User:Econterms/Presentation to Federal MediaWiki SIG
- Wikimania 2017 was in Montreal in August. This is the main annual conference of Wikimedians.
- This page is on the web site for the conference -- the "conference wiki."
- The program of the conference is online, and slides and notes from many sessions are linked indirectly from it
September 2017 presentation
Wikimedia research
- Submissions/User digest/State of Wikimedia Research 2016-2017
- Show slides and Etherpad
- Analysis of
- Srijan Kumar ; Robert West ; Jure Leskovec. 2016 "Disinformation on the Web" Proceedings of WWW 2016
- Study is of Wikipedia hoaxes -- detecting them, their characteristics, and their effect ("impact")
- Hoaxes: humans classify things as hoaxes ; so do machines ("machine classifiers") and they compare these
- most hoaxes are caught and wiped out within a day
- Benjamin Smith ; Abel Gustafson "Using Wikipedia to predict election outcomes"
- Counts of page views of an article on a candidate are positive predictors of the candidate's vote total in the election, even holding other info constant
Relatedly, keynote speaker from FactsCan: Keynotes#Dana_Wagner
Hackathon
Afterwards there was a presentation afterward of new developments
New software
- Wikitext <==> Visual editor <==> presentation in HTML 5 will call for some changes in the underlying parsing; it will change/break the way a few pages appear
- https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikitext:_upcoming_changes,_available_tools,_what_you_can_do.
Excellent Wikidata training by Andrew Lih in the preconference -- can add link here later
Bassel
Archives, Libraries, Scanathon, and Wikisource
- Wikisource:
Many conferences
- WikiConference North America + Wikimania 2017 here
- WikiCite
- Wikidatacon
- WikiSym / OpenSym
- Next year: Wikimania 2018 will be in South Africa
October 2017 presentation
- (1) Etytree presentation about etymology based on Wiktionary and/or Wikdata info: show Wiktionary 1 and Wiktionary 2 ; visit https://tools.wmflabs.org/etytree/etymology/index.html, and try "celery" and "pistachio" ; This was funded researchGrant info;
- (2) WikiCite projects and conferences: [1] and go to slide 14 -- note the questions asked and the technologies of answering