Hi!
I am currently busy with a research about virtual communities and knowledge
creation, and use Wikipedia as an experiment and test for the illustration
of knowledge creation. As background information, and thorough understanding
of Wikipedia I want to conduct interviews with Wikipedia users.
Does anyone has a useful mailing list for this, or another source where I
can reach Wikipedia contributors?
Sincerely,
Neni Pogarcic
(Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Hello,
A reuters news
(http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1743638820070418)
mentioned a Hitwise study on the participation ratio of Web 2.0
websites. Does anybody here have more information about this study,
especially how they gathered their data about Wikipedia, arriving at the
participation ratio of 4.6%?
--elian
HI there:
i was doing a wiki comparision for my project. I want to know is there any
good test tool for wiki's stress and load test.
Thank you
--
BestWishes to you
Folks,
I know I am getting this out late. This year ACM Hypertext is having a
closer look at wikis, especially things like semantic wikis and
collaborative writing which I know are research interests here.
As a bonus, it will be in the UK this year, which may be more convenient for
some than other wiki symposiums (Taiwan, Montreal).
Best,
Sunir
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HYPERTEXT AND SOCIETY
ACM Hypertext 2007
Call for Participation
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Hypertext and Society Programme
Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Manchester, UK 10th - 12th September 2007
http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htsociety.php
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ACM Hypertext 2007 consists of five autonomous programmes under a single
unified conference. The Hypertext and Society programme aims to explore
developments in Hypertext and innovative technologies where the defining
feature is the existence of communities of users.
It is our hope that the Hypertext and Society Programme will offer a high
quality venue for this exciting new area.
TOPICS
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We seek papers that explore applications, implementations, implications and
evaluation, and necessary models and standards for such systems, including:
* Mapping and Visualisation of social spaces and networks
* Blogs and alternative Blog forms (podcasting, photologs etc.)
* Collaborative working
* Wikis
* Forums
* Semantic Wikis
* Folksonomy, tagging, annotation and metadata
* Recommender systems
* Social networks and communities of practice
* Social software for learning
* Citation networks
* Virtual presence, identity and trust
* Multi-user Games
We are also seeking papers that explore the implementation and impact of
such systems user communities such as:
* Governments
* Developing regions
* Virtual organisations
* E-commerce
* Education
* Health care
We understand the term hypertext in the broadest sense encompassing a wide
range of multimedia applications.
SUBMISSIONS
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Participants are invited to submit Technical Papers, Hypertexts, Poster and
Demonstration papers. All submissions must be formatted using the official
ACM SIG proceedings template.
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
Technical (4 pages Short & 10 pages Full) Hypertexts (Zip-File / URL & 2
pages)
- Submission: 7th May 2007 Midnight HST
- Notification: 4th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST
Posters & Demos (2 pages)
- Submission: 11th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Notification: 18th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST
We have also included a Student Research Competition programme. The aim of
this is to encourage research students to submit their work in order to
obtain valuable feedback and to also become involved within the hypertext
community.
Student Research Competition (2 pages)
- Submission: 7th May 2007 Midnight HST
- Notification: 4th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST
Technical papers, poster abstracts, and demonstration abstracts will appear
in the official conference proceedings, published by ACM. Conference
attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings. All material will be
available through the ACM Digital Library.
CONFERENCE LOCATION
-------------------
The conference will take place on the 10th, 11th and 12th September 2007,
within the Manchester Museum in Manchester, UK. The museum is located within
the centre of The University of Manchester campus and is within easy access
of several tourist attractions and the city centre of Manchester.
Located in the North West of the UK, Manchester is easily reachable by air,
rail, and car. Further information of how to get to the conference venue can
be found in the travel section. Being in a central location of the country,
Manchester also acts as a good base for travelling further a field around
the UK, with all the major roads and railway lines passing through the City.
London is only 2 hours away by train whilst Edinburgh, the Capital City of
Scotland, is only 3 and a half hours away.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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Hypertext and Society Autonomous Programme Committee
Co-chairs:
Hugh Davis (University of Southampton, UK)
David Millard (University of Southampton, UK)
Programme Committee:
Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Darina Dicheva (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)
James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
Demetrios Sampson (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Sunir Shah (Meatball)
Josie Taylor (The Open University, UK)
Vincent Wade (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Enquiries may be directed to Hugh Davis at hcd(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk
Dr. Chen is also doing a survey for high-tech professionals, as well
as faculty members.
----- Original Message -----
From: Hsin-liang (Oliver) Chen
To: Phoebe Ayers
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 12:25 PM
Subject: Assistance for a wikipedia project
Hi Phoebe:
Would you mind to forward the following message to
wiki-research-l(a)wikimedia.org?
I tried but the message got rejected.
Thank you again!
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Dear Colleges:
I am conducting a project on wikipedia and two different user groups,
high tech professionals and college faculty members.
I would like to invite you to answer the survey and help me recruit
participants.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
-------------------------Survey for High Tech Professionals
The survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=556313432713
Title: The Perspectives of high tech professionals on Wikipedia
Conducted by: Hsin-liang Chen, School of Information, University of
Texas at Austin (phone: 512-232-9219, email: chen(a)ischool.utexas.edu
Purpose: The project aims to understand the use of Wikipedia by high
tech professionals for performing their job duties.
Procedure: 17-25 questions
•Tell us about yourself: collect basic demographic data
•Use of online information: email, Web, and databases
•Use of Wikipedia
Time: Approximately 10-15 minutes
Confidentiality and privacy protections: You will not reveal your
personal identification. The investigator does not ask any questions
regarding your personal identification. The online survey is
anonymous.
If you need a copy of documentation, please print this cover letter
for future reference. Thank you for your participation.
---------------------------
Survey for College Faculty
The survey is available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=833013431995
Title: The Perspectives of Faculty on Wikipedia
Conducted by: Hsin-liang Chen, School of Information, University of
Texas at Austin (phone: 512-232-9219, email: chen(a)ischool.utexas.edu)
Purpose: The project aims to understand the use of Wikipedia by
faculty for performing their job duties.
Procedure: 17-27 questions
•Tell us about yourself: collect basic demographic data
•Use of online information: email, Web, and databases
•Use of Wikipedia
Time: Approximately 10-15 minutes
Confidentiality and privacy protections: You will not reveal your
personal identification. The investigator does not ask any questions
regarding your personal identification. The online survey is
anonymous.
If you need a copy of documentation, please print this cover letter
for future reference. Thank you for your participation.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Hsin-liang (Oliver) Chen
School of Information Assistant Professor
1 University Station D7000 Phone: 512-232-9219 Fax: 512-471-3971
The University of Texas at Austin Email: chen(a)ischool.utexas.edu
Austin, TX 78712-0390 URL:
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~chen
_____________________________________________________________________________
Dear Colleagues:
I am conducting a project on the perspectives of faculty on Wikipeida
and would like to invite you to answer the following survey.
I also need your help in distributing the survey. Please feel free
to post it at your college/university community.
Thank you very much for your help.
The survey is available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=833013431995
------------------------------------
Title: The Perspectives of Faculty on Wikipedia
Conducted by: Hsin-liang Chen, School of Information, University of
Texas at Austin (phone: 512-232-9219, email: chen(a)ischool.utexas.edu)
Purpose: The project aims to understand the use of Wikipedia by
faculty for performing their job duties.
Procedure: 17-27 questions
•Tell us about yourself: collect basic demographic data
•Use of online information: email, Web, and databases
•Use of Wikipedia
Time: Approximately 10-15 minutes
Confidentiality and privacy protections: You will not reveal your
personal identification. The investigator does not ask any questions
regarding your personal identification. The online survey is
anonymous.
If you need a copy of documentation, please print this cover letter
for future reference. Thank you for your participation.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Hsin-liang (Oliver) Chen
School of Information Assistant Professor
1 University Station D7000 Phone: 512-232-9219 Fax: 512-471-3971
The University of Texas at Austin Email: chen(a)ischool.utexas.edu
Austin, TX 78712-0390 URL:
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~chen
Thanks everyone. It is pretty simple afterall (and a great feature that you
can see the history of the tab being viewed), oh, How I wish I had one of
you nearby to ask in person!
I've emailed Jon Udell to ask how he did this:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html - but haven't got a
reply.
I'm not very techy oriented and I am sort of alone in these studies up here
in copenhagen, so, maybe someone knows how to do an equivalent thing (or
point me for the start) - how to record frame after frame from history (now
I know what pages to look for - but how to make it movie'ish?!). The idea is
that, although History Flow can well show the changes, it is difficult to
get a good grip - looking first at a movie would/could give a lot of
insight. Also, for public presentations - would be nice to have some easy
movies to show what is happening.
Thanks!
Best,
Rut
On 3/30/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The data for all the non-deleted talk page revisions can be found in
> the all namespaces history dump on download.wikimedia.org.
>
> On 3/30/07, Rut <vulpeto(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > some curiosity brought me this question: is it possible to
> see/access/get
> > the history of the discussion pages?
> >
> > thanks!
> > rut
> >
>
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