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 <eles...@wikimedia.org> 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 > <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1681921857>. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org