Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/GAPFlicks:Using open-source AI to broaden the audience of psychological science (ID: 22593381)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Eyoungstrom
- Organization
Helping Give Away Psychological Science
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
GAPFlicks: Using open-source AI to broaden the audience of psychological science
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-02-26 - 2025-02-25
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
International (more than one country across continents or regions) Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, USA, UK
The project will be implemented in the United States of America, Mexico and Brazil, but participants in other countries will be welcome to collaborate virtually. HGAPS has been welcoming international members from its inception, and holding hybrid meetings since 2021.
User ManaraKM is a graduate student in psychology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and has been collaborating to HGAPS since 2022. He will be coordinating the in-person activities of this project in Brazil. Users Susanaglezs and Luiscarloscota are undergrad students at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) and have been contributing to HGAPS since 2021 and 2024, respectively. They will be coordinating the in-person activities of this project in Mexico.
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
WikiMedia platforms such as Wikipedia and Wikiversity are growingly recognized as important sources of information for students, researchers and professionals. Big tech companies also acknowledge WIki platforms as valuable sources by including them as important databases for training Large Language Models (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html) and combating misinformation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_Google_and_Wikipedia#Google's_reliance_on_Wikipedia_to_combat_misinformation).
Helping Give Away Psychological Science is a US-based non-profit organization aimed at bridging the gap between students, researchers, clinicians and the general public by sharing high-quality resources. (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Helping_Give_Away_Psychological_Science#:~:text=HGAPS%20aims%20to%20bridge%20the,spreading%20accessible%20and%20free%20resources.). Wikipedia and Wikiversity play a main role in HGAPS's strategy, providing an open, collaborative and widely accessed platform for these resources.
Besides text-based materials, HGAPS have also been creating video content (https://www.youtube.com/c/HGAPSHelpingGiveAwayPsychologicalScience/featured), mainly by recording presentations from content-experts in diverse topics within Clinical Psychology (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OoEZMdivC8), but also WikiMedia platforms such as Wikipedia and Wikiversity (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YPnecz-_mc). Video resources have a positive impact on learning, (https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654321990713), even for complex subjects such as clinical skills (https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S62473). Thus, HGAPS video content could play an important role within the learning environment fostered by the organization.
However, current materials are all in English, limiting access to these valuable tools for non-English speaking audiences (which paradoxically tend to be those in most need).
Current technology allows the creation of accurate subtitles in different languages through automatic transcription and translation, especially if these can be reviewed by individuals familiar with the content area and target-language. One step further, AI dubbing can be generated through different platforms (including open source ones, such as SoniTranslate and WeeaBlind) in order to make these resources even more accessible.
Therefore, this project aims to broaden the accessibility and improve the documentation of the existing HGAPS’ video resources by building a Wikiversity-based toolkit for Psychology researchers and practitioners (Giving Away Psychology Flicks, or GapFlicks). To improve multilingual accessibility of these videos, curated English transcriptions will be uploaded to Youtube (therefore allowing more accurate automatic translations in all the worlds’ most spoken languages). As a feasibility testing of this approach, and building upon existing HGAPS’ international collaborations in Brazil, Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, a Portuguese and Spanish-speaking version of GAPFlicks will be built, including curated Portuguese and Spanish subtitles and AI dubbed versions of a subset of the videos. This will enhance the availability of that knowledge content to native speakers of Spanish and Portuguese in Latin-American countries, totaling more than 600 million people, including more than 200 million Portuguese speakers in Brazil and more than 400 million Spanish speakers in other Latin-American countries.
Dubbing a random, paired subset of the videos will allow us to measure the impact of that specific adaptation (above curating original transcripts) before further generalization of this process. Measured outcomes will include access to specific videos on the toolkit pages (through the PageViews suite) and Youtube view numbers (across time and dubbed/not-dubbed video groups). The videos will also be converted to open format (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:How_to_embed_a_video) and uploaded directly to Wikimedia Commons, and the materials generated by this project will be integrated through well-documented Wikidata objects.
Besides the dubbed versions of current HGAPS channel content (which includes information about Psychology, data analysis and Wiki editing), GAPFlicks will also include instructions on how to make videos more accessible. These will be based on the procedures employed in the current project, and also recorded in videos in English, Portuguese and Spanish. By having all these steps supported by the use of free software (including open source automatic dubbing software), the project intends to be sensitive to possible resource limitations and needs of international colleagues. As future directions, we also expect to use the tools developed in this project to establish partnerships with international researchers from diverse backgrounds to have talks dubbed from their native languages into English and other broadly spoken languages. This could both increase the visibility of research produced internationally and increase the availability of diverse perspectives on relevant topics worldwide.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
I. Promotion In order to engage the broad WikiMedia community Ongoing post through HGAPS social media (Instagram, X, Facebook, Youtube and LinkedIn) Ongoing updates on Wiki talk pages (Wikipédia:Café dos tradutores, Wikipédia:Esplanada/anúncios, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Psychology) In order to engage Brazilian and Mexican students. Posters and flyers will be used for local promotion at UFRGS’s Psychology building (Instituto de Psicologia, Serviço Social, Saúde e Comunicação Humana) and at UDLAP’s Psychology building.
II. Training Introduction to WikiMedia, Wikiversity and Wiki editing (hybrid, Brazil-based) What is Wikimedia and what are our project goals Intermediate wiki editing Introduction to Wikidata and specificities in Wikidata editing (hybrid, Brazil-based)
III. Content editing Transcription curating (hybrid, US-based): automatically generated transcripts from Youtube videos will be curated. This will include managing regionalisms and expanding acronyms, in order to make automatic translations more accurate, and re-importing the curated versions to Youtube. Translation curating (hybrid, Brazil and Mexico-based): automatically generated Portuguese and Spanish translations from Youtube videos will be curated by bilingual team members, correcting miss-translations. AI dubbing generation and curating (hybrid, Brazil and Mexico-based): automatically generated Portuguese and Spanish dubbing will be reviewed, optimizing its quality and assuring a conversational tone for the materials.
IV. Content publishing (editathons) Building of the toolkit’s general structures (hybrid, US-Based) Uploading dubbed versions to Wikimedia Commons (online) Building of the toolkit’s Portuguese and Spanish versions (Brazil and Mexico-based) Creation of informative videos (in Portuguese, Spanish and English) showing how to repeat the procedures we employed to make videos more accessible. WikiData documentation (hybrid, Brazil and Mexicol-based)
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
User:Eyoungstrom (volunteer, USA, native English/conversant Spanish) is HGAPS founder and executive director. User:ManaraKM (volunteer, Brazil, bilingual Portuguese & English) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2022. User:Brikaug (volunteer, USA, bilingual Spanish & English) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2018. User:Susanaglezs (volunteer, Mexico, bilingual Spanish & English) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2021. User:Luiscarloscota (volunteer) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2024 (Mexico; bilingual Spanish & English).
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
We primarily aim to engage psychology graduate and undergraduate students from Brazil, Mexico and the US, both in-person and online. Participants will be previously made aware about the project through flyers, posters and social media. During training, content editing and editathon activities, we will promote a friendly environment by mixing our existing recorded resources with synchronous presentations, as well as making snacks available at in-person meetings and assigning prizes for well-defined editing goals. After the activities, we will promote ongoing communication between participants and team-members through the project’s Talk Page. Team members' emails will also be provided to participants in order to ensure that communication is possible even if they are not yet comfortable with Wiki talk pages.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
The proposal has been discussed within HGAPS communication channels (in Slack) and the idea has been made open to discussion in main talk pages of the Lusophone wikipedia (Wikipédia:Café dos tradutores and Wikipédia:Esplanada/anúncios) as well as in the talk page of the Psychology Project (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Psychology). The proposal also was presented to the Board of Directors for the 501(c)(3) by Youngstrom and Charamut. The source content also is curated, because it uses the materials generated through prior HGAPS grants and initiatives.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Open Technology
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Although we expect that having curated transcripts and dubbed videos, respectively, will lead to progressively bigger increases in audience, the specific effects of these contributions has yet to be explored. Dubbing a random subset of the videos will allow both testing the feasibility of this project and the effect of that specific adaptation. As mentioned before, we have experience in holding hybrid meetings welcoming international team members. However, this will be our first experience in holding editathons outside the US. Thus, as an organization, HGAPS also wants to learn more about the potential and challenges in holding cross-country editathons. This will be evaluated through participation and productivity (Wiki editing) indexes and qualitative reports from the editathons held through this project.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 500 | The HGAPS videos have accrued 20-200 views each on YouTube in English. The participants will include some new viewers in English during the performance period, but also Portuguese and Spanish viewers as the translated and dubbed versions are deployed. We also will have Portuguese and Spanish versions of pages on Wikiversity and will track engagement there, too. |
| Number of editors | 20 | In addition to the core group identified, we anticipate additional volunteers in English from HGAPS, and in multiple languages from the Wiki community (including the TeaHouse and other online fora). |
| Number of organizers | 6 | User:Eyoungstrom (volunteer, USA, native English/conversant Spanish) is HGAPS founder and executive director.
User:ManaraKM (volunteer, Brazil, bilingual Portuguese & English) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2022. User:Brikaug (volunteer, USA, bilingual Spanish & English) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2018. User:Susanaglezs (volunteer, Mexico, bilingual Spanish & English) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2021. User:Luiscarloscota (volunteer) has been an HGAPS collaborator since 2024 (Mexico; bilingual Spanish & English). User:Ncharamut (volunteer; USA, English native speaker) has been an HGAPS volunteer since 2018) |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 23 |
| Wikidata | 67 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | 10 |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Data, commons images, and Wikiversity all will be adaptations and extensions of materials developed in English, with additional content based on stakeholder feedback to increase relevance and contextual appropriateness.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Dubbed videos produced | videos dubbed through AI, and optimized through human supervision | 11 |
| Curated video transcripts produced | automatic transcriptions from Youtube.com and checked for accuracy by bilingual participants (Spanish and Portuguese for each) | 22 |
| New videos produced | videos that will disseminate the experience acquired through this project, teaching how to dub videos through open-source AI software. | 3 |
| Views of Videos on YouTube | Tracking viewership of each video after publish dates for translated versions, counting English, Spanish, and Portuguese versions | 500 |
| Visits to Wikiversity pages linked to talks | We will use the WMFlabs Massviews Tool to track visits to all of the Wikiversity pages across all three languages to the pages linked to the video presentations | 1000 |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Participants and content contributions in Wikimedia projects will be counted through the Program & Events Dashboard.
Organizers and video content (subtitles, dubbed videos) will be counted manually.
Editors will be counted as participants – organizers.
YouTube views and viewer engagement will be tracked using YouTube tools.
Page views will use the WMFlabs massview tool.
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BUS9aMPfksZmmFNDCSzLM5VLdr4ub35JR4GzsD9E0Ow/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
5000 USD
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
5000 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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