#2019 WIKI READER UPDATE HOW TO#
#2019 WIKI READER UPDATE UPDATE#

Understanding Engagement with Images in Wikipedia Jun 2020 We published some initial insights into how readers engage with image content in Wikipedia articles.Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership Jul 2020 We published a preprint (now accepted to ICWSM 2021) describing the gender distribution of readers on Wikipedia and how gender manifests in records of user behavior.

#2019 WIKI READER UPDATE HOW TO#

A Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps for Wikimedia Projects (First Draft) Aug 2020 We published the first draft of the Knowledge Gaps Taxonomy, our attempt at bringing structure to what we know about how to understand and address knowledge gaps in the Wikimedia projects.

A Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps for Wikimedia Projects (Second Draft) Feb 2021 We published the second draft of the Knowledge Gaps taking into account extensive feedback from the community.

Evaluating list building tools for ad-hoc topic models Apr 2021 We published some initial insights on how language-agnostic topic models can help curate lists of articles related to specific topics across projects and languages.

The Wikipedia image/caption matching challenge Sep 2021 We released a new dataset and Kaggle competition aimed at addressing missing captions for images on Wikipedia.

Reader Interactions with Images on Wikipedia Dec 2021 Our paper describing how readers interact with images on English Wikipedia was published at EPJ Data Science.

Visual Gender Biases in Wikipedia Dec 2021 Our paper describing a systematic evaluation of differences between image usage across biographies across the ten most-spoken languages was accepted at ICWSM '22.

Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough Jan 2022 Our paper describing how well public clickstream data describes private reader session data (very well) was accepted at WSDM '22.

Going Down the Rabbit Hole Mar 2022 We published a paper in WikiWorkshop '22 describing reader 'rabbit holes' and the ways in which readers navigate the richness of Wikipedia topics.

#2019 WIKI READER UPDATE UPDATE#

A New Research Roadmap For Addressing Knowledge Gaps Apr 2022 We published an update to our research vision for addressing knowledge gaps on the Wikimedia projects.

Exploring Wikipedia's Values on Article Priority Aug 2022 We published a new paper examining how Wikimedians on English Wikipedia discuss article importance and how to operationalize those values.

More information can be found in our white paper. This program aims to deliver citable, peer-reviewed knowledge and new technology in order to generate baseline data on the diversity of the Wikimedia contributor population, understand reader needs across languages, remove barriers for contribution by underrepresented groups, and help contributors identify and expand missing content across languages and topics. We have begun to advance knowledge equity with a research program to address knowledge gaps.

In order to meet this goal, we need to understand how to serve audiences, groups, and cultures that today are underrepresented in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons and other Wikimedia projects-in terms of participation, access, representation, and coverage. The Wikimedia movement has identified as a strategic goal supporting “the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege”. How can we help Wikimedia projects thrive in a world that is becoming increasingly different from the one we are building for today, both in terms of production and consumption of content? Latin America’s population will continue to grow rapidly while population growth in Europe and Northern America-today’s largest sources of contributors and readership to Wikimedia projects-will plateau.

In 2030, the world’s population is projected to be 8.6 billion, almost 80% of which will live in Africa and Asia. We are developing systems that identify and address gaps across Wikimedia projects.

2019 wiki reader update