Miriam (WMF)

Miriam Redi

Research Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

About me

Hello there! My name is Miriam, I joined the Wikimedia Foundation on September 2017 as a Research Scientist in the Research team. I am Italian, and French, and from all over the Mediterranean sea.

My work

My background is in Computer Vision. At the Foundation, I work on fair, interpretable, multimodal machine learning solutions to improve knowledge equity.

Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Say hi!

email: miriam@wikimedia.org
irc: miriam
twitter: @mad_astronaut

Images on Wikimedia

Image Recommendations for Unillustrated Wikipedia articles:

Algorithm for "Add an Image" Structured Task, in collaboration with the Growth Team
Structured Task Github Repo for the algorithm
Epic Phabricator task
Initial Research here, based on cross-modal embeddings.

Investigating the Role of Images in Free Knowledge

Quantitative Analysis : Understanding Engagement with Images on Wikipedia, based on traffic data. Main Results here
Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Images for Knowledge Understanding, ongoing effort to study the impact of images on learning.

Map of Visual Knowledge Gaps

Goal: understand the proportion of unillustrated content across Wikidata and Wikipedia.
Map of Visual Knowledge Gaps Meta page with results.

Recommending Images to Wikidata Items

Recommending Images to Wikidata Items Meta page
blog post

The Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps

The Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps meta page
paper "A Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps for Wikimedia Projects"
talk at the Wikimedia Research Showcase

Knowledge Integrity

Quantifying Citation Usage

Characterizing Wikipedia citation usage Meta page
paper "Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia" (The Web Conference 2020)
talk at the Wikimedia Research Showcase

Detecting Sentences Needing Citations

Identification of Unsourced Statements Meta page
paper "Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability" (The Web Conference 2019)
blog post
Follow-up project: Modeling Citation Quality
Citation Detective: a tool and public dataset designed to periodically run Citation Need model from the Web Conference Paper

Datasets of Wikipedia Citations

Tutorials

Discovering and Analyzing Wikimedia Images: summary, slides, github links

Talks

Responsible Machine Vision Berkman Klein Center, Boston June 2019
Characterizing Wikipedia Citation Usage, Wikimania, Stockholm August 2019
Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability Research Showcase September 2019
The Science of Knolwedge Integrity Data Science Festival, July 2020
The Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps, August 2020

Academic Event Organization

Co-chair of Wiki Workshop 2019-2021: the annual workshop for all Wiki Researchers at The Web Conference.