Hey everybody,
TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism while also making life better for newcomers.
We plan to hold this chat on June 1st at 21:00 UTC/14:00 PST in the /r/iAMA subreddit[1]. I'd love to answer any questions you have about these topics questions, and I'll send a follow-up email to this thread shortly before the AMA begins.
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For those who don't know who I am, I create artificial intelligences[2] that support the volunteers who edit Wikipedia[3]. I've been fascinated by the ways that crowds of volunteers build massive, high quality information resources like Wikipedia for over ten years.
For more background, I research and then design technologies that make it easier to spot vandalism in Wikipedia—which helps support the hundreds of thousands of editors who make productive contributions. I also think a lot about the dynamics between communities and new users—and ways to make communities inviting and welcoming to both long-time community members and newcomers who may not be aware of community norms. For a quick sampling of my work, check out my most impactful research paper about Wikipedia[3], some recent coverage of my work from *Wired*[4], or check out the master list of my projects on my WMF staff user page[5], the documentation for the technology team I run[9], or the home page for Wikimedia Research[8].
This AMA, which I'm doing with with the Foundation's Communications department, is somewhat of an experiment. The intended audience for this chat is people who might not currently be a part of our community but have questions about the way we work—as well as potential research collaborators who might want to work with our data or tools. Many may be familiar with Wikipedia but not the work we do as a community behind the scenes.
I'll be talking about the work I'm doing with the ethics of AI and how we think about artificial intelligence on Wikipedia, and ways we’re working to counteract vandalism on the world’s largest crowdsourced source of knowledge—like the ORES extension[6], which you may have seen highlighting possibly problematic edits on your watchlist and in RecentChanges.
I’d love for you to join this chat and ask questions. If you do not or prefer not to use Reddit, we will also be taking questions on ORES' MediaWiki talk page[7] and posting answers to both threads.
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES 3. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfak... 4. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-expand-the-ranks-of-h... 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF) 6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES 7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES 8. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research 9. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team
-Aaron Principal Research Scientist @ WMF User:EpochFail / User:Halfak (WMF)
The AMA is live. Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6epiid/im_the_principal_research_scie...
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfaker@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey everybody,
TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism while also making life better for newcomers.
We plan to hold this chat on June 1st at 21:00 UTC/14:00 PST in the /r/iAMA subreddit[1]. I'd love to answer any questions you have about these topics questions, and I'll send a follow-up email to this thread shortly before the AMA begins.
For those who don't know who I am, I create artificial intelligences[2] that support the volunteers who edit Wikipedia[3]. I've been fascinated by the ways that crowds of volunteers build massive, high quality information resources like Wikipedia for over ten years.
For more background, I research and then design technologies that make it easier to spot vandalism in Wikipedia—which helps support the hundreds of thousands of editors who make productive contributions. I also think a lot about the dynamics between communities and new users—and ways to make communities inviting and welcoming to both long-time community members and newcomers who may not be aware of community norms. For a quick sampling of my work, check out my most impactful research paper about Wikipedia[3], some recent coverage of my work from *Wired*[4], or check out the master list of my projects on my WMF staff user page[5], the documentation for the technology team I run[9], or the home page for Wikimedia Research[8].
This AMA, which I'm doing with with the Foundation's Communications department, is somewhat of an experiment. The intended audience for this chat is people who might not currently be a part of our community but have questions about the way we work—as well as potential research collaborators who might want to work with our data or tools. Many may be familiar with Wikipedia but not the work we do as a community behind the scenes.
I'll be talking about the work I'm doing with the ethics of AI and how we think about artificial intelligence on Wikipedia, and ways we’re working to counteract vandalism on the world’s largest crowdsourced source of knowledge—like the ORES extension[6], which you may have seen highlighting possibly problematic edits on your watchlist and in RecentChanges.
I’d love for you to join this chat and ask questions. If you do not or prefer not to use Reddit, we will also be taking questions on ORES' MediaWiki talk page[7] and posting answers to both threads.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES
- http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_
and_Decline/halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf 4. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to- expand-the-ranks-of-human-editors/ 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF) 6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES 7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES 8. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research 9. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team
-Aaron Principal Research Scientist @ WMF User:EpochFail / User:Halfak (WMF)
I'll have to read up on what i missed but I also looked at the Metrics and activites meeting from May 25th and I was wondering if its possible to ask the analytics team if they would be interested in perhaps looking into if there is any more Kaliana Effects, in any WMF project. Honestly, I think it could help volunteers such as myself on-wiki to know where we need to improve and where we've done decent work on. Not to mention its very encouraging to see the work of volunteers cause so much change in a short time period. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, either privately (at enwp.org/special:EmailUser/Zppix) or on this email (thread?).
Off-topic note: I know its 2017 I need to get up-to-date on email lingo. :P
Thanks, Zppix Volunteer Developer for WMF www.enwp.org/User:Zppix
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfaker@wikimedia.org wrote:
The AMA is live. Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6epiid/im_the_ principal_research_scientist_at_the/
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfaker@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey everybody,
TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism while also making life better for newcomers.
We plan to hold this chat on June 1st at 21:00 UTC/14:00 PST in the /r/iAMA subreddit[1]. I'd love to answer any questions you have about
these
topics questions, and I'll send a follow-up email to this thread shortly before the AMA begins.
For those who don't know who I am, I create artificial intelligences[2] that support the volunteers who edit Wikipedia[3]. I've been fascinated
by
the ways that crowds of volunteers build massive, high quality
information
resources like Wikipedia for over ten years.
For more background, I research and then design technologies that make it easier to spot vandalism in Wikipedia—which helps support the hundreds of thousands of editors who make productive contributions. I also think a
lot
about the dynamics between communities and new users—and ways to make communities inviting and welcoming to both long-time community members
and
newcomers who may not be aware of community norms. For a quick sampling
of
my work, check out my most impactful research paper about Wikipedia[3], some recent coverage of my work from *Wired*[4], or check out the master list of my projects on my WMF staff user page[5], the documentation for
the
technology team I run[9], or the home page for Wikimedia Research[8].
This AMA, which I'm doing with with the Foundation's Communications department, is somewhat of an experiment. The intended audience for this chat is people who might not currently be a part of our community but
have
questions about the way we work—as well as potential research
collaborators
who might want to work with our data or tools. Many may be familiar with Wikipedia but not the work we do as a community behind the scenes.
I'll be talking about the work I'm doing with the ethics of AI and how we think about artificial intelligence on Wikipedia, and ways we’re working
to
counteract vandalism on the world’s largest crowdsourced source of knowledge—like the ORES extension[6], which you may have seen
highlighting
possibly problematic edits on your watchlist and in RecentChanges.
I’d love for you to join this chat and ask questions. If you do not or prefer not to use Reddit, we will also be taking questions on ORES' MediaWiki talk page[7] and posting answers to both threads.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES
- http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_
and_Decline/halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf 4. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to- expand-the-ranks-of-human-editors/ 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF) 6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES 7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES 8. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research 9. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team
-Aaron Principal Research Scientist @ WMF User:EpochFail / User:Halfak (WMF)
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