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Naija is spoken by approx. 120M speakers in Nigeria. Although it has mainly been a spoken language until recently, there are currently two written genres (BBC and Wikipedia) in Naija.
J.'sasi Àrẹ̀mú Adéọlá Jr.

'Which Nigerian-Pidgin does Generative AI speak?: Issues about Representativeness and Bias for Multilingual and Low Resource Languages' GenAI operates based on Naija written in the BBC genre: Wikipedia in Naija is not represented.

(Adelani et al, 2024)
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19442

New publication 'Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin', a case study Museum für Naturkunde Berlin to open up #collection data + link different entities using #Wikidata #LOD
RIO Journal Pensoft
doi.org/10.3897/rio.10…

Registration for #WikiWorkshop2024 , the annual event for all-things-wikiresearch m is now open! The event will be virtual and free. Join the Workshop on June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC!

pretix.eu/wikimedia/wiki…

Wiki Workshop 2024

'The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities' Question volumes at Stack Overflow decline around topics where ChatGPT excels, but Reddit communities shows no decline, suggesting the importance of social fabric.

(Burtch et al, 2024)

nature.com/articles/s4159…

'Hoaxpedia: A Unified Wikipedia Hoax Articles Dataset', and experiments using LLMs to detect hoaxes based on content alone arxiv.org/pdf/2405.02175

'Developing a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories' based on a manually curated tree of conspiracy theories mined from Wikipedia articles.

(Ghasemizade & Onaolapo)

epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Registration for #WikiWorkshop2024 is now open‼️

The event will be virtually held on June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC... join us 🤗

pretix.eu/wikimedia/wiki…

Fine-tuning LLMs 'to quote verbatim statements from trusted sources in [their] pre-training data' such as Wikipedia increases the truthfulness of their answers
arxiv.org/abs/2404.03862

'MISGENDERMENDER: A Community-Informed Approach to Interventions for Misgendering' detecting and correcting misgendering, using a dataset of notable non-cisgender individuals, based on @Wikidata.

(@thossainkay, Sunipa Dev and Sameer Singh, 2024)

arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14695

Replication data released for Hwang and Shaw (2022), 'Rules and Rule-Making in the Five Largest Wikipedias' (see also the review in our newsletter)
blog.communitydata.science/replication-da…

'MathWriting: A Dataset For Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition' with Latex labels extracted from Wikipedia

(Gervais et al, 2024)

arxiv.org/pdf/2404.10690
Full dataset (2.9 GB): storage.googleapis.com/mathwriting_da…
code: github.com/google-researc…

'Wikipedia and the Outsider Within: Black Feminism and Social Inequality in Knowledge Sharing' online.ucpress.edu/cs/article/5/1…

(analyzes a 2018 Wikipedia-writing course assignment at Howard University)

'Language-Agnostic Modeling of Wikipedia Articles for Content Quality Assessment across Languages' a dataset with article feature values and quality scores of all revisions of all articles in the existing language versions of Wikipedia.

(Das et al, 2024)

arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09764

'Navigating the emotional terrain of Wikipedia writing: A feminist affective analysis of student writers' engagement with the 'be bold' guideline'
researchgate.net/publication/37…
by @[email protected] et al.

'Milgram’s experiment in the knowledge space: Individual navigation strategies' study where participants play a navigation game on Wikipedia identifies distinctive strategies that participants adopt to find information.

(Zhu et al, 2024)

arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06591…

Explorando Wikidata para la investigación en Ciencias Sociales por Wenceslao Arroyo Machado en #revistainfonomy
doi.org/10.3145/infono…

#Wikidata #CienciasSociales #Datosabiertos

Please find below our poster for LREC COLING 2024 2024. We are talking about open knowledge graphs like @Wikidata and how they can be useful for #NLProc and other fields.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.13186
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=yw6rzb…
#Open Wikimedia Foundation WikiResearch #Bibliometrics .