Bay Area folks interested in AI & Wikipedia:
You're welcome to attend our community meetup this Thursday in SF (near 24th St BART) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:B...
Program: A few AI-themed short presentations, some hacking, and socializing
How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models
It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in…
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In the latest issue of our monthly newsletter:
▸ "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", especially community "superstars" – but editors motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
And other recent research publications
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...
In the latest issue of our newsletter:
▸ GPT-4 is better at writing edit summaries than human Wikipedia editors
and other new research findings
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...
In the new issue of our monthly newsletter:
▸ What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia
▸ Italian Wikipedia is the hardest to read
▸ "open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia" than those behind a paywall
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...
I missed this last month from @tilmanbayer.bsky.social: "AI finds errors in 90% of October's Featured Articles". Great example of human-in-the-loop LLM use for verifying Wikipedia articles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
In the March issue of our research newsletter:
* Flagged Revisions: Explaining the disappointing history of a community-requested software feature
* A roundup of several recent papers investigating the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far
and more: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...
In the latest issue of our newsletter on research about Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects:
▸ "SPINACH": LLM-based tool makes Wikidata's data more accessible, translating "challenging real-world questions" to SPARQL queries
and other new publications
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...
It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in the UK expected soon, it is a perfect time to start looking at the subject from a long-term perspective.
