The next Research & Data showcase will be live-streamed tomorrow Wed 4/16 at 11.30 PT.
The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the showcase starts and you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
We look forward to seeing you!
Dario
This month:
WikiProjects yesterday, today and tomorrow (Jonathan Morgan)
In this talk I’ll give an overview of some research [1] [2] on English Wikipedia Wikiprojects: what kind of work they do, how they do it, and how they have changed over time.
Visualizing Wikipedia Communities using Gephi (Haitham Shammaa)
I will introduce Gephi as a tool for generating a visualized representation of Wikimedia projects communities. Gephi is an open-source network analysis and visualization software, and is utilized to generate graphs that represent users and the interaction among them based on the frequency they send messages to each other on their talk pages.
Dear moderators,
I sometime see conference announcements / CFP on wiki-research ML. I believe that one is appropriate; could you forward it to the list please?
Thank you,
Guillaume Chicoisne
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Dear all,
The Institut des sciences cognitives at UQAM (Montréal) is organising its fifth Summer School, this year on the topic of "Web Science and the Mind"
* Topic includes social network analysis, semantic web, distributed cognition, …
* Scholarships (500$ + registration)
* Call for posters
* Can be worth 3 credits
Please contact us with any questions or comments you may have: summer14.isc(a)uqam.ca<mailto:summer14.isc@uqam.ca>
Guillaume Chicoisne
The Fifth Summer School in Cognitive Sciences : Web Science and the Mind.
Organized by the UQAM Cognitive Science Institute in Montréal (Canada), from July 7th to 18th.
Theme of the Summer Institute: Web Science and the Mind.
This summer school will present a comprehensive overview of the interactions between the web and cognitive sciences, with topics ranging from social network analysis to distributed cognition and semantic web.
The Summer School will feature a poster session.
Information about this poster session is available at:
http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/affiche.php<http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/affiche.php>
Deadline: April 11th 2014
Registration for the Summer School is open (''Early Bird'' Registration fees until May 9th).
Note that the lowest fee is for students that will attend the Summer School as a credited activity (worth 3 university credits). Details:
http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php<http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php>
Scholarships
Scholarships for travel, accomodation and/or registration will be available for students registered in a Quebec University (CREPUQ).
http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/bourses.php
Want to stay in touch? Follow us on Twitter! @iscUQAM
We hope to see you there in July.
Calling all Social Media and Online Communities Researchers!
Please consider submitting your research to the following conferences.
Deadlines are fast approaching.
(1) #SMSociety14: CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
When: September 27-28, 2014
Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: April 18, 2014 (!!!in 4 days!!!)
Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014
More info: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?page_id=549
Conference organizers:
Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
Philip Mai, Dalhousie University
Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto
(2) Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Minitrack: SOCIAL NETWORKING & COMMUNITIES
Location: Kauai, Hawaii, USA
When: January 5-8, 2015
Papers Due: June 15, 2014
More info: http://socialmedialab.ca/?page_id=9308
Minitrack co-chairs:
Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University
Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia
Karine Nahone, University of Washington
Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd <gruzd(a)dal.ca> if you have any questions
about these calls.
Hey folks,
We just listed a job opening at the WMF for a new research position. We're
looking specifically for someone to help the fundraising team do background
research, design experiments and analyze the results.
See the job description and submit your application here:
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQ&cs=9UL9Vfwt&pag…
-Aaron Halfaker
Research Scientist @ WMF
The March 2014 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/March
Contents:
1 Cross-language study of conflict on Wikipedia
2 The social construction of knowledge on English Wikipedia
3 User hierarchy map: Building Wikipedia's Org Chart
4 Briefly
4.1 Extracting machine-readable data from Wiktionary
4.2 Wikipedia as a source of proper names in various languages
4.3 "Wikipedia and Machine Translation: killing two birds with one stone"
4.4 "Knowledge Construction in Wikipedia: A Systemic-Constructivist Analysis"
4.5 Younger librarians more supportive of Wikipedia
4.6 "Preparing and publishing Wikipedia articles are a good tool to
train project management, teamwork and peer reviewed publishing
processes in life sciences"
4.7 "Networked Grounded Theory" analysis of views on the use of
Wikipedia in education
4.8 "Risk factors and control of hospital acquired infections: a
comparison between Wikipedia and scientific literature"
4.9 How a country's broadband connectivity and Wikipedia coverage are related
*** 12 publications were covered in this issue ***
Thanks to Federico Leva, Scott Hale, Kim Osman, Jonathan Morgan, Piotr
Konieczny, Niklas Laxström and James Heilman for contributing.
Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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