The April 2020 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2020/April
In this issue:
1 What is trending on (which) Wikipedia?2 Briefly3 Other recent publications3.1 "Automatically Neutralizing Subjective Bias in Text"3.2 "Neural Based Statement Classification for Biased Language"3.3 Dissertation about data quality in Wikidata3.4 Nineteenth-century writers important for Russian Wiktionary3.5 "Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia"3.6 "Assessing the Factual Accuracy of Generated Text"3.7 "Revision Classification for Current Events in Dutch Wikipedia Using a Long Short-Term Memory Network"3.8 "DBpedia FlexiFusion: the Best of Wikipedia > Wikidata > Your Data"3.9 "Improving Neural Question Generation using World Knowledge"3.10 Concurrent "epistemic regimes" feed disagrements among Wikipedia editors3.11 "ORES: Lowering Barriers with Participatory Machine Learning in Wikipedia"
- *** 12 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
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From: Bridges, Laurie <laurie.bridges(a)oregonstate.edu>
Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM
Subject: [libraries] CFP. Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project
To: libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Call for Chapter Proposals – Due date June 1.
Project title: Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project
Editors: Laurie M. Bridges, Raymond Pun, Roberto Arteaga
OA Publisher: Maize Books, an imprint of Michigan Publishing
License: CC BY 4.0
Email: WikiGlobalProject(a)gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/globalwikipedia/
Proposals due: June 1, 2020
Notifications sent by: June 30, 2020
Send proposals as MS Word Document to: WikiGlobalProject(a)gmail.com
Questions: WikiGlobalProject(a)gmail.com
Project Information
This open access edited volume will be a collection of approximately
20 chapters authored by academic library workers and faculty, Library
and Information Science (LIS) faculty, and disciplinary faculty from
around the globe that highlights engagement with Wikimedia-related
projects and activities. This volume will be divided into two
sections, and possibly a third: The first section will include
real-world examples of activities and approaches to working with
Wikipedia. The second section will focus on the theories and
underlying concepts required for the development of pedagogical
approaches to teaching with and within Wikipedia. A third thematic
section may be added, depending on the breadth and number of
submissions, for example, a section related specifically to Wikidata.
Possible Topics
We are seeking chapters that include both practical and theoretical
work. Possible topics for chapters include (but are not limited to)
the following list:
Case studies of Wikipedia in information literacy instruction
Student researchers in Wikipedia
Collaboration between Wikimedia user groups and academic library staff
Wikipedia student clubs and their connection to libraries
Benefits of academic libraries partnering with Wikimedia projects
The role of Wikimedians/Wikipedians in Residence
Collaborating with university faculty in the classroom
Edit-a-thon pedagogy and practice
Critical Librarianship and Wikipedia
Wikipedia's fight against misinformation and "fake news"
Medical students and training
Use of Wikibooks in classes
Wikidata visualizations for education
Increasing and diversifying the audience for archival collections
through Wikipedia
Addressing gaps in Wikipedia, such as gender, LGBTQ+, racial,
linguistic, regional, etc.
Submission Information
Please send the following information to the editors by June 1, 2020:
A tentative title and abstract proposal: Up to 500 words in MS Word
describing what you would intend to submit for this book. In your
abstract, indicate which section of the book your proposal is aligned
to.
Please include links to any other publications you may have (i.e. an
article, a blog post, or anything else that best reflects your writing
style)
Author CVs or resumes (no more than 2 pages)
Information for Accepted Proposals
Final chapters will be approximately 3,000 words in length. All
citations must be APA 7th edition. This OA publication will be
licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license. After final chapters have been
edited and approved in English, authors will have the option of
providing a second-language translation of their chapter. (example:
English and Basque or English and Yoruba).This will be determined on a
case by case basis.
April 1 – June 1, 2020: Call for chapter proposals is distributed
June 30, 2020: Chapter proposals selected and authors notified
October 1, 2020: First draft of chapters due to editors
December 1, 2020: Second draft of chapters due to editors
January 1, 2021: Manuscript to publisher
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From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:06 PM
Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications
To: talk-us <talk-us(a)openstreetmap.org>
In case you missed this announcement, I'm reposting it on talk-us mailing list.
2020 will be the first year that the OSM Foundation operates the new
microgrants project. In the coming weeks, we hope to hear from you
about a bold, community-driven, and impactive OpenStreetMap project
idea that will benefit from a microgrant of up to 5000 euros. We
welcome a broad range of projects, with the minimum requirement being
a clear connection to OpenStreetMap.
What is a microgrant? In our case, it is a modest amount of funds
awarded to applicants in order to fund direct expenses of a project.
For an idea of successful projects, you can take a look at the
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s 2019 microgrant awardees. Keep in
mind that the OSMF has a wider focus than the humanitarian sector,
spanning our global community, and welcomes applications with any
focus that relates to OpenStreetMap. We particularly encourage
applicants to consider the core values from the OSMF’s mission
statement and how any microgrant work can incorporate them.
The OSMF Microgrant Program focuses on simple grant proposals, and we
will swiftly decide on what to fund. Our goal is to avoid a
complicated and long application and decision process. You should
submit a brief and concise proposal, and we plan to quickly announce
the awardees.
We encourage submissions from individuals, groups, and organizations
who have a clear idea they want to pursue. Each project should be
completed within 12 months of the microgrant being awarded this
spring. Microgrants are open to all OSMF members, and can be submitted
in any language. If you are not yet a member of OSMF then you can
apply to join up until the time you submit a microgrant application,
and be eligible for an award. Please note there is a fee waiver
program that may allow you to join the OSMF at no cost.
In light of the ongoing health crisis regarding COVID19, we will not
be awarding microgrants for projects which require offline group
gatherings and in person meetings, although these ideas are certainly
valuable for future rounds.
Funding can be used for a variety of purposes. You may need tools and
supplies for mapping activity, funds for training materials,
technology expenses for a series of virtual mapathons, prizes for an
online coding, mapping, or writing contest, and many more examples.
Please embrace your own creativity and not feel limited by the range
of examples.
We encourage you to consult with your local OpenStreetMap community
when planning a microgrant application, and make sure you adhere to
community guidelines in the scope of the project. If accepted for a
microgrant, you will be responsible for reporting progress, signing a
grant agreement, and making sure to follow the detailed microgrant
rules. It is strongly suggested that your project uses the funding to
enable volunteer work to have a wider and stronger impact than it
would without funding.
The call for microgrants will open on April 19th, 2020 and we will
continue to accept applications through May 10th, 2020. In order to
submit, visit the OSM Wiki page and click on “Start your application”
to enter the template. When this is complete, send a message to
microgrants at osmfoundation.org. We also encourage sharing your
application on osmf-talk when it is submitted. If you need help with
the submission process, please feel free to contact the Microgrants
Committee for help. If you don’t have enough time to prepare your plan
and application, please consider submitting it in a possible future
round of microgrants.
Once the submission period closes on May 10th, we invite the community
to review the complete list of submissions and provide feedback on the
wiki page. We also will accept feedback by email to microgrants at
osmfoundation.org and via osmf-talk.
Complete timeline:
April 19: call for microgrant applications opens
May 10: final date for submission (23:59 Pacific Time Zone, USA).
May 10-TBD: community feedback period
Late May: announcement of awards
For more details, see the complete rules and guidelines on the OSM
wiki and contact us at microgrants at osmfoundation.org with any
questions. This is the first time the OSMF is sponsoring such an
activity, and we look forward to learning together about how this
benefits our community and how to build a transparent, effective, and
inclusive microgrants program for everyone involved. We are grateful
for the opportunity to make funds available to the community and hope
to hear your ideas in the coming weeks.
Clifford
Member of the OSMF Microgrants Committee
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