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
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Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
Hi!
I am doing a PhD on online civic participation project
(e-participation). Within my research, I have carried out a user
survey, where I asked how many people ever edited/created a page on a
Wiki. Now I would like to compare the results with the overall rate of
wiki editing/creation on country level.
I've found some country-level statistics on Wikipedia Statistics (e.g.
3,000 editors of Wikipedia articles in Italy) but data for UK and
France are not available since Wikipedia provides statistics by
languages, not by countries. I'm thus looking for statistics on UK and
France (but am also interested in alternative ways of measuring wiki
editing/creation in Sweden and Italy).
I would be grateful for any tips!
Sunny regards, Alina
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Alina ÖSTLING
PhD Candidate
European University Institute
www.eui.eu
Hi,
I'm looking for data to conduit a academic inquiry.
More precisely, I would like to study examples of scientists who tried
to contribute to Wikipedia but quit and have spoken about it.
Are you aware of such feedbacks? I'm also interested by the Wikipedia
community reactions.
Thanks
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Pierre Willaime
http://p.willaime.free.fr/
CSCW is a major venue for open collaboration research. Every year the conference features some of the best studies of collaborative systems (including wiki and Wikipedia research [1 -3]). If you are active in this space, please consider submitting a paper or poster, hosting a workshop or organizing a panel at the forthcoming conference in Vancouver. The call for participation with the relevant deadlines is below.
Dario
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/February
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/March
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/February
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CSCW 2015 | Call for Participation
March 14-18, 2015 | Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://cscw.acm.org
The ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in the area of social computing, CSCW addresses both the technical and social challenges encountered when supporting collaboration. The development and application of new technologies continues to enable new ways of working together and coordinating activities.
The conference offers several types of submissions with the following deadlines.
Papers: June 4, 2014
Workshops proposals: August 8, 2014
Interactive Posters: November 10, 2014
Panels: November 10, 2014
Doctoral Colloquium: November 10, 2014
Demonstrations: December 12, 2014
See the individual calls at http://cscw.acm.org/2015/submit/ for more details.
The scope of CSCW spans socio-technical domains including work, home, education, healthcare, the arts, leisure, and entertainment. The conference seeks novel research results or new ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared activities in these and related areas:
▪ Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social networking, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds or collaborative information behaviors.
▪ System Design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences.
▪ Theories. Critical analysis or theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems.
▪ Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or studies related to communication, collaboration, and social technologies, practices, or use. CSCW welcomes diverse methods and approaches.
▪ Mining and Modeling. Studies, analyses and infrastructures for making use of large- and small-scale data.
▪ Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches and tools used in building systems or studying their use.
▪ Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including applications to healthcare, transportation, gaming, ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, global collaboration, or other domains.
▪ Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition, big data, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSs, or sensing systems.
▪ Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.
General Co-Chairs
Andrea Forte, Drexel University
Dan Cosley, Cornell University
chairs2015(a)cscw.acm.org
Program Co-Chairs
Luigina Ciolfi, Sheffield Hallam University
David McDonald, University of Washington
papers2015(a)cscw.acm.org
Posters Co-Chairs
Karyn Moffatt, McGill University
Aleksandra Sarcevic, Drexel University
posters2015(a)cscw.acm.org
Panels Co-Chairs
Louise Barkhuus, Stockholm University
Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University
panels2015(a)cscw.acm.org
Workshops Co-Chairs
Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
Jenn Thom, Amazon
workshops2015(a)cscw.acm.org
Demos Co-Chairs
Tomoo Inoue, University of Tsukuba
Tony Tang, University of Calgary
demos2015(a)cscw.acm.org
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan
Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research Cambridge
dc2015(a)cscw.acm.org
I was wondering if you know about papers and research related to the upload of municipalities on Wikipedia.
I refer to rambot [1] but also to similar experiences on other linguistic editions of Wikipedia and municipalities of other countries
thank you very much
regards, iolanda/iopensa
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:History_of_Wikipedia_bots#.22rambot…
Hello All,
Thanks to Nemo for the answer. However, it does not help what I need. Let
me ask one more time. Can you name any tool/solution that will get all the
keywords in a wikipedia page? Or, can you please help me where I can get
the Wikipedia API that gets me all the keywords in a page?
Thanks for any help in advance.
Nick.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Dr. Nick Lee, 24/03/2014 08:29:
>
> Does any of you have suggestions for a tool to use to collect keywords
>> in Wikipedia pages? Any suggestion will be very very very much
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> Just a few days ago: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/
> pipermail/wiki-research-l/2014-March/003339.html>. Does it help?
>
> Nemo
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The next issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is due for publication on Wednesday 03/26. As usual we are looking for reviewers to contribute a short summary of the most recent publications:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201403
If you wish to contribute, please chime in on the pad and add your name next to the item you wish to cover.
Highlights from this month's publications include:
• Telling Breaking News Stories from Wikipedia with Social Multimedia: A Case Study of the 2014 Winter Olympics
• No praise without effort: experimental evidence on how rewards affect Wikipedia's contributor community
• Computing Semantic Relatedness from Human Navigational Paths: A Case Study on Wikipedia:
• References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature
• The [Wikipedia] world is not flat: On the organizational structure of online production communities
and many more.
Best,
Dario and Tilman
Hello All,
Greetings! I just joined the group. Sorry if this question is something
that is frequent and redundant.
I have been collecting keywords in Wikipedia pages to compute the
frequencies and to build the related ontology sets. I have been using a
tool called Condor but it was not really helpful because it limits the
number of keywords.
The question is this: Does any of you have suggestions for a tool to use to
collect keywords in Wikipedia pages? Any suggestion will be very very very
much appreciated.
Nick.
Hi,
Is there any list of academic studies of Wikimedia projects sorted or
tagged by topic? In particular I'm interested in anything to do with
translation, but it is useful for other topics as well.
The best thing that I could think of now is going to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia
and searching the page for "translation".
Is there a more structured way?
Thanks!
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