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 Citations with identifiers (blog post) Open Access Citations (blog post)

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.