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 AAAI ICWSM 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
This week I went to Germany to attend the Dagstuhl Seminar on Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society. Dagstuhl Seminars are invite only events organized by Schloss Dagstuhl (Leibniz Center for Informatics) that bring together leading researchers and practicioners in specific fields of computer science. I was invited by the organizers: to … More Dagstuhl Seminar
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) held today its annual symposium at Canòdrom. This was the first face-to-face meeting of this organization since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and gathered members of different national OKFN chapters together with international and local scholars and practitioners interested in open knowledge. Renata Ávila, former collaborator at D-CENT and … More Open Knowledge Symposium
It has been almost 10 years since I arrived in Barcelona for working as a research engineer at Fundació Barcelona Media (research scientist at Eurecat after a few years). Many things have happened since then: discovering that social media analysis techniques could help to understand social and political phenomena, co-founding the DatAnalysis15M research network, contributing … More Wikimedia Foundation: Research Scientist
Pablo Aragón 