[Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] A new formal collaboration in Research

2020-05-22 Thread Diego Saez-Trumper
Hi all, The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new Formal Collaboration with the *Institute of Basic Science* (IBS) from South Korea to work collaboratively on *Discovering content inconsisten

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Measuring gender bias in contributors to the French-language Wikipedia

2020-05-22 Thread Jane Darnell
Two questions: 1) Why do you think "contributor genders" write articles about people? 2) Why do you want to explore the relationship between the genders of articles about people and the genders of the contributors to those articles? It's more interesting to discover how well the Wikipedia article

[Wiki-research-l] Analytics/Research Office hours 2020-05-27 at 18.00-19.00 (UTC)

2020-05-22 Thread Martin Gerlach
Hi all, join us for our monthly Analytics/Research Office hours next Wednesday, 2020-05-27 at 18.00-19.00 (UTC)*. Bring all your research questions and ideas to discuss projects, data, analysis, etc… To participate, please join the IRC channel: #wikimedia-research [1]. More detailed information c

[Wiki-research-l] [CfP] Wikidata Workshop @ ISWC 2020

2020-05-22 Thread Lucie Kaffee
*The First Wikidata Workshop* Co-located with the 19th International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2020). Date: To be announced (late October, early November) The workshop will be held online, afternoon European time. Website: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/ == Important dates == Papers

[Wiki-research-l] Measuring gender bias in contributors to the French-language Wikipedia

2020-05-22 Thread Baptiste Fontaine
Hello, Due to a lot of free time these days I started a personal research project on gender bias in contributors to the French-language Wikipedia. My goal is to explore the relation between contributor genders and the people they create articles about. The hypotheses are: 1- contributors predomin