This week, the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’24) was held in the Barcelona International Convention Center. KDD is the premier international conference for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to discuss the latest advancements and applications in the field. I had the privilege to contribute … More KDD 2024
We hosted Wiki Workshop 2024 yesterday. This is the largest Wikimedia Research event of the year, bringing together researchers who study all aspects of Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, etc.). In this edition we wanted to also bring Wikimedia developers, affiliate organizations, and volunteer editors interested in research. For that reason, after co-organizing … More Wiki Workshop 2024
Five years later I attended my first face-to-face academic conference and it was like coming home, as it was the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-24). This edition was held in Buffalo (NY, USA) and it was the first time I presented there work done at the Wikimedia Foundation Research team. In … More International Conference on Web and Social Media 2024
Today I went to Valencia to attend esLibre 2024, arguably the most popular event in Spain for those interested in free software, free hardware and free culture (free as in free speech, not free beer). The 2024 edition was organized by GNU/Linux València and was held at Las Naves, the city’s center for social and … More esLibre 2024
Last week I went to Madrid for III Jornadas de Cultura Libre (3rd edition of the Free Culture Days). This event organized by the Free Knowledge and Culture Office at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos as a meeting point to exchange experiences on issues related to free culture: open publishing (teaching materials, research, etc.), open science, … More III Jornadas de Cultura Libre
Today, the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction journal published our article “Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting”. The main goal of this study with Victoria Palacin (University of Helsinki; University of Toronto), Samantha McDonald (University of California Irvine) and Matti Nelimarkka (University of Helsinki; Aalto University) was to characterize the implications of configurations for digital participatory … More ACM TOCHI: Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting
This week our article “A Comparative Study of Reference Reliability in Multiple Language Editions of Wikipedia” was presented in the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2023). This study expands a recent longitudinal assessment of reference quality on English Wikipedia by examining the reliability of references in over 300 language editions of … More Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2023
This week we had Decidim Fest 2023 at Canòdrom. For this edition, we (the organizing committee) proposed the focus on democracy, technology and ̶a̶r̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶collective intelligence, as we wanted to reflect on to what extent AI is a computationally augmented version of human intelligence, extracted from sources of common and open knowledge that were produced in a … More Decidim Fest 2023
After some days in Vienna, I went to Tübingen for participating in the Weaponization of Knowledge Conference. This event was organized by the University of Tübingen and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill to bring together scholars interested in the negative consequences associated with the (mis)use of knowledge. Participants came from a wide … More The Weaponization of Knowledge Conference
This week I went to Vienna to attend the Digital Humanism Summit on AI and Democratic Sustainability. The goal of this summit was to identify possible responses to the worrisome concerns of generative AI for open democratic socities, but also the opportunities for meeting it through collective action such as policy recommendations. This was a … More Digital Humanism Summit
Pablo Aragón 