Wiki-research-l August 2007

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Emerging Communities.....
by Tamsin Lloyd 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Hi Alain et al, not sure if it's helpful/relevant to you, but i'm currently completing my thesis on examining the community structures within Wikipedia, and how it fosters a sense of citizenship. Have done extended interviews with WP users from around the world as part of this.... I can share some of my work with you if interested, just shoot me an email. Tamsin

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International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA20008) call for papers
by Brianna Laugher 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

http://www.isea2008.org/index.html Event: 25th July to August 3rd 2008, Singapore "We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices." Call for proposals submissions: 15th July - 30th of September 2007 One of the themes is "Wiki Wiki": http://www.isea2008.org/themes3.html cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Wikis as a tool for fostering emergence of communities
by Desilets, Alain 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

I need a good solid reference to substantiate the following claim: "Besides leading to high quality content, wikis have been shown to be good tools for fostering the emergence of active communities" Does anyone know of a good research paper that looks specifically at this kind of impact of wikis? Thx. ---- Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada Chair, WikiSym 2007 2007 International Symposium on Wikis Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [wiki-research] Wikis as a tool for fostering emergence ofcommunities
by Desilets, Alain 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Yes, I would like a copy of the paper, thx. > -----Original Message----- > From: wiki-research-bounces(a)wikisym.org > [mailto:wiki-research-bounces@wikisym.org] On Behalf Of Derek Hansen > Sent: August 29, 2007 1:28 PM > To: Discussion of wiki research and practice > Cc: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > Subject: Re: [wiki-research] Wikis as a tool for fostering > emergence ofcommunities > > I will be presenting a paper "Virtual Community Maintenance > with a Repository" at the ASIST conference in October that > discusses the ways in which a wiki repository has helped > strengthen an email-based technical support community. The > abstract is found at > http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/papers/72.html > > If you would like a copy of the paper let me know. > > Derek L. Hansen > Assistant Professor > University of Maryland > > On 8/29/07, Desilets, Alain <Alain.Desilets(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote: > > I need a good solid reference to substantiate the following claim: > > > > "Besides leading to high quality content, wikis have been > shown to be good tools for fostering the emergence of active > communities" > > > > Does anyone know of a good research paper that looks > specifically at this kind of impact of wikis? > > > > Thx. > > > > > > ---- > > Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada Chair, WikiSym > > 2007 > > > > 2007 International Symposium on Wikis > > Wikis at Work in the World: > > Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century > > > > http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > wiki-research mailing list, wiki-research(a)wikisym.org > > http://www.wikisym.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research > > > > For the wiki-research, wiki-standards, wikisym-announce > mailing lists, please see: > > http://www.wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo > > > _______________________________________________ > > wiki-research mailing list, wiki-research(a)wikisym.org > http://www.wikisym.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research > > For the wiki-research, wiki-standards, wikisym-announce > mailing lists, please see: > http://www.wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo >

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automated response
by martin.mai＠split.uni-bamberg.de 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

martin.mai(a)split.uni-bamberg.de wieder erreichbar ab 06.09.2007 mails werden dann gelesen ... ;-)

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paper on Wikibooks
by Brianna Laugher 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

http://wiki-riki.wikispaces.com/Research+Papers+and+Reports -> "Wikibook AERA paper.pdf" Sajjapanroj, S., Bonk, C. J., Lee, M., & Lin, M.-F. G. (2007, April). The challenges and successes of Wikibookian experts and Wikibook novices: Classroom and community perspectives. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. The Challenges and Successes of Wikibookian Experts and Wikibook Novices: Classroom and Community Collaborative Experiences Abstract: The present study explored the creation of Wikibooks in both classroom (i.e., Wikibook Novices) and general community (i.e., Wikibookian Experts) contexts. Observations, surveys, and follow-up email interviews were the primary means of data collection. This study analyzed various demographic data of Wikibookians as well as motivational factors involved in Wikibook creation. Other variables explored included Wikibook ownership, challenges, frustrations, perceptions of success and completion, and norms for collaboration in the Wikibook community. The results indicate that Wikibookians were young males with varying educational backgrounds; fewer than half without a four year college degree. Wikibookian Experts were more likely to perceive that a Wikibook could be completed than Wikibook Novices in a classroom project. And compared to the novices, the Wikibookians Experts were also more likely to indicate that no one owns a Wikibook. Still there were similarities across the populations in this survey. For instance, they both tended to see a Wikibook environment as informal, exploratory, collaborative, and somewhat independent, though in varying degrees. They also recognized that there are multiple roles involved in the completion of a Wikibook—contributor, author, reader, etc.—as well as multiple owners or no owner of the final Wikibook product; assuming that there is a final product. Importantly, they perceive at a Wikibook project as a way to share knowledge, obtain personal growth, publish their work, learn new technologies, and make a contribution to society. However, the Wikibook Novices favored the publishing avenues it provided as well as the technology experimentation whereas the Wikibook experts focused on sharing knowledge and looking for personal growth and enrichment. Many research avenues are noted to follow-up some of these similarities and differences. cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Master's Thesis: Wikipedia as Collective Action
by Benjamin Keith Johnson 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hello, My Master's Thesis, Wikipedia as Collective Action: Personal Incentives and Enabling Structures, is now available at: http://www.msu.edu/~john2429/Wikipedia as Collective Action.pdf Comments and feedback are welcome and appreciated, as I plan to revise the paper and submit it for publication. Thanks for reading, if it's of interest to you. Benjamin Johnson Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media College of Communication Arts and Sciences Michigan State University john2429(a)msu.edu benjamin.k.johnson(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia in a box
by Magnus Manske 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

On 8/14/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/13/1939231 FWIW, I mailed him privately and suggested to use a zero-install server running PHP with MediaWiki, accessing the bzip dump through a modified Database.php file. I did that once with a sqlite database, but I ran into size/access speed trouble when trying a "real-size" wikipedia instead of a small demo. He seems to agree, but doesn't know enough PHP to hack it. Magnus

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Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader
by Anthony 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

I'm sure many of you have seen the slashdot story with the same title as this thread. It pointed to http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html which is the description of a simple offline Wikipedia reader which runs off the bzipped dumps. I for one thought the use of bzip2recover to seek over the bzipped dumps without decompressing the whole thing was genius. And I was even more excited when I found out how simple the source code to bzip2recover is so small (just one .c file with no includes or anything, see http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/bzip2/bzip2recover.c). So it should be easy to tweak the bzip2recover program to eliminate the need to split the file up at all. I'm kind of surprised if there isn't already something out there to build and index to seek through bzip2 files, but I've been looking for one for quite some time and didn't find anything. Now I know it's possible though, and apparently not very difficult.

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Wikipedia preprocessing tool (wikiprep)
by Evgeniy Gabrilovich 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Dear Wikipedia researchers, WikiPrep is a preprocessing script written in Perl that takes an XML dump of Wikipedia, and infers some information that was implicitly present there. In particular, it performs the following tasks: 1) Template substitution in article texts 2) Building a hierarchy of categories (i.e., for each category, it collects ids of its immediate descendants) 3) Identifies related articles based on contextual clues 4) Resolves link redirection and dumps additional information that allows one to easily build a link graph for the entire Wikipedia snapshot 5) Computes statistics about categories and links 6) Collects anchor text associated with links pointing at each article WikiPrep is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2, and is available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/wikiprep. Regards, Evgeniy.

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