**Participants**, please read/think about/research these, ahead of time:
* Session description:
** The role of research, analytics, and machine learning in the future of Wikimedia.
*** Research: the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
*** Analytics: the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics.
*** Machine learning: the construction of computer algorithms through implicit learning from data.
* Session Goals:
** Gain a common language for discussion R-A-ML and strategy -- a language that helps conversations continue after the event.
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* Pre-event questions for discussion
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* Related position statements:
** https://wikifarm.wmflabs.org/devsummit/index.php/Session:6
* Related background reading:
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYF-3t14CSc -- 1 hour talk by @halfak about newcomer dynamics in Wikipedia and the large potential for innovation around Machine Learning
** @leila presenting about the Knowledge Gap (video link will be added soon)
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**Session notes**:
* https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/devsummit18-researchanalyticsmachinelearning
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**Topic Leaders** (@leila @Milimetric @halfak), please
* Add more details to this task description,
* Coordinate any pre-event discussions (here, IRC, email, hangout, etc),
* Outline the plan for discussing this topic at the Developer Summit.
* Optionally, include what it will //not// try to solve.
* Update this task with summaries of any pre-event discussions.
* Include ways for people not attending to be involved in discussions before the summit and afterwards.
This is one of the 8 [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018 |Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018]] topics.
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Post-event Summary:
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# Participation from non-attendees
//to do//https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183320