Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research
policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a
policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to
participate in studies.
At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying
group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much
the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots.
The policy proposal can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research
The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal
is being described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia
community, we would like additional input about the proposal,
and would welcome additional help improving it.
Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
--
Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on brainstorming a
proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations, a
WikiCite so to speak, if that is not the eventual name. My plan is to
continue to discuss with folks who are knowledgeable and interested in such
a project and to have the feedback I receive go into the proposal which I
hope to write this summer. The proposal white paper will then be sent around
to interested parties for corrections and feedback, including on-wiki and
mailing lists, before eventually landing at the Foundation officially. As we
know WMF has not started a new project in some years, so there is no
official process. Thus I find it important to get it right.
The basic idea is a centralized wiki that contains citation information that
other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something like a
{{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the citation,
the author, the book etc.. and, in one idealization, all citations across
all wikis would point to the same article on WikiCite. Users can use this
wiki as their personal bibliography as well, as collections of citations can
be exported in arbitrary citation formats. This general plan would allow
community aggregation of metadata and community documentation of sources
along arbitrary dimensions (quality, trust, reliability, etc.). The hope is
that such a resource would then expand on that wiki and across the projects
into summarizations of collections of sources (lit reviews) that
make navigating entire fields of literature easier and more
reliable, getting you out of the trap of not being aware of the global
context that a particular source sits in.
To give all a more concrete view, here is an example from some software that
I have implemented in our lab called WikiPapers. Please take note that while
this is a scientific literature example, the idea is general to *all
publications ever*. Also, while I have implemented a feature-full version of
a WikiCite, it's important to point out that for the WMF project we will
need a new extension that handles the needs of the project exactly, and in
PHP (I use Python :).
The name of the wiki article is a unique key that is a combination of the
author names and the year, in the following format:
Author1Author2Author3EtAl10b. This works for scientific articles, but we may
find we need to modify the key for other kinds of sources. The content of
the wiki article is composed of an infobox constructed via the Citation
template, and any other text and media the community determines it is useful
and legal to include in the article. Example article:
Screenshot of how this infobox renders on our wiki:
http://grey.colorado.edu/mediawiki/sites/mingus/images/0/0e/KangHsuKrajbich…
Title: KangHsuKrajbichEtAl09
{{Citation
|publisher=SAGE Publications
|dateadded=2010-07-17
|author=Kang M.J. and Hsu M. and Krajbich I.M. and Loewenstein G. and
McClure S.M. and Wang J.T. and Camerer C.F.
|url=http://pss.sagepub.com/content/20/8/963.full
|abstract=Curiosity has been described as a desire for learning and
knowledge, but its underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We scanned
subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they read trivia
questions. The level of curiosity when reading questions was correlated with
activity in caudate regions previously suggested to be involved in
anticipated reward. This finding led to a behavioral study, which showed
that subjects spent more scarce resources (either limited tokens or waiting
time) to find out answers when they were more curious. The functional
imaging also showed that curiosity increased activity in memory areas when
subjects guessed incorrectly, which suggests that curiosity may enhance
memory for surprising new information. This prediction about memory
enhancement was confirmed in a behavioral study: Higher curiosity in an
initial session was correlated with better recall of surprising answers 1 to
2 weeks later.
|title=The Wick in the Candle of Learning
|bibtex type=article
|number=8
|volume=20
|owner=Sethherd
|journal=Psychological Science
|year=2009
|cites=O'ReillyFrank06,Cowan95,Wise04,Fuster80,Panksepp98,KakadeDayan02b,DelgadoLockeStengerEtAl03,BrewerZhaoDesmondEtAl98,DelgadoNystromFiez00,Beatty82,Baddeley92,Waanabe96,Roland93lm,DelgadoNystromFissellEtAl00,WagnerSchacterRotteEtAl98,SeymourDawDayanEtAl07,ODoherty04,BandettiniMoonen99,ODohertyDayanFristonEtAl03,RogersOwenRobbins99,KnutsonWestdorpKaiserEtAl00,CircuitryMemory,OReillyFrank06,Watanabe96a,BrewerZhaoGabrieli98,WagnerSchacterBuckner98,RogersOwenMiddletonEtAl99,Baddeley86,Watanabe96,Rolls96a,PallerWagner02
|cited_by=Author1Author2Author3EtAl10,etc...
|pages=963
}}
Then, any other WMF wiki, or any other MediaWiki, could cite this universal
entry by simply typing {{cite|KangHsuKrajbichEtAl09}}
Additionally, if a technology such as Semantic MediaWiki is used (as it is
in WikiPapers), arbitrary lists of collections of literature can be
generated by constructing simple queries that are boolean combinations of
template properties. Given that SMW does not scale well, I have a plan that
uses Lucene instead for fast, scalable dynamic generation of collections of
citations. Imagine the possibilities..
Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own
ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especially interested in
the potential benefits to the WMF projects that you see, and to hear your
thoughts on the potential of this project on its own, as that will feature
prominently in the proposal. Additionally, what do you think WikiCite would
eventually be like, once it is fully matured?
Brian Mingus
Graduate Student
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
University of Colorado at Boulder
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> There have been a number of proposals floated in the Wikimedia
> community over the years to build a wiki-based project for collecting
> journal citation information. For those interested in that topic, you
> might want to check out the University of Prince Edward Island's
> "knowledge for all" project proposal -- it proposes to build an open
> universal citation index (to serve as an alternative to the many
> hundreds of proprietary citation index products that libraries
> currently buy). This of course is not the first attempt at this
> problem, but it's an interesting proposal that's getting a bit of buzz
> in the library community.
> http://library.upei.ca/k4all
>
> -- phoebe
>
> --
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For those of you working with pageview data from
<http://dammit.lt/wikistats> (also the source for stats.grok.se),
please note that over the last several weeks, a significant percentage
(about a third) of pageviews weren't being logged due to packet loss
on the aggregating server. The setup is still pretty fragile, so
please be wary of taking that data too seriously until we've
stabilized it.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
COLING 2010 Workshop
The 2nd Workshop on "The People's Web meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources"
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/
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Beijing, China, August, 28, 2010
COLING 2010
KEYWORDS:
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose,
Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks
INVITED TALK
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
REGISTRATION
http://www.coling-2010.org/Registration.htm
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30-10:00
Constructing Large-Scale Person Ontology from Wikipedia, Yumi Shibaki, Masaaki
Nagata and Kazuhide Yamamoto
10:00-10:30
Using the Wikipedia Link Structure to Correct the Wikipedia Link Structure, Benjamin
Mark Pateman and Colin Johnson
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
Extending English ACE 2005 Corpus Annotation with Ground-truth Links to Wikipedia,
Luisa Bentivogli, Pamela Forner, Claudio Giuliano, Alessandro Marchetti, Emanuele
Pianta and Kateryna Tymoshenko
11:30-12:00
Expanding textual entailment corpora from Wikipedia using co-training, Fabio Massimo
Zanzotto and Marco Pennacchiotti
12:00-12:30
Pruning Non-Informative Text Through Non-Expert Annotations to Improve Aspect-Level
Sentiment Classification, Ji Fang, Bob Price and Lotti Price
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00
Invited Talk by Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
15:00-15:30
Measuring Conceptual Similarity by Spreading Activation over Wikipedia's Hyperlink
Structure, Stephan Gouws, G-J van Rooyen and Herman A. Engelbrecht
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
Identifying and Ranking Topic Clusters in the Blogosphere, M. Atif Qureshi, Arjumand
Younus, Muhammad Saeed, Nasir Touheed, Emanuele Pianta and Kateryna Tymoshenko
16:30-16:50
Helping Volunteer Translators, Fostering Language Resources, Masao Utiyama, Takeshi
Abekawa, Eiichiro Sumita and Kyo Kageura
16:50-17:30 Discussion
ORGANIZERS
Iryna Gurevych
Torsten Zesch
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Andras Csomai Google Inc.
Anette Frank Heidelberg University
Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar
Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst Trento
Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University
Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas
Delphine Bernhard LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay
Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd
Elke Teich Technische Universität Darmstadt
Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania
Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
Erhard Hinrichs Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Ernesto De Luca Technische Universität Berlin
Florian Laws University of Stuttgart
Gerard de Melo MPI Saarbrücken
German Rigau University of the Basque Country
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto
Günter Neumman DFKI Saarbrücken
György Szarvas Technische Universität Darmstadt
Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg
José Iria University of Sheffield
Laurent Raumary LORIA, Nancy
Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Stede Potsdam University
Omar Alonso A9.com, Inc.
Pablo Castells Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid
Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Philipp Cimiano Delft University of Technology
Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin
Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal
Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Saif Mohammad University of Maryland
Samer Hassan University of North Texas
Sören Auer Leipzig University
Tonio Wandmacher CEA, Paris
INTRODUCTION
The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web
meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted
submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical
Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This
clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP
community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs),
also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area
and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used
to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems
pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest
popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to
Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the
multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have
also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately
includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia.
Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need
to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability
with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical
semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as
no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is
a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are
often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or
information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds"
while constructing resources of better quality.
[1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten.
Mining meaning from Wikipedia.
In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009.
[2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych
Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary
Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC), 2008.
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/
[3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng.
Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations
for Natural Language Tasks.
Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008.
[4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish.
General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose.
Communications of the ACM, 2008.
[5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai
Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.
[6] Daniel S. Weld et al.
Intelligence in Wikipedia.
Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.
In reference to the discussion about citations, we're recently added a
'Wikipedia citation' link to Open Library. For example:
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL17963918M/An_inland_voyage
At the bottom of the page on the right is this:
Download catalog record: RDF / JSON | Wikipedia citation
The Wikipedia citation link will give you a citation template to copy
and paste to Wikipedia. We would welcome any comments about this
citation template.
We would like to have a list on the page, "what cites this book" for
citations in Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web.
--
Edward.
Jeff makes some good points about page numbers on public-lld (where I had forwarded part of this conversation). -Jodi
Begin forwarded message:
> Resent-From: public-lld(a)w3.org
> From: "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung(a)oclc.org>
> Date: 20 July 2010 22:53:40 GMT+01:00
> To: "Tom Morris" <tfmorris(a)gmail.com>
> Cc: "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle(a)kcoyle.net>, "Jodi Schneider" <jschneider(a)pobox.com>, "public-lld" <public-lld(a)w3.org>, "Code for Libraries" <CODE4LIB(a)listserv.nd.edu>, "Brian Mingus" <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>
> Subject: RE: "universal citation index"
>
> I suspect this discussion happened on code4lib before the thread got
> cross-posting to LLD XG where I first saw it.
>
> There are undoubtedly a ton of diverse use cases, but that doesn't mean
> APIs are the best solution. Here are some spitball possibilities for
> "not just manifestations" and "we need page numbers".
>
> http://example.org/frbr:serial/2/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt
> http://example.org/frbr:manifestation/1/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt?xyz:st
> artPage=5&xyz:endPage=6
>
> I'm imagining an xyz ontology with startPage and endPage, but we can
> surely create it if something doesn't already exist.
>
> Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Morris [mailto:tfmorris@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:37 PM
>> To: Young,Jeff (OR)
>> Cc: Karen Coyle; Jodi Schneider; public-lld; Code for Libraries; Brian
>> Mingus
>> Subject: Re: "universal citation index"
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung(a)oclc.org>
>> wrote:
>>> In terms of Linked Data, it should make sense to treat citations as
>>> text/plain variant representations of a FRBR Manifestation.
>>
>> As Karen mentioned, many types of citation need more information than
>> just the manifestation. You also need pages numbers, etc.
>>
>> Tom
>
>
>
There have been a number of proposals floated in the Wikimedia
community over the years to build a wiki-based project for collecting
journal citation information. For those interested in that topic, you
might want to check out the University of Prince Edward Island's
"knowledge for all" project proposal -- it proposes to build an open
universal citation index (to serve as an alternative to the many
hundreds of proprietary citation index products that libraries
currently buy). This of course is not the first attempt at this
problem, but it's an interesting proposal that's getting a bit of buzz
in the library community.
http://library.upei.ca/k4all
-- phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
<at> gmail.com *
Przykuta, 18/07/2010 13:38:
> Huh. Try edit any article in pl wiki as IP without edit summary ;) This question (ask for summaries) is introduced to pl wiki from cs wiki. Script (red border) has written by Nux (probably).
Thank you. When was this feature introduced?
Ortega's statistics
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felipe_Ortega,_Flagged_revisio…
show that the mandatory edit summary on de.wiki (which is a different
feature) reduced anonymous contributions a lot.
Nemo
