[Wiki-research-l] Pagecounts since 2007 on HDFS?

2015-10-09 Thread Robert West
Hi everyone, Do we have the pagecounts data since 2007 at WMF on HDFS? I mean this data: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ I could find this: hdfs:/wmf/data/archive/pagecounts-all-sites/ but it the data spans only about 2 years, not the entire time since 2007. Thanks! Bob

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reinforcing or incentivizing desired user behavior

2015-10-05 Thread Robert West
This paper is on using badges to steer user behavior: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www13-badges.pdf On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hi all, > > Some of us plan to have a conversation at the WCONUSA unconference sessions > about ENWP culture. Are

[Wiki-research-l] Wiki Workshop @ WWW 2017: deadline extended to January 31, 3017

2017-01-25 Thread Robert West
to your submissions! If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact us at wikiworks...@googlegroups.com. Robert West, EPFL Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation Jure Leskovec, Stanford University -- Wiki Workshop 2017 Held at *WWW

[Wiki-research-l] Identifying Wikipedia stubs in various languages

2016-09-20 Thread Robert West
Hi everyone, Does anyone know if there's a straightforward (ideally language-independent) way of identifying stub articles in Wikipedia? Whatever works is ok, whether it's publicly available data or data accessible only on the WMF cluster. I've found lists for various languages (e.g., Italian

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Analytics] Identifying Wikipedia stubs in various languages

2016-09-22 Thread Robert West
on paws today. > > Best, > Giuseppe > > 2016-09-20 11:26 GMT+02:00 Robert West <w...@cs.stanford.edu>: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Does anyone know if there's a straightforward (ideally language-independent) >> way of identifying stub articles in Wikipe

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Citation Project - Comments Welcome!

2017-05-02 Thread Robert West
Hi, This looks like a great project! One quick thought: it would be extremely useful for your purposes to be able to study not only the static structure of references pointing from Wikipedia to external documents, but also how these references are used. Tracking this traffic is currently

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Citation Project - Comments Welcome!

2017-05-02 Thread Robert West
Thanks for the update, Leila -- great to see this is about to be addressed! Bob On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > + John and Lauren > > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Robert West <w...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] feedback appreciated

2017-08-28 Thread Robert West
Hi Caroline, The premise of this article seems to be that everyone needs to solve either the immediate or the distant problems. No one (and certainly not Elon Musk) would argue that there are no immediate problems with AI, but why should that keep us from thinking ahead? In a company, too, you

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: (Please Disseminate Through your Networks) Second Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, Tech4De

2017-11-28 Thread Robert West
evelopment and humanitarian action” Session leader: Robert West, DLAB, EPFL It is widely anticipated that data science in general and machine learning in particular, will revolutionize our society as a whole. Due to ever larger and more fine-grained data sets, as well as advances in computing hardware an

[Wiki-research-l] Applied Machine Learning Days, Lausanne, Jan. 27-30: Tickets now on Sale & Call for Papers

2017-11-28 Thread Robert West
t;i...@appliedmldays.org> Date: Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:30 AM Subject: [AMLD] Tickets now on Sale & Call for Papers To: Robert West <robert.w...@epfl.ch> Applied Machine Learning Days View this email in your browser <http://mailchi.mp/3c3edca004d5/amld-tickets-on-sale?e

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Second Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, Tech4Dev 2018. 27-29 June 2018, SwissTech Conventi

2017-11-17 Thread Robert West
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[Wiki-research-l] Applied Machine Learning Days, Lausanne/Switzerland, Jan. 27-30

2018-01-10 Thread Robert West
Dear all, The 2nd *Applied Machine Learning Days* are around the corner! The event will be held at the SwissTech Convention Center on the EPFL campus in *Lausanne, Switzerland,* and will span four days *(January 27-30):* two days of hands-on workshops on the weekend, and two days of conference

[Wiki-research-l] Cr5: a new model for crosslingual document representation

2019-04-09 Thread Robert West
Hi all, A quick message to point out a recent model for crosslingual document embedding that we developed. It is called Cr5 (for "Crosslingual Document Embedding as Reduced-Rank Ridge Regression") and essentially lets you take any text document in any language and represent it as a vector in a

[Wiki-research-l] Join us at Applied Machine Learning Days 2020

2019-12-18 Thread Robert West
View this email in your browser *We hope to see you

[Wiki-research-l] Call for papers: Workshop on Innovative Ideas in Data Science (IID) @ The Web Conference 2020

2019-12-26 Thread Robert West
and contact Website: http://hyadatalab.com/IID2020/ Email: iid-works...@googlegroups.com Organizing team Dafna Shahaf, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert West, EPFL Ashton Anderson, University of Toronto Jie Tang, Tsinghua University ___ Wiki-research-l

[Wiki-research-l] WikiHist.html: English Wikipedia's Full Revision History in HTML Format

2020-09-11 Thread Robert West
r more details, please refer to https://zenodo.org/record/3605388 <https://t.co/ZhK7kKaPCi?amp=1> and to the dataset paper: Blagoj Mitrevski, Tiziano Piccardi, and Robert West: WikiHist.html: English Wikipedia’s Full Revision History in HTML Format. In *Proceedings of the 14th Intern

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiHist.html: English Wikipedia's Full Revision History in HTML Format

2020-09-11 Thread Robert West
Thanks Federico. I'm cc'ing Tiziano, who has been leading this project and can chime in. All the best, Bob On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:22 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Robert West, 11/09/20 11:29: > > local instances of MediaWiki, > > enhanced with the capacity of correct h

[Wiki-research-l] New paper: "Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia Following COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions"

2020-06-04 Thread Robert West
Stay safe, everyone on this list! Bob -- Authors: Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Maxime Peyrard, Florian Lemmerich, Markus Strohmaier, Robert West Abstract: We study how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, alongside the severe mobility restrictions that e

[Wiki-research-l] Mapping between Wikidata and Google Knowledge Graph (ex-Freebase)

2020-06-11 Thread Robert West
Hi all, I was wondering what's the best way to get a mapping between Wikidata QIDs and Google Knowledge Graph (ex-Freebase) MIDs. We tried to extract the mapping from Wikidata, using the property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P646, among others, but it doesn't seem complete, with

[Wiki-research-l] Call for tutorials: The Web Conference 2021

2020-11-13 Thread Robert West
Dear all, TL;DR: Please consider submitting proposals for tutorials to be held at The Web Conference 2021: https://www2021.thewebconf.org/authors/call-for-tutorials/ Submission deadline: 30 Nov 2020 Tutorial dates: 19-23 April 2021 This year we feature a special track for interactive hands-on

[Wiki-research-l] Postdoc position on neuro-symbolic AI available at EPFL

2021-04-19 Thread Robert West
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at EPFL in Switzerland, to be hosted jointly by the Artificial Intelligence Lab <https://lia.epfl.ch/> (headed by Prof. Boi Faltings) and the Data Science Lab <https://dlab.epfl.ch/> (headed by Prof. Robert West). The position is