[Wiki-research-l] The Wikimedia Research Showcase (July 2016): Detecting personal attacks on Wikipedia; Wikipedia.org Portal Research

[Dario Taraborelli]

We put the research showcase on hold for the past quarter due to other
outreach initiatives (Wiki Workshop '16, WikiCite, Wikimania).

We're back this month with two presentations by the Wikimedia Research team
and our collaborators at Jigsaw.

The showcase will be streamed 
on YouTube *tomorrow Wednesday July 20*, starting at *11.30 Pacific Time*.
As usual, we'll be hosting a Q via our IRC channel (#wikimedia-research
on irc.freenode.net).

Look forward to seeing you there!

Dario



*Detecting Personal Attacks on Wikipedia*By
*Ellery Wulczyn
, Nithum Thain
*
Ellery Wulczyn (WMF) and Nithum Thain (Jigsaw) will be speaking about their
recent work on Project Detox, a research project to develop tools to detect
and understand online personal attacks and harassment on Wikipedia. Their
talk will cover the whole research pipeline to date, including data
acquisition, machine learning model building, and some analytical insights
as to the nature of personal attacks on Wikipedia talk pages.



*Wikipedia.org Portal Research*Search behaviors and New Language by article
count Dropdown
By
*Daisy Chen *
What part do the Wikipedia.org portal and on-wiki search mechanisms play in
users' experiences finding information online? These findings reflect
research participants' responses to a combination of generative and
evaluative questions about their general online search behaviors, on-wiki
search behaviors, interactions with the Wikipedia.org portal, and their
thoughts about a partial re-design of the portal page, the new language by
article count dropdown.



*Dario Taraborelli  *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

[WereSpielChequers]

RichFarmbrough has been helping me out with lists of articles that have a
UK geocode but no image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/temp138 I've been
testing image adding as a newbie exercise. Due to the Geograph the UK is
much better covered on Commons than most other places, 0.1% of the world's
land area used to have over 10% of commons and still has about 6%

The same sort of lists could be created for other countries, but whereas in
the UK we have images on commons or can import them from the Geograph, for
most other countries this would be a prospect list for photographers. Of
course countries that lack FOP or have FOPNC will have lots of articles
about buildings that we can't photograph, but maybe we can filter out
articles about modern buildings in countries with restrictive FOP?



On 18 July 2016 at 15:07, Magnus Manske  wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:22 AM Pine W  wrote:
>
>> I was thinking along similar lines as Stuart, using OSM to navigate and
>> encouraging users to take photos of landmarks and other buildings where
>> that's permitted by FOP. Landmarks for which we have only small photos, old
>> photos (more than about 3 years), or no photos could be prioritized.
>>
>> *ahem* ;-)
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/
>
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

[Jan Dittrich]

In regards to smartphones in general: I suppose editing Wikipedia as a
general activity is unlikely to be great no matter how good our apps are.
Screen and Keyboard don't lend themselves for editing (longer) prose.
However, with stuart’s and pine’s idea of using OSM and GPS for photos we
would use what smartphones and their users are good at. Also, adding data
to existing items on wikidata or correcting typos on Wikipedia might be
things that could be done well in an app that provides functionality geared
towards that specific usecase.

> this leaves the door open for competitors to remix our content with
better interfaces, and also encourages potential contibutors to leave
Wikimedia for places that provide nice, modern designs and user experiences.

Interesting point. Are there ideas of how other's remixes could help to
actually strengthen rather than weaken the project?

Jan

2016-07-15 4:22 GMT+02:00 Pine W :

> I was thinking along similar lines as Stuart, using OSM to navigate and
> encouraging users to take photos of landmarks and other buildings where
> that's permitted by FOP. Landmarks for which we have only small photos, old
> photos (more than about 3 years), or no photos could be prioritized.
>
> Also, for readers, how about showing the readers an OSM view of the world
> and noting which nearby features have Wikipedia articles as the users
> navigate on the map?
>
> Finally, I'd like users to have emotionally rewarding experiences when
> exploring our content, as well as creating new content or editing existing
> content. Editing is painful on mobile, and even on desktop in VE there are
> bugs which are frustrating. I'd like our tools to work properly, fast, and
> intuitively. I realize that WMF has a limited budget, but our interface is
> a ways from being a smooth and enjoyable experience, both on VE and on
> wikitext. And for readers, I'd like to have robust multimedia search and
> interactive features. We are far behind in our interfaces compared to sites
> and apps that others provide, and I hope that we can close that gap within
> the next two to three years. If WMF does not improve its interfaces
> rapidly, this leaves the door open for competitors to remix our content
> with better interfaces, and also encourages potential contibutors to leave
> Wikimedia for places that provide nice, modern designs and user experiences.
>
> Pine
> On Jul 14, 2016 15:03, "Stuart A. Yeates"  wrote:
>
>> A game built on a travel-photograph-upload loop would be a great way to
>> build our depth of imagery.
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>>
>> --
>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Toby Negrin 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Pine -- did you have any specific ideas? I spent some time in the
>>> gaming industry and am familiar with Ingress, the game that Pokeman Go is
>>> based on, as well as the theories behind mechanics/compulsion loops that
>>> mobile games use.
>>>
>>> I'll share one general thought -- the research-edit-publish loop is a
>>> great mechanism -- it's quick and easy and very gratifying, especially
>>> combined with a google search.
>>>
>>> However, we've generally found that the notion that we use gaming
>>> mechanics to encourage people to read or edit wikipedia does not have broad
>>> support in our communities.
>>>
>>> -Toby
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Pine W  wrote:
>>>
 Hi WMF Mobile and Research,

 I'm wondering if we (mostly meaning "you" but perhaps with external
 collaborators) have considered how the Wikipedia mobile apps, Wikipedia
 mobile web, the Wikidata game, and/or the Commons app could borrow some
 design ideas or features from Pokémon Go to make Wikimedia offerings more
 appealing, particularly to younger audiences. This would apply to content
 consumption and contribution, as well as community aspects of Wikimedia
 experiences, particularly on mobile platforms.

 Thanks,

 Pine

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