on Wikipedia. In Proceedings
of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW '23). Association for Computing
Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2831–2839.
<https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3543507.3583218>
Multilingual approaches to support knowledge integrity in WikipediaBy *Diego
Saez-Trumper & Pablo Aragón, Wikimedia Foundation*Knowledge integrity in
Wikipedia is key to ensure the quality and reliability of information. For
that reason, editors devote a substantial amount of their time in
patrolling tasks in order to detect low-quality or misleading content. In
this talk we will cover recent multilingual approaches to support knowledge
integrity. First, we will present a novel design of a system aimed at
assisting the Wikipedia communities in addressing vandalism. This system
was built by collecting a massive dataset of multiple languages and then
applying advanced filtering and feature engineering techniques, including
multilingual masked language modeling to build the training dataset from
human-generated data. Second, we will showcase the Wikipedia Knowledge
Integrity Risk Observatory, a dashboard that relies on a language-agnostic
version of the former system to monitor high risk content in hundreds of
Wikipedia language editions. We will conclude with a discussion of
different challenges to be addressed in future work.
- Papers:
Trokhymovych, M., Aslam, M., Chou, A. J., Baeza-Yates, R., & Saez-Trumper,
D. (2023). Fair multilingual vandalism detection system for Wikipedia.
arXiv e-prints, arXiv-2306. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.01650.pdfAragón, P.,
& Sáez-Trumper, D. (2021). A preliminary approach to knowledge integrity
risk assessment in Wikipedia projects. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15940.
Best,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Senior Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedia colleagues,
I'm pleased to submit the 2022 annual report for the North Carolina
Wikipedians User Group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2022
Last year was a successful one for us, including our first-ever statewide
photo upload campaign, which yielded 564 new photos on Commons, and
coverage by the newspaper of record for Raleigh, North Carolina (the
state's largest newspaper by circulation).
Cheers,
Emily
Hello all,
Wikisource Community User Group is planning to organize Wikisource
Conference in 2024. We need to condact an engagement survey to apply for
grant to Wikimedia Foundation, and your respones will help us too to build
our conference and program.
Whether you are Wikisource community member or no, please give us your
feedback by filling this survey no later than July 20 and please spread the
survey among your communitiesand your local channels.
Link to the survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hsy-e6CmwYxzSR16CvxTn51DxTbkkcJqEBqOWgIhTG…
Kind regards,
NANöR (On behalf of Initial Organizing Team).
Hi everyone,
Please find the full program for Wikimania 2023 on the Wikimania Wiki
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program>.
In the coming weeks we will be sharing more about the side events happening
before and after the core conference days.
Don’t forget to register for Wikimania 2023 <http://wikimania.eventyay.com>
to join us.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Event Lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Chair, Program Subcommittee
Dear everyone,
As presented at last year's WikidataCon
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VxTlBNkyk>, Wikimedia Deutschland has
set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software
development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s
scalability and robustness and breathe life into our movement principles of
knowledge equity. With a grant from Arcadia
<https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>, a charitable fund administered by Lisbet
Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we will be able to implement such a
collaboration in the next two years.
Today, we are happy to share an exciting update on the progress of this
project with all of you. After spending the last few months with
conversations with the movement groups who were interested in joining such
a partnership, we have now reached a point where we can spread the news
about the future partners and projects that will shape this Wikidata
software collaboration.
Wikimedia Indonesia, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia
Deutschland will be joining forces to advance the technical capacities of
the movement around Wikidata development and with this, make the software
and tools more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of
the Global South and speakers of minority languages.
Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia
and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth,
development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages
spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the
development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12
regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two
Wikimedia project-based communities.
For this project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia
Indonesia wants to build up a software team of their own in the course of
the next 2 years. The tools will hopefully help under-resourced language
communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online
through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language
communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata.
Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working on
various wiki projects related to Igbo language
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language> and culture. The user group
is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo community,
content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has
established its own Wikidata hub in 2021.
The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa
<https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa> is aiming at
building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by
mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia
Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their
project and mentoring program.
Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association
and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support
communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia
projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the
political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in
general.
Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development of
Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of
volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and
more has formed around Wikidata.
Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of
those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy
to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams,
software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata
community and providing support for emerging tech communities.
If you want to find out more about the partnership, you can read up on this
on our project page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata>,
where we will keep updating the community on the progress of this
collaboration. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please
use the talk page there to get in contact with us.
We are all excited to see those collaborations coming to life!
With kind regards,
Igbo Wikimedians User Group
Wikimedia Indonesia
Wikimedia Deutschland
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Maria Heuschkel
Projektmanagerin
Softwareentwicklung
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit
teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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Dear Community Members,
We hope this email finds you well and filled with anticipation! We are thrilled to inform you that the time has finally come to unveil the highly anticipated results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2023.
After an overwhelming response from talented photographers and enthusiastic participants from all corners of the globe, our esteemed panel of judges has meticulously reviewed each submission, taking into account their cultural significance, artistic excellence, and storytelling potential.
We are delighted to announce that tomorrow, 15th of July 2023, we will be declaring the winners of Wiki Loves Folklore 2023! This momentous occasion will showcase the finest folk images captured throughout the world, highlighting the diversity and beauty of various cultural traditions.
Make sure to keep an eye on our Social Media platforms exclusively unveiling the winning images. Additionally, the results will be published on Wikimedia Commons and shared across all our social media platforms.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to all participants for their incredible contributions. Each photograph has played an integral role in fostering global understanding and celebrating the rich tapestry of folklore.
So, let's join together in celebration tomorrow as we recognize and applaud the exceptional talent and the mesmerizing folklore-themed images captured by our passionate community.
Thank you once again for your support and involvement in Wiki Loves Folklore 2023. We look forward to sharing this memorable moment with you!
Warm regards,
Tiven Gonsalves.
Chief Coordinator.
On behalf of Wiki Loves Folklore International Team.
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