Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 16, 2019 at 9:30 AM PDT, 16:30 UTC

2019-10-16 Thread Janna Layton 
Reminder that the Research Showcase is happening in 30 minutes.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 1:48 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
> 16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. We’ll have two timely presentations from
> Fabrício Benevenuto and Francesca Spezzano about disinformation and how to
> counter it.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU
>
> 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:
>
> Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
> Campaigns
>
> By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
> de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
>
> The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
> 2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
> mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
> Without Fake  and developed a
> few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
> campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
> public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
> systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
> journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
> editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.
>
>
> Protecting Wikipedia from Disinformation: Detecting Malicious Editors and
> Pages to Protect
>
> By Francesca Spezzano, Computer Science Department, Boise State University
>
> Wikipedia is based on the idea that anyone can make edits in order to
> create reliable and crowd-sourced content. Yet with the cover of internet
> anonymity, some users make changes to the online encyclopedia that do not
> align with Wikipedia’s intended uses. In this talk, we present different
> forms of disinformation on Wikipedia including vandalism and spam and
> introduce to the mechanism that Wikipedia implements to protects its
> integrity such as blocking malicious editors and page protection. Next, we
> provide an overview of effective algorithms based on the user editing
> behavior we have developed to detect malicious editors and pages to protect
> across multiple languages.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 2:57 PM Janna Layton 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
>> 16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.
>>
>> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
>> Campaigns
>>
>> By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
>> de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
>>
>> The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
>> 2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
>> mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
>> Without Fake  and developed a
>> few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
>> campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
>> public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
>> systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
>> journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
>> editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.
>>
>> More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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] October 16, 2019 at 9:30 AM PDT, 16:30 UTC

2019-10-15 Thread Janna Layton 
Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. We’ll have two timely presentations from
Fabrício Benevenuto and Francesca Spezzano about disinformation and how to
counter it.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU

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:

Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
Campaigns

By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
Without Fake  and developed a
few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.


Protecting Wikipedia from Disinformation: Detecting Malicious Editors and
Pages to Protect

By Francesca Spezzano, Computer Science Department, Boise State University

Wikipedia is based on the idea that anyone can make edits in order to
create reliable and crowd-sourced content. Yet with the cover of internet
anonymity, some users make changes to the online encyclopedia that do not
align with Wikipedia’s intended uses. In this talk, we present different
forms of disinformation on Wikipedia including vandalism and spam and
introduce to the mechanism that Wikipedia implements to protects its
integrity such as blocking malicious editors and page protection. Next, we
provide an overview of effective algorithms based on the user editing
behavior we have developed to detect malicious editors and pages to protect
across multiple languages.


On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 2:57 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
> 16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU
>
> 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:
>
> Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
> Campaigns
>
> By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
> de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
>
> The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
> 2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
> mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
> Without Fake  and developed a
> few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
> campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
> public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
> systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
> journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
> editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.
>
> More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come
>
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she, her)
> Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 16, 2019 at 9:30 AM PDT, 16:30 UTC

2019-10-10 Thread Janna Layton 
Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU

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:

Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
Campaigns

By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
Without Fake  and developed a
few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.

More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come


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