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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] January 17 at 17:30 UTC
???? Quick reminder that this is happening in about 1 hour. Please join us at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 4:51?PM Kinneret Gordon <kgordon@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> 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/>
>
>