Hi all, The Research team <https://research.wikimedia.org/> at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new Formal <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations> Collaboration <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations> with Marija Sakota <https://people.epfl.ch/marija.sakota?lang=en> (EPFL <https://dlab.epfl.ch/>) to work collaboratively on generating edit summaries for Wikipedia edits <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Edit_Types/Edit_Summaries>. We prioritized this work as part of work on identifying and helping to close data gaps <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)/Content_tagging/Data_gaps> but there are also potential benefits for moderators or supporting newcomers in understanding under our knowledge integrity program <https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-integrity.html>.
Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would like to share with you: * Marija has already done amazing work <https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10012> in developing a model for recommending article descriptions and supporting our Android team in making these recommendations available to editors <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Machine_Assisted_Article_Descriptions> . * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the corresponding research page on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Edit_Types/Edit_Summaries> and you can also track the work on Phabricator (T354565 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354565>). This work is also done in collaboration with Robert West <https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/>, our long-time Research Fellow. * 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, Isaac -- Isaac Johnson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)> (he/him) -- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
