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    Oct 25

    The October Wikimedia Research showcase will be livestreamed on October 27, 16:30UTC (9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/18:30pm CET). The theme of this showcase will be “Bridging Knowledge Gaps”. Live-stream:

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    13 hours ago

    Check out the Oct research showcase, an update from the team about ongoing projects for addressing knowledge gaps. Also, we're glad our campaign is highlighted in conversations on equity, fairness & visibility 😊

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  3. 18 hours ago

    African Wikimedians (from our research newsletter's editorial team) and Reem Al-Kashif call for more research out of local communities, e.g. to understand "the projects that do work and the projects that don't work" in retaining African Wikipedia editors

    Thank you for having us in . It was interesting to share how Community should integrate (ft. , and Reem Al-Kashif). To learn more, please visit .
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  4. Nov 5

    Interested about growing and supporting the Wikimedia research communities in Africa? Join , , and for a discussion on Nov 7!

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    Nov 4

    The paper has been a long time coming and you may have been seen it presented at various places or in earlier versions online or with the journal. and did a write-up a couple months ago. It's a nice summary!

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  6. Nov 4

    "Quality change: norm or exception? Measurement, Analysis and Detection of Quality Change in Wikipedia" an analysis English article quality life cycle + an unsupervised approach to detect article quality switch. (Das et al, 2021)

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    Nov 4

    Volunteer contributions to increased during mobility restrictions:

    Our paper (w/ , tiago, , , , ) on how COVID-19 and the ensuing mobility restrictions affected volunteer contributions to is finally out - published with in ! 📜:
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  8. Nov 3

    📢Apply by January 3 to The Foundation Research Fund! Grants up to 50K USD will help research on Wikimedia projects and efforts to support the Wikimedia Research community worldwide 🌎🌏🌍 more info:

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    Nov 2

    Want to join me in the Community Data Science Collective? It's PhD admission season and my research collective () is doing a group Q&A about PhD admissions this Friday (November 5th). We've got room in the session so please sign up to join us!

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    Oct 29

    Learning from Each Other: Reciprocity in Description between Wikipedians and Librarians (Wikipedia? Wikidata? Bibliographic and authority records? Check - it's all in here).

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    Oct 31

    And as our research has shown, Wikipedia may have a big impact even outside the digital world:

    , many econ journals are missing from Wikipedia. For IO, neither Journal of Industrial Economics nor International Journal of Industrial Organization have Wikipedia pages (at least RAND does). Surely, the journals are notable enough for Wikipedia! 1/5
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  12. Nov 2

    Using Wikipedia "to narrow the gap between low- & high-resource languages (18K vs 9M samples) in "

    To achieve this, we introduced a new set of 18 fine-grained classes, and semi-automatically labeled all articles corresponding to named entities with one of them! 📄Paper: 💾 Resources:
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    Oct 31

    So, after 3 published papers on Wikipedia, I finally made a Wikipedia user account. My experience is consistent with research results: Wikipedians are welcoming. I have received welcome messages, help, and cookies. 5/5

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    Nov 2

    To achieve this, we introduced a new set of 18 fine-grained classes, and semi-automatically labeled all articles corresponding to named entities with one of them! 📄Paper: 💾 Resources:

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  15. Nov 1

    "Wikipedia Drug Safety Advisory Committee: Distilling A Drug Adverse Effect Reference Set Using Wisdom of The Crowd"

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    Nov 1

    Are Wikipedia bots in conflict with human editors? New blog post summarizing research from two summer REU students.

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  17. Nov 1

    The next Research office hours will be tomorrow November 2 at 5AM PT - 1PM CEST - 12:00 UTC (note the time change!) Join the Research team in a video call to chat about the latest news on data and research at Wikimedia!

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    Oct 29

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    Oct 28

    If you're interested in a in and for , get in touch: Part of the CDT on at King's and Imperial w/

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    Oct 30

    The settings will allow you to turn the gain up, to more easily see the coverage changes in less densely populated areas of the map Here we have the continent of Africa between 2014 and 2021, where any item on a pixel will show up at full brightness

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    Oct 28

    Scribe was created together with Supported by a grant. More information:

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