Re: [Wiki-research-l] Requesting access to deleted pages for research purposes

2021-02-02 Thread Su-Laine Yeo Brodsky
(I know this thread was from many months ago. I've been reading recently about related issues, and remembered this conversation) Mackenzie, That's a great question. Accusations of systemic bias in the deletion of biographies is one of the most common criticisms of Wikipedia, and it would be

[Wiki-research-l] Open Call to Join the Project & Simple APG Grants Programs Committees

2021-02-02 Thread Chris "Jethro" Schilling
Hello, (Apologies for cross-posting!) The Community Resources team is inviting you to an exciting opportunity to be a committee member as part of the grants programs' participatory grantmaking practice. Participatory grantmaking ensures that resourcing community efforts in the movement is

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours February 2, 2021

2021-02-02 Thread Martin Gerlach
A friendly reminder that this is happening later today at 17:00pm UTC (see here for other timezones [1]). Join us if you want to discuss about research. :) We will also share some updates around our work on the taxonomy of knowledge gaps: we just published a revised (second) version taking into