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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 20, 2019 at 9:30 AM PST, 17:30 UTC
by Leila Zia 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Hi all, I'd like to bring the following event to your attention as in the second part of it (starting at 10:00 PST - 18:00 UTC on 2019-11-20) Isaac Johnson from Wikimedia Foundation's Research team will present the results of the latest Wikipedia readership research across 13 languages. A part of this research has focused on understanding the demographics of Wikipedia readers (age, gender, education, rural/urban, native language). I hope that you can attend the event, and if you can't, no worries: you can always watch it after the event using the streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIko_V1k09s . Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:23 PM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 20, 2019 at 9:30 AM PST, 17:30 UTC To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation from Martin Potthast of Leipzig University on text reuse in Wikipedia and other presentation from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Isaac Johnson on the demographics and interests of Wikipedia’s readers. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIko_V1k09s As usual, 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: Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without By Martin Potthast, Leipzig University We study text reuse related to Wikipedia at scale by compiling the first corpus of text reuse cases within Wikipedia as well as without (i.e., reuse of Wikipedia text in a sample of the Common Crawl). To discover reuse beyond verbatim copy and paste, we employ state-of-the-art text reuse detection technology, scaling it for the first time to process the entire Wikipedia as part of a distributed retrieval pipeline. We further report on a pilot analysis of the 100 million reuse cases inside, and the 1.6 million reuse cases outside Wikipedia that we discovered. Text reuse inside Wikipedia gives rise to new tasks such as article template induction, fixing quality flaws, or complementing Wikipedia’s ontology. Text reuse outside Wikipedia yields a tangible metric for the emerging field of quantifying Wikipedia’s influence on the web. To foster future research into these tasks, and for reproducibility’s sake, the Wikipedia text reuse corpus and the retrieval pipeline are made freely available. Paper <https://webis.de/publications.html#?q=wikipedia%20ecir%202019>, Demo <https://demo.webis.de/wikipedia-text-reuse/> Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Demographics and Interests By Isaac Johnson, Wikimedia Foundation Building on two past surveys on the motivation and needs of Wikipedia readers (Why We Read Wikipedia <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2016>; Why the World Reads Wikipedia <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018>), we examine the relationship between Wikipedia reader demographics and their interests and needs. Specifically, we run surveys in thirteen different languages that ask readers three questions about their motivation for reading Wikipedia (motivation, needs, and familiarity) and five questions about their demographics (age, gender, education, locale, and native language). We link these survey results with the respondents' reading sessions -- i.e. sequence of Wikipedia page views -- to gain a more fine-grained understanding of how a reader's context relates to their activity on Wikipedia. We find that readers have a diversity of backgrounds but that the high-level needs of readers do not correlate strongly with individual demographics. We also find, however, that there are relationships between demographics and specific topic interests that are consistent across many cultures and languages. This work provides insights into the reach of various Wikipedia language editions and the relationship between content or contributor gaps and reader gaps. See the meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…> for more details. -- Janna Layton (she, her) Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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Pre Survey - WikiWomen Camp 2020
by Anna Torres 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Dear Women Wikimedians, As per our brief conversation online and during Wiki Women Lunch at Wikimania Stockholm, we shared the idea of having WikiWomen Camp 2020. I don't have words to express my gratitude for all the support, interest and encouragement. I am delighted to share with you all that we (Me and some fellow wikimedians who have been guiding me since Wikimedia Summit 2019) wish to start the formal discussions around the camp. As first step of planning, I am hereby sharing the Pre-event survey link <https://forms.gle/PaS6jNuv4UdTbhTH7> with all of you for your suggestions and inputs. This will help us understand the needs and expectations from the event. You are also requested to share this with all the women in your group so that we can reach out to majority of women in the movement. Thanks and Regards, Manavpreet Kaur Member, Affiliations Committee Wikimedia Foundation

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Brainstorming for next WikiWomenCamp in India
by Netha Hussain 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

Dear all, Manavpreet Kaur (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Manavpreet_Kaur), a long time Wikimedian from India and I had a conversation yesterday. Manavpreet is planning to bring the next WikiWomenCamp to India. She has previously helped organize several conferences and meetups, including WikiConference India 2016. I am writing to this list because Manavpreet asked me to put her in touch with others who will be interested in the planning/brainstorming process. If you are interested, you can write directly to Manavpreet on dr.manavpreetkaur(a)gmail.com. She is not on this mailing list. Regards Netha -- Netha Hussain Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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Interview for New York Times
by camelia boban 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hi ladies. In the last weeks some of us, men and women from the Wikimedia movement had various discussions (on email and by phone) with Julia Jacobs from the New York Times about the harassment phenomenon in Wikipedia. We tell her about our experiences, about WMF's engagement and talk about the block filters that the Harassment team is working on. This is the article, feel free to share it: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/wikipedia-harassment-wikimedia-founda… . Thank you, Camelia

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[Virtual Community Event] Gender Equity Report -- Oct 9th at 1555 UTC
by Alex Wang 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hello WikiWomen! *What are the most pressing issues currently facing the Wikimedia movement with respect to advancing gender equity? What strategies are effective for closing the gender gap in content and contributors? What work has already been done?Join us for a community presentation on October 9 to hear how 65 prominent leaders of gender equity projects responded to these and other questions. We'll discuss highlights from the recently published report, Advancing Gender Equity: Conversations with movement leaders <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018>, share ways that you can support gender equity projects in your communities, and have space for discussion. For an overview of the project, check out the recent blog post <https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/09/21/advancing-gender-equity-conversa…>!Event logistics - Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2018- Time: 1555-1700 UTC <http://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2018-10-09/15:55/Advancing%20gender%20equity…> (please join 5 minutes before the hour to allow for troubleshooting technical issues)- Information about joining the event, along with discussion questions, are posted here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018/Virtual_community… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018/Virtual_community…>* Hope to see you there! Alex & Marti -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>

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Movement strategy: Working group applications are open!
by Anna Torres 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Dear all, Hope this email finds you well. I am reaching out to you this time to share with you (I am sure most of you know this information in advance) that the applications to be part of the Working Groups for the movement strategy are open! Would be great if many of us take part of the discussions. As you might know we have a new strategic direction and during the next months and through these different groups we will discuss and define recommendations for the movement! To understand better what does it mean to participate, you can find more information here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…> To apply, you can do it here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…> . Any question I can help! This process is leaded by Nicole Ebber and Kaarel Vaidla and of couse I can contact with them if needed! Hope to hearing from you! Hugs! -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*

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WikiWomen meetup next steps
by Anna Torres 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Dear all, Hope this email finds you all well! :) During WMCON we had a meeting where many ideas came out! We have summarized here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Thematic,_regiona…> ! In the pages you will find three different working groups that we are trying to set up to continue working to address the diversity issue within the movement! We would like to invite you to participate!! Any question, do not hesitate in asking! Hope to see many of you in Wikimania!! Hugs! -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*

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Join us in Wikimedia Conference meetup!
by Anna Torres 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Dear all, Hope this email finds you well. As WMCON is around the corner and some of us will be there (hopefully lot of us) we have planned a meetup to continue working together. In order to organize the meeting, would be great if you add yout name on the following page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Thematic,_regiona…>, where you can also find the tentative agenda. Please feel free to edit it too! Hope to see many of you asap! Hugs -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*

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Maybe, never its too late :)
by Anna Torres 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Dear all, First of all, apologies as I am reaching to you very late. As you know I am also de ED of Wikimedia Argentina and post Wikimania we had the FDC process and a site visit...and after that "life pendings" that were also important. However and also knowing that some of you were in Stockholm I wanted to send you this pending email with some comments on "how to move on" that we talked about it back in Wikimania. The main points we talked were: * We all agreed that was great meeting us and that would be great to do it more often. However WMF told us that there are not funds to replicate a WWC every year. Maybe a great option can be "a pre-conference" format before WIkimania (that was how North-America Conference happened ¿?) * We analyzed the results of the survey. I want you all to know that I worked closely with Sara and share with her your comments in order to improve/do better some issues at the the Diversity Conference. * @Moriel proposed to create different local support-networks to help us out during 2018 and see if a system like this may work for us? Please Moriel, can you explain it better ? * Any of you attending to Diversity Conference. Any idea/project you feel we could all work together? *Any other idea we can work as a network this year? Would it help to organize a hangout? Thanks again and sorry for this late email! Hugs! -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*

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Diversity WMCON
by Anna Torres 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Hello all! Hope this email finds you all well :) First of all, happy new year 2018! Hopefully we will build a more inclusive and diverse movement in 2018! In this sense and as a lot of us are meeting again in Berlin I was thinking in organizing something bigger than a lunch in Berlin. Would it make sense for you? I was thinking that maybe we can work on putting together a calendar of events and activities and work on a common strategy also to help the phase 2 of the WMF strategy. Let me know who would be interested and I plan it! -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*

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