[Wiki-research-l] Re: My departure from Wikimedia

[Asher]

Dear Emily,
It is good interacting with you, online. I wish you well in your new 
endeavours. Who knows, our paths may cross again for more learning.All the best.
Best regards,
Ngozi Perpetua Osuchukwu 



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  On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 17:12, Chiemezie Atama 
wrote:   Dear Emily.
Some of us that have interacted with you are new in the space. I was very
excited meeting you and had hoped we could work together but now you are
leaving. I feel bad but still hopeful that our part may still cross again.
Wishing you all the best.
Chiemezie Atama.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 4:47 PM Emily Lescak  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I joined the WMF Research team in June, 2021 as the Senior Research
> Community Officer. Over the last two years, I have had the pleasure of
> interacting with many of you through Office Hours, Research Showcases, the
> Research Fund, and the listening tour I held during my first few months. I
> have enjoyed learning more about your research interests, involvement in
> the broader Wikimedia community, and how you think the Foundation can
> increase its support for your work. With your input, we were able to
> publish a vision and strategy
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Research_Community_Vision_and_Strategy
> >
> for the community that will guide our efforts in the coming years.
>
> I am writing to let you know that April 21st will be my last day at the
> Wikimedia Foundation. I am moving to another organization where I will
> continue to build my experience in community management and supporting open
> research practices.
>
> I want to thank you for the energy and enthusiasm that you bring to your
> work. I particularly want to acknowledge those of you who have presented
> your research at Showcases and Wiki Workshop, reviewed abstracts and grant
> proposals, and applied to the Research Fund. The success of these
> initiatives is due in a large part to your thoughtful contributions.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Emily
>
>
> --
> Emily Lescak (she / her)
> Senior Research Community Officer
> The Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wiki-research-l] Re: My departure from Wikimedia

[Chiemezie Atama]

Dear Emily.
Some of us that have interacted with you are new in the space. I was very
excited meeting you and had hoped we could work together but now you are
leaving. I feel bad but still hopeful that our part may still cross again.
Wishing you all the best.
Chiemezie Atama.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 4:47 PM Emily Lescak  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I joined the WMF Research team in June, 2021 as the Senior Research
> Community Officer. Over the last two years, I have had the pleasure of
> interacting with many of you through Office Hours, Research Showcases, the
> Research Fund, and the listening tour I held during my first few months. I
> have enjoyed learning more about your research interests, involvement in
> the broader Wikimedia community, and how you think the Foundation can
> increase its support for your work. With your input, we were able to
> publish a vision and strategy
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Research_Community_Vision_and_Strategy
> >
> for the community that will guide our efforts in the coming years.
>
> I am writing to let you know that April 21st will be my last day at the
> Wikimedia Foundation. I am moving to another organization where I will
> continue to build my experience in community management and supporting open
> research practices.
>
> I want to thank you for the energy and enthusiasm that you bring to your
> work. I particularly want to acknowledge those of you who have presented
> your research at Showcases and Wiki Workshop, reviewed abstracts and grant
> proposals, and applied to the Research Fund. The success of these
> initiatives is due in a large part to your thoughtful contributions.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Emily
>
>
> --
> Emily Lescak (she / her)
> Senior Research Community Officer
> The Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wiki-research-l] My departure from Wikimedia

[Emily Lescak]

Hi all,

I joined the WMF Research team in June, 2021 as the Senior Research
Community Officer. Over the last two years, I have had the pleasure of
interacting with many of you through Office Hours, Research Showcases, the
Research Fund, and the listening tour I held during my first few months. I
have enjoyed learning more about your research interests, involvement in
the broader Wikimedia community, and how you think the Foundation can
increase its support for your work. With your input, we were able to
publish a vision and strategy

for the community that will guide our efforts in the coming years.

I am writing to let you know that April 21st will be my last day at the
Wikimedia Foundation. I am moving to another organization where I will
continue to build my experience in community management and supporting open
research practices.

I want to thank you for the energy and enthusiasm that you bring to your
work. I particularly want to acknowledge those of you who have presented
your research at Showcases and Wiki Workshop, reviewed abstracts and grant
proposals, and applied to the Research Fund. The success of these
initiatives is due in a large part to your thoughtful contributions.

Warm regards,

Emily


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Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wiki-research-l] Re: Wikimedia Research Showcase April 19 at 16:30 UTC

[Emily Lescak]

Hi all,

A friendly reminder that this event will be starting in about three hours.

Best,
Emily


On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 2:55 PM Emily Lescak  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next Research Showcase, with the theme of Images on Wikipedia, will be
> live-streamed Wednesday, April 19, at 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
> .
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW0waU-QArU
>
> You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research or on the
> YouTube chat.
>
> This month's presentations:
> A large scale study of reader interactions with images on WikipediaBy *Daniele
> Rama, University of Turin*Wikipedia is the largest source of free
> encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To
> increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images
> within the text of the article’s body. However, despite their widespread
> usage on web platforms and the huge volume of visual content on Wikipedia,
> little is known about the importance of images in the context of free
> knowledge environments. To bridge this gap, we collect data about English
> Wikipedia reader interactions with images during one month and perform the
> first large-scale analysis of how interactions with images happen on
> Wikipedia. First, we quantify the overall engagement with images, finding
> that one in 29 pageviews results in a click on at least one image, one
> order of magnitude higher than interactions with other types of article
> content. Second, we study what factors associate with image engagement and
> observe that clicks on images occur more often in shorter articles and
> articles about visual arts or transports and biographies of less well-known
> people. Third, we look at interactions with Wikipedia article previews and
> find that images help support reader information need when navigating
> through the site, especially for more popular pages. The findings in this
> study deepen our understanding of the role of images for free knowledge and
> provide a guide for Wikipedia editors and web user communities to enrich
> the world’s largest source of encyclopedic knowledge.
>
>- Paperː
>
> https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00312-8
>
>
> Visual gender biases in Wikipediaː A systematic evaluation across the ten
> most spoken languagesBy *Pablo Beytia, Catholic University of Chile*The
> existing research suggests a significant gender gap in Wikipedia
> biographical articles, with a minimal representation of women and gender
> asymmetries in the textual content. However, the visual aspects of this gap
> (e.g., image volume and quality) have received little attention. This study
> examined asymmetries between women's and men's biographies, exploring
> written and visual content across the ten most widely spoken languages. The
> cross-lingual analysis reveals that (1) the most salient male biases appear
> when editors select which personalities should have a Wikipedia page, (2)
> the trends in written and visual content are dissimilar, (3) male
> biographies tend to have more images across languages, and (4) female
> biographies have better visual quality on average. The open database of
> this study provides eight indicators of gender asymmetries in ten
> occupational domains and ten languages. That information allows for a
> granular view of gender biases, as well as exploring more macroscopic
> phenomena, such as the similarity between Wikipedia versions according to
> their gender bias structures.
>
>- Papersː
>
> Beytía, P., Agarwal, P., Redi, M., & Singh, V. K. (2022). Visual Gender
> Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken
> Languages. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and
> Social Media, 16(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19271
> https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19271Beytía, P. &
> Wagner, C. (2022). Visibility layers: a framework for systematizing the
> gender gap in Wikipedia content. Internet Policy Review, 11(1).
> https://doi.org/10.14763/2022.1.1621
> https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/visibility-layers-framework-systematising-gender-gap-wikipedia-content
> You can watch our past Research Showcases here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>
> Hope you can join us!
>
> Warm regards,
> Emily
>
> --
> Emily Lescak (she / her)
> Senior Research Community Officer
> The Wikimedia Foundation
>
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