Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café online meeting for September 2019

2019-09-11 Thread Rajeeb Dutta 
Thanks Pine for the update, looking to be a part of the meeting.

Best Regards,
Rajeeb.
(U: Marajozkee)
Sent from my iPhone 

> On 12-Sep-2019, at 2:13 AM, Pine W  wrote:
> 
> Hello colleagues,
> 
> Bluerasberry and I are resuming the Wikimedia Café online video meetings
> . The agenda for this
> month's meeting currently includes:
> 
>   - Fundraising from non-WMF sources for Wikimedia projects and affiliate
>   organizations
> 
> 
>   - Perhaps consider the recently published Strategy/Wikimedia
>   movement/2018-20
>   
>   recommendations:
> 
> 
>   - Revenue streams working group recommendations
>   
> 
>   - Partnerships working group recommendations
>   
> 
>   - Resource allocation working group recommendations
>   
> 
> 
> 
>   - Defining "safety" for Wikimedia projects, degrees of safety, what
>   types of safety are desirable, what types of safety are realistic, and
>   weighing hospitality and civility with freedom of expression.
>  - Wikimedia LGBT+ 
>  is organizing a May 2020 LGBT+ conference
>  
> 
>  with safety as a major theme
>  - There is no Wikimedia community code of conduct
>  
>  - A prominent suicide prevention organization, Samaritans
>  , has lightly
>  and informally reached out to consider partnership with the Wikimedia
>  community to discuss a collaboration in online crisis response.
> 
> Please see the page on Meta
>  for more information.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Earlier time! September 18, 2019 at 9:30 AM PT, 16:30 UTC

2019-09-11 Thread Janna Layton 
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
,
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/1902.6


Patrolling on Wikipedia

By Jonathan T. Morgan, Research, Wikimedia Foundation

I will present initial findings from an ongoing research study
 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 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café online meeting for September 2019

2019-09-11 Thread Rupika Sharma 
Thank you Pine! Looking forward to it!

Rupika
Member, Ombudsmen Commission
User, Wikilover90

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 2:14 AM Pine W  wrote:

> Hello colleagues,
>
> Bluerasberry and I are resuming the Wikimedia Café online video meetings
> . The agenda for this
> month's meeting currently includes:
>
>- Fundraising from non-WMF sources for Wikimedia projects and affiliate
>organizations
>
>
>- Perhaps consider the recently published Strategy/Wikimedia
>movement/2018-20
>
>recommendations:
>
>
>- Revenue streams working group recommendations
><
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Revenue_Streams#Recommendations
> >
>- Partnerships working group recommendations
><
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Partnerships#Recommendations
> >
>- Resource allocation working group recommendations
><
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Resource_Allocation#Recommendations
> >
>
>
>- Defining "safety" for Wikimedia projects, degrees of safety, what
>types of safety are desirable, what types of safety are realistic, and
>weighing hospitality and civility with freedom of expression.
>   - Wikimedia LGBT+  >
>   is organizing a May 2020 LGBT+ conference
>   <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikipedia
> >
>   with safety as a major theme
>   - There is no Wikimedia community code of conduct
>    >
>   - A prominent suicide prevention organization, Samaritans
>   , has
> lightly
>   and informally reached out to consider partnership with the Wikimedia
>   community to discuss a collaboration in online crisis response.
>
> Please see the page on Meta
>  for more
> information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café online meeting for September 2019

2019-09-11 Thread Pine W 
Hello colleagues,

Bluerasberry and I are resuming the Wikimedia Café online video meetings
. The agenda for this
month's meeting currently includes:

   - Fundraising from non-WMF sources for Wikimedia projects and affiliate
   organizations


   - Perhaps consider the recently published Strategy/Wikimedia
   movement/2018-20
   
   recommendations:


   - Revenue streams working group recommendations
   

   - Partnerships working group recommendations
   

   - Resource allocation working group recommendations
   



   - Defining "safety" for Wikimedia projects, degrees of safety, what
   types of safety are desirable, what types of safety are realistic, and
   weighing hospitality and civility with freedom of expression.
  - Wikimedia LGBT+ 
  is organizing a May 2020 LGBT+ conference
  

  with safety as a major theme
  - There is no Wikimedia community code of conduct
  
  - A prominent suicide prevention organization, Samaritans
  , has lightly
  and informally reached out to consider partnership with the Wikimedia
  community to discuss a collaboration in online crisis response.

Please see the page on Meta
 for more information.

Regards,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Talking about Wikimedia in Education - Webinar series

2019-09-11 Thread Sailesh Patnaik 
Dear Wikimedians and Education leaders,

My name is Sailesh Patnaik, I work as a Communications and Wikimedia
Outreach contractor with the Education team at Wikimedia Foundation. The
Education Team wants to support the Wikimedia community to successfully
communicate about the amazing things happening with Wikimedia in education.

We’re hosting a series of webinars on “How to talk about Wikimedia in
education” These 1 hour sessions will give you the tools to speak to anyone
about the impact of using the Wikimedia projects in education. You will
also learn about some high impact projects that have already happened, or
are happening right now! We’ll be recording the event, so if you can’t make
it, you can watch it later! We encourage you to come to meet others and ask
questions.

Please join us! Dates and times below:

   1.

   Webinar 1 : 17th September, 12:30 PM UTC [1]
   2.

   Webinar 2:  28th September, 18:00 PM UTC [2]


If you can’t join for the Webinar, you can still keep up to date through
these communication channels. You can also join the Wikipedia & Education
UG[3] to get more involved.



   1.

   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam/
   2.

   Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikimediaEdu
   3.

   Newsletter: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
   4.

   Education Mailing list:
   https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education

If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to me.

[1]
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/how-to-talk-about-wikimedia-in-education-webinar-1/1278
[2]
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/how-to-talk-about-wikimedia-in-education-webinar-2/1279
[3]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group

Dhanyabaad!
-- 
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
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