WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.480 Hello everyone, my name is Yelanda Pensa, I'm a senior researcher at SUP, which is a Swiss 00:12.480 --> 00:17.880 University at the Institute of Design, but I'm also an active member of Wikipedia being 00:17.880 --> 00:23.760 contributing since 2006, I've been chair of Wikimedia Italy, and now I'm also a national 00:23.760 --> 00:28.880 coordinator of Glams, which means that I spend a lot of time selling in cyclopideas around 00:28.880 --> 00:35.280 Switzerland as a volunteer. And this is a tool about Wikipedia, I don't think it's necessary 00:35.280 --> 00:43.280 to present Wikipedia. This year is the 25th anniversary, it is an open infrastructure, open 00:43.280 --> 00:50.520 content, it is also a website that serves the open science and the open Glams, and is also 00:50.520 --> 00:55.480 an open education on the resource, so I think it's a good symbol of the open in general. 00:55.480 --> 01:00.800 And the reason why we're developing this tool is because I spend a lot of time working on 01:00.800 --> 01:06.600 content, and I started by contributing to contemporary African art, and one of the problems 01:06.600 --> 01:13.160 with Wikipedia is that it's very difficult to grasp what a topic is about, how is the situation 01:13.160 --> 01:19.360 of a topic? You get an access to articles once at a time, and when you work on project, 01:19.360 --> 01:24.000 you get list of articles, but it's very difficult to get a sense of the landscape. So how 01:24.080 --> 01:30.480 a topic is documented on Wikipedia? What is the quality of that content? Is it reach or not? 01:30.480 --> 01:37.920 So I've been testing some visualization in some research project, I've been promoting. 01:37.920 --> 01:43.280 So one of the first visualization that we've been working on was to transform 100 articles 01:43.280 --> 01:49.520 related to the South African school system, and seeing how we can show how those articles 01:49.600 --> 01:57.680 are on Wikipedia, and how we change them by contributing and improving them. 01:57.680 --> 02:03.800 Another visualization tool that I've been developing with Giovanni Perfeita, was created 02:03.800 --> 02:11.160 in 2020 during the pandemic, in Italy, all schools were closed, so we were thinking, okay, 02:11.160 --> 02:17.360 Wikipedia is an open educational resource tool, but how is actually the quality of that content? 02:17.440 --> 02:25.920 We did research to define list of articles related to the school system. We looked at content related 02:25.920 --> 02:32.240 from primary school to high school on different subject, looking at high school books and different 02:32.960 --> 02:42.160 books. We organized topics related to disciplines, and we looked at how those articles were 02:42.240 --> 02:48.000 in different years. So we started in 2020, we involved the community to improve articles, 02:48.640 --> 02:56.960 and we checked how those articles changed throughout time. So what you see in this visualization 02:56.960 --> 03:01.840 is basically each article is a bubble. The dimension of the bubble tells you the dimension of the 03:01.840 --> 03:09.120 article. The dot inside is the dimension of the in-ship it, so the lead session, the first part 03:09.200 --> 03:14.640 of the article, which other times was of course a lot read, and also we did a focus group in which 03:14.640 --> 03:20.880 also teacher and students identified as very important, and also you have errors got each article in 03:20.880 --> 03:26.480 details and see how it changed through time, and you can organize a content according to 03:28.240 --> 03:35.920 different categories. So the idea of this visualization was really to identify how the landscape 03:36.000 --> 03:41.840 of certain article presented, and also to look at issue that could be fixed quite easily. So for 03:41.840 --> 03:49.200 example, if an article was already mentioning cleanup tags, or he had no images, so identify what 03:49.200 --> 03:56.880 could be the volunteers do quite quickly. So this project was also replicated in Uruguay, 03:56.880 --> 04:03.760 so they used the software to adapt it and to look at the articles related to the Uruguay 04:03.760 --> 04:12.320 and school system. So after this experience, we decided to create a tool based on this experience, 04:12.320 --> 04:20.560 and a tool that can be applied to any set of article, and we decided to focus with the research 04:20.560 --> 04:25.840 on climate change and sustainability, because of course, it's an important topic for everyone, 04:25.840 --> 04:32.240 and improving content on Wikipedia can have obviously a broader effect. So we started working on 04:32.240 --> 04:37.200 the visualization, and at the same time, Wikipedia education, which is a foundation in the United 04:37.200 --> 04:43.040 State that works a lot with classrooms and the school books, was at the same time working on 04:43.040 --> 04:50.320 this visualizing impact tool that was already working on the impact of contribution by students. 04:51.040 --> 04:57.200 So we decided to join the two projects and work together, and then take a little break. 05:03.200 --> 05:09.200 So the idea of the visualization is really to serve volunteer, to facilitate their work, 05:09.200 --> 05:13.280 to allow them to identify what is the priority, which article they should focus on. 05:14.320 --> 05:19.440 But also create a landscape that can be useful for researchers to identify topic, 05:19.440 --> 05:27.760 understanding how a topic is described, and how is it treated on Wikipedia, and also facilitating 05:27.840 --> 05:32.400 contribution by glams, analysis by journalists, and contribution by teachers. 05:33.520 --> 05:43.280 So at the moment, we have a pilot tool that you can find online, so it focuses only on climate change, 05:43.280 --> 05:49.760 but in reality, the tool can extract data from Wikipedia, or from categories on Wikipedia. 05:50.640 --> 05:54.720 And it already shows articles and the situation. 05:55.680 --> 06:02.400 The reason why the first visualization is, you see, all the bubbles squeezed on the top is the 06:02.400 --> 06:12.320 Donald Trump problem. So of course, the tool created a system to erase him, so that is actually 06:12.320 --> 06:23.120 possible to see the properly, the articles. It's obvious the first step, but one of the issues that 06:23.120 --> 06:28.080 are obviously we're facing now is that at the beginning, the idea was to focus on the number of 06:28.080 --> 06:33.920 visualization, but today things are changing, of course, with the machines that are visualizing, 06:33.920 --> 06:40.080 Wikipedia, more than humans. So we are changing some of the feature focusing more on contributors, 06:40.080 --> 06:45.120 and see which are the articles that have more contributors. We've been also 06:45.200 --> 06:51.760 involving, well, of course, you find the new or the data and the software online. 06:52.960 --> 06:59.440 And at the moment, we're still in the co-designing phase. So some of the visual, we are working on the 06:59.440 --> 07:07.440 first visualization, but we will be comparing languages, the project at the moment focuses on four languages. 07:07.440 --> 07:14.800 So Italian Spanish English and French, and we're also looking at how changes that been made 07:14.880 --> 07:21.680 from one through time. So the next visualization, which will be the Wikimedia Communities, 07:21.680 --> 07:28.480 so you can select articles according to their staff with the introducing the fact that at the 07:28.480 --> 07:35.040 moment I'm also working on trying to bring to first them in 2029, the entire open community. 07:35.040 --> 07:42.880 So Wikipedia, science, open educational resources, creative commerce, open street map communities, 07:42.960 --> 07:46.720 so try to have a joint event in 2029. Thanks. 07:47.120 --> 07:56.240 Thank you very much. 07:56.240 --> 08:03.240 Please. 08:03.240 --> 08:06.240 Please. 08:06.240 --> 08:09.240 The presentation on the type of this radiation. 08:09.240 --> 08:10.240 So, it's so hard. 08:10.240 --> 08:12.240 And you know what's going to be? 08:12.240 --> 08:15.240 The type of exposure to the screen of the distribution. 08:15.240 --> 08:17.240 And you describe the powers. 08:17.240 --> 08:22.240 Do you have plans for different laserization, or is this one, 08:22.240 --> 08:25.240 sitting your needs for now? 08:25.240 --> 08:26.240 No. 08:26.240 --> 08:29.240 One of the. 08:29.240 --> 08:30.240 Yes. 08:30.240 --> 08:36.240 So, at the moment, the question is about the different visualization that we're planning. 08:36.240 --> 08:38.240 No, there are different kind of visualization. 08:38.240 --> 08:42.240 This one is the first approach that we're working on. 08:42.240 --> 08:50.240 The emphasis will be also done on comparing how the initial set of article was presented 08:50.240 --> 08:54.240 and how changes produced a different visualization. 08:54.240 --> 08:56.240 This is something that is very interesting. 08:56.240 --> 09:01.240 Well, to satisfy volunteers, also to give feedback to the wiki project. 09:01.240 --> 09:05.240 Because a lot of a wiki project, a managed by one person or two people. 09:05.240 --> 09:10.240 So, the fact of having a feedback from my visualization is also important to encourage them. 09:10.240 --> 09:16.240 But it's also interesting for fundraising for affiliates because they can present a funders, 09:16.240 --> 09:21.240 what actually they did by organizing event by contributing to wiki media. 09:21.240 --> 09:27.240 So, the aspect of the before after is probably what it will transform. 09:27.240 --> 09:33.240 Also, another issue is how to create visualization that can be targeting different people. 09:33.240 --> 09:35.240 So, this is something that we are browsing. 09:35.240 --> 09:42.240 At the moment where we started with this catch, we have some more sketches in particularly focusing on comparing languages, 09:42.240 --> 09:47.240 which is also something we're focusing on for languages, to not make it huge. 09:47.240 --> 09:51.240 But we are designing the tools that you can be broadened. 09:51.240 --> 09:54.240 And also consider that this is a dashboard. 09:54.240 --> 09:58.240 So, wiki education already manages a dashboard, 09:58.240 --> 10:01.240 in particular to manage events in the community. 10:01.240 --> 10:05.240 So, the dashboard will be included within their work. 10:05.240 --> 10:08.240 So, people will be able to apply it to their needs, 10:08.240 --> 10:12.240 and you can serve really individuals and more projects. 10:13.240 --> 10:15.240 Yes, please. 10:15.240 --> 10:19.240 Are there any more visualizations that are more focused on the user, 10:19.240 --> 10:24.240 rather than the editor, such as the visualization, 10:24.240 --> 10:27.240 back to the media's part of everything else. 10:27.240 --> 10:33.240 The visualization focus more on the behind the scene of wiki media. 10:33.240 --> 10:37.240 So, we don't focus much on the users of the readers. 10:38.240 --> 10:43.240 In particular, now, with the change on AI, this is also an issue. 10:43.240 --> 10:47.240 One of the things that we are considering is also how to look at, 10:47.240 --> 10:51.240 how to identify in articles different styles, for example, 10:51.240 --> 10:56.240 that could be adapted and could be improved, also according to readers. 10:56.240 --> 11:01.240 But it's true that, for example, monitoring the impact of the article is something 11:01.240 --> 11:05.240 that a lot of researcher would love to know more. 11:05.240 --> 11:08.240 But there is always a, it's also a tricky issue, 11:08.240 --> 11:11.240 because for example, analyzing a discussion page, 11:11.240 --> 11:14.240 we show the size of the discussion page. 11:14.240 --> 11:17.240 If an article is, for example, a controversial, 11:17.240 --> 11:20.240 but we don't explore the discussion page and the dynamics, 11:20.240 --> 11:22.240 also for privacy issues. 11:22.240 --> 11:25.240 And so, it's something that we are not really putting on, 11:25.240 --> 11:26.240 on front of it. 11:26.240 --> 11:28.240 So, we're more focusing on the work behind the scene, 11:28.240 --> 11:31.240 to contribute and to improve content. 11:31.240 --> 11:34.240 Thank you.