The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes. On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 10:59 AM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > This is just a reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday, > with Miriam Redi and Jonathan Morgan from the Foundation presenting. > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:10 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, >> September 18, at 9:30 AM PT/16:30 UTC. This will be the new time going >> forward for Research Showcases in order to give more access to other >> timezones. >> >> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhAnHrkBks >> >> 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: >> >> Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's >> Verifiability >> >> By Miriam Redi, Research, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> Among Wikipedia's core guiding principles, verifiability policies have a >> particularly important role. Verifiability requires that information >> included in a Wikipedia article be corroborated against reliable secondary >> sources. Because of the manual labor needed to curate and fact-check >> Wikipedia at scale, however, its contents do not always evenly comply with >> these policies. Citations (i.e. reference to external sources) may not >> conform to verifiability requirements or may be missing altogether, >> potentially weakening the reliability of specific topic areas of the free >> encyclopedia. In this project >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statements>, >> we aimed to provide an empirical characterization of the reasons why and >> how Wikipedia cites external sources to comply with its own verifiability >> guidelines. First, we constructed a taxonomy of reasons why inline >> citations are required by collecting labeled data from editors of multiple >> Wikipedia language editions. We then collected a large-scale crowdsourced >> dataset of Wikipedia sentences annotated with categories derived from this >> taxonomy. Finally, we designed and evaluated algorithmic models to >> determine if a statement requires a citation, and to predict the citation >> reason based on our taxonomy. We evaluated the robustness of such models >> across different classes of Wikipedia articles of varying quality, as well >> as on an additional dataset of claims annotated for fact-checking purposes. >> >> Redi, M., Fetahu, B., Morgan, J., & Taraborelli, D. (2019, May). Citation >> Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability. >> In The World Wide Web Conference (pp. 1567-1578). ACM. >> https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11116 >> >> >> Patrolling on Wikipedia >> >> By Jonathan T. Morgan, Research, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> I will present initial findings from an ongoing research study >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Patrolling_on_Wikipedia> of >> patrolling workflows on Wikimedia projects. Editors patrol recent pages and >> edits to ensure that Wikimedia projects maintains high quality as new >> content comes in. Patrollers revert vandalism and review newly-created >> articles and article drafts. Patrolling of new pages and edits is vital >> work. In addition to making sure that new content conforms to Wikipedia >> project policies, patrollers are the first line of defense against >> disinformation, copyright infringement, libel and slander, personal >> threats, and other forms of vandalism on Wikimedia projects. This research >> project is focused on understanding the needs, priorities, and workflows of >> editors who patrol new content on Wikimedia projects. The findings of this >> research can inform the development of better patrolling tools as well as >> non-technological interventions intended to support patrollers and the >> activity of patrolling. >> >> -- >> 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/> > -- 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>
