Author: elaragon

EPJ Data Science: Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music

November 13, 2025

Today, the EPJ Data Science journal published our article “Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music: goal-directed mechanisms in music emotion recognition”. The main goal of this study led Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Stanford University) and Thomas Magnus Lennie (Durham University / American University in Bulgaria), with Tuomas Eerola (Durham … More EPJ Data Science: Personalisation and profiling using algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian music

Mozilla Festival 2025

November 10, 2025

Back in the summer, my colleague Franziska (Ziski) Putz from the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy team told me she wanted to propose a contribution for the Mozilla Festival to showcase the Wikipedia Test with real cases from Barcelona. The Wikipedia Test is a tool designed to assess how new technology policies might impact a public-interest … More Mozilla Festival 2025

ACM Transactions on the Web: Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia

October 26, 2025

The ACM Transactions on the Web journal just accepted our article “Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia”. The main goal of this project was to generate and assess actionable metrics for source controversiality in Wikipedia. To guarantee universality (i.e. applicability to all Wikipedia language editions), knowledge equity and avoid dependence on the specifics of … More ACM Transactions on the Web: Language-Agnostic Modeling of Source Reliability on Wikipedia

Mestizajes International Workshop on Science and Humanities

October 16, 2025

What a week at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)! I had the pleasure of attending the 5th edition of Mestizajes International Workshop on Science and Humanities, where I was invited to share recent research from the Wikimedia Foundation on developing scientific methods to assess source reliability on Wikipedia. The event was deeply motivating as … More Mestizajes International Workshop on Science and Humanities

International Conference on Web and Social Media 2025

June 27, 2025

This week, I had the pleasure of being in Copenhagen to attend the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-25), one of the premier venues for computational social science and social computing. This nineteenth edition marked ten years since I first participated in ICWSM, and has been a very fulfilling experience, as I had … More International Conference on Web and Social Media 2025

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Seminar

May 29, 2025

Maria Menendez-Blanco, Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), reached out to invite me as a guest lecturer for their Human-Computer Interaction course within the Bachelor’s program in Communication Sciences and Culture. In this course, the students learn theories and practical skills needed to analyse and design digital technologies that facilitate communication in … More Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Seminar

Wiki Workshop 2025

May 23, 2025

This week, we hosted Wiki Workshop 2025, the main forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, etc.). While the event remained virtual to maximize accessibility, it featured several new elements. Most notably, what had traditionally been a one-day event expanded to two days, allowing for better accommodation … More Wiki Workshop 2025

Wikiherramientas

March 21, 2025

Wikiherramientas is a series of workshops designed to foster the exchange of knowledge, tools, and best practices for enhancing editing and organizational skills across various Wikimedia projects. Led by Wikimedistas de Uruguay, this initiative is made possible through the efforts of Evelin Heidel, with whom I had the pleasure of co-organizing the developer track of … More Wikiherramientas