Grants:Project/Eurecat/Community Health Metrics: Understanding Editor Drop-off/Profile

Team

Research Scientists

Cristian Consonni

Cristian Consonni - CristianCantoro - Ph.D., is a research scientist in computational social science at the Data Science & Big Data Analytics unit in Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya. Cristian obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Trento with a thesis on the emerging knowledge from the structure of links in Wikipedia. He has been editing Wikipedia since 2007 and he has been active in the broader Wikimedia community since then: he has served on the board of Wikimedia Italia from 2007 to 2017 in various roles; he has been a member of the international organizing committee of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013; and from June 2013 to June 2015, he has been a member of the Wikimedia Foundation's Funds Dissemination Committee.

David Laniado

David Laniado - Sdivad - Ph.D., is a senior research scientist at the Data Science & Big Data Analytics unit in Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya. Sdivad has extensive experience in the study of online collaboration, in particular, he has published over 20 academic papers on different aspects of social interactions in Wikipedia. He is a co-creator of the Contropedia platform for the analysis and visualization of controversies in Wikipedia articles.

Marc Miquel-Ribé

Marc Miquel-Ribé - marcmiquel - Ph.D., holds a doctorate from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona with a thesis centered on Wikipedia and the study of the Editor Engagement, Cultural diversity, and identities in different Wikipedia language versions. He is a member of Amical Wikimedia (Catalan Wikipedia) since 2011. He has given numerous talks on cultural diversity, user experience and editor engagement in Wikimedia events. Recently, he has been leading the research work of the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory. Additionally, he's been one of the writers of the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 Plan and helped shape the narrative of the Cultural Change and was involved in the final writing and refining of the document.

Students

Samuele Bortolotti

Samuele Bortolotti is a Bachelor's student in Computer Science at the University of Trento. He has joined the team in March 2021 and he is working on the analysis of user pages and user talk pages. In particular, he is focusing on the effects of user warnings and wikibreaks on a user's activity level.

Francesco Bozzo

Francesco Bozzo is a Bachelor's student in Computer Science at the University of Trento. He has joined the team in November 2020 and he is working on analyzing user interactions in Wikipedia talk pages. He is expected to graduate in June 2021.

Alessio Gandelli

Alessio Gandelli is a Bachelor's student in Computer Science at the University of Trento. He has joined the team in November 2020 and he is working on the analysis of reverts to investigate the possible correlation between a revert war and user drop-off.

Nicola Toscan

Nicola Toscan is a Bachelor's student in Computer Science at the University of Trento. He has joined the team in December 2020 and he is working on analyzing emotions in messages written and received by a user in Wikipedia talk pages over time.

Eugenio Berretta

Eugenio Berretta is a bachelor's student in computer science at "Università degli studi di Trento". He has joined the team in December 2020 and he is working on analyzing the life-cycle of Wikipedia's users, in particular their drop-off.

Advisors

Margeigh Novotny

Margeigh Novotny - MNovotny (WMF) - is a Senior Director of Product Design Strategy in the Audiences Team at the Wikimedia Foundation, leading product strategy, and design strategy efforts. Her focus is on looking ahead of where "the product" is currently, to understand how the user experience needs to adapt and evolve as we move toward our 2030 goal of providing all the world's knowledge to all the world's people, for free.

Miriam Redi

Miriam Redi - Miriam (WMF) - is a Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. Formerly, she worked as a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona and London, and Nokia Bell Labs in Cambridge. She received her Ph.D. from EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis. She conducts research in social multimedia computing, working on fair, interpretable, multimodal machine learning solutions to improve knowledge equity.

Patricia Horrillo

Patricia Horrillo - PatriHorrillo - is an expert journalist in communication and social networks. Since 2015, she coordinates the Wikiesfera UG [1] at Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain), a weekly working group where she helps more people to learn how to edit in Wikipedia and to know better other Wikimedia projects. She is concerned about the gender gap and organizes thematic edithatons to make more relevant women visible in Wikipedia.

Aaron Halfaker

Dr. Halfaker - Halfak (WMF) - is a principal research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation and a senior scientist at the University of Minnesota. He studies the intersection of advanced algorithmic technologies and social issues in open production communities (like Wikipedia) using a mixture of experimental engineering, data science, and ethnographic methods. He's most notable for his studies of Wikipedia’s editor decline and his development of “ORES”, an open AI platform for Wikipedians.

Pablo Aragón

Pablo Aragon - Pablo (WMF) - Ph.D., is a research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he focuses on content integrity and resilience to disinformation in Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. He is interested in computational social science and social computing through interdisciplinary and participatory approaches to characterize and facilitate participation, deliberation, and collaboration in online platforms.

Alberto Montresor

Alberto Montresor - GordonLachance - Ph.D., is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) at the University of Trento. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bologna in 2000. His recent research is focused on centralized and distributed algorithms for the analysis of large-scale graphs, including those induced by the links of Wikipedia. He is also interested in computer science education, acting as a liaison between local schools and the DISI department.

Organizations

Eurecat

Eurecat - Centre Tecnòlogic de Catalunya is a non-profit technology center created in 2015, through the merging of the most important technology and research centers in Catalonia. Eurecat is the second-largest private research organization in Southern Europe, with more than 650 professionals participating in more than 200 research and development projects. Eurecat is currently participating in more than 60 EU-funded projects, mainly in the Horizon 2020 Programme.