Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 17,
at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1705512600>. The theme for this showcase is
*Connecting Action with Policy*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Presenting the report "Unreliable Guidelines"By *Amber Berson and Monika
Jones*The goal behind the report Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources
and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias was
to understand the effects of the set of reliable source guidelines and
rules on the participation of and the content about marginalized
communities on three Wikipedias. Two years following the release of their
report, researchers Berson and Sengul-Jones reflect on the impact of their
research as well as the actionable next steps.Why Should This Article Be
Deleted? Transparent Stance Detection in Multilingual Wikipedia Editor
DiscussionsBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Arnav Arora*The moderation of content
on online platforms is usually non-transparent. On Wikipedia, however, this
discussion is carried out publicly and the editors are encouraged to use
the content moderation policies as explanations for making moderation
decisions. However, currently only a few comments explicitly mention those
policies. To aid in this process of understanding how content is moderated,
we construct a novel multilingual dataset of Wikipedia editor discussions
along with their reasoning in three languages. We demonstrate that stance
and corresponding reason (policy) can be predicted jointly with a high
degree of accuracy, adding transparency to the decision-making process.
Best,
Kinneret
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 17,
at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1705512600>. The theme for this showcase is
*Connecting Action with Policy*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Presenting the report "Unreliable Guidelines"By *Amber Berson and Monika
Jones*The goal behind the report Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources
and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias was
to understand the effects of the set of reliable source guidelines and
rules on the participation of and the content about marginalized
communities on three Wikipedias. Two years following the release of their
report, researchers Berson and Sengul-Jones reflect on the impact of their
research as well as the actionable next steps.Why Should This Article Be
Deleted? Transparent Stance Detection in Multilingual Wikipedia Editor
DiscussionsBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Arnav Arora*The moderation of content
on online platforms is usually non-transparent. On Wikipedia, however, this
discussion is carried out publicly and the editors are encouraged to use
the content moderation policies as explanations for making moderation
decisions. However, currently only a few comments explicitly mention those
policies. To aid in this process of understanding how content is moderated,
we construct a novel multilingual dataset of Wikipedia editor discussions
along with their reasoning in three languages. We demonstrate that stance
and corresponding reason (policy) can be predicted jointly with a high
degree of accuracy, adding transparency to the decision-making process.
Best,
Kinneret
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>