We presented the RENDER toolkit and the planned Article Quality Monitor that will include the results from the diversity enabling tools of the toolkit. The intention was to get feedback from the people actually intended to benefit from these tools, the Wikipedia editors. Feedback was very positive and we got a lot of good input and ideas to improve the tools further.
We further hosted a discussion session around knowledge diversity which was very well received and presented RENDER in 1:1 presentation sessions at the Wikimedia Deutschlabd booth at the conference site.
Wikidata was also presented and received enourmous attention by the editors, who had a lot of questions and in most parts very positive feedback. It became obvious that Wikidata has an application potential in much more than the initially intended use cases and that the community eagerly waits to see it being put to work.

More information on the presentations is also available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RENDER.

• The first article covers the upcoming event “Wikipedia Academy 2012” and mentions both papers of the Render team that have been accepted there. Read the full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-06-25/Recent_research
• The second article presents the work on revert detection where the RENDER project is also working on. Read the full article here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-05-28#New_algorithm_provides_better_revert_detection

Accepted submission:

• Angelika Adam: “Supporting tools for a diversified Wikipedia“

The RENDER Project will be presented during the Speed Geeking Session: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Schedule#Speed_Geeking

Accepted papers from RENDER partners:

• Guillermo Garrido, Enrique Alfonseca, Jean-Yves Delort and Anselmo Peñas: Extracting Wikipedia Historical Attributes Data
• Fabian Flöck and Andriy Rodchenko: Whose article is it anyway? – Detecting authorship distribution in Wikipedia articles over time with WIKIGINI

Find the program of the event here.

• Felix Leif Keppmann, Fabian Flöck, Angelika Adam, Elena Simperl, Delia Rusu, Anselm Metzger and Gerrit Holz. “A Knowledge Diversity Dashboard for Wikipedia” (available here)

more Information on the event is available at: http://www.websci12.org/program

As a result of the networking session, points of potential collaboration were identified and RENDER established contact with a number of EU projects:

• X-LIKE (Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction),
• ENVISION (ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with ONtologies),
• LOD2 (Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data),
• ViSTA-TV (Video Stream Analytics for Viewers in the TV Industry),
• IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack).

More information about collaborative EU projects can be found here:

http://www.xlike.org/
http://www.envision-project.eu/
http://lod2.eu
http://www.iks-project.eu/

Wikimedia Deutschland is starting the development of a new Wikimedia project, called Wikidata. Wikidata will provide a collaboratively edited database of the world’s knowledge. Its first goal is to support the more than 280 language editions of Wikipedia with one common source of structured data that can be used in all articles of the free encyclopedia.

For example, with Wikidata the birth date of a person of public interest can be used in all Wikipedias and only needs to be maintained in one place. Moreover, like all of Wikidata’s information, the birth date will also be freely usable outside of Wikipedia. The common-source principle behind Wikidata is expected to lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions. At the same time, Wikidata will decrease the maintenance effort for the tens of thousands of volunteers working on Wikipedia.

Read the full press release here: English | German