Hi Leila, thanks for the pointers! We've already been in touch with Vinitha, Gergő, and Adam, talking about potential points of connecting the two projects. I will look into the Sockpuppet detection project. About the workshop, I'm not sure if we can manage to write up something by the time of the deadline.
Martin On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 8:41 PM, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Thanks for the update. I'm very interested to learn more once you have > more to share. > > I'm not sure if you're aware of the research on sockpuppet detection. > It's a different problem than what you describe here, but I would not > be surprised if learnings from each of these projects can help > another. You can keep in touch with the sockpuppet detection at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Sockpuppet_ > detection_in_Wikimedia_projects > > Also, if you will have early results, feel free to submit them as part > of the March 11 deadline (http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#dates) for > Wiki Workshop. It would be great to have a chance to discuss this > research more in person if you or your team will end up being in Lyon > for TWC2019. > > Best, > Leila > > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:39 AM, Martin Potthast > <martin.potth...@uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > we [1] would like to announce a research project with the goal of > studying > > whether user interactions recorded at the time of editing are suitable to > > predict vandalism in real time. > > > > Should vandal editing behavior be sufficiently different from normal > > editing behavior, this would allow for a number of interesting real-time > > prevention techniques. For example: > > - withholding confidently suspicious edits for review before publishing > > them, > > - a popup asking "I am not a vandal" (as in Google's "I am not a robot") > to > > analyze vandal reactions, > > - a popup with a chat box to personally engage vandals, e.g., to help > them > > find other ways of stress relief or to understand them better, > > - or at the very least: a new signal to improve traditional vandalism > > detectors. > > > > We have set up a laboratory environment to study editor behavior in a > > realistic setting using a private mirror of Wikipedia. No editing > > whatsoever is conducted on the real Wikipedia as part of our experiments, > > and all test subjects of our user studies are made aware of the > > experimental nature of their editing. We plan on making use of > > crowdsourcing as a means to attain scale and diversity. > > > > If you wish to participate in this study as a test subject yourself, > please > > get in touch. The more diversity, the more insightful the results will > be. > > We are also happy to collaborate and to answer all questions that may > arise > > in relation to the project. For example, our setup and tooling may turn > out > > to be useful to study other user behavior-related things without having > to > > actually deploy experiments within the live MediaWiki. > > > > Best, > > Martin > > > > PS: The AICaptcha project seems most closely related. @Vinitha and Gergő: > > If you wish, we can set up a Skype meeting to talk about a avenues for > > collaboration. > > > > > > [1] A group of students and researchers from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar ( > > www.webis.de) and Leipzig University (www.temir.org); project PI: Martin > > Potthast. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Dr. Martin Potthast Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Digital Bauhaus Lab Bauhausstr. 9a 99423 Weimar Germany +49 3643 58 3567 +49 171 809 1945 www.potthast.net _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
