[Wikimedia-l] Deadline Extension for Wikimania 2022 Program Submissions

[Antoni Mtavangu]

Hi Wikimedians,

We hope you are all doing well!

This is to let you all know that the time for Wikimania 2022 Program
Submissions  have been
extended for 2 days to 12th June 2022. Therefore we encourage all who want
to submit their program proposals to use this little remaining time.

For more info kindly read the Wikimania 2022 program submissions Diff post

.

On behalf of Wikimania 2022 COT

,

Antoni Mtavangu (He/Him)

Wikimania 2022 COT member



Cofounder-Wikimedia Tanzania


Wikimedia Foundation 

"By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the
ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able
to join us."
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Research Showcase June 15

[Peter Southwood]

Interesting research. Maybe I just missed it, but I didn’t notice any 
discussion of relation of availability of reliable sources to coverage in 
different languages. In English Wikipedia we are not allowed to write about 
topics which are not covered by suitable sources, but there may also be more 
and a wider range of sources available in English, and English Wikipedia is 
also written by people with a wider range of languages, making more non-English 
sources available. Is there any research on comparing  this tendency in other 
languages? If there is no-one editing a Wikipedia who can read a source, no-one 
can write about its content. It can be very difficult to find sources for some 
topics, and it would be unsurprising if geographical topics in an area where a 
given language is not spoken are not covered in that language.

Cheers,

Peter

 

From: Emily Lescak [mailto:eles...@wikimedia.org] 
Sent: 08 June 2022 15:13
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase June 15

 

Hi all,

The next Research Showcase, Wikipedia's Languages, will be live-streamed 
Wednesday, June 15, at 4:00 AM PST/11:00 AM UTC. View your local time here 
 . 

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQM1dtn3g0

You are welcome to ask questions via YouTube chat or on IRC at 
#wikimedia-research. 

This month's presentations: 

Quantifying knowledge synchronisation in the 21st century

By Jisung Yoon (Pohang University of Science and Technology)

Humans acquire and accumulate knowledge through language usage and eagerly 
exchange their knowledge for advancement. Although geographical barriers had 
previously limited communication, the emergence of information technology has 
opened new avenues for knowledge exchange. However, it is unclear which 
communication pathway is dominant in the 21st century. Here, we explore the 
dominant path of knowledge diffusion in the 21st century using Wikipedia, the 
largest communal dataset. We evaluate the similarity of shared knowledge 
between population groups, distinguished based on their language usage. When 
population groups are more engaged with each other, their knowledge structure 
is more similar, where engagement is indicated by socio-economic connections, 
such as cultural, linguistic, and historical features. Moreover, geographical 
proximity is no longer a critical requirement for knowledge dissemination. 
Furthermore, we integrate our data into a mechanistic model to better 
understand the underlying mechanism and suggest that the knowledge "Silk Road" 
of the 21st century is based online.




The Language Geography of Wikipedia

By Martin Dittus

Every language is a system of being, doing, knowing, and imagining. With over 
7,000 active languages in the world, how many languages are fully represented 
online? To answer this question, digital non-profit Whose Knowledge? initiated 
the first ever report on the State of the Internet's Languages. As part of this 
report, Martin Dittus and Mark Graham have investigated the languages of 
Wikipedia. Wikipedia began with a single English-language edition more than two 
decades ago, and now offers more than 300 language editions, which places it at 
the forefront of digital language support. However, this does not mean that 
speakers of these languages get access to the same content: Wikipedia’s 
language editions vary widely in scale. We further find that this inequality is 
also reflected in Wikipedia’s geographic coverage: not all places are captured 
in every language. Wikipedia's coverage often follows the global distribution 
of speakers of the respective language. Yet even when we account for the 
distribution of language populations, certain language communities are much 
more strongly represented on Wikipedia than others. As a consequence, we find 
that for many countries in Africa, Central and South America, and South Asia, 
most of the content about those countries is in a foreign language, often a 
European-colonial language. In other words, in many of these places, people may 
need to be able to speak a second (possibly foreign) language in order to 
access Wikipedia information about their own places. Why do we see these 
differences? And what can be done to improve things?

You can also watch our past research showcases here: 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/ 
 Showcase

 

Emily, on behalf of the Research team

 

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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland's Annual Report 2021

[Nicole Ebber]

Hi everyone,

I am delighted to share Wikimedia Deutschland’s annual report 2021.[1]

In 21 articles we look back on a year marked by the pandemic and present
what we have done to set knowledge free. The report features our work and
the people behind topics like
knowledge equity, digital policy, WikidataCon, planting trees, Movement
Strategy, and of course the celebrations around Wikipedia 20.

Take a look!

Nicole

[1] https://www.wikimedia.de/2021/en/homepage/

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Director Movement Strategy and Global Relations

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de

Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German):
https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/

Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase June 15

[Emily Lescak]

Hi all,

The next Research Showcase, *Wikipedia's Languages*, will be live-streamed
Wednesday, June 15, at 4:00 AM PST/11:00 AM UTC. View your local time here
.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQM1dtn3g0

You are welcome to ask questions via YouTube chat or on IRC at
#wikimedia-research.

This month's presentations:
Quantifying knowledge synchronisation in the 21st centuryBy *Jisung Yoon
(Pohang University of Science and Technology)*Humans acquire and accumulate
knowledge through language usage and eagerly exchange their knowledge for
advancement. Although geographical barriers had previously limited
communication, the emergence of information technology has opened new
avenues for knowledge exchange. However, it is unclear which communication
pathway is dominant in the 21st century. Here, we explore the dominant path
of knowledge diffusion in the 21st century using Wikipedia, the largest
communal dataset. We evaluate the similarity of shared knowledge between
population groups, distinguished based on their language usage. When
population groups are more engaged with each other, their knowledge
structure is more similar, where engagement is indicated by socio-economic
connections, such as cultural, linguistic, and historical features.
Moreover, geographical proximity is no longer a critical requirement for
knowledge dissemination. Furthermore, we integrate our data into a
mechanistic model to better understand the underlying mechanism and suggest
that the knowledge "Silk Road" of the 21st century is based online.


The Language Geography of WikipediaBy *Martin Dittus*Every language is a
system of being, doing, knowing, and imagining. With over 7,000 active
languages in the world, how many languages are fully represented online? To
answer this question, digital non-profit Whose Knowledge? initiated the
first ever report on the State of the Internet's Languages. As part of this
report, Martin Dittus and Mark Graham have investigated the languages of
Wikipedia. Wikipedia began with a single English-language edition more than
two decades ago, and now offers more than 300 language editions, which
places it at the forefront of digital language support. However, this does
not mean that speakers of these languages get access to the same content:
Wikipedia’s language editions vary widely in scale. We further find that
this inequality is also reflected in Wikipedia’s geographic coverage: not
all places are captured in every language. Wikipedia's coverage often
follows the global distribution of speakers of the respective language. Yet
even when we account for the distribution of language populations, certain
language communities are much more strongly represented on Wikipedia than
others. As a consequence, we find that for many countries in Africa,
Central and South America, and South Asia, most of the content about those
countries is in a foreign language, often a European-colonial language. In
other words, in many of these places, people may need to be able to speak a
second (possibly foreign) language in order to access Wikipedia information
about their own places. Why do we see these differences? And what can be
done to improve things?

You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase


Emily, on behalf of the Research team

--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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