User:Isaac (WMF) - Wikipedia
- ️Thu Nov 16 2023
Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isaac Johnson
Senior Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation
About me
I joined the the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation on October 2018 as a Research Scientist. I currently live in the glorious New York City, NY, USA.
My work
My background is in geography and human-computer interaction, with a special focus on understanding (and trying to do something about) how structural inequalities find their way online and into algorithmic systems. Since joining WMF, I have also been heavily involved in research towards better understanding reader needs and behavior, how to model and make predictions about Wikimedia content in a language-agnostic manner, and the impact of external re-use of Wikimedia content.
Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.
A collection of tools that I've built (or helped build) for showcasing some of our research work:
- Language-agnostic content tagging models
- List-building models
- Social media traffic report
- Differential privacy parameter exploration
- Search referral data for Wikipedia
- User scripts for visualizing link data
And specifically, a number of Python packages:
- mwparserfromhtml: parsing Wikipedia HTML (parsoid output)
- mwedittypes: structured analysis of wikitext diffs
- mwtokenizer: word / sentence tokenization for Wikimedia content
- mwsql: parsing Wikimedia SQL dumps
Musings
Various writings about topics relevant to Wikimedia data, research, etc.
- Language modeling:
- Data practices:
Projects
Last updated on 11/16/2023