Reminder that this is happening tomorrow! On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:24 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, June 17, at > 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. > > In the era of 'information explosion,' we strive to stay informed and > relevant often too quickly, and hence run into the peril of consuming false > or distorted facts. This month, our invited speakers will help us > understand these dynamics, especially in the context of Wikipedia's content > and readership. First, Connie will talk about an initiative she's been > leading to source and rank credible information from the news, and its > overlap with Wikipedia. In the second talk, Tiziano will present his recent > work on quantifying and understanding how the readers of Wikipedia interact > with an article's citations to verify specific claims. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS9Jc3IFhVQ > > 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: > > > Today’s News, Tomorrow’s Reference, and The Problem of Information > Reliability - An Introduction to NewsQ > > By: Connie Moon Sehat, NewsQ, Hacks/Hackers > > The effort to make Wikipedia more reliable is related to the larger > challenges facing the information ecosystem overall. These challenges > include the discovery of and accessibility to reliable news amid the > transformation of news distribution through platform and social media > products. Connie will present some of the challenges related to the ranking > and recommendation of news that are addressed by the NewsQ Initiative, a > collaboration between the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism > at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and Hacks/Hackers. In > addition, she’ll share some of the ways that the project intersects with > Wikipedia, such as supporting research around the US Perennial Sources list > ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources > ). > > Related resources > > - > > NewsQ Initiative site (https://newsq.net/) > > > - > > DUE JUNE 15 (Please apply if interested!): Social Science Research > Council Call for Papers, “News Quality in the Platform Era” > > https://www.ssrc.org/programs/component/media-democracy/news-quality-in-the-platform-era/ > > > - > > M. Bhuiyan, A. Zhang, C. Sehat, T. Mitra, 2020. Investigating "Who" in > the Crowdsourcing of News Credibility, C+J 2020 ( > > https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/express.northeastern.edu/dist/d/53/files/2020/02/CJ_2020_paper_32.pdf > ) > > > > > Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia > > By: Tiziano Piccardi, EPFL > > Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of > the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for > many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not a source of original > information, but was conceived as a gateway to secondary sources: according > to Wikipedia's guidelines, facts must be backed up by reliable sources that > reflect the full spectrum of views on the topic. Although citations lie at > the very heart of Wikipedia, little is known about how users interact with > them. To close this gap, we built client-side instrumentation for logging > all interactions with links leading from English Wikipedia articles to > cited references for one month and conducted the first analysis of readers' > interaction with citations on Wikipedia. We find that overall engagement > with citations is low: about one in 300 page views results in a reference > click (0.29% overall; 0.56% on desktop; 0.13% on mobile). Matched > observational studies of the factors associated with reference clicking > reveal that clicks occur more frequently on shorter pages and on pages of > lower quality, suggesting that references are consulted more commonly when > Wikipedia itself does not contain the information sought by the user. > Moreover, we observe that recent content, open access sources, and > references about life events (births, deaths, marriages, etc) are > particularly popular. Taken together, our findings open the door to a > deeper understanding of Wikipedia's role in a global information economy > where reliability is ever less certain, and source attribution ever more > vital. > > Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08614 > > > -- > Janna Layton (she, her) > Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Janna Layton (she, her) Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
