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⚡ Where Algorithmic Transparency Meets Community - by jessica dai and Hal Triedman - Reboot

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How algorithms support contributors at Wikipedia

In elementary and middle school, I would hear this refrain from my teachers constantly: “Wikipedia’s not a reliable source.” Yet today, it’s Wikipedia that populates the information surfaced by many search engines — not just in the main list of results, but in topic summaries explicitly highlighted by Google (or DuckDuckGo/ Ecosia/ Bing). In other words, Wikipedia is here for good as as a critical component of our information ecosystem. I’m super excited to share today’s interview with Hal Triedman (he/him), a Privacy Engineer working on transparency and machine learning at the Wikimedia…

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