Imagine a website that can answer questions such as “How to spell this in Morse code?” or “How to write this as a Roman numeral?” that is maintained by volunteers and free to access and edit. That is Wikifunctions, the newest Wikimedia project. ⬇️ w.wiki/9ekU

Understanding the Use of #Scientific References in Multilingual Wikipedia across Various Topics. Wikipedia articles were divided into different topics using three approaches: #Wikipedia Projects, Wikidata and DBpedia🇺🇦. #OpenAccess at ScienceDirect doi.org/10.1016/j.proc…

We are still looking for extended abstracts for the Research track of #WikiWorkshop2024 🗓️ deadline April 22 (2 weeks left from today!) 🔗 wikiworkshop.org/call-for-papers

"Edisum: Summarizing and Explaining Wikipedia Edits at Scale" a model for recommending edit summaries generated by a language model trained to produce good edit summaries given the representation of an edit diff. (Šakota et al, 2024) arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03428…

"Can Open-Source LLMs Compete with Commercial Models? Exploring the Few-Shot Performance of Current GPT Models in Biomedical Tasks" commercial VS open-source performance gap exists mainly in zero-shot settings, with Wikipedia context helping in some cases arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13511

Digging up Wikipedia: a new paper on public outreach of Archaeology dlvr.it/TBD54j

"Open Artificial Knowledge" , a large-scale resource of over 500 million tokens of high-quality artificially-generated generated text across diverse domains, guided by Wikipedia’s main categories. (Borisov and Schreiber) arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14371

During the upcoming Wikimania 2024, a work on exploring #Americanization in different regions of the world using Wikipedia and Wikidata will be presented. A link to the presentation will be also published soon on the website: wikimania2024.lewoniewski.info #Wikimania2024

🎤 Third day of #Wikimania2024 put a spotlight on Product & Technology. We have hosted the second round of lightning talks, discussed dozens of posters ranging from Wiki Loves editing events to new technical tools and wrapped up the day with karaoke. What have you learned so far?

"Grounded Content Automation: Generation and Verification of Wikipedia in Low-Resou[r]ce languages." web2py.iiit.ac.in/research_centr… (thesis, followup on last year's "XWikiGen" paper)

"Providing citations to support fact-checking: Contextualizing detection of sentences needing citation on small wikipedias" (Aida Halitaj and Zubiaga 2024) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Presentation at #Wikimania2024: measuring Americanization in different regions of the world using #Wikipedia and #Wikidata youtube.com/watch?v=TXTndM…

During the Wikimania 2024 conference, the results of scientific research on measuring #Americanization in various regions of the world based on #OpenData from Wikipedia and @Wikidata were presented. kie.ue.poznan.pl/en/news/wikima…

"Wikipedia as an Online Health Information Source: Consumers’ Satisfaction with Information Quality" (Ju et al, 2024) koreascience.kr/article/JAKO20…

#Wikimania2024: Made with love 💌 2,300+ people (1,350+ virtually and 950+ in person) from 140+ countries got together in Katowice, Poland, to celebrate free knowledge. Thank you! Follow @wikimania to stay up to date on the global conference.⁠ Credits: w.wiki/AWaH

"Text Simplification via Adaptive Teaching" a new text simplification model using a teacher network and a text generation network, tested on the D-Wikipedia dataset and the WikiDoc benchmark dataset. (Bahrainian et al, 2024) aclanthology.org/2024.findings-…

Do you ever wonder how Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, protects your personal information so you can read, share, and edit it privately and safely? Watch this #AWikiMinute video to get answers. ▶️

Our Storm research project is reviewed in the Wikipedia research newsletter. Check it out.

The work of our scientists on the analysis of #cryptocurrency exchange has been published. Based on financial data and information collected from open Internet sources such as #Wikipedia and #Wikidata some models were developed. kie.ue.poznan.pl/en/news/analys…

Interesting panel discussion with Dariusz Jemielniak, @juliakoszewska, Kasia Makowska 🇵🇸 at Wikimania 2024. #OpenAcademia #Wikipedia #OpenScience #WikiProjects #OpenAccess #Wikimedia #OpenEducation youtube.com/watch?v=m_Anri…