9th Wiki Workshop, 25 April 2022: join us!

[Robert West]

Interested in research about Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects?
Join us for the 9th Wiki Workshop, held fully virtually!

• Date: Mon, 25 April 2022, 12:00-18:30 UTC (5:00am PST, 14:00 CEST, etc.)
• Website: https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/
• Submit a registration request: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctlkUv8FasB2Nc4RvThnxAbjPzUwmnxB2FwnNkZlKG1NPOTg/viewform (we have 300 spots)
• Live stream on Zoom (link will be shared with registered participants)
• Speakers (noon-exhaustive list):
• Lawrence Lessig (Harvard University)
• Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Tiffiniy Cheng (Fight for the Future)
• Erik Moeller (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
• Plus 20+ papers, a virtual poster session, live music, an award ceremony, and plenty of opportunities to interact

About the workshop:

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, a main source of knowledge for a large fraction of Internet users, and one of the very few projects that make not only their content but also many activity logs available to the public. Furthermore, other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, have been created to share other types of knowledge with the world for free. For a variety of reasons (quality and quantity of content, reach in many languages, process of content production, availability of data, etc.) such projects have become important objects of study for researchers across many subfields of the computational and social sciences, such as social network analysis, artificial intelligence, linguistics, natural language processing, social psychology, education, anthropology, political science, human–computer interaction, and cognitive science.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. With members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team on the organizing committee and with the experience of successful workshops in 2015-2021, we aim to continue facilitating a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the organization that coordinates Wikimedia projects and the researchers interested in studying them.

Hope to see you there!

Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
Bob West, EPFL