Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Earlier time! September 18, 2019 at 9:30 AM PT, 16:30 UTC

2019-09-18 Thread Janna Layton 
The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 10:59 AM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> This is just a reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday,
> with Miriam Redi and Jonathan Morgan from the Foundation presenting.
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:10 PM Janna Layton 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday,
>> September 18, at 9:30 AM PT/16:30 UTC. This will be the new time going
>> forward for Research Showcases in order to give more access to other
>> timezones.
>>
>> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhAnHrkBks
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's
>> Verifiability
>>
>> By Miriam Redi, Research, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> Among Wikipedia's core guiding principles, verifiability policies have a
>> particularly important role. Verifiability requires that information
>> included in a Wikipedia article be corroborated against reliable secondary
>> sources. Because of the manual labor needed to curate and fact-check
>> Wikipedia at scale, however, its contents do not always evenly comply with
>> these policies. Citations (i.e. reference to external sources) may not
>> conform to verifiability requirements or may be missing altogether,
>> potentially weakening the reliability of specific topic areas of the free
>> encyclopedia. In this project
>> ,
>> we aimed to provide an empirical characterization of the reasons why and
>> how Wikipedia cites external sources to comply with its own verifiability
>> guidelines. First, we constructed a taxonomy of reasons why inline
>> citations are required by collecting labeled data from editors of multiple
>> Wikipedia language editions. We then collected a large-scale crowdsourced
>> dataset of Wikipedia sentences annotated with categories derived from this
>> taxonomy. Finally, we designed and evaluated algorithmic models to
>> determine if a statement requires a citation, and to predict the citation
>> reason based on our taxonomy. We evaluated the robustness of such models
>> across different classes of Wikipedia articles of varying quality, as well
>> as on an additional dataset of claims annotated for fact-checking purposes.
>>
>> Redi, M., Fetahu, B., Morgan, J., & Taraborelli, D. (2019, May). Citation
>> Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability.
>> In The World Wide Web Conference (pp. 1567-1578). ACM.
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.6
>>
>>
>> Patrolling on Wikipedia
>>
>> By Jonathan T. Morgan, Research, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> I will present initial findings from an ongoing research study
>>  of
>> patrolling workflows on Wikimedia projects. Editors patrol recent pages and
>> edits to ensure that Wikimedia projects maintains high quality as new
>> content comes in. Patrollers revert vandalism and review newly-created
>> articles and article drafts. Patrolling of new pages and edits is vital
>> work. In addition to making sure that new content conforms to Wikipedia
>> project policies, patrollers are the first line of defense against
>> disinformation, copyright infringement, libel and slander, personal
>> threats, and other forms of vandalism on Wikimedia projects. This research
>> project is focused on understanding the needs, priorities, and workflows of
>> editors who patrol new content on Wikimedia projects. The findings of this
>> research can inform the development of better patrolling tools as well as
>> non-technological interventions intended to support patrollers and the
>> activity of patrolling.
>>
>> --
>> Janna Layton (she, her)
>> Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
>>
>
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she, her)
> Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Earlier time! September 18, 2019 at 9:30 AM PT, 16:30 UTC

2019-09-16 Thread Janna Layton 
Hello everyone,

This is just a reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday,
with Miriam Redi and Jonathan Morgan from the Foundation presenting.

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:10 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, September
> 18, at 9:30 AM PT/16:30 UTC. This will be the new time going forward for
> Research Showcases in order to give more access to other timezones.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhAnHrkBks
>
> 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:
>
> Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's
> Verifiability
>
> By Miriam Redi, Research, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Among Wikipedia's core guiding principles, verifiability policies have a
> particularly important role. Verifiability requires that information
> included in a Wikipedia article be corroborated against reliable secondary
> sources. Because of the manual labor needed to curate and fact-check
> Wikipedia at scale, however, its contents do not always evenly comply with
> these policies. Citations (i.e. reference to external sources) may not
> conform to verifiability requirements or may be missing altogether,
> potentially weakening the reliability of specific topic areas of the free
> encyclopedia. In this project
> ,
> we aimed to provide an empirical characterization of the reasons why and
> how Wikipedia cites external sources to comply with its own verifiability
> guidelines. First, we constructed a taxonomy of reasons why inline
> citations are required by collecting labeled data from editors of multiple
> Wikipedia language editions. We then collected a large-scale crowdsourced
> dataset of Wikipedia sentences annotated with categories derived from this
> taxonomy. Finally, we designed and evaluated algorithmic models to
> determine if a statement requires a citation, and to predict the citation
> reason based on our taxonomy. We evaluated the robustness of such models
> across different classes of Wikipedia articles of varying quality, as well
> as on an additional dataset of claims annotated for fact-checking purposes.
>
> Redi, M., Fetahu, B., Morgan, J., & Taraborelli, D. (2019, May). Citation
> Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability.
> In The World Wide Web Conference (pp. 1567-1578). ACM.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.6
>
>
> Patrolling on Wikipedia
>
> By Jonathan T. Morgan, Research, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> I will present initial findings from an ongoing research study
>  of
> patrolling workflows on Wikimedia projects. Editors patrol recent pages and
> edits to ensure that Wikimedia projects maintains high quality as new
> content comes in. Patrollers revert vandalism and review newly-created
> articles and article drafts. Patrolling of new pages and edits is vital
> work. In addition to making sure that new content conforms to Wikipedia
> project policies, patrollers are the first line of defense against
> disinformation, copyright infringement, libel and slander, personal
> threats, and other forms of vandalism on Wikimedia projects. This research
> project is focused on understanding the needs, priorities, and workflows of
> editors who patrol new content on Wikimedia projects. The findings of this
> research can inform the development of better patrolling tools as well as
> non-technological interventions intended to support patrollers and the
> activity of patrolling.
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she, her)
> Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


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