Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting research on almost the same topic :-/
Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-( Best Z. Blace On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes. > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am >> PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to >> close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill >> University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania. >> >> Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ >> >> Talk 1 >> Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada) >> Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia >> Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way >> that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems, >> contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. >> Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad >> oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and >> skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we >> still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems >> and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate >> through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment >> to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect >> the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other >> articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content >> leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content >> consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant >> attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both >> analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate >> policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of >> information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention >> contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention >> flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important >> policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information >> networks. >> >> Talk 2 >> Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA) >> Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions >> Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its >> biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of >> knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents >> are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and >> enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements >> intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent >> study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital >> knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are >> successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing, >> but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that >> limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular >> and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and >> identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements >> in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps. >> >> -- >> Janna Layton (she/her) >> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> > > > -- > Janna Layton (she/her) > Administrative Associate - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
