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The Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 3:01 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > Reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday. Details below. > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:22 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November >> 20, 2019, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation from Martin >> Potthast of Leipzig University on text reuse in Wikipedia and other >> presentation from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Isaac Johnson on the >> demographics and interests of Wikipedia’s readers. >> >> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIko_V1k09s >> >> 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: >> >> Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without >> >> By Martin Potthast, Leipzig University >> >> We study text reuse related to Wikipedia at scale by compiling the first >> corpus of text reuse cases within Wikipedia as well as without (i.e., reuse >> of Wikipedia text in a sample of the Common Crawl). To discover reuse >> beyond verbatim copy and paste, we employ state-of-the-art text reuse >> detection technology, scaling it for the first time to process the entire >> Wikipedia as part of a distributed retrieval pipeline. We further report on >> a pilot analysis of the 100 million reuse cases inside, and the 1.6 million >> reuse cases outside Wikipedia that we discovered. Text reuse inside >> Wikipedia gives rise to new tasks such as article template induction, >> fixing quality flaws, or complementing Wikipedia’s ontology. Text reuse >> outside Wikipedia yields a tangible metric for the emerging field of >> quantifying Wikipedia’s influence on the web. To foster future research >> into these tasks, and for reproducibility’s sake, the Wikipedia text reuse >> corpus and the retrieval pipeline are made freely available. Paper >> <https://webis.de/publications.html#?q=wikipedia%20ecir%202019>, Demo >> <https://demo.webis.de/wikipedia-text-reuse/> >> >> >> Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Demographics and Interests >> >> By Isaac Johnson, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> Building on two past surveys on the motivation and needs of Wikipedia >> readers (Why We Read Wikipedia >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2016>; >> Why the World Reads Wikipedia >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018>), >> we examine the relationship between Wikipedia reader demographics and their >> interests and needs. Specifically, we run surveys in thirteen different >> languages that ask readers three questions about their motivation for >> reading Wikipedia (motivation, needs, and familiarity) and five questions >> about their demographics (age, gender, education, locale, and native >> language). We link these survey results with the respondents' reading >> sessions -- i.e. sequence of Wikipedia page views -- to gain a more >> fine-grained understanding of how a reader's context relates to their >> activity on Wikipedia. We find that readers have a diversity of backgrounds >> but that the high-level needs of readers do not correlate strongly with >> individual demographics. We also find, however, that there are >> relationships between demographics and specific topic interests that are >> consistent across many cultures and languages. This work provides insights >> into the reach of various Wikipedia language editions and the relationship >> between content or contributor gaps and reader gaps. See the meta page >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Demographics_and_Wikipedia_use_cases#Reader_Surveys> >> for more details. >> >> -- >> 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>
