Is there a way to attend remotely?
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 8:46 AM Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > We are organizing an event for Research and Wikimedia to exchange about > research done in the field and for researchers and Wikimedia community > members to work together on new ideas. The idea derived from the fact that > many researchers reusing Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects > often are not yet integrated with the community. This makes their work a > lot more difficult than necessary. At the same time, many research projects > are useful for the community, but not yet integrated into Wikipedia and co. > We want to change this and facilitate the exchange between researchers and > Wikimedia community members in an event, where we bring people interested > in similar topics together. If you are either doing research in the > Wikipedia space or are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects, > please come by on the 8th of February. More details below. > Please spread the event invitation in your communities! > > Best, > Lucie > > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-and-wikimedia-tickets-90824421289 > > *Description* > We are organizing an event for Wikimedians and researchers to exchange! > Come along and learn more about research happening around Wikimedia and > what Wikimedians can teach you about the different Wikimedia projects! > A large part of the computer science research community is exploring > Wikipedia, Wikidata and their sister projects. In the fields of natural > language processing (NLP) as well as semantic web, Wikipedia and Wikidata > are often used as a fundamental part of the research world. At the same > time, the community of Wikidata and Wikipedia could make use of a variety > of tools developed by researchers. However, currently, the gap between > things explored in research and actual applications in Wikidata and > Wikipedia needs bridging. Therefore, we want to build a community of > Wikidata community members and research to exchange needs, existing tools, > open challenges and research question to foster an environment, where both > communities can benefit from the exchange. > The ideal is to have all the different approaches and commonalities under > one umbrella to foster exchange and support of different research > communities and their approaches. > OpenSym and the WikiWorkshop are already doing that for the people > submitting to and attending computer science research conferences. But > without the exchange with the community, there is a lack of communication, > creating silos of missing exchange. > > *The Goal is* > to connect the researcher and the Wikimedia community to enable an exchange > that could ultimately lead to the research projects being implemented as > tools for Wikipedia. And vice-versa: More research projects build on > community needs. > > *We invite* > *Researchers* > Anyone who does or is planning to do research on or around Wikimedia > projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikidata and others. > *Wikimedians* > Anyone in the community, who is interested in improving the research > happening around Wikimedia - you don’t need any experience in research. > Wikipedia editor, Wikidata data magician, whatever you do in Wikimedia > projects, your feedback will be highly valuable. > > *What we need from you* > We would ask all researchers to bring an A2/A3 poster about what they are > doing in Wikimedia that we can put up so that we can create an easy way to > exchange on different projects. If you don’t have a project yet, don’t > worry- just bring a poster with topics you find interesting, and you might > be able to meet other researchers already working in your field of > interest. (If you struggle with printing the poster beforehand, please > reach out to us a few days in advance.) > > *Event* > We will spend a day exchanging on recent challenges around Wikimedia. > Besides the posters, we aim to form working groups for the afternoon to > work on topics of shared interest and possibly propose a project of common > interest. > > -- > Lucie-Aimée Kaffee > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > Travis _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
