Hi Samuel, thanks for your interest in this project. Following up on your question, I want to share some additional background: This work is part of our updated research roadmap to address knowledge gaps [1], specifically, developing methods to measure different knowledge gaps [2]. We have identified readability as one of the gaps in the taxonomy of knowledge gaps [3]. However, we currently do not have the tools to systematically measure readability of Wikipedia articles across languages. Therefore, we would like to develop and validate a multilingual approach to measuring readability. Furthermore, the community wishlist from the previous year contained a proposal for a tool to surface readability scores [4]; while acknowledging that this is a difficult task to scale to all languages in Wikipedia. Let me know if you have further comments, suggestions, or questions -- happy to discuss in more detail. Best, Martin
[1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/21/a-new-research-roadmap-for-addressing-knowledge-gaps/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Knowledge_Gaps_3_Years_On#Measure_Knowledge_Gaps [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Knowledge_Gaps_Index/Taxonomy [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Bots_and_gadgets/Readability_scores_gadget On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:50 PM Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > Fantastic. What a great teamn to work with. > > We definitely need multiple reading-levels for articles, which involves > some namespace & interface magic, and new norm settings around what is > possible. Only a few language projects have managed to bolt this onto the > side of MediaWiki (though they include some excellent successes imo). > Where does that fit into the research-practice-MW-WP roadmap? > > SJ > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:13 PM Martin Gerlach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a > new > > Formal Collaboration [1] with Indira Sen, Katrin Weller, and Mareike > > Wieland from GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences to work > > collaboratively on understanding perception of readability in Wikipedia > [2] > > as part of the Addressing Knowledge Gaps Program [3]. We are thankful to > > them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project in > the > > coming year. > > > > Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we > would > > like to share with you: > > * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the > > corresponding research page on meta [2]. > > * Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking > systems. > > This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level Phabricator > > task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured on > > Phabricator will be captured under here [4]. > > * I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia > > Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it cannot > be > > shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the project. > > > > Best, > > Martin > > > > [1] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations > > [2] > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_perception_of_readability_in_Wikipedia > > [3] https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-gaps.html > > [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325815 > > > > -- > > Martin Gerlach (he/him) | Senior Research Scientist | Wikimedia > Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
