Dear members of Wiki-research-l,
We are a team of researchers based at the University of Westminster in
London and working for the netCommons Project (EU Horizon 2020 project
netCommons: Network Infrastructure as Commons, http://netcommons.eu).
As part of the project, we are conducting an online survey to examine
users’ concerns about Internet use and at the same time explore the
potential of alternative Internet provision. Such concerns will provide
useful input to policy makers and regulators who hold significant
responsibilities over the telecommunications and Internet landscape, and
consequently need to take informed steps towards the evolution of this
landscape.
We are looking in particular for respondents (Internet users) who are
academic/research staff, students, IT product/services professionals or
administrative/clerical staff at Universities or research institutes.
We would be grateful if you could take some time (about 20 minutes) to
complete the survey.
The survey link is: https://d52netcommons.limequery.com/357528?lang=en
The survey will be available online until 30 June 2017.
Many thanks for your collaboration.
Kind regards
Prof Christian Fuchs
Dr Maria Michalis, Reader
Dr Dimitris Boucas, Research Fellow
University of Westminster, UK
Perhaps of interest.
Pine
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From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:31 AM
Subject: [Design] Design in the Era of the Algorithm
To: design(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning.
(via waxy.org)\
"The answer machines have an overconfidence problem. It’s not only a
data-science problem that the algorithm returns bad conclusions. It’s a
problem of presentation: the interface suggests that there’s one true
answer, offering it up with a confidence that is unjustified.
So this is a design problem, too. The presentation fails to set appropriate
expectations or context, and instead presents a bad answer with
matter-of-fact assurance. As we learn to present machine-originated
content, we face a very hard question: how might we add some productive
humility to these interfaces to temper their overconfidence?
I have ideas."
https://bigmedium.com/speaking/design-in-the-era-of-the-algorithm.html
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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Kerry,
What an interesting idea. I created a task in Phabricator, Wikimedia's took
for tracking bug and feature requests. I'll bug some of the search folks to
see if they have any suggestions. In the task I shared a very clunky way of
doing this that is not 100% what you're looking for, but something! :)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167899
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello friend,
I've just found something really interesting and OMG ... it’s amazing, just take a look http://bit.do/dwxwB
Wishes, Wiki-research-l
From: Research into Wikimedia content and communities [mailto:wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 8:46 PM
To: theo.henri(a)laposte.net
Subject: Figured it out, thanks
When he walked in, I felt crushed. The boy's father was a gloomy man. A walking husk of a human being. Without a need for introductions, he spoke with a gruff voice and a strict intention.
“Where's my boy?”
It was like watching a stray dog bark at you. I quickly explained to him the 5 day suspension and handed him his pink slip without another word. His son came out, red-eyed and flustered.
“You think I have the time to fuckin' be here?” He growled at the child as they sequentially left.
This sort of thing happened a few times before. I noticed the pupil returning to school only to cause more disruption with each suspension. He ended up in my office on a regular basis, treating other students the way his father kept me. But I held back from calling one day.
'Sir please don't call my Dad.” He wept to me one day, and it all became clear. His behavior drastically improved with each day. I remember when his Father was just like him and made a choice to dial Childrens Service's. Maybe someone should have done that for him.
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[Apologies for multiple copies]
Call for Participation
10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2017 -
17-21 July 2017
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017
*** Accepted Papers ***
The programme for CICM 2017, which will be held in Edinburgh is now
available:
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=&menu=talks
*** Work in Progress Submissions ***
We invite work-in-progress submissions, with the aim of providing a
forum for the presentation of original work that is not yet suitable
for submission as a full paper in a research track. This includes
emerging trends work. Although length is not limited, we recommend 5
pages.
Submit your paper by 23 June 2017 in the "Work in Progress” track via
Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2017
Please add a keyword for the intended topical track MKM, DML,
Calculemus or Systems and Projects. Author notification will be sent
by 27 June.
*** Posters Submissions ***
In addition, we solicit for posters that will not be peer reviewed,
but will be screened for relevance to the conference.
You can submit an abstract for a poster by 23 June 2017 via EasyChair
at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2017.
Author notification will be sent by 27 June.
*** Invited Speakers ***
- Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh)
- Przemysław Chojecki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Grant Olney Passmore (Aesthetic Integration)
**** Conference Tracks ***
* Calculemus (Chair: Matthew England, University of Coventry)
* Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (Chair: Olaf Teschke, Humboldt
University of Berlin)
* Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (Chair: Florian Rabe, Jacobs
University Bremen)
* Systems & Projects (Chair: Osman Hasan, NUST Pakistan)
* Doctoral Programme (Chair: Adnan Rashid, NUST Pakistan)
*** Co-located Workshops ***
* 12th Workshop on Mathematical User Interface (MathUI 2017)
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=mathui
* 28th OpenMath Workshop
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=openmath
*** Registration ***
Early Registration: Until 30 June 2017
For more details, see:
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017/cicm.php?event=&menu=registration
*** Local Information ***
Information about the venue, accommodation, travel, visa requirements,
etc. can be found at: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/cicm2017
*** CICM 2017 Organisers ***
* General Program Chair: Herman Geuvers (Radboud University)
* Workshops Chair: Petros Papapanagiotou (University of Edinburgh)
* Publicity Chair: Serge Autexier (DFKI Bremen)
* Local arrangements: Jacques Fleuriot and Suzanne Perry (University
of Edinburgh)
Is there a tool already (or "how hard would it be?") which would show the
user what is said about article X in other articles. It seems to me that
there are a lot of easy content additions that might be found that way and
used to flesh out stubs and other shorter articles. What is motivating this
is because I often find that "what links here" often points to some
surprising articles which can reveal new insights into a topic. I often
write about places. Often I think "oh, this one's nothing special" and
suddenly "what links here" reveals some interesting events that occurred
there. Discovery of a famous fossil or a big role in World War II or the
birthplace of someone quite famous. So I am wondering if there is a way to
automate this process a bit by quickly drilling down to the relevant chunk
of the article content rather than having to read/search the whole thing.
That is, if I was writing the article [[Bang Bang Jump Up]], I would want a
list along the lines of:
* From article [[Winston Churchill]] within section "After the Second
World War" : On 23 July 1944 at [[Bang Bang Jump Up]], he met [[Harry
Truman]] to discuss the establishment of the [[United Nations]].
(False news alert: These world leaders did not meet at Bang Bang Jump Up,
but let's pretend they did.)
That is, a list of the articles with the sentence/para containing the link
or +/- N chars before or after the link, whatever's feasible to create an
intelligible snippet without having to read the whole article.
I am assuming here that article X is linked from Y (I'm not considering text
mentions). Of course, the success of the tool is its ability to pick what
might be most relevant. Nobody wants to wade through a list of irrelevant
mentions. So I would want to stick to links occurring in the prose of the
article body rather than navbox transclusions, links in citations, templates
and so forth. I also think that ordering the list by some "likely to be most
useful" metric would be beneficial (or ideally the ability of the user to
fiddle with those choices at run-time). Now until one has such a tool to get
experience with, it's hard to know what might constitute more "relevant".
But some metrics might be:
* The relative importance of the topics. I suspect if a more
important topic is mentioning a less important topic, it might be more
relevant. Winston Churchill is more important than Bang Bang Jump Up.
* The relative quality of the articles. I suspect if a high quality
article is mentioning a low quality article, it might be more relevant.
Winston Church is a higher quality article than Bang Bang Jump Up.
* Being tagged by the same WikiProject (or not within the same
WikiProject). Not sure which would likely be more relevant but it might be
interesting to explore. It's unlikely Winston Churchill and Bang Bang Jump
Up are in the same WikiProject.
* The other article is not already linked in this article. That is,
if Bang Bang Jump Up already links to Winston Churchill, then probably this
is less likely to be "new information" for the Bang Bang Jump Up article.
Anyhow, do we have a tool that does something along these lines? If not, is
there a student project here? :)
Kerry
(English, Català, Castellano)
Procomuns 2017: 27 & 28 June 2017 (Barcelona)
Procomuns.net
Procomuns is a forum for the cocreation of public policies for a commons-oriented collaborative economy. Collaborative policies for collaborative economy. A space for the codesign and development of proposals, and public-commons solutions for a commons collaborative economy.
The collaborative economy based on digital platforms is growing exponentially, creating challenges and opportunities. It has turned into a top priority for the political agenda around the world, and the involvement of citizenship is key, as well as the differentiation of models and to impulse of the commons model and platform cooperativism as an opportunity to democratize economy at a large scale.
This year 2017 is the year of the regulations of the collaborative economy: we will discuss with representatives of the European Parliament, the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council about which policies could support the commons, and we will define guidelines for cities. We will reflect with Yochai Benkler, expert in digital commons, on the deep transformations underway, as well as define strategies of passing from an oligarchical economy to open social economy. We will present resources for entrepreneurship, economic models and technologies for the scalability of initiatives, and co-design solutions for city challenges, regarding housing, care, precarity and exclusion.
27 & 28 of June (Tuesday and Wednesday) in Barcelona Activa (C / Laguna 162-164) from 9am to 19pm every day, and final party at 28th at La T. Registration is open and free. .
Program: http://procomuns.net/ca/programa-2017/
Registration: http://procomuns.net/ca/inscripcio/
Join us and participate in the cocreation of actions for the commons in Barcelona!
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CATALÀ
Procomuns 2017: 27 & 28 Juny 2017 (Barcelona)
Procomuns.net
Procomuns és un fòrum de cocreació de polítiques públiques, un fòrum de política col·laborativa per a una economia col·laborativa. Un espai de codisseny i desenvolupament de propostes, solucions i estratègies público-comunes per a un avenç de les economies col·laboratives procomuns a Catalunya.
L’economia col·laborativa de plataformes digitals està creixent exponencialment, plantejant reptes i oportunitats. Ha esdevingut una prioritat per a les agendes polítiques de tot el món. És clau la involucració de la ciutadania, la diferenciaió de models i l’impuls del models procomuns i cooperativisme de plataforma com a oportunitat per a democratitzar l’economia a gran escala.
Aquest any 2017 és l'any de la regulació de l'economia col·laborativa: debatrem amb representants de la Generalitat, Ajuntament i Parlament Europeu quines poden ser les millors polítiques públiques, i farem arribar guies per les ciutats en aquesta matèria, i als mitjans per a trencar el bloqueig mediàtic imperant cap a models que no són els corporatius. Reflexionarem amb Yochai Benkler, expert en procomú digital, les transformacions de fons en marxa i les escletxes per passar d’una economia oligàrquica a una basada en economia social oberta. Presentarem recursos per l’emprenedoria, de models econòmics i tecnològics per l'escalabilitat de les iniciatives, i co-dissenyarem solucions a reptes de la ciutat, en matèria d’habitatge, cures, precarietat i exclusió.
La cita la tens els dies 27 i 28 de juny (dimarts i dimecres) a Barcelona Activa (c/Llacuna 162-164), de 9h a 19h cada jornada, i el 28 amb una festa final a la T. Les inscripcions ja estan obertes i són gratuïtes.
Programa: http://procomuns.net/ca/programa-2017/
Inscripció: http://procomuns.net/ca/inscripcio/
Video Streaming from the web
Vine i participa de en la co-creació d’accions per al procomú a Barcelona!
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CASTELLANO
Procomuns 2017: 27 & 28 de Junio 2017 (Barcelona)
Procomuns.net
Procomuns es un foro de cocreación de políticas públicas, un foro de política colaborativa para una economía colaborativa. Un espacio de co-diseño y desarrollo de propuestas, soluciones y estrategias público-comunes para un avance de las economías colaborativas procomunes.
La economía colaborativa de plataformas digitales está creciendo exponencialmente, planteando retos y oportunidades. Se ha convertido en una prioridad para las agendas políticas de todo el mundo. Son clave la involucración de la ciudadanía, la diferenciación de modelos, y el impulso de modelos procomún y el cooperativismo de plataforma como oportunidad para democratizar la economía a gran escala.
Este año 2017 es el año de la regulación de la economía colaborativa: debatiremos con representantes del Parlamento Europeo, la Generalitat de Cataluña y el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona cuáles pueden ser las mejores políticas públicas, y haremos llegar guías para las ciudades en esta materia, así como a los medios de comunicación para romper el bloqueo mediático imperante hacia modelos que no sean los corporativos. Reflexionaremos con Yochai Benkler, experto en procomún digital, sobre las transformaciones de fondo en marcha, y sobre vías para pasar de una economía oligárquica a una basada en economía social abierta. Presentaremos recursos para el emprendimiento, modelos económicos y tecnológicos para la escalabilidad de las iniciativas, y co-diseñaremos soluciones a retos de la ciudad, en materia de vivienda, cuidados, precariedad y exclusión.
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Inscripción: http://procomuns.net/ca/inscripcio/
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Apologies if you've already seen this -- looks like it was mentioned in the
media report but I haven't seen it posted otherwise. There is a new report
out from the Internet Monitor project at the Berkman Klein center that may
be of general interest:
"Analyzing Accessibility of Wikipedia Projects Around the World"
https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/04/WikipediaCensorship
Abstract:
This study, conducted by the Internet Monitor project at the Berkman Klein
Center for Internet & Society, analyzes the scope of government-sponsored
censorship of Wikimedia sites around the world. The study finds that, as of
June 2016, China was likely censoring the Chinese language Wikipedia
project, and Thailand and Uzbekistan were likely interfering intermittently
with specific language projects of Wikipedia as well.
However, considering the widespread use of filtering technologies and the
vast coverage of Wikipedia, our study finds that, as of June 2016, there
was relatively little censorship of Wikipedia globally. In fact, our study
finds there was less censorship in June 2016 than before Wikipedia’s
transition to HTTPS-only content delivery in June 2015. HTTPS prevents
censors from seeing which page a user is viewing, which means censors must
choose between blocking the entire site and allowing access to all
articles. This finding suggests that the shift to HTTPS has been a good one
in terms of ensuring accessibility to knowledge.
The study identifies and documents the blocking of Wikipedia content using
two complementary data collection and analysis strategies: a client-side
system that collects data from the perspective of users around the globe
and a server-side tool to analyze traffic coming in to Wikipedia servers.
Both client- and server-side methods detected events that we consider
likely related to censorship, in addition to a large number of suspicious
events that remain unexplained. The report features results of our data
analysis and insights into the state of access to Wikipedia content in 15
select countries.
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Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the March 2017 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201703 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Sunday June 11 UTC. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
• Analyse and visualize signal of interest for Italian zone wikipedia pages
• Biases in the production and reception of collective knowledge: the case of hindsight bias in Wikipedia
• Cultural Interpretations of Global Information? Hindsight Bias after Reading Wikipedia Articles across Cultures.
• Editing Behavior Analysis and Prediction of Active/Inactive Users in Wikipedia
• Expanding the sum of all human knowledge: Wikipedia, translation and linguistic justice
• Multiple Account Identity Deception Detection in Social Media Using Nonverbal Behavior
• Nation image and its dynamic changes in Wikipedia
• The Accessibility, Readability, and Quality of Online Resources for Gender Affirming Surgery
• Using Wikipedia to Predict Election Outcomes: Online Behavior as a Predictor of Voting
• Wikidatians are born: paths to full participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base
• Wikipedia Verification Check: A Chrome Browser Extension
• Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism: A Realm of Freedom?
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter
I'd like to highlight two videos (some people may have already seen these)
that demo upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol that take advantage
of ORES. I feel that that the changes look promising, and I hope that RC
patrollers, Teahouse hosts, newbie adopters, and others will find that the
changes make their work easier. I also hope for improved retention of
good-faith contributors.
0. A succinct overview by Joe Matazzoni (WMF):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANew-feature_demo%E2%…
1. A more extensive overview, also by Joe, including valuable context, from
the WMF Metrics Meeting for May 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGwQdLyFb4 between 15:00 and 28:15.
Pine