News
- May 10, 2023: See you on May 11th at the event! :)
- May 8, 2023: Extended abstract PDFs are now available through the website.
- Apr. 27, 2023: The invited contributors to the Developer track are listed on the website.
- Apr. 20, 2023: The list of program committee members is posted on the website. Thanks to the reviewers.
- Apr. 20, 2023: The list of accepted extended abstracts is posted on the website. Congratulations to all authors.
- Apr. 6, 2023: Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 is now open. Register!
- Mar. 27, 2023: We have received 69 research submissions! PC members are currently reviewing the submissions.
- Feb. 24, 2023: Submission template and EasyChair link are published.
- Feb. 16, 2023: Key dates, call for contributions and submission instructions are published.
- Feb. 8, 2023: Wiki Workshop 2023 will be fully remote.
- Feb. 8, 2023: Wiki Workshop 2023 webpage online.
Schedule
The times in the table below are in UTC. 12:00 UTC is 5:00 in San Francisco, 8:00 in New York City, 15:00 in Nairobi, and 20:00 in Beijing.
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Welcome and Orientation |
| 12:15 - 12:25 | Getting to Know Each Other |
| 12:25 - 13:45 | Research and Developer tracks (parallel sessions) |
| 13:45 - 13:50 | Break |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Live Music |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Research and Developer tracks (parallel sessions) |
| 15:20 - 15:30 | Live Music and Break |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Panel - AI and the Future of the Wikimedia Projects |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | Break |
| 16:40 - 17:55 | Research track (parallel sessions) |
| 17:55 - 18:00 | Break |
| 18:00 - 18:05 | Live Music |
| 18:05 - 18:20 | Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year ceremony |
| 18:20 - 18:45 | Town hall and open conversation |
| 18:45 - 18:50 | Closing |
Invited contributors
Isaac Johnson (Wikimedia Foundation)
Isaac Johnson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation. He conducts foundational research and develops new AI technologies to support contributors in addressing knowledge gaps on the Wikimedia projects. He focuses on doing this in an ethical and sustainable manner. Examples of projects in this space have included developing topic classification models that cover all 300+ languages of Wikipedia, guiding the roll-out of generative models within Wikimedia edit recommender systems, and participating in the data governance working group for BigScience's BLOOM large language model.
Elena Simperl (King’s College London and Open Data Institute)
Elena Simperl is a Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London and the ODI’s Director of Research. She is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a senior member of the Society for the Study of AI and Simulation of Behaviour, and a former Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Elena’s research is in human-centric AI, exploring socio-technical questions around the management, use, and governance of data in AI applications. According to AMiner, she is in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade. She also features in the Women in AI 2000 ranking. In her 15-year career, she has led 14 national and international research projects, contributing to another 26. She is the scientific and technical lead of the European programme MediaFutures, researching how arts, entrepreneurship and AI can help tackle online harms. She served as programme and general chair to conferences in artificial intelligence, social computing, and data innovation. She is the president of the Semantic Web Science Association.
Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face)
Thomas is a co-founder of Hugging Face where he oversees the open-source team and the science teams. He enjoys creating open-source software that make complex research accessible and is most proud of creating the Transformers and Datasets libraries as well as the Magic Sand tool. When not building OSS, he pushes for open-science in research in AI/ML, to lower the gap between academia and industrial labs by imagining projects like the BigScience Workshop on Large Language Models. His current research interests are centered around overcoming the current limitations of Large Language Models with multi-modalities and complementary approaches. Thomas enjoys writing and filming educational content on ML and NLP, including writing the reference book Natural Language Processing with Transformers published by O'Reilly and written with co-authors Lewis Tunstall and Leandro von Werra, writing in his medium blog and recording out-of-the-ordinary videos like The Future of Natural Language Processing.
Photo by Sumanth69 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Neechalkaran is a Wikipedian & Computational Linguist from Tamilnadu. Developer of ChatWiki (Wikidata based ChatBOT), VaaniNLP (Tamil NLP library) and various language tools like Tamil Spell checker, Indic Transliteration. Developed various userscripts and BOT for Indic Languages. He created more than 23,000 articles in Tamil wikipedia and 35,000 pages in Tamil Wiktionary. Neechalkaran was a recipient of Information Technology in Tamil Award from Canada Tamil Literary Garden & Tamil Computing Award from Government of Tamilnadu. He has organized various Technology Workshops and Hackathons related to Wikimedia, Life science, Language Computing in South India.
Photo by Diegodlh (CC0 1.0)
Diego de la Hera is a scientist and wikimedian from Argentina. He contributes to technical projects, including the development of tools such as Cita, a Wikidata addon for Zotero, and Web2Cit, a tool to collaboratively improve automatic citations in Wikipedia. He is also one of the founders and member of Wikimedistas Calamuchita, a non-recognized user group in the Calamuchita Valley in Córdoba, Argentina, and of Wikitécnica, a community of Spanish-speaking technical wikimedians.
Nidia Hernández is a linguist (University of Buenos Aires) and a specialist in natural language processing (Paris 3/INALCO). She is a member of CAICYT-CONICET (Buenos Aires, Argentina) where she develops resources for Digital Humanities projects and she also collaborates in the documentation, processing and analysis of endangered languages of South America.
Sohom Datta is a student and is one of the volunteer developers working on the ProofreadPage extension at Wikimedia. The ProofreadPage extension provides "proofreading" capabilities to MediaWiki, which is essential for Wikisource, a project that aims to be a free library that anyone can improve. Sohom started his journey in 2020 as a Google Summer of Code student and worked on various features related to Wikisource, such as the inclusion of the Pagelist widget, an interface aimed at simplifying the act of labelling the page number for a book. More recently, in 2021 and 2022, he was involved in efforts to streamline the editing interface for Wikisource, including the addition of IIIF support and the improvement of zooming and panning mechanisms.
Accepted extended abstracts
Key dates
- Submission deadline: March 23, 2023 23:59 AOE
- Author notification: April 17, 2023
- Final version due: May 1, 2023 23:59 AOE
- Workshop date: May 11, 2023 (tentatively scheduled from 12:00-19:00 UTC)
Call for contributions
We invite contributions to the 10th edition (!) of Wiki Workshop, which will take place virtually on May 11, 2023 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year, aimed at bringing together researchers who study all aspects of Wikimedia projects (including, but not limited to, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and Wiktionary) as well as Wikimedia developers, affiliate organizations, and volunteer editors. Co-organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team and members of the Wikimedia research community, the workshop facilitates a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the organizations that serve Wikimedia projects and the researchers actively studying them. New this year: Building on the successful experiences of organizing Wiki Workshop in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 and based on feedback from authors and participants over the years, we are introducing a few updates to the research track of the workshop for 2023:
- This 10th edition will take place as a standalone event (rather than in co-location with a conference, as in previous years).
- We have changed the format of submissions and will only accept 2-page extended abstracts (following the successful IC2S2 model).
- Submissions are non-archival, so we welcome ongoing, completed, and already published work. Non-archival means that Wiki Workshop does not constitute a publication venue and that having a paper being submitted, accepted, and presented at the workshop does not constitute publication.
- We are excited to share that the authors of Wiki Workshop 2023 will have the opportunity to receive feedback, improve their work, and submit the extended version of their research paper to a special issue of the ACM Transactions on the Web, which will have a dedicated open call for papers later in 2023.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- new technologies and initiatives to grow content, quality, equity, diversity, and participation across Wikimedia projects
- use of bots, algorithms, and crowdsourcing strategies to curate, source, or verify content and structured data
- bias in content and gaps of knowledge on Wikimedia projects
- relation between Wikimedia projects and the broader (open) knowledge ecosystem
- exploration of what constitutes a source and how/if the incorporation of other kinds of sources are possible (e.g., oral histories, video)
- detection of low-quality, promotional, or fake content (misinformation or disinformation), as well as fake accounts (e.g., sock puppets)
- questions related to community health (e.g., sentiment analysis, harassment detection, tools that could increase harmony)
- motivations, engagement models, incentives, and needs of editors, readers, and/or developers of Wikimedia projects
- innovative uses of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for AI and NLP applications and vice versa
- consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
- dynamics of content reuse across projects and the impact of policies and community norms on reuse privacy, security, and trust
- collaborative content creation
- innovative uses of Wikimedia projects' content and consumption patterns as sensors for real-world events, culture, etc.
- open-source research code, datasets, and tools to support research on Wikimedia contents and communities
- connections between Wikimedia projects and the Semantic Web
- strategies for how to incorporate Wikimedia projects into media literacy interventions
Submission instructions
This year’s Wiki Workshop solicits extended abstracts (PDF format, maximum 2 pages, including references). Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit will be automatically rejected. Authors may include 1 additional page with figures and/or tables (including captions) only. Initial submissions require names and affiliations of authors, 5 keywords, a title, abstract, and a main text outlining the contribution, methods, findings, and impact of the work, whichever is relevant. Submissions will be non-archival and as a result may have already been published, under review, or ongoing research. All submissions will be reviewed by multiple members of the Wiki Workshop Program Committee. The names of the authors will be revealed to the reviewers, whereas reviewers will remain anonymous to authors. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their research in a pre-recorded oral presentation with dedicated time for live Q&A on May 11, 2023. Accepted abstracts may be shared on the website prior to the event. The template for abstracts can be found here. Please review our Privacy Statement before submitting your abstract on EasyChair.
Program committee
- Pushkal Agarwal (King's College London)
- Reem Al-Kashif (Ain Shams University)
- Pablo Aragón (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Akhil Arora (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Sumit Asthana (University of Michigan)
- Bunty Avieson (University of Sydney)
- Alice Battiston (University of Turin)
- Pablo Beytía (Catholic University of Chile)
- Amy Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Hannah Bruckner (NYU Abu Dhabi)
- Jonathan Chang (Cornell University)
- Djellel Difallah (NYU Abu Dhabi)
- Heather Ford (University of Technology Sydney)
- Patrick Gildersleve (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Kristina Gligorić (Stanford University)
- Isaac Johnson (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee (University of Copenhagen)
- Kiriaki Kalimeri (ISI Foundation)
- Os Keyes (University of Washington)
- Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania)
- Florian Lemmerich (University of Passau)
- Włodzimierz Lewoniewski (Poznań University of Economics and Business)
- Daniele Metilli (University College London)
- Tiziano Piccardi (Stanford University)
- Daniele Rama (University of Turin)
- Miriam Redi (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Riina Reinsalu (University of Tartu)
- Diego Saez-Trumper (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Marija Sakota (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Rossano Schifanella (University of Turin)
- Indira Sen (GESIS)
- Claudia Șerbănuță (Făgăraș Research Institut)
- Francesca Spezzano (Boise State University)
- Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz)
- Krishna Srinivasan (Google)
- Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota)
- Michele Tizzoni (University of Trento)
- Mykola Trokhymovych (University Pompeu Fabra)
- Houcemeddine Turki (University of Sfax)
- Nick Vincent (UC Davis)
- Morten Warncke-Wang (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Dale Zhou (University of Pennsylvania)
Previous editions
- @ WWW 2022 (virtual)
- @ WWW 2021 (virtual)
- @ WWW 2020 (Taipei, Taiwan)
- @ WWW 2019 (San Francisco, USA)
- @ WWW 2018 (Lyon, France)
- @ WWW 2017 (Perth, Australia)
- @ WWW 2016 (Montreal, Canada) and ICWSM 2016 (Cologne, Germany)
- @ ICWSM 2015 (Oxford, UK)
Organization
Contact
Please direct your questions to wikiworkshopgooglegroupscom.