Submissions:2021/Links, Wikipedia, and Knowledge Gaps
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Title:
- Links, Wikipedia, and Knowledge Gaps
Theme:
- Global & Local, Depth & Breadth for Newer Editors, Tech & Tools
Type of session:
- Presentation
Abstract:
This presentation will cover the latest research and tools that focus on understanding and expanding links on Wikipedia with an emphasis on how links are related to knowledge gaps. For example, this will cover:
- Research on role of links in knowledge gaps -- e.g., how well-linked are articles about women to the rest of Wikipedia?
- New tools for helping newcomers to add links to Wikipedia: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_a_link
- Visualizations of link data:
- What links do readers click on? https://wikinav.toolforge.org/
- What is the gender of biographies that are linked to from an article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)/link_gender
Academic Peer Review option:
- No
Author name:
E-mail address:
- isaac
wikimedia.org
Wikimedia username:
- Isaac (WMF)
Affiliated organization(s):
- Wikimedia Foundation
Estimated time:
- 30 minutes (20 presentation; 10 questions/discussion)
Special requests:
- None
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- No, though pieces have been presented such as link recommendation for new editors at Wikimania 2021: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Editing_with_machine_learning:_a_case_study_on_link_recommendations
If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)
- Yes