We are not in a post facts world
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Presentation by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in REsidence, at University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network event, 31st January 2017
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We are not in a post facts world
- 2. Ewan McAndrew – Wikimedian in Residence Tinyurl.com/WikiResidency
- 3. C C by 2.0, Zouzou Wizman The world is changing. Providing access to verifiable facts remains as important as ever. “Facebook defines who we are, Amazon defines what we want and Google defines what we think.” (Broeder, 2016)
- 4. Verifiability. Neutral point of view. No original research. Transparency.
- 7. • Free (100% donation funded) and ad-free • Crowd-sourced from volunteers • Open process • 80,000 regular contributors • 500 million visitors per month • 1.5 billion monthly unique devices • The fifth most popular website in the world. • Trusted more than the BBC, ITV, Times, Telegraph,
- 8. english deutsch català 日本語 ру́ сский español ﻟﻌرﺑﯾﺔ ا svenska français 中文 nederlands magyar תירבע italiano português türkçe minangkabau cymraeg Қазақша esperanto tagalog cymraeg æెలtగt latviešu bosanski Беларуская (тарашкевіца) malagasy diné bizaad arpitan َس َوھქართული Македонски shqip basa jawa Нохчийн māori lëtzebuergesch मराठh Íslenska नेपाल भाषा srpskohrvatski/ c рпскохрватски தமி@ tatarça / татарча ودرا Українська ﻓﺎرﺳﯽ norsk (bokmål) suomi bahasa indonesia cрпски/srpski čeština 한국어 bahasa melayu română aund ไ ท ย ََ euskaraslovenčina dansk Български Беларуская krèyol ayisyen brezhoneg hrvatski Հայերեն slovenščina മലയാ ളം粵語 संकृ तम Nāhuatl Иронау afrikaans galego nynorsk hह¤द2 Eλληνικά piemontèis latina winaray sinugboanong binisaya tiếng việt nouormand/norm polski soomaali azərbaycanca lietuvių occitan ଓଡ଼ିଆব াংল eesti o’zbek Башҡорт ﭘﻧﺟﺎﺑﯽ ﻣﮑﮭﯽ ﺷﺎه gaeilge မြန်ြာဘာသာ lumbaart frysk ् Тоҷикӣyorùbá aragonés Чăваш scots kiswahili Кыргызча नेपाल2 ido Kજરાતી ইম র ঠ র ি ব® ি প´য় িমণপরীsicilianu Vèneto tarandíne asturianu gàidhlig runa simi alemannisch basa sunda ಕನŖಡ ਪੰ ਜਾਬੀ አማርኛ soranî / ﮐیدرو interlingua nnapulitano basa ugi Монгол Žemaitėška walon ﻣﺻىر basa banyumasan Y ං හ ල ﻧﻲ َﻣورز bân-lâm-gú 古文 / 文言文 aymar sardu ª b ែ ខ ¡ រ Kaszëbsczi Hak-kâ-fa / 客家話יי ִשיד Føroyskt cаха тыла boarisch plattdüütsch kurdî / ﻛیدرو kernewek/karnu ac rumantsch Удмурт кыл 吴语 emiliàn e rumagnòl Перем Коми ﺗﯨﻠﻰ ﺋۇﯾﻐرۇ seeltersk dzhudezmo líguru furlan Ślůnski malti অসমীয় chavacano de zamboanga avañe’ẽ picard पाhऴ gagauz ripoarisch englisc interlingue bahsa acèh estremeñu dolnoserbski hornjoserbsce limburgs kapampangan sámegiella Ilokano Кырык Мары corsu fiji hindi Олык Марий bikol 贛語 nordfriisk བོ ད ་ སྐ ད Русиньскый ﮔﯾﻠﮑﯽ भोजपर2 nedersaksisch Võro ﭘ÷ﺗو ََ west- vlams ﺗرﻛﻣن / Туркмен pangasinan zazaki მარგალური gaelg Коми zeêuws qırımtatarca vepsän Today 42 million articles in 295 different language Wikipedias
- 10. 449 citations
- 11. More people want to do good than harm. Researchers found that only 7 percent* of all Wikipedia edits are considered vandalism
- 12. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Public domain, N A S A
- 13. Our Mission The creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge “To empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.”
- 14. WIKIMEDIA UK and the UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH • The 21st century skills that a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK help develop include: • Information Literacy • Digital Literacy • Academic writing & citation • Critical thinking • Literature review • Writing for different audiences. • Research skills • Communication skills • Community building /Online citizenship • Collaboration “Students have said that simply knowing that an audience of editors existed was enough to change how they wrote. They chose words more carefully. They double- checked their work for accuracy and reliability. And they began to think about how best they could communicate their scholarship to readers who were as curious, conscientious, and committed and as they were.” https://wikiedu.org/blog/2014/10/14/wikipedia-student- writing/
- 15. “Knowledge creates understanding – understanding is sorely lacking in today’s world.” Katherine Maher, Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation December 2016. Why is this important?
- 16. Wikipedia – the Digital Gateway to Academic Research •“Wikipedia is today the gateway through which millions of people now seek access to knowledge which not long ago was only available using tools constructed and maintained by professional scholars.” • (William Cronon) • https://www.refme.com/blog/2016/01/15/wikipedia-the-digital-gateway-to-academic- research
- 17. “Knowledge is alive and growing and… it is most useful when it is used; not just static, but engaged with, built upon, expanded on.” Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, December 2016)
- 18. Representing a more holistic world view of Christianity
- 19. Translation from one language Wikipedia to another. “It is very fun but challenging at the same time. I feel like I am doing something very meaningful. It not only helps me with my translation skills, but also makes me feel that I am contributing to Wikipedia, to people, to the society.“ – Student feedback
- 20. Redressing the gender gap Less than 15% of editors on Wikipedia and only 16.85% of biographies are about women 65% of attendees at our events this have been female.
- 21. 2952 views since September 2016
- 22. The online encyclopedia’s Ebola Virus Disease article had 17 million page views in a month, right up there with the C.D.C.’s Ebola portal and the W.H.O.’s Ebola fact sheet.
- 23. Wikimedia’s family of open knowledge projects https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects Wikimedia Tool Labs
- 24. Spouse: Fanny Stevenson Place of birth: Edinburgh Place of death: Vailima, Samoa. Father: Thomas Stevenson Educated at: University of Edinburgh
- 25. 17,000 views a day Media repository with 36 million openly licensed media files
- 26. Wikisource – the free content library https://en.wikisource.org • “Libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.” (Neil Gaiman, 2013)
- 27. 350,000 out-of-copyright texts on Wikisource. Illustrations from which can be uploaded on Wiki Commons.
- 28. Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’ is now powered, not exclusively but ever increasingly, by Wikidata. “The primary issue with Google’s knowledge panels is that they aren’t terribly knowledgeable: They provide information but often leave out any context on where that information came from….” Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post – 11 May 2016
- 29. A provenance-preserving AnswerEngine The sum of all human knowledge The sum of all data and sources backing human knowledge +
- 30. Wikidata – the new Rosetta Stone Wikidata is a free linked database of knowledge that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
- 31. THE END
- 32. English Wikipedia “only includes only includes 30% of the items entered in the other 287 languages.”* “The promise of linked open data seems to have finally arrived.”
- 33. “First task is to use Metadata for 3000 images from the Welsh Landscape collection, which are available on Wikimedia Commons, to create detailed linked data…… then work with the Library and volunteers in the Wikidata community to explore new ways of exploring and analysing the data and associated images.” National Library of Wales have a Wikidata Visiting Scholar. A world first.
- 34. (Part of Sum of All Paintings project)
- 35. Crotos – The Welsh Landscape Collection
- 37. C C - b y - S A 3.0 - Tanya Habjouqa The world needs free, unbiased knowledge.
- 38. We have work to do.
- 39. Join us. C C BY - S A 3.0 Unported, Wikimedia Foundationewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
- 40. N A S A There’s so much more to do Want to become a Wikipedia editor? Want to become a Wikipedia trainer? Want to run a Wikipedia course assignment? Want to contribute images to Wikimedia Commons? Want to contribute your research to Wikipedia? Want to contribute your research data to Wikidata? Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
- 41. • Of the 80,000 regular contributors only 3000 or so are VERY ACTIVE Wikipedians (size of small town e.g. Kinghorn in Fife or ½ size of North Berwick)
- 42. Thank you. C C - b y - S A 4.0 - Niccolò Carantiewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
- 43. 8 January 1947 David Bowie (Q5383) date of birth (P569)
- 44. 9,747,355 according to: Statistics Sweden method: estimation point in time: 31 Dec 2014 picture by Hector Melo A. Sweden (Q34) population (P1082)
- 45. “First task is to use Metadata for 3000 images from the Welsh Landscape collection, which are available on Wikimedia Commons, to create detailed linked data…… then work with the Library and volunteers in the Wikidata community to explore new ways of exploring and analysing the data and associated images.” National Library of Wales have a Wikidata Visiting Scholar. A world first.
- 46. (Part of Sum of All Paintings project)
- 47. Crotos – The Welsh Landscape Collection
- 50. Ensure Wikipedia is accessible in every part of the world. C C BY - S A 3.0 Unported, Victor Grigas
- 51. Knowledge is expanding. - Public domain, N A S A
- 52. 104,000,000 * - 5,000,000 99,000,000 - *https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge
- 53. • Of the 80,000 regular contributors only 3000 or so are VERY ACTIVE Wikipedians (size of small town e.g. Kinghorn in Fife or ½ size of North Berwick)
- 54. Thank you. C C - b y - S A 4.0 - Niccolò Carantiewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
- Contrary to populist belief, facts did not die last year. For its 16th year Wikipedia is asserting that facts matter and asking everyone to contribute 1 citation to Wikipedia to back up a fact to a reliable source to demonstrate that facts really do matter.
- The world is changing but providing access to verifiable facts remains as important as ever. If not more so.
- There is a place you can go to which venerates and abides by policies of verifiability, neutrality and transparency. While Google and Facebook’s algorithms are distinctly opaque, Wikipedia’s open process means that you know what was edited, when and by whom. Unhelpful edits can be rolled back in minutes.
- https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/08/09/more-british-people-trust-wikipedia-trust-news/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
- *http://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/your-middle-school-teacher-was-wrong-about-wikipedia-and-nbsp.html
- The mission of the University of Edinburgh and the mission of Wikimedia.
- From Google Talk, December 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVQknHESuA
- From Google Talk, December 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVQknHESuA
- Blog post about the World Christianity assignment - http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2017/01/world-christianity-wikipedia/#more-814
- http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/01/05/wikipedia-assignment-translation-studies-msc/
- Research advocates medical education incorporates Wikipedia assignments - http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/01/15/reflections-on-a-wikipedia-assignment/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/wikipedia-is-emerging-as-trusted-internet-source-for-information-on-ebola-.html?_r=1 web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/case-studies-news/e-learning/teaching-translation-wikipedia
- Wikimedia UK is a charitable foundation
- The inter-linking of the Wikimedia projects
- 17th century map of Iceland released from CRC accrues 17,000 views a day on average from being inserted in the Iceland Wikipedia page.
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Fauna_of_British_India,_including_Ceylon_and_Burma_(Birds_Vol_1).djvu&page=403
- Caitlin Dewey in Washington Post, May 2016: “the primary issue with Google’s knowledge panels is that they aren’t terribly knowledgeable: They provide information but often leave out any context on where that information came from. That makes it difficult for readers to evaluate the accuracy of the statement or whether it’s the best and most complete of the available options…. Since Google frequently does not cite its sources — a ploy, Taraborelli [Dario Taraborelli, head of research at the Wikimedia Foundation] says, to make it seem more authoritative — there’s no way for users to double-check “answers” for bias or error, which doubtlessly exist.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/11/you-probably-havent-even-noticed-googles-sketchy-quest-to-control-the-worlds-knowledge/
- http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/en/article_la-nova-pedra-de-rosetta/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pS56qzz3Ivb4-qzn0Dzr6rRPiUa1B8WklK9904iLyyo/edit
- So what is Wikidata? Created in 2012. Free linked database of knowledge, that can be also be read by machines - Contrast with Wikipedia (non machine readable) Central store of knowledge for wikimedia projects - links resources together, makes data available for use
- Source: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona Lab http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/en/article_la-nova-pedra-de-rosetta/ “This means that when a change of government occurs, for example, simply updating the corresponding element on Wikidata will automatically update all the applications that are linked to it, be it Wikipedia or any other third-party application. It means that we do not have to constantly reinvent the wheel… all Wikidata queries will include data from all over the world, not just from the cultures or historical communities with greater power to influence. A search for “doctors who graduated before they turned 20”, for example, will not only display French and English doctors, but also doctors from Taiwan and Andorra.”
- Further National Library of Wales blog posts on the Wikidata Visiting Scholar: https://www.llgc.org.uk/blog/?tag=wikidata
- All this data is Immediately available to nearly 300 Wikipedias, and all of the sister projects The example shown is an automatic list generated from Wikidata data. - No painstaking editing by hand, all magically fills out! This is just the beginning, already seeing Wikidata used to generate articles <<< left side of stage >>> Let's take a look at some of the things possible today
- Visualisations from Wikidata work at National Library of Scotland. https://www.llgc.org.uk/blog/?p=11246
- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/30/histropedia/
- https://www.hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz/2014/02/21/04-teaching-wikipedia-why-what-and-how
- Date of birth of David Bowie Jean-Luc Ourlin [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Reminder of structure - ITEM with STATEMENT (which has PROPERTY & VALUE)
- Number of inhabitants of Sweden ITEM with STATEMENT (which has PROPERTY & VALUE) Includes use of qualifiers
- Further National Library of Wales blog posts on the Wikidata Visiting Scholar: https://www.llgc.org.uk/blog/?tag=wikidata
- All this data is Immediately available to nearly 300 Wikipedias, and all of the sister projects The example shown is an automatic list generated from Wikidata data. - No painstaking editing by hand, all magically fills out! This is just the beginning, already seeing Wikidata used to generate articles <<< left side of stage >>> Let's take a look at some of the things possible today
- 104 million articles are needed to cover, by rough estimates, all the notable subjects in the world. So if English Wikipedia has approximately 5 million articles (5.3 million really) as of right now then we are missing 99 million articles. And that’s just English Wikipedia.