Hi Tristan, Thank you for sharing this with us. If the talk will be recorded, I'd appreciate it if you share a link with us after the session when it becomes available.
Looking forward to learning more. :) Leila On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 2:23 AM Tristan Miller <tristan.mil...@ofai.at> wrote: > The Wikimedia Foundation has developed a set of ML/AI systems that have > been shaping editing behaviour on Wikipedia. How these tools have > impacted the efficiency and fairness of moderation work will be > discussed in "Balancing Open Participation and Information Quality in > Wikipedia Using Machine Learning", a talk by Benjamin Mako Hill of the > University of Washington. The talk is part of the 2023 Lecture Series of > the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence: > https://www.ofai.at/events/lectures2023 > > Members of the public are cordially invited to attend the talk via Zoom > on Wednesday, 15 February at 18:30 CET (UTC+1): > > URL: > https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282442460?pwd=NHVhQnJXOVdZTWtNcWNRQllaQWFnQT09 > Meeting ID: 842 8244 2460 > Passcode: 678868 > > Talk abstract: Peer produced information goods like free/open source > software and Wikipedia are both increasingly important and increasingly > under threat. This talk will describe how Wikipedia has sought to > balance its commitment to open editing and its desire to allow > participation from unvetted and anonymous users with its need to > maintain high information quality in its articles. I will focus on the > way that a set of ML/AI systems developed by the Wikimedia Foundation > allow scholars to measure the value of contributions from anonymous > users and the surprising way that these systems can also be used by the > Wikipedia community to shape editing behavior. I will argue that use of > these ML/AI systems can both improve the efficiency of moderation work > while also making moderation actions more fair to anonymous contributors > who are the source of substantial vandalism by reducing reliance on > social signals and making norm violations by everyone else more visible. > > Speaker biography: Benjamin Mako Hill is an Associate Professor in the > University of Washington Department of Communication and an Adjunct > Associate Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design & > Engineering, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, > and the Information School. He is a member of Community Data Science > Collective which he founded with Aaron Shaw. At UW, he is also Affiliate > Faculty in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the > eScience Institute, and the "Design Use Build" (DUB) group that supports > research on on human computer interaction. He is also a Faculty > Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at > Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative > Social Science at Harvard. > > -- > Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist > Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) > Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12 > https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/ > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
