Kerry, thanks for kicking this off. One update on our end: There is a general alignment between a few different teams/departments in WMF that this is an important problem to support chekcusers with in a better way than what we do today.
I gave a presentation in Wikimania about the research on sockpuppet detection [1] which is primarily conducted by Srijan Kumar. The goal of the research is to build models that use public data to identify accounts that are predicted to be sockpuppets as soon as possible. Srijan has made significant progress on this front and we'll be presenting the results of the model to checkusers shortly to get their feedback. Check out the slide deck [3] if you're interested to learn more. More updates about the project will appear in [3]. Best, Leila [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Research/Sockpuppet_detection_in_the_English_Wikipedia [2] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania2019_research_presentation_sockpuppetDetection.pdf [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Sockpuppet_detection_in_Wikimedia_projects On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 6:58 PM Timothy Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is that what they do? I thought we mostly did that. > > TJW/GMG > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 06:20 Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:23 PM Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > That's why I think we need "signatures" which is my shorthand for things > > > like a hash function or a bounding box, a means by which many > > non-matching > > > accounts can be eliminated at low cost, reserving the high cost > > comparisons > > > (machine or human) only for high probability candidates. [...] > > > > > > > The https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team might > > have some insights into these questions, although I believe they (current > > and some former members) are active on this mailing list, so might chime in > > here. > > > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:52 PM Timothy Wood <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Then again, apparently the Foundation has a PR team whose only job is to > > > [...] > > > > > > > Please do not denigrate groups of people. Communicating about the > > movement's mission and activities with large parts of the outside world, > > and helping others in the movement to also do so, is an important role (and > > is just part of their role). Similar to your own role in OTRS. However that > > is all off-topic in this thread. > > > > I hope everyone has a pleasant weekend. > > Quiddity > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
