Hi all,
I'd like to bring the following event to your attention as in the
second part of it (starting at 10:00 PST - 18:00 UTC on 2019-11-20)
Isaac Johnson from Wikimedia Foundation's Research team will present
the results of the latest Wikipedia readership research across 13
languages. A part of this research has focused on understanding the
demographics of Wikipedia readers (age, gender, education,
rural/urban, native language). I hope that you can attend the event,
and if you can't, no worries: you can always watch it after the event
using the streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIko_V1k09s
.
Best,
Leila
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
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From: Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:23 PM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 20,
2019 at 9:30 AM PST, 17:30 UTC
To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
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Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 20,
2019, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation from Martin
Potthast of Leipzig University on text reuse in Wikipedia and other
presentation from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Isaac Johnson on the
demographics and interests of Wikipedia’s readers.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIko_V1k09s
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without
By Martin Potthast, Leipzig University
We study text reuse related to Wikipedia at scale by compiling the first
corpus of text reuse cases within Wikipedia as well as without (i.e., reuse
of Wikipedia text in a sample of the Common Crawl). To discover reuse
beyond verbatim copy and paste, we employ state-of-the-art text reuse
detection technology, scaling it for the first time to process the entire
Wikipedia as part of a distributed retrieval pipeline. We further report on
a pilot analysis of the 100 million reuse cases inside, and the 1.6 million
reuse cases outside Wikipedia that we discovered. Text reuse inside
Wikipedia gives rise to new tasks such as article template induction,
fixing quality flaws, or complementing Wikipedia’s ontology. Text reuse
outside Wikipedia yields a tangible metric for the emerging field of
quantifying Wikipedia’s influence on the web. To foster future research
into these tasks, and for reproducibility’s sake, the Wikipedia text reuse
corpus and the retrieval pipeline are made freely available. Paper
<https://webis.de/publications.html#?q=wikipedia%20ecir%202019>, Demo
<https://demo.webis.de/wikipedia-text-reuse/>
Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Demographics and Interests
By Isaac Johnson, Wikimedia Foundation
Building on two past surveys on the motivation and needs of Wikipedia
readers (Why We Read Wikipedia
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2016>; Why
the World Reads Wikipedia
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018>),
we examine the relationship between Wikipedia reader demographics and their
interests and needs. Specifically, we run surveys in thirteen different
languages that ask readers three questions about their motivation for
reading Wikipedia (motivation, needs, and familiarity) and five questions
about their demographics (age, gender, education, locale, and native
language). We link these survey results with the respondents' reading
sessions -- i.e. sequence of Wikipedia page views -- to gain a more
fine-grained understanding of how a reader's context relates to their
activity on Wikipedia. We find that readers have a diversity of backgrounds
but that the high-level needs of readers do not correlate strongly with
individual demographics. We also find, however, that there are
relationships between demographics and specific topic interests that are
consistent across many cultures and languages. This work provides insights
into the reach of various Wikipedia language editions and the relationship
between content or contributor gaps and reader gaps. See the meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…>
for more details.
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Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Dear Women Wikimedians,
As per our brief conversation online and during Wiki Women Lunch at
Wikimania Stockholm, we shared the idea of having WikiWomen Camp 2020. I
don't have words to express my gratitude for all the support, interest and
encouragement. I am delighted to share with you all that we (Me and some
fellow wikimedians who have been guiding me since Wikimedia Summit 2019)
wish to start the formal discussions around the camp. As first step of
planning, I am hereby sharing the Pre-event survey link
<https://forms.gle/PaS6jNuv4UdTbhTH7> with all of you for your suggestions
and inputs. This will help us understand the needs and expectations from
the event. You are also requested to share this with all the women in your
group so that we can reach out to majority of women in the movement.
Thanks and Regards,
Manavpreet Kaur
Member, Affiliations Committee
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
Manavpreet Kaur (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Manavpreet_Kaur), a
long time Wikimedian from India and I had a conversation yesterday.
Manavpreet is planning to bring the next WikiWomenCamp to India. She has
previously helped organize several conferences and meetups, including
WikiConference India 2016. I am writing to this list because Manavpreet
asked me to put her in touch with others who will be interested in the
planning/brainstorming process. If you are interested, you can write
directly to Manavpreet on dr.manavpreetkaur(a)gmail.com. She is not on this
mailing list.
Regards
Netha
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Netha Hussain
Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Hi ladies.
In the last weeks some of us, men and women from the Wikimedia movement had
various discussions (on email and by phone) with Julia Jacobs from the New
York Times about the harassment phenomenon in Wikipedia.
We tell her about our experiences, about WMF's engagement and talk about
the block filters that the Harassment team is working on.
This is the article, feel free to share it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/wikipedia-harassment-wikimedia-founda…
.
Thank you,
Camelia
Dear all,
Hope this email finds you well.
I am reaching out to you this time to share with you (I am sure most of
you know this information in advance) that the applications to be part of
the Working Groups for the movement strategy are open!
Would be great if many of us take part of the discussions. As you might
know we have a new strategic direction and during the next months and
through these different groups we will discuss and define recommendations
for the movement!
To understand better what does it mean to participate, you can find more
information here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…>
To apply, you can do it here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…>
.
Any question I can help! This process is leaded by Nicole Ebber and Kaarel
Vaidla and of couse I can contact with them if needed!
Hope to hearing from you!
Hugs!
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Anna Torres Adell
Directora Ejecutiva
*A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*
Dear all,
Hope this email finds you all well! :)
During WMCON we had a meeting where many ideas came out! We have summarized
here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Thematic,_regiona…>
!
In the pages you will find three different working groups that we are
trying to set up to continue working to address the diversity issue within
the movement!
We would like to invite you to participate!!
Any question, do not hesitate in asking!
Hope to see many of you in Wikimania!!
Hugs!
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Anna Torres Adell
Directora Ejecutiva
*A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*
Dear all,
Hope this email finds you well.
As WMCON is around the corner and some of us will be there (hopefully lot
of us) we have planned a meetup to continue working together.
In order to organize the meeting, would be great if you add yout name on
the following page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Thematic,_regiona…>,
where you can also find the tentative agenda. Please feel free to edit it
too!
Hope to see many of you asap!
Hugs
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Anna Torres Adell
Directora Ejecutiva
*A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*
Dear all,
First of all, apologies as I am reaching to you very late. As you know I am
also de ED of Wikimedia Argentina and post Wikimania we had the FDC process
and a site visit...and after that "life pendings" that were also important.
However and also knowing that some of you were in Stockholm I wanted to
send you this pending email with some comments on "how to move on" that we
talked about it back in Wikimania.
The main points we talked were:
* We all agreed that was great meeting us and that would be great to do it
more often. However WMF told us that there are not funds to replicate a WWC
every year. Maybe a great option can be "a pre-conference" format before
WIkimania (that was how North-America Conference happened ¿?)
* We analyzed the results of the survey. I want you all to know that I
worked closely with Sara and share with her your comments in order to
improve/do better some issues at the the Diversity Conference.
* @Moriel proposed to create different local support-networks to help us
out during 2018 and see if a system like this may work for us? Please
Moriel, can you explain it better ?
* Any of you attending to Diversity Conference. Any idea/project you feel
we could all work together?
*Any other idea we can work as a network this year? Would it help to
organize a hangout?
Thanks again and sorry for this late email!
Hugs!
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Anna Torres Adell
Directora Ejecutiva
*A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*
Hello all!
Hope this email finds you all well :)
First of all, happy new year 2018! Hopefully we will build a more inclusive
and diverse movement in 2018!
In this sense and as a lot of us are meeting again in Berlin I was thinking
in organizing something bigger than a lunch in Berlin.
Would it make sense for you? I was thinking that maybe we can work on
putting together a calendar of events and activities and work on a common
strategy also to help the phase 2 of the WMF strategy.
Let me know who would be interested and I plan it!
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Anna Torres Adell
Directora Ejecutiva
*A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*