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- Title
Lightning Talk on Homoglyphs
- Theme (optional)
Tech & Tools
- Academic Peer Review option
No
- Type of submission
Unconference—Lightning talk
- Author
Trey Jones
- E-mail address
trey
wikimedia.org
- Wikimedia username
TJones WMF
- Affiliation(s) (optional)
Wikimedia Foundation
- Abstract
The string “ᎳⅰkіСоnfеrеnce Νοrth ᗅmeriⅽa” is made up of a mixture of Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, and Roman numeral characters. Characters that look like other characters in a different script are called “homoglyphs”, and in the right font, Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek letters are almost indistinguishable, for example: A/Α/А, M/Μ/М, O/Ο/О, or T/Τ/Т.
Homoglyphs—introduced accidentally or through vandalism—make finding the words that contain them all but impossible.
In this very brief talk, I’ll tell how I discovered Wikipedia’s homoglyph problem, became obsessed with finding and fixing homoglyphs, demo a semi-automated tool for doing so, and discuss plans for a future project to try to solve the problem once and for all!
- Length of presentation
~5 minutes
- Special requests
Need to be able to connect my computer to a projector
- Preferred room size
Wherever the other lightning talks are!
- Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?
Yes: Lightning talk at the Haystack Relevance Conference (April 2018)
- If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?
I’ll have a brief demo but no slide deck.
- Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?
Yes
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