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SUMMARY:Research at the Wikimedia Foundation to advance knowledge equity
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DESCRIPTION:Martin Gerlach\nThe mission of the Wikimedia Research Team is 
 to support and advance the understanding of Wikipedia and its sister proje
 cts. In this talk\, Martin Gerlach will give an overview of their recent r
 esearch to address knowledge gaps in Wikimedia projects. This program is r
 ooted in the Wikimedia movement’s strategic goal for 2030 towards knowle
 dge equity\, which aims to break down barriers preventing people from acce
 ssing and contributing to free knowledge. Martin will showcase different e
 xamples of how they use data and develop models to identify\, measure\, an
 d bridge knowledge gaps. He will also describe how these research insights
  are used in practice to\, e.g.\, support new products in order to empower
  millions of readers and contributors.\n\nMartin Gerlach is a Senior Resea
 rch Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation\, the non-profit that operates W
 ikipedia and its sister projects. His research focus is in the field of co
 mputational social science combining tools from network science\, machine 
 learning\, and statistical physics with the aim of improving the Wikimedia
  projects by identifying and quantifying the gaps in knowledge\, understan
 ding its readers and how they navigate\, and making it easier for editors 
 to contribute. He obtained a PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Physi
 cs of Complex Systems and was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern Univer
 sity prior to joining Wikimedia Foundation.\n 
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