Diego (WMF)

Diego Sáez-Trumper

Senior Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation

About me

I'm Diego Sáez-Trumper. I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in August 2017 as part of the Research team. I'm from Chile, currently based in Barcelona.

My work

My background is on Social Networks Analysis, Graph Theory and applied Machine Learning. At the WMF my work focuses on using data science tools to Improve Knowledge Integrity and fighting disinformation with Wikipedia.

Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try 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.

Contact me

• E-mail: diego at wikimedia.org
• On IRC, I go by "dsaez".
• On Twitter: e__migrante

Recent Work

Projects

• Develop a ML-based service to predict reverts on Wikipedia
• Identifying Controversial Content in Wikidata
• Reference Quality in English Wikipedia
• Exploration on content propagation across Wikimedia projects
• Cross-lingual section alignments

Datasets & Tools

• A prototype for Automatic Fact Checking in Wikipedia (Try it)
• A Large Scale Dataset for Content_Reliability on Wikipedia (Download)
• Tracking Knowledge Propagation Across Wikipedia Languages
• COVID-19 dataset

Science communication

• At Korean AI Summit (Seoul, 2022): Wikipedia and Communities Centered Machine Learning (Slides, Video).
• At Creative Commons Webinar: Addressing Disinformation Campaigns, a Community Led Approach (Video)
• At Mozilla Festival (MosFest'22): The Science of Knowledge Integrity (Video - Slides)
• Disinformation and AI: The Differences Between Wikipedia and Social Media
• El Rol de Wikipedia en la Inteligencia Artificial (In Spanish) (Video)

Collaborations and Internships

If you are a researcher that wants to collaborate with us, please check our Formal Collaborations Program, and send me an e-mail.

If you are a student that wants to do an internship with us, please send me an e-mail explaining your research interests.

If you want know about my current collaborations please go to this table.

Publications

Check here.

Past work

Check my previous WMF projects here.