Hey folks,
Michael Tsikerdekis has updated his project with notes on his pilot study.
He is now ready to send out the rest of the 200 invitations to participate.
See his notes here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_…
Please comment before Saturday morning. If no complaints are raised by
then, I'll give him the go-ahead.
-Aaron
Dear all,
just wanted to bring this event to your attention. If any of you would
like to be involved with the organization, please get in touch.
Otherwise, you are warmly invited to submit a paper.
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
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From: Angelika Adam <angelika.adam(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Call for Papers - Wikipedia Academy 2012:
Research and Free Knowledge
To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
(Apologies for cross-postings)
CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge.
June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany
Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page
Submit your papers here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012
The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a
platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to
connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in
particular and on free knowledge in general.
The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for
Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will
take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open
to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats,
ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper
presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster
presentations and a science fair. We particularly invite young
doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit
extended abstracts.
For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of
extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia
and free knowledge.
== Dates ==
* Submission of extended abstracts: March 31, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2012
* Submission of full papers: June 1, 2012
* Event: June 29 - July 1, 2012
== Topics of interest ==
Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details
will be available soon on the conference website:
http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process
=== Wikipedia Analytics ===
* Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool
* Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of "Big Data"
* Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles
=== Wikipedia Global ===
* Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias
* Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies
* Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons
=== Sharing Cultures and Practices ===
* Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based
peer production
* Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative
peer production
* Wiki theory and wiki practices
=== Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia ===
* Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia
* Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open
collaborative settings
* Using information visualization as information instrument to users
and contributors
=== Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge ===
* Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access
to free knowledge
* Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination
in Wikipedia
* The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other
collaborative forms of knowledge production
== Submission Guidelines ==
Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer
review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a
case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one
author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a
full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the
organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online
proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In
addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, unless the authors
explicitly state in their submission that they wish to opt out of this
licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order
to promote open access to scholarly work, although decisions to opt
out will be respected and will not influence the review process in any
way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from
the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to
publish at least the extended abstract online.
Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open
Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012
Note: You will need an easychair account to submit. You can create one
on the spot if you don't already have one.
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Hey folks,
Michael Tsikerdekis posted about his study on the Village Pump (Misc) (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#FYI:_I.…),
but there have been no responses thus far. I'm worried that the posting
won't be considered sufficient notification by Wikipedians who get upset
later due to the lack of any discussion on enwiki.
Thoughts?
-Aaron
All,
two short updates.
1) Daniel, myself and others at WMF reviewed the response to the White House RFI on open access that Daniel drafted and circulated earlier on the list [1]. We submitted the response an hour ago as the deadline was today, DC time. If you wish to be more involved in the OA area of interest please let Daniel know and we will try and give a longer notice on these and similar initiatives. On a related note, for those of you interested in US public policy on open access, an article was recently created on enwiki to document the Research Works Act [2]. You're welcome to contribute if the topic is of interest.
2) I have been reporting updates on RCom activities on a regular basis in the monthly report of the Foundation (e.g. [3]). I usually put together a paragraph or two before the report is due at the end of each month but to simplify the process I started an etherpad where we can dump notes of items that need to be included in each report [4] Feel free to add any activity you do in the context of RCom if you want me to report it. Eventually we will link (if not transclude) the RCom section in the monthly reports from the RCom page on Meta.
Dario
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-ac…
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_December_2011#R…
[4] http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/RComMonthlyReports2012
Hi Everyone!
This caught my attention on Monday, and I think that there are many in
the group who would be interested in helping to submit a response to
OSTP (Office of Science and Technology Policy).
http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-i…
Take a look at the call, I also believe that the WMF might also be
putting together a response? I am not 100% sure, but maybe we all could
coordinate something. I am also not familiar with how responses are
submitted hopefully someone in the group knows! The response is due Jan
2, 2012.
Best,
Cheryl (user:MichChemGSI)
Michael,
Please accept my apologies on behalf of the Research Committee for the
amount of time you have waited for a decision. Given the lack of concerns
raised since the start of the second poll, I advise that you move forward
with your pilot and report the response rate you receive on the project
page.
-Aaron
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Michael Tsikerdekis
<tsikerdekis(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey Aaron,
>
> first of all, happy new year and all the best!
>
> I wanted to write sooner but i preferred not to disturb during the
> holidays. Do you have any news about the voting process? I sent today an
> email to DarTar so hopefully(fingers crossed) he is going to answer and be
> supportive of the project.
>
> -Michael
>
>
> 2011/12/11 Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> Congratulations for getting your work accepted.
>>
>> I'm not sure that posting about it will help us reach consensus faster,
>> but it couldn't hurt. I'd be surprised if you wouldn't be able to post
>> public about your work being accepted, but I'm only familiar with Computer
>> Science journals. At the very least, you should now be able to cite the
>> work with a future publication date.
>>
>> -Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Michael Tsikerdekis <
>> tsikerdekis(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Aaron,
>>>
>>> just wanted to let you know that i keep an eye on the discussion about
>>> the topic. Btw i just received yesterday a letter of acceptance for my work
>>> that has been under blind peer-review (http://www.eminds.uniovi.es). I
>>> still have to make some revisions but will be published in the open journal
>>> at the 30th of March. Do you think i should post it in the discussion? I
>>> have no idea if i am allowed to disclose such information in public before
>>> the publication is released to the public but i could write that it has
>>> been accepted and anybody interested can request the specifics from me
>>> personally.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think :-)
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>>
>