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/>
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