Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement of the Scoring Platform team

gt; > > to democratize in the sense of involving a wider range of people in the > > > decisions about how you work and what you work on – the wider Wikimedia > > > Community, for example – and if so, how will you engage with that wider > > > decision-making group? > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI

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 <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey everybody, > > TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcomi

[Wikimedia-l] Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Research showcase: Evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

Reminder, this showcase is starting in 5 minutes. See the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xle0oOFCNnk Join us on Freenode at #wikimedia-research to ask Andrei questions. -Aaron On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Dario

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Wikimedia Foundation executive transition update

Congrats Katherine! This is certainly welcome news. :) On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Victor Grigas wrote: > What a good message to wake up to! > > I'd like to politely suggest along with any decision making ahead, that > the board please leave the door open to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation & review launches today!

forward to all of the great ideas - thanks for your work on this, > Chris, and for kicking off the campaign with a few submission, Aaron. > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Anna Stillwell <astillw...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Thank you. Great work. >> /a >> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation & review launches today!

I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcomer_detection Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

o offer my admin/oversighter experience and knowledge > to > > > help > > > > you develop the labeling and such, Aaron! I just commented on > Andreas's > > > > proposal on the Community Wishlist, but to summarize here: I see a > lot > > of > > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

> > The League of Legends team collaborated with outside scientists to > analyse their dataset. I would love to see the Wikimedia Foundation engage > in a similar research project. Oh! We are! :) When we have time. :\ One of the projects that I'd like to see done, but I've struggled to find

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

RCom, as far as I know has not been active in the past year or more (last meeting was on Dec. 22, 2011). *RCom is not dead. It changed into something less formal and less hierarchical. You can still email me and Dario to get support for your research plans. We'd still reconvene the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

Hey folks, I appreciate your discussion here. However, you're unlikely to get any participation from actual wiki researchers on wikimedia-l See wiki-research-l[1], the mailing list for discussions of research. There's a thread referencing this discussion here[2]. I encourage you to continue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

not addressed any of the concerns either on your talkpage or on the other list. Thanks, Nathan On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, I appreciate your discussion here. However, you're unlikely to get any participation from actual wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

and gatekeeping, and I think others may wish for this as well. Researchers are awesome and they need support. yours, On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Nathan, I plan to address those concerns on the appropriate list. It's a public list. I'm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The first three weeks.

-30 1:52 GMT+02:00 Aaron Halfaker ahalfa...@wikimedia.org: Hi Rui, You raised a lot of questions that I think I might be able to help address. I'm a research scientist working for the WMF. My research focuses on the nature of newcomer participation, editor motivation and value

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The first three weeks.

Hi Rui, You raised a lot of questions that I think I might be able to help address. I'm a research scientist working for the WMF. My research focuses on the nature of newcomer participation, editor motivation and value production in Wikipedia. See [1] and [2] (if you have the time) for my most