Then again, apparently the Foundation has a PR team whose only job is to
compile the latest marketing buzzwords, and they seem to really love AI.
You might get some buy in. Never know.
V/r
TJW/GMG
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 11:23 Kerry Raymond wrote:
> That's why I think we need "signatures" which
Hmm. I get the error that the mailing list doesn't exist. But if you write here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiCite
someone should be able to point you in the right direction. There has been
activity there within the last month.
Kerry
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Hi all-
One more thing: on twitter, I was advised that this list and the wikicite
google group were the best places to discuss research around citations.
Although I would like to post about this line of inquiry to the wikicite
group, it appears to be a private group. As an outsider, I have not
That's why I think we need "signatures" which is my shorthand for things like a
hash function or a bounding box, a means by which many non-matching accounts
can be eliminated at low cost, reserving the high cost comparisons (machine or
human) only for high probability candidates. It is
I think embeddings[1] would be a nice way to create a signature.
Essentially, we could dump data about a person's activities into it (words
added, namespaces edited, time of day of edits, temporal frequency of
editing, # of revisions per session, frequency of citation by type, etc.)
and get a
You are correct that in all but the most obvious cases, filing an SPI can
be exceptionally time consuming. I'm afraid there is no obvious technical
solution there that would not involve a complicated AI that is probably
beyond the ability of the foundation to produce.
There is quite a bit of data
Wow, Kerry! Thank you for taking the time to write all these thoughts out.
I'm asking the question because I'm concerned that the gender balance of
the authors being cited on wikipedia is different from the already quite
bad patterns in academia. My fear is that the citation gender imbalance on
Just a note that you can still go through warnings for vandalism etc. and
report to AIV.
Or at that edit speed, you may have a chance at AN at reporting for
bot-like edits which will draw attention to the account.
If you ever need help, things like #wikipedia-en-help on Freenode IRC exist
so you
To reply to my own question .
Can we find a way to create a "signature" of an account's pattern of
editing? Perhaps it might be a set of signatures, maybe one for the
categories that the account appears to be active in, another for the type of
edit, etc. Then if these signatures were
