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Understanding Wikimedia as a Digital Media Platform: research seminar/workshop
11 July 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm AEST
Join this event to share and discuss work in progress or new ideas and develop relationships across and beyond ADM+S and Wikimedia research interests.
As a digital platform, Wikimedia projects play a powerful role in the information and media ecosystem, from providing breaking news coverage to data points in Google infoboxes. Wikimedia projects include various types of automation and contribute to the automation of information provided by other platforms and are also being impacted by the regulations attempting to control big tech. There are therefore many areas of overlap with ADM+S areas of interest which could provide a range of fascinating research projects or collaborations which this workshop hopes to foster.
Join us for a lunchtime seminar/workshop on researching Wikimedia as a Digital Platform. The session will include lightning talks of 5-10 minutes on current or future research projects, questions, ideas or issues followed by open discussion and input from colleagues and for developing new proposals or collaborations. Speakers may share a paper or concept at various stages of gestation.
Lunch will be provided.
This event is being hosted as a 2023 ADM+S Symposium Satellite event.
If you would like to provide a 5 minute lightning talk please email amanda.lawrence@rmit.edu.au with your name, organisation and a title. Please indicate if you will participate in person (preferred) or online.
Speakers
Heather Ford, Tamson Pietch (TBC) and Michael Falk (UTS)
UTS Wikihistories Project
Heather Ford, Michael Davis and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Centre for Media Transition, UTS
Implications of ChatGPT for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia
Bunty Avieson
Media and Communications, University of Sydney
‘Wiki-what? The ontology of Wikipedia’.
Gianluca Demartini, University of Queensland
Measuring the Gender Gap: Attribute-based Class Completeness Estimation
Supported by Wikimedia Australia
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Geof Barker, State Library of NSW
Library collections and Wikimedia platforms: projects and possibilities
Frances Di Lauro
University of Sydney
Does Wikipedia have a role in education?
Amanda Lawrence
ADM+S, RMIT University
Public policy, publishing and reliable sources on Wikipedia