Wikimedia Research/Showcase/Archive/2016/07
July 2016[edit]
July 20, 2016 Video: YouTube
- Detecting Personal Attacks on Wikipedia
- By Ellery Wulczyn, Nithum Thain
- Ellery Wulczyn (WMF) and Nithum Thain (Jigsaw) will be speaking about their recent work on Project Detox, a research project to develop tools to detect and understand online personal attacks and harassment on Wikipedia. Their talk will cover the whole research pipeline to date, including data acquisition, machine learning model building, and some analytical insights as to the nature of personal attacks on Wikipedia talk pages.
- By Ellery Wulczyn, Nithum Thain
- Wikipedia.org Portal Research
- Search behaviors and New Language by article count Dropdown
- By Daisy Chen
- What part do the Wikipedia.org portal and on-wiki search mechanisms play in users' experiences finding information online? These findings reflect research participants' responses to a combination of generative and evaluative questions about their general online search behaviors, on-wiki search behaviors, interactions with the Wikipedia.org portal, and their thoughts about a partial re-design of the portal page, the new language by article count dropdown.
- By Daisy Chen