Good morning/afternoon/night everyone,
If you are an editor of the French, Italian or English Wikipedia, and you
are curious about how to contribute to technologies for improving
verifiability of Wikipedia articles, please read on—we need your help!
In the context of the Knowledge integrity
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Integrity> program, we (the
WMF Research
team <http://research.wikimedia.org>) are studying ways to flag unsourced
statements needing a citation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>
using machine learning, with the aim of identifying areas where adding high
quality citations is particularly urgent or important. Following the
success of the first labeling campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>,
we now need to collect additional, high-quality labeled data regarding
why sentences
need citations.
You are invited to participate in a second annotation task
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.
We used your input from the last experiment to generate a taxonomy of
reasons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>
why editors add citations. With this taxonomy now embedded in the
interface, the annotation experience will be much faster and fun.
If you are interested in participating, please go to
http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/ (replace enwiki with itwki or frwiki
if you speak Italian or French), login, and from *'**Labeling Unsourced
Statements II’**,* request one (or more) workset. For each task in a
workset, the tool will show you an unsourced sentence in an article and ask
you to annotate it. You can then label the sentence as needing an inline
citation or not, and specify a reason for your choice from a drop-down
menu. If you can't respond please select 'skip'. You can also sign up by
(optionally) adding your name on this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>
to receive updates about future campaigns and results from this research
If you have any question/comment on this project, please let us know by
contacting miriam(a)wikimedia.org or leaving a message on the talk page of
the project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Identification_of_Unsourced_S…>.
Thank you for your time!
Miriam and Dario
*Hey everybody,If you are an editor of the French, Italian or English
Wikipedia interested to contribute in building technologies for improving
missing citation detection in Wikipedia articles, please read on.As part of
our current work on verifiability
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Integrity>, the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Research team <http://research.wikimedia.org> is studying ways
to use machine learning to flag unsourced statements needing a citation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.
If successful, this project will allow us to identify areas where
identifying high quality citations is particularly urgent or important.To
help with this project, we need to collect high-quality labeled data
regarding individual sentences: whether they need citations, and why. We
created a tool for this purpose and we would like to invite you to
participate in a pilot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.
The annotation task should be fun, short, and straightforward for
experienced Wikipedia editors.If you are interested in participating,
please proceed as follows: - Sign-up by (optionally) adding your name in
the sign-up page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…>.-
Go to http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/
<http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/>, login, and from 'Labeling
Unsourced Statements’, request one (or more) workset. Each workset takes
maximum 5 minutes to complete and contains 5 tasks. There is no minimum
number of worksets, but of course the more labels you provide, the better.-
For each task in a workset, the tool will show you an unsourced sentence in
an article and ask you to annotate it. You can then label the sentence as
needing an inline citation or not, and specify a reason for your choices. -
If you can't respond, please select 'skip'. If you can respond but you are
not 100% sure about your choice, please select 'Unsure'.If you have any
question/comment, please let us know by sending an email to
miriam(a)wikimedia.org <miriam(a)wikimedia.org> or leaving a message on the
talk page of the project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Identification_of_Unsourced_S…>.
We canrelatively easily adapt the tool if something needs to be
changed.Thank you for your time!Miriam and Dario*
Hey all,
We’re sharing a proposed program for the Wikimedia Foundation’s upcoming
fiscal year and would love to hear from you. This plan builds extensively
on projects and initiatives driven by volunteer contributors and
organizations in the Wikimedia movement, so your input is critical.
Why a “knowledge integrity” program?
Increased global attention is directed at the problem of misinformation and
how media consumers are struggling to distinguish fact from fiction.
Meanwhile, thanks to the sources they cite, Wikimedia projects are uniquely
positioned as a reliable gateway to accessing quality information in the
broader knowledge ecosystem. How can we mobilize these citations as a
resource and turn them into a broader, linked infrastructure of trust to
serve the entire internet? Free knowledge grounds itself in verifiability
and transparent attribution policies. Let’s look at 4 data points as
motivating stories:
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Wikipedia sends tens of millions of people to external sources each
year. We want to conduct research to understand why and how readers leave
our site.
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The Internet Archive has fixed over 4 million dead links on Wikipedia.
We want to enable instantaneous archiving of every link on all Wikipedias
to ensure the long-term preservation of the sources Wikipedians cite.
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#1Lib1Ref reaches 6 million people on social media. We want to bring
#1Lib1Ref to Wikidata and more languages, spreading the message that
references improve quality.
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33% of Wikidata items represent sources (journals, books, works). We
want to strengthen community efforts to build a high-quality, collaborative
database of all cited and citable sources.
A 5-year vision
Our 5-year vision for the Knowledge Integrity program is to establish Wikimedia
as the hub of a federated, trusted knowledge ecosystem. We plan to get
there by creating:
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A roadmap to a mature, technically and socially scalable, central
repository of sources.
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Developed network of partners and technical collaborators to contribute
to and reuse data about citations.
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Increased public awareness of Wikimedia’s vital role in information
literacy and fact-checking.
5 directions for 2018-2019
We have identified 5 levers of Knowledge Integrity: research,
infrastructure and tooling, access and preservation, outreach, and
awareness. Here’s what we want to do with each:
1.
Continue to conduct research to understand how readers access sources
and how to help contributors improve citation quality.
2.
Improve tools for linking information to external sources, catalogs, and
repositories.
3.
Ensure resources cited across Wikimedia projects are accessible in
perpetuity.
4.
Grow outreach and partnerships to scale community and technical efforts
to improve the structure and quality of citations.
5.
Increase public awareness of the processes Wikimedians follow to verify
information and articulate a collective vision for a trustable web.
Who is involved?
The core teams involved in this proposal are:
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Wikimedia Foundation Technology’s Research Team
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Wikimedia Foundation Community Engagement’s Programs team (Wikipedia
Library)
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Wikimedia Deutschland Engineering’s Wikidata team
The initiative also spans across an ecosystem of possible partners
including the Internet Archive, ContentMine, Crossref, OCLC, OpenCitations,
and Zotero. It is further made possible by funders including the Sloan,
Gordon and Betty Moore, and Simons Foundations who have been supporting the
WikiCite initiative to date.
How you can participate
You can read the fine details of our proposed year-1 plan on Meta:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/CDP…
We’ve created a brief introductory slidedeck about our motivation and goals:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_Integrity_CDP_proposal_%E…
WikiCite has laid the groundwork for many of these efforts. Read last
year’s report:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2017_report.pdf
Recent initiatives like the just released citation dataset foreshadow the
work we want to do:
https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/what-are-the-ten…
This April we’re celebrating Open Citations Month; it’s right in the spirit
of Knowledge Integrity:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/02/initiative-for-open-citations-birthda…
Cheers! Jake Orlowitz
Wikipedia Library
*Hello 1Lib1Ref Organizers,#1Lib1Ref, the annual campaign where librarians
add references to improve Wikipedia, is coming back again this year,
running from May 15th to June 5th, 2018. Why twice? We heard from you a
desire to run it again out of excitement, because May is not summer
vacation for the southern hemisphere, and because Spanish Wikipedia's
birthday also falls in May. This is a great expansion of the event and it
means that there is another opportunity to make Wikipedia more factual and
verifiable by leveraging the expertise of librarians around the world. How
does this relate to the main campaign in January? We encourage librarians,
community members, and affiliates to make 1Lib1Ref their own. So whether
we call this 1Lib1Ref May, 1Lib1Ref for the Southern Hemisphere, or
1Lib1Ref Strikes Back, the point is the excitement is building again, and
we'd like you to be a part of it.If I participated in January, do I have to
do it again in May? It's entirely up to you, this is just another chance
if you want to do more, or if you couldn't get around to January
activities. This is a pilot for us, too, so we'll see how it goes and
discuss what we learned after the May campaign.How can you get involved? -
See updated dates and details at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>- See the
Spanish Wikipedia campaign page for 1bib1ref at
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:1bib1ref_2018
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:1bib1ref_2018>Helpful multimedia
(logos, videos, flyers, stickers) at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1lib1ref
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1lib1ref> *
Cheers,
--
*Felix Nartey*
*Global Coordinator*
*The Wikipedia Library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>*
*Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
*fnartey(a)wikimedia.org <fnartey(a)wikimedia.org>*
*+233242844987 <+233%2024%20284%204987> | **+447452508504*
*Skype:Flixtey*
Hi everyone!
As promised by the Wikipedia Library <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TWL>
team at the inception of the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WLUG>, we are conducting an *open-election
for the steering committee* with 5 to 8 positions.
Nominations are open now and will remain open until the *9th*. If you are
interested in being a part of this committee, you can nominate yourself
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Library_User_Group/Steering_commi…>!
This position should attract Wikipedians and librarians with dedication and
time to lead the user group in its first year.
The elections will happen following the nominations phase starting from *10
January 2018 to 23 January 2018*. Please forward your queries to
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org, and for private correspondence, please get
in touch with one of the founding members
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Library_User_Group/Contact_list>.
And finally, wishing you a prosperous and happy new year on behalf of the
user group founding members!
On behalf of the user group founding members,
Aaron (UY Scuti)
Dear Users,
I have the great honour to inform you that the Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is now open. WikiIndaba 2018 is the 3rd conference of African Wikimedia movement and will give to participants the opportunity to share their Wikimedia-related experience and skills with a wide and active African Wikimedia audience. The conference will be held in Tunisia from 16 to 18 March 2018. If you want to participate to WikiIndaba and share your works and thoughts with African Wikimedians, feel free to submit your proposal in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for giving proposals will be January 15th, 2018.
If you need a scholarship to attend WikiIndaba 2018, you can apply to it in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJJ2I0FBqp4SuiW5ypj-9lnLaAidUmhMs….
Looking forward to seeing you in Tunis next March.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Felix Nartey
Isla Haddow-Flood