Hi everyone,
Wiki Workshop [1 <https://wikiworkshop.org/>] 2023 will be the 10th edition
of Wiki Workshop! \o/ In the spirit of research and experimentation, we
have decided to make some changes for this decade edition event. There are
some changes that we know about now, and some that are work in progress.
Below you can learn more about the high level changes we expect to
implement.
*Online or in-person?*
Based on the feedback that we have gathered from Wiki Workshop attendees
over the past few years, a survey of authors of the recent Wiki Workshops,
as well as data about the geographical and gender diversity of Wiki
Workshop attendees (disclosed optionally as part of the registration form,
and aggregated), *we have decided to offer Wiki Workshop 2023 as a fully
online event*.
Through the authors' survey we also learned that some authors who publish
in Wiki Workshop appreciated the in-person presence of the Wiki Workshop
community as part of the Web Conference [2 <https://www2023.thewebconf.org/>]
(formerly WWW). *We are exploring options to bring the Wikimedia
researchers who will attend TheWebConf 2023 in-person together while some
of us will be in Austin*. More details on this in early 2023.
*When*
We expect the workshop to take place some time in April-June 2023. We will
announce the exact date no later than the end of February 2023.
*Publishing and proceedings*
When we surveyed Wiki Workshop authors, those who responded were split
50-50 between whether it is important for them to have their workshop
submission as part of a proceedings. This allowed us to start considering
options other than the Companion Proceedings of WWW (the traditional venue
where a subset of Wiki Workshop papers were published in every year).
I'm very excited to share that we have found a new approach for publishing
Wiki Workshop papers that can allow us to experiment with new models and
keep the two groups of authors happy.
For the 2023 edition, *we will continue with the tradition of receiving
paper submissions for Wiki Workshop* (though we may change the submission
format/length for 2023)* and all accepted papers will appear in the
**corresponding
Wiki Workshop website*, similar to last year's. [3
<https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/#papers>] However, instead of accepting a
subset of the papers to appear in Proceedings of WWW, we are working with
the Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) [4
<https://dl.acm.org/journal/tweb>] to create a pathway for a subset of the
Wiki Workshop papers (likely after being extended) to be submitted for
review to *a special edition of ACM TWEB*.
There are a lot of details for us to work on to make the TWEB special
edition happen and that means this year you should expect to receive the
Call for Paper for Wiki Workshop some time in late January to middle of
February 2023 (instead of the usual December time-frame).
I am very excited about the opportunity for the work of the Wikimedia
research and Wiki Workshop community to be published as part of ACM
Transactions on the Web and I'm very grateful to Ryen White,
Editor-in-Chief of ACM TWEB, for being welcoming in exploring this idea and
offering a special edition space (details tbd).
*Other changes*
There are some other high level schedule changes that we may make for the
2023 edition. If you like to stay informed about these changes at a
granular level and over time, you're welcome to subscribe to the
Phabricator task where these changes will be tracked:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313530 .
We hope to be back with more updates for you in early 2023.
Best,
Leila, Bob and Emily
p.s. Please note that I didn't run the text of this email with Bob and
Emily (cc-ed). We have coordinated and discussed these changes among
ourselves, and they're welcome to add/update as they see fit.
[1] https://wikiworkshop.org/
[2] https://www2023.thewebconf.org/
[3] https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/#papers
[4] https://dl.acm.org/journal/tweb
--
Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research
policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a
policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to
participate in studies.
At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying
group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much
the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots.
The policy proposal can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research
The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal
is being described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia
community, we would like additional input about the proposal,
and would welcome additional help improving it.
Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
--
Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
Hello Wikimedians!
I am Khushi Shah, the director of Khushtar Heritage Collective. As per our
conversation, I am sending the details of the World Heritage Volunteer
program that I am hosting in Ahmedabad, India, from August 1st to August
10th, 2023.
*The World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) Initiative, launched in 2008 in
partnership with the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary
Service (CCIVS), aims to engage and mobilize young individuals and youth
organizations in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage sites.
Presently, the initiative is jointly coordinated by the UNESCO World
Heritage Centre and Better World.*
Our 10-day workshop, titled *"Ahmedabad: From the lenses of built
heritage,"* will focus on interactive learning activities that delve into
the concepts of heritage, the significance of heritage and culture in
society, and the technical aspects of conserving historical properties.
For the same, I was wondering if any of the Wikimedia Research team would
like to collaborate with us.
The collaboration can benefit both of us while also engaging more youth in
heritage and culture.
Would you be interested in talking further about a possible collaboration?
I have attached a brochure of a tentative list of activities planned during
the workshop.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Best regards.
* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call *
=========================================
========== 2nd Call for Papers ==============
9th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR-2023)
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/fcr2023.html
co-located with the 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
in Berlin, Germany (KI 2023)
========================================
Aims and Scope
--------------
In real-life AI applications, information is usually pervaded by
uncertainty and subject to change, and thus requires non-classical
systems. At the same time, psychological findings indicate that human
reasoning cannot be completely described by classical logical systems.
Sources of explanations are incomplete knowledge, incorrect beliefs, or
inconsistencies. A wide range of reasoning mechanisms has to be
considered, such as analogical or defeasible reasoning, possibly in
combination with machine learning methods. The field of knowledge
representation and reasoning offers a rich palette of methods for
uncertain reasoning both to describe human reasoning and to model AI
approaches.
The aim of this series of workshops is to address recent challenges and
to present novel approaches to uncertain reasoning and belief change in
their broad senses, and in particular provide a forum for research work
linking different paradigms of reasoning. A special focus is on papers
that provide a base for connecting formal-logical models of knowledge
representation and cognitive models of reasoning and learning,
addressing formal and experimental or heuristic issues. Previous events
of the Workshop on "Formal and Cognitive Reasoning" and joint workshops
took place in Dresden (2015), Bremen (2016), Dortmund (2017), Berlin
(2018), Kassel (2019), Bamberg (2020, online), Berlin (2021, online),
and Trier (2022, online).
We welcome papers on the following and any related topics:
Action and change
Agents and multiagent systems
Analogical reasoning
Argumentation theories
Belief change and belief merging
Cognitive modeling and empirical data
Common sense and defeasible reasoning
Computational thinking
Decision theory and preferences
Inductive reasoning and cognition
Knowledge representation in theory and practice
Learning and knowledge discovery in data
Nonmonotonic and uncertain reasoning
Ontologies and description logics
Probabilistic approaches of reasoning
Syllogistic reasoning
Publication
-----------
The proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop proceedings series.
Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs
---------------------------------
Christoph Beierle FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Kai Sauerwald FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
François Schwarzentruber University of Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France
Frieder Stolzenburg Hochschule Harz, Germany
Program Committee
-----------------
Theofanis Aravanis University of Patras, Greece
Laura Giordano Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Jesse Heyninck Open Universiteit Heerlen, the Netherlands
Haythem O. Ismail German University in Cairo, Egypt
Gabriele Kern-Isberner TU Dortmund, Germany
Jean-Guy Mailly Université Paris Cité, France
Meltem Ozturk Université Paris Dauphine, France
Özgür Lütfü Özcep University of Lübeck, Germany
Sylwia Polberg Cardiff University, UK
Ute Schmid Universität Bamberg, Germany
Claudia Schon Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Matthias Thimm FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Markus Ulbricht University of Leipzig, Germany
Johannes P. Wallner Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christoph Wernhard Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Important Dates
---------------
Deadline for Submission: July 9, 2023
Notification of Authors: September 3, 2023
Camera-ready Paper: September 13, 2023
Workshop: September 26, 2023
Submission Details
------------------
Papers should be formatted in CEUR style (2-column style) without
enabled header and footer. The author kit can be found at
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. The length of each paper should
not exceed 8-12 pages. All papers must be written in English and
submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system. One of the authors is
expected to participate in the workshop and present their paper.
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, with the theme of *Wikimedia and LGBTQIA+*,
will be live-streamed Wednesday, June 21 at 16:30 UTC. Find your local time
here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1687365012>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOD2ZdxRNfo
You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research or on the
YouTube chat.
This month's presentations:
- *Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals
in Wikipedia*
- *Speaker*: Chan Park, Carnegie Mellon University
- *Abstract*: In this talk, I present our research on analyzing the
portrayal of LGBT individuals in their biographies on Wikipedia, with a
particular focus on subtle word connotations and cross-cultural
comparisons. We aim to address two primary research questions: 1) How can
we effectively measure the nuanced connotations of words in multilingual
texts, which reflect sentiments, power dynamics, and agency? 2)
How can we
analyze the portrayal of a specific group, such as the LGBT
community, and
compare these portrayals across different languages? To answer these
questions, we collect the Multilingual Contextualized Connotation Frames
dataset, comprising 2,700 examples in English, Spanish, and Russian. We
also develop a new multilingual model based on pre-trained multilingual
language models. Additionally, we devise a matching algorithm to
construct
a comparison corpus for the target corpus, isolating the attribute of
interest. Finally, we showcase how our developed models and constructed
corpora enable us to conduct cross-cultural analysis of LGBT People
Portrayals on Wikipedia. Our results reveal systematic differences in how
the LGBT community is portrayed across languages, surfacing cultural
differences in narratives and signs of social biases.
- *Paperː* Park, C. Y., Yan, X., Field, A., & Tsvetkov, Y. (2021,
May). Multilingual contextual affective analysis of LGBT people
portrayals
in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web
and Social Media (Vol. 15, pp. 479-490).
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10820.pdf>
- *Visual gender biases in Wikipediaː A systematic evaluation across the
ten most spoken languages*
- *Speaker*: Daniele Metilli, University College London
- *Abstract*: Wikidata Gender Diversity (WiGeDi) is a one-year
project funded through the Wikimedia Research Fund. The project
is studying
gender diversity in Wikidata, focusing on marginalized gender identities
such as those of trans and non-binary people, and adopting a queer and
intersectional feminist perspective. The project is organised in three
strands — model, data, and community. First, we are looking at how the
current Wikidata ontology model represents gender, and the
extent to which
this representation is inclusive of marginalized gender
identities. We are
analysing the data stored in the knowledge base to gather insights and
identify possible gaps and biases. Finally, we are looking at how the
community has handled the move towards the inclusion of a wider
spectrum of
gender identities by studying a corpus of user discussions through
computational linguistics methods. This presentation will report on the
current status of the Wikidata Gender Diversity project and the
envisioned
outcomes. We will discuss the main challenges that we are facing and the
opportunities that our project will potentially enable, on Wikidata and
beyond.
- *Paperː* Metilli D. & Paolini C. (in press). ‘Non-binary gender
representation in Wikidata’. In: Provo A., Burlingame K. & Watson B.M.
Ethics in Linked Data. Litwin Books. <https://wigedi.com/chapter.pdf>
You can watch our past Research Showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
Hope you can join us!
Warm regards,
--
*Pablo Aragón (he/him)*
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
https://research.wikimedia.org
* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *
* For the online version of this call, please visit:
https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/workshops *
SEMANTiCS 2023 (20th-22nd September - Leipzig, Germany) is hosting an
enriched collection of three workshops accepting submissions for
contributions:
Onto4FAIR: 3rd Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies
Organizers: Cassia Trojahn (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de
Toulouse, France), Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos (University of
Twente, Leiden University Medical Centre, the Netherlands), Giancarlo
Guizzardi (University of Twente, the Netherlands), Clement Jonquet
(French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and
Environment, Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics for Environment and
Agronomy research unit, Montpellier, France)
https://onto4fair.github.io/2023-semantics.html
Sem4Tra: 5th International Workshop On A Semantic Data Space For Transport
Organizers: David Chaves Fraga (Senior Researcher, UPM & KULeuven),
Mersedeh Sadeghi (Senior Researcher, University of Cologne), Shahrom
Sohi (Researcher, WU), Julián Rojas (Postdoc Researcher, imec - IDLab
UGent), Pieter Colpaert (Senior Researcher, imec - IDLab UGent)
https://sem4tra2023.linkeddata.es/
NLP4KGC: 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Graph
Construction
Organizers: Edlira Vakaj (Birmingham City University, Bermingham, UK),
Sanju Tiwari (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Mexico),
Rizou Stamatia (Singular Logic, Athens, Greece), Nandana
Mihindukulasooriya (IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland), Fernando
Ortiz-Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas,
Mexico), Ryan Mcgranaghan (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California,
United States)
https://sites.google.com/view/2nd-nlp4kgc/home
Looking forward to your submissions!
With kind regards,
Workshop & Tutorial Chairs
Thank you for your feedback. I think we have a very large and open
corpus of documented incidents. As said, the Wikidata workshop is not
a good target conference. Following the reference
[4]: <https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606583>
I think a paper on that would better fit
https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2024/icse-2024-software-engineering-i…
I will continue updating the paper on Overleaf
https://www.overleaf.com/read/swswtbdyyhmg
All the best
Moritz
On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 7:57 PM Tyler Cipriani <tcipriani(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 12:40 AM Physikerwelt <wiki(a)physikerwelt.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there any research on common causes of Wikimedia production errors?
>>
>> Based on recent examples, I plan to analyze and discuss how production
>> errors could be avoided. I am considering submitting a short paper on
>> that to the Wikidata workshop, with the deadline
>> Thursday, 20 July 2023
>> Website: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2023/
>> However, there might be better suitable venues.
>
>
> We (Release Engineering) file production-error tasks as part of the weekly train and collect some data in the "train-stats" repo on GitLab[0]. Additionally, Timo Tijhof's "production excellence" blog posts and emails to this list may be of interest to you[1].
>
> The "train-stats" repo collects data for "software defect prediction" based on the use of "FixCaches" or "BugCaches."[2] Each week, we record changes that fix bugs (i.e., the change uses the git trailer `Bug: TXXX` and gets backported to a currently deployed branch). The theory (per the paper linked above) is that the more often a file needs a fix, the more likely it is to cause future bugs. I have an extremely convoluted query to show the list of commonly backported files[3].
>
> Problems with this data:
> - Many of these files are frequently touched files vs error-prone files (e.g., "composer.json")
> - Looking at the count of backports for each file means newer files are less likely to be represented
> - "Lower level" files may be overrepresented (although, that's probably to be expected)
>
> In 2013, a case study used data like this inside Google and found it to be fairly accurate at predicting future bugs[4].
>
> Also, in the case study, whenever a developer edited a file that was present in their fixCache, researchers added a bot-generated note to the patch in their code review tool.Their developers found this note unhelpful: developers already knew these files were problematic—the warning just caused confusion.
>
> Based on that, in March 2020, we created the "Risky Change Template"[5]. My thinking was: if developers already know what's risky, then they can flag it in the train task for the week[6]. At the time, I hoped this would reduce the total version deployment time (although I have no data on that).
>
> I hope some of this helps!
>
> – Tyler
>
> [0]: <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/train-stats>
> [1]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/296/production_excellence…>
> [2]: <https://people.csail.mit.edu/hunkim/images/3/37/Papers_kim_2007_bugcache.pdf>
> [3]: <https://data.releng.team/train?sql=select%0D%0A++filename%2C%0D%0A++project…>
> [4]: <https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606583>
> [5]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Risky_change_template>
> [6]: <https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/> (here's an example this week: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337526#8901982>)
>
>>
>>
>> I am also open to collaboration on this effort. If you are interested
>> in a joint paper, drop me an email until the end of this week.
>>
>> All the best
>> Moritz
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The May 2023 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2023/May
In this issue:
Cooperative creators "lose ownership" of their Wikipedia contributions, but
the community's NPOV governance should still be "kept limited"
Briefly
*** 7 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Alhaji Darajaati on behalf of the Newsletter team
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