[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 19 at 1630 UTC

2023-07-19 Thread Kinneret Gordon 
Hello everyone,

Friendly reminder that the Showcase will start in about half an hour.

Hope you can join us!

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 10:37 AM Kinneret Gordon 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase, focused on *Improving knowledge integrity in
> Wikimedia projects*, will be live-streamed Wednesday, July 19, at 9:30 AM
> PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
> .
>
> The event is on the WMF Staff Calendar.
>
> YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/_8DevIsi44s?feature=share
> 
>
> 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:
> Assessment of Reference Quality on WikipediaBy *Aitolkyn Baigutanova,
> KAIST*In this talk, I will present our research on the reliability of
> Wikipedia through the lens of its references. I will primarily discuss our
> paper on the longitudinal assessment of reference quality on English
> Wikipedia, where we operationalize the notion of reference quality by
> defining reference need (RN), i.e., the percentage of sentences missing a
> citation, and reference risk (RR), i.e., the proportion of
> non-authoritative references. I will share our research findings on two key
> aspects: (1) the evolution of reference quality over a 10-year period and
> (2) factors that affect reference quality. We discover that the RN score
> has dropped by 20 percent point, with more than half of verifiable
> statements now accompanying references. The RR score has remained below 1%
> over the years as a result of the efforts of the community to eliminate
> unreliable references. As an extension of this work, we explore how
> community initiatives, such as the perennial source list, help with
> maintaining reference quality across multiple language editions of
> Wikipedia. We hope our work encourages more active discussions within
> Wikipedia communities to improve reference quality of the content.
>
>- Paper: Aitolkyn Baigutanova, Jaehyeon Myung, Diego Saez-Trumper,
>Ai-Jou Chou, Miriam Redi, Changwook Jung, and Meeyoung Cha. 2023.
>Longitudinal Assessment of Reference Quality on Wikipedia. In Proceedings
>of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW '23). Association for Computing
>Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2831–2839.
>
>
> Multilingual approaches to support knowledge integrity in WikipediaBy *Diego
> Saez-Trumper & Pablo Aragón, Wikimedia Foundation*Knowledge integrity in
> Wikipedia is key to ensure the quality and reliability of information. For
> that reason, editors devote a substantial amount of their time in
> patrolling tasks in order to detect low-quality or misleading content. In
> this talk we will cover recent multilingual approaches to support knowledge
> integrity. First, we will present a novel design of a system aimed at
> assisting the Wikipedia communities in addressing vandalism. This system
> was built by collecting a massive dataset of multiple languages and then
> applying advanced filtering and feature engineering techniques, including
> multilingual masked language modeling to build the training dataset from
> human-generated data. Second, we will showcase the Wikipedia Knowledge
> Integrity Risk Observatory, a dashboard that relies on a language-agnostic
> version of the former system to monitor high risk content in hundreds of
> Wikipedia language editions. We will conclude with a discussion of
> different challenges to be addressed in future work.
>
>- Papers:
>
> Trokhymovych, M., Aslam, M., Chou, A. J., Baeza-Yates, R., & Saez-Trumper,
> D. (2023). Fair multilingual vandalism detection system for Wikipedia.
> arXiv e-prints, arXiv-2306. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.01650.pdfAragón,
> P., & Sáez-Trumper, D. (2021). A preliminary approach to knowledge
> integrity risk assessment in Wikipedia projects. arXiv preprint
> arXiv:2106.15940.
> Best,
> Kinneret
> --
>
> Kinneret Gordon
>
> Senior Research Community Officer
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Annual report: North Carolina Wikipedians

2023-07-19 Thread E.S. Jack 
Dear Wikimedia colleagues,

I'm pleased to submit the 2022 annual report for the North Carolina
Wikipedians User Group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2022

Last year was a successful one for us, including our first-ever statewide
photo upload campaign, which yielded 564 new photos on Commons, and
coverage by the newspaper of record for Raleigh, North Carolina (the
state's largest newspaper by circulation).

Cheers,
Emily
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2023-07-19 Thread Željko Blaće 
+1 Erik (all true and well said)
-1 David (probably before pandemic)

I do not see a reason why at least existing corporate social media
posts would not be mirrored?

Also (from the less positive glass is half empty perspective)...
as it took a year of 'evaluation' for WMF to do this,
it is strange these pages on instance are empty:

About:This information has not been made available on this server.
Server rules:This information has not been made available on this server.
Moderated servers:This information has not been made available on this server.


Warm regards!
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[Wikimedia-l] wikimedia.social (was Re: Re: Mozilla's social media pledge)

2023-07-19 Thread Kunal Mehta 

On 7/17/23 11:53, Anusha A wrote:
I wanted to update you that the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a 
Mastodon instance. You can follow us at: 
wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation 
.


Awesome, this is really great to see happen! As far as I can tell, the 
reaction on the Fediverse has been pretty positive as well.


At the moment, sign-up is open for Wikimedia Foundation staff as we 
examine moderation and other areas. Product and technology staff will 
use it primarily for developer engagement. The goal is to create a space 
for people to connect and talk tech.


I'll just +1 everything Erik said regarding this topic. Despite being a 
developer, most of my feed is actually trains, bikes and foxes.


Please feel free to reach out to us on our talkpage 
with any questions.


Cool, I've left some notes at 
.


-- Kunal / Legoktm
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