2023:Program/Submissions/New draft writing with a chatbot demonstrated for Wikinews - B3YYBL

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Title: New draft writing with a chatbot demonstrated for Wikinews

Speakers:

Gryllida

Software developer for wiki and for chat applications, and draft reviewer. Contributor -- with nick 'Gryllida' -- to Wikipedia, Commons, Wikibooks, Wikinews and Wiktionary. Bilingual. IRC chat participant with nick 'gry'.

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Track: Technology

Submission state: submitted

Duration: 30 minutes

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Presentation language: en

Abstract & description

Abstract

'Lbot' is a chat bot, such as on the text-based IRC chat protocol, that guides you through the process of writing a new article. At Wikinews, the provided guidance includes collection of sources, evaluation of news freshness, and answering 5Ws in the first paragraph. The same software could be utilized for writing new articles at Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other projects; perhaps packaged for Android; translated to other languages; and it could also be extended to include AI-based or other semi-automatic assistance with filling in new article categories and sources search.

Description

In this session, the process of using the Lbot chat bot will be shown to achieve completion of one new article at Wikinews, a sister of Wikipedia. At the end of the writing, the new article will be added to the wiki. Possible procedures for altering Lbot to make it suitable for other projects, or other languages will be shown so that interested volunteers can adopt it to their projects. Feedback venues will be shown so that the audience may write their feedback and send improvements to Lbot, and share their stories.

Further details

Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?

The demonstrated software will allow to include people who have common deficiencies such as

• you do not have one complete 30 minute block for writing a new draft for a Wikimedia project
• you do not have time to read the project rules and policies before writing your first draft, or find the project rules confusing
• you prefer chatting with a real person over creating a draft with a new draft wizard

Hopefully, this will helps make contributors from diverse backgrounds more comfortable with creating a new draft. Also, at a communication platform, it will be easier for participants to collaborate during the process of draft writing, as helpers will be able to talk in the chat and suggest improvements to the written text.

Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?

• Onsite in Singapore
• Remote online participation, livestreamed
• Remote from a satellite event
• Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
• Pre-recorded and available on demand