Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Knowledge Integrity: A proposed Wikimedia Foundation cross-departmental program for 2018-2019

[geni]

On 17 April 2018 at 09:39, David Cuenca Tudela  wrote:
> Additionally I think it would be interesting to have some research done on
> which references are DISPLAYED or CLICKED the most on several Wikipedias.
> We know already which sources are cited the most, but on which sources do
> users hover their mouse the most? Can we also identify which statements are
> involved?

Absolutely not. Leave that kind of spying to advertising companies and
three letter agencies. We have standards.



> Finally I believe it would be that a tool to assess the
> openness

Look for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Open_access


>/accessibility of the sources of any given article could be really
> interesting.



Would turn into an argument over definitions. For example is the
Mabinogion accessible? Public domain, copies can be found on various
websites but I don't speak welsh. Limiting it to English gets to the
next problem. Is this accessible:

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2014/11/aa21621-13/aa21621-13.html

Its in English but I don't have a degree in physics.

Where there are more obvious limits it gets more complicated. You may
be tempted to lump all paywalls together is it really fair to lump
something that costs €1 for total access in with something that
charges $40 for one article. Does the currency it charges in make a
difference?

Books too have their fun aspects. Try automating judging the relative
accessibility of Birmingham's Electric Dustcarts and 7000 years of
jewelry.



-- 
geni

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Knowledge Integrity: A proposed Wikimedia Foundation cross-departmental program for 2018-2019

[David Cuenca Tudela]

Hi Dario,

Thanks for sharing the plan. Any possibility to include in the plan a
system to archive all reference URLs and external identifiers linked from
Wikidata?
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143488

Additionally I think it would be interesting to have some research done on
which references are DISPLAYED or CLICKED the most on several Wikipedias.
We know already which sources are cited the most, but on which sources do
users hover their mouse the most? Can we also identify which statements are
involved? It could be used to expand them, improve them, or add more
context.

Finally I believe it would be that a tool to assess the
openness/accessibility of the sources of any given article could be really
interesting.

Regards,
Micru


On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:32 AM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> (apologies for cross-posting)
>
> We’re sharing a proposed program
> 
>  for the Wikimedia Foundation’s upcoming fiscal year
> 
>  (2018-19) and *would love to hear from you*. This plan builds
> extensively on projects and initiatives driven by volunteer contributors
> and organizations in the Wikimedia movement, so your input is critical.
>
> Why a “knowledge integrity” program?
>
> Increased global attention is directed at the problem of misinformation
> and how media consumers are struggling to distinguish fact from fiction.
> Meanwhile, thanks to the sources they cite, Wikimedia projects are uniquely
> positioned as a reliable gateway to accessing quality information in the
> broader knowledge ecosystem. How can we mobilize these citations as a
> resource and turn them into a broader, linked infrastructure of trust to
> serve the entire internet?  Free knowledge grounds itself in verifiability
> and transparent attribution policies. Let’s look at 4 data points as
> motivating stories:
>
>- Wikipedia sends tens of millions of people to external sources each
>year. We want to conduct research to understand why and how readers leave
>our site.
>- The Internet Archive has fixed over 4 million dead links on
>Wikipedia. We want to enable instantaneous archiving of every link on all
>Wikipedias to ensure the long-term preservation of the sources Wikipedians
>cite.
>- #1Lib1Ref reaches 6 million people on social media. We want to bring
>#1Lib1Ref to Wikidata and more languages, spreading the message that
>references improve quality.
>- 33% of Wikidata items represent sources (journals, books, works). We
>want to strengthen community efforts to build a high-quality, collaborative
>database of all cited and citable sources.
>
> A 5-year vision
>
> Our 5-year vision for the Knowledge Integrity program is to establish
> Wikimedia as the hub of a federated, trusted knowledge ecosystem. We plan
> to get there by creating:
>
>- A roadmap to a mature, technically and socially scalable, central
>repository of sources.
>- Developed network of partners and technical collaborators to
>contribute to and reuse data about citations.
>- Increased public awareness of Wikimedia’s vital role in information
>literacy and fact-checking.
>
>
> 5 directions for 2018-2019
>
> We have identified 5 levers of Knowledge Integrity: research,
> infrastructure and tooling, access and preservation, outreach, and
> awareness. Here’s what we want to do with each:
>
>
>1. Continue to conduct research to understand how readers access
>sources and how to help contributors improve citation quality.
>2. Improve tools for linking information to external sources,
>catalogs, and repositories.
>3. Ensure resources cited across Wikimedia projects are accessible in
>perpetuity.
>4. Grow outreach and partnerships to scale community and technical
>efforts to improve the structure and quality of citations.
>5. Increase public awareness of the processes Wikimedians follow to
>verify information and articulate a collective vision for a trustable web.
>
>
> Who is involved?
>
> The core teams involved in this proposal are:
>
>- Wikimedia Foundation Technology’s Research Team
>- Wikimedia Foundation Community Engagement’s Programs team (Wikipedia
>Library)
>- Wikimedia Deutschland Engineering’s Wikidata team
>
>
> The initiative also spans across an ecosystem of possible partners
> including the Internet Archive, ContentMine, Crossref, OCLC, OpenCitations,
> and Zotero. It is further made possible by funders including the Sloan,
> Gordon and Betty Moore, and Simons Foundations who have been supporting the
> WikiCite initiative to date.
>
> How you can participate
>
> You can read the fine details of our proposed year-1 plan, and provide
> your feedback, on mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_
>