Wikimedia Research/Goals/FY18Q2

Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli [ Wikimedia Research goals overview ] [Wikimedia Research annual plan overview]

Annual Program/Outcome	Quarterly Objective	Dependencies	Team Members	ETA	Status
Program 4: Technical community building. Outcome 2: The adoption of Wikimedia technology can be reliably measured Objective 1: Design a set of formal KPIs (key performance indicators) to measure the growth and diversity of our technology audience (task T171220) Outcome 4: The collaboration with research in industry and academics is further scaled and supported. Objective 1: Organize and host the annual Wiki Research Workshop. (task T171118)	Conduct structured interviews with team leads in Tech involved in building platforms with an externally-facing audience and get them to articulate who their core audience is, and how to characterize adoption of their platforms. (task T174733) Write and submit a workshop proposal for the Web Conference (task T174741) Write a call for papers for Wiki Workshop 2018 (task T174743) Invite reviewers to review workshop submissions (task T174744)	Tech Management Admin Workshop co-organizers	Jonathan Dario Leila	EOQ	In progress
Program 9: Growing Wikipedia Across Languages. Outcome 1: Surface relevant information about the articles to editors at the time of editing with the goal of helping editathon organizers Objective 1: Build, improve, and expand algorithms that can provide more detailed recommendations to editors about how an article could be expanded. (task T171224) Objective 2: Develop and gather design requirements for how the algorithms’ results should be exposed to the editors. (task T171225)	Build a prediction model to predict section ranks within category (task T174737) Build a tool for article expansion recommendations and run a test for editors and editathon organizers (task T174739) Submit a paper on article expansion recommendations, write a blog post, assess if any data release is helpful (task T174736)	External collaborators (Bob West, Michele Catasta, Tiziano Piccardi) Baha	Leila Diego	EOQ	In progress
Program 11: Improving citations across Wikimedia projects. Outcome 1: Quantitative research is available to help Wikipedia and Wikidata contributors focus and prioritize their sourcing efforts. Objective 1: Estimate what proportion of content in Wikipedia or Wikidata is unsourced and in need of citations. Outcome 3: Outreach activities continue to ensure community and technical efforts are aligned Objective 1: Fundraise for, and host the 3rd annual meeting in the WikiCite series	Publish a rich dataset on citation contexts to support additional research on Wikipedia sourcing gaps (task T175663) Write a report for the funders and fundraise for WikiCite 2018 (task T174750)	External Collaborators (Andrea Forte, Meen Chul Kim) Admin WikiCite co-organizers Scoring platform (Aaron)	Dario	EOQ	In progress
Cross Departmental: Structured Data on Commons. (Segment 4: Programs) Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons (task T152248)	Conduct survey of GLAM Commons contributors' workflows, wants and needs (task T175188) Interview 6-10 volunteer contributors to Wikimedia Commons to understand current workflows and impact of structured data (task T175185)	Structured Data program management	Jonathan	EOQ	In progress
Cross Departmental: Community Health. (Segment 3: Research) Outcome 1: We aim to understand and model the characteristics of harassment in Wikimedia projects. Objective 1: Conduct research to characterize and model wikihounding. (task T171249) Objective 2: Prototype new models to facilitate sockpuppet detection and the classification of toxic discussions. (task T171251)	Analyze editor-editor interactions for instances of wikihounding (task T175664) Publish an annotated dataset of conversation structures on English Wikipedia talk pages and submit a paper on early indicators of toxic conversations (task T175666) Prototype new models to facilitate sockpuppet detection (task T171635)	Community Tech Support and Safety External collaborators (Lucas Dixon, Nithum Thain, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Yiqing Hua, Srijan Kumar)	Diego Dario	EOQ	In progress