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150, 000 volunteers... and 8 milion vandal sock accounts?
by Piotr Konieczny 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Getting any reliable estimates on our community has always been difficult. However, recently, in official Wikimedia Foundation announcements and such (ex. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en?utm_source=2008_jimmy_…) the number "a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers" appeared. I would very much like to now - what date is it based on? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians gives 8.5 million registered accounts. Of course many of those are duplicates, but then there are many unregistered contributors... still, my own guesstimate would be at at least half a million - if not several millions - of people who had edited Wikipedia (in any language, ove the past ~8 years). This guesstimate is based on analysis of a small sample of editors I know and how many accounts they've created (which for a vast majority is ONE). Sure, there are sockpuppet vandals, but... do we really have 150,000 volunteers, maybe as much legitimate socks/bots, and over 8 millions vandal sockpuppet accounts??? -- Piotr Konieczny

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WikiSym 2009 Call for Papers (Submissions)
by Dirk Riehle 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

======================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================== W I K I S Y M 2 0 0 9 The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/ October 25-27 in Orlando, Florida, USA In-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGWEB, co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2009, peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library ======================================================== The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the premier conference dedicated to wikis and related open collaboration systems and processes. WikiSym 2009 aims to explore and extend the thriving wiki community, bringing together researchers, practitioners, writers and scholars to gather, discuss and share knowledge and experience on all areas related to wikis and wiki philosophy, ranging from social to technical, and from theoretical to experience studies. The symposium combines a rigorously reviewed research paper track with plenty of space for experience reports, discussions of work in progress, demonstrations, tutorials, and lively informal last minute sessions in open space and WikiFest sessions. This year, WikiSym will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA---a city with a tropical climate, poolside fruity drinks, and world-class entertainment opportunities for adults and families. == IMPORTANT DATES == * March 27th: Submission deadline for research papers, experience reports, workshops, and panels * April 24th: Submission deadline for posters, demonstrations, WikiFest and Doctoral Symposium proposals * May 22nd: Notifications for all submission categories (workshops earlier) * October 25-27: WikiSym 2009! == TOPICS OF INTEREST == WikiSym welcomes submissions of research papers (long and short), experience reports, workshops, panels, posters, demonstrations, WikiFest and Doctoral Symposium proposals. Given the interdisciplinary nature of wiki and related systems, WikiSym invites contributions in a wide range of fields: * computer science and technology * human-computer interaction * communications and media studies * education * information and library science * history, political science, geography * linguistics, discourse analysis, language studies * business, marketing, law * natural sciences, medicine Topics of special interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to: * social software for collaboration and work group processes * wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis * reputation systems, quality assurance processes * scalability---social and technical * wiki technologies and implementations * translation and multilingual wiki content * educational applications * wiki for non-textual media (images, video, audio) * content dynamics and wiki evolution * wiki journalism * wiki archiving and versioning * wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict * wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit knowledge * wiki for small audiences (departmental and family wikis) * legal issues (copyright, licensing) * visualization of wiki structure * wiki fiction == RESEARCH PAPERS == Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, or in the development or deployment of novel systems. We encourage emphasizing lessons learned and providing a clear concise message to the audience about the relevance of the work. The paper must place your work in context within the field, citing related work and indicating clearly what aspects of the work are new. Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. They should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages (for full papers) or 4 pages (for short papers). Papers will be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference in order to present the paper. Accepted submissions will be published in the WikiSym proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Submitted papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html == EXPERIENCE REPORTS == Experience reports are an integral part of the conference program. These reports provides a large group of peers the opportunity to learn from a project's experience; they explore how concepts that sound good on paper (and at conferences!) work on real projects. They are a valuable means of communicating experiences, especially at the "bleeding edge". Many attendees want to find out what it is like to start a company wiki, use a wiki in classroom education, or build a political campaign around a wiki. Experience reports present experience and reflections, together with supporting evidence for any claims made. And they particularly include reports that discuss both benefits and drawbacks of the approaches used. Reports may focus on a particular aspect of technology usage and practice, or describe broad project experiences. Some reports focus on people, process or related challenges. == WORKSHOPS == Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss and learn about topics that require extended engagement such as new systems, research methods, standards and formats. A workshop should require participants to engage with each other for at least half a day. For shorter sessions, please consider WikiSym's open space format. A workshop proposal should consist of approximately two pages describing what you intend to do and how your session will meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise abstract, proposed time frame (half-day, full-day) and one-paragraph biographies of all people relevant to the submission. Workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. Each workshop will be allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room. == PANELS == Panels provide an interactive forum for bringing together people with interesting points of view to discuss compelling wiki issues. Panels involve participation from both the panelists and audience members in a lively discussion. Proposals for panels should consist of approximately two pages describing what you intend to do and how your session will meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise abstract and one-paragraph biographies of all people relevant to the submission. A panel submission will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. Each panel will be given a 90-minute time slot. == POSTERS == Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated in conversation. WikiSym's lively poster sessions let conference attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic. Poster proposals may describe original research, engineering, or experience reports. Submissions should consist of two page extended abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants will be invited display a poster, 1x2m in size, at a special plenary session of the Symposium. == DEMONSTRATIONS == Wikis are intended to be used, and no format is better suited for demonstrating the utility of new wiki research and technology than showing and using it. If you would like to demonstrate new features or products, this is the place! Demonstrations give presenters an opportunity to show running systems and gather feedback. Demo submissions will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A submission should be one page in length, with a title, and a short description of the demo. The description should include what you plan to demo, what you hope to get out of demoing, and how the audience will benefit. A short note of any special technical requirements may be included. == WIKI FEST == WikiFest is a conference session devoted to helping you start and grow a successful wiki in your organization. Proposals should showcase a wiki adoption strategy or example, with emphasis on how others can apply your strategy to their own wiki. Topics to be covered: * Tools---Choose the right wiki software for your needs * Adoption---How to run a pilot, establish a core group of users, and grow usage. * Uses---How does your team use a wiki? How has it helped your productivity? * Obstacles---What are they, and how can you avoid or fix them? == DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM == The Doctoral Symposium is an interactive forum for doctoral students to receive present and discuss their doctoral work. Students who are at least one year away from dissertation completion are invited to submit to the Doctoral Symposium. Students beginning their research are especially invited to attend. To submit a proposal send a 2-3 pages description of your dissertation research, including: * A description of your work * The goals---what contributions will your research generate? * The approach---what is being performed to achieve the goals? How will results be validated? Additionally, your adviser must send a brief statement of your dissertation progress to date and a statement of recommendation to the Doctoral Symposium chair. == HOW TO SUBMIT == Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format through our submission system at the WikiSym website (available in early 2009). * http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009 All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Submitted work of all categories should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Questions regarding submissions may be directed at the respective chair using the following email addresses: * Research papers: papers(a)wikisym.org * Experience reports: reports(a)wikisym.org * Panels: panels(a)wikisym.org * Workshops: workshops(a)wikisym.org * Demonstrations: demos(a)wikisym.org * Posters: posters(a)wikisym.org * WikiFest: wikifest(a)wikisym.org * Doctoral Symposium: docsym(a)wikisym.org General questions should be directed at chair(a)wikisym.org. == SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE == * Dirk Riehle, SAP Labs LLC, USA, Symposium Chair * Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Program Chair * Ademar Aguiar, FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, Sponsorships Chair * Luca de Alfaro, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA, Doctoral Symposium Chair * Claus Atzenbeck, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark, Posters Chair * Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, Wikimedia Liason * Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Experience Reports Chair * Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Canada, Publicity Co-Chair * Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org and Cunningham & Cunningham, USA, Honorary Member * Alain Desilets, National Research Council of Canada, Canada, Tutorials Chair * Ted Ernst, AboutUs.org, USA, Open Space Facilitator * Marc Laporte, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Webmaster * Stewart Mader, Future Changes, WikiFest Chair * James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Honorary Member * Felipe Ortega, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain, Publicity Co-Chair * Sebastien Paquet, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada, Panels Chair * Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, Demonstrations Chair * Christian Wagner, City University of Hong Kong, China, Workshops Chair == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == * Ademar Aguiar, FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Portugal * Luca de Alfaro, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA * Panagiota Alevizou, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA * Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada * Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Thomas N. Burg, BlogTalk, Socialware, MindMeister, Austria * Ed H. Chi, PARC, USA * Ulrike Cress, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tuebingen, Germany * Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA * Chris Dent, Peermore Limited, UK * Alain Desilets, National Research Council of Canada, Canada * Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany * Andreea D. Gorbatai, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, USA * Susan C. Herring, Indiana University, USA * Brian Ingerson, Socialtext, USA * Benjamin Mako-Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Marc Laporte, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Canada * Sky Marsen, Macquarie University, Australia * David W. McDonald, University of Washington, USA * Paulo Merson, Software Engineering Institute, USA * David Millard, University of Southampton, UK * Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore, USA * Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand * Joseph Reagle, New York University, USA * Camille Roth, CNRS, France * Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University, USA * Dario Taraborelli, University of Surrey, UK * Fernanda B. Viegas, IBM Research, USA

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp
by Brian 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp
by Brian 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Potthast, Stein, Gerling. (2008). Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia. http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/downloads/papers/stein_2… Abstract. We present results of a new approach to detect destructive article revi- sions, so-called vandalism, in Wikipedia. Vandalism detection is a one-class clas- siﬁcation problem, where vandalism edits are the target to be identiﬁed among all revisions. Interestingly, vandalism detection has not been addressed in the In- formation Retrieval literature by now. In this paper we discuss the characteristics of vandalism as humans recognize it and develop features to render vandalism detection as a machine learning task. We compiled a large number of vandalism edits in a corpus, which allows for the comparison of existing and new detection approaches. Using logistic regression we achieve 83% precision at 77% recall with our model.* Compared to the rule-based methods that are currently applied* *in Wikipedia, our approach increases the F -Measure performance by 49% while* *being faster at the same time.* Open the PDF, scan to page 667. This bot outperforms MartinBot, T-850 Robotic Assistant, WerdnaAntiVandalBot, Xenophon, ClueBot, CounterVandalismBot, PkgBot, MiszaBot, and AntiVandalBot. It outperforms the best of those (AntiVandalBot) by a very wide margin. So why are you wasting the ISPs time and the police's time when the best of the passive technology routes have not been explored? Using machine learning *you pit the vandals against themselves. *Every time they perform a particular kind of vandalism, it can never be performed again because the bot will recognize it. Cheers, On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote: > By the way, I ask those questions having read the bots user page. It is > apparently quite effective, indicating to me that this user causes minimal > disruption. > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote: > >> What percentage of his page moves were not picked up automatically by a >> bot? >> >> What percentage of this users vandalism is not picked up by a bot? >> >> Why is the ISP responsible for what he dumps into Wikipedia, rather than >> Wikipedia, as it allows itself to be a dumping ground? The Viacom/Youtube >> lawsuit demonstrates that this is a legal grey area, thus, I see little >> ground on which to punish the entire ip range of the ISP. >> >> Why are machine learning bots that are trained on previous vandalism in >> order to detect new vandalism not being used? They have been developed. Why >> is the Foundation not funding their further development? >> >> I believe the direction of this thread has been all wrong. >> >> Peace, >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Soxred93 <soxred93(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The problem with that is that many articles we have would not be >>> found in any dictionary. >>> >>> X! >>> >>> On Dec 29, 2008, at 6:02 PM [Dec 29, 2008 ], Ian Woollard wrote: >>> >>> > On 29/12/2008, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Allow blocking on a more granular level, if we know his ISP, and lock >>> >> out moves and redirects for the whole damn ISPs, and specifically >>> >> point the finger back in the block message: Blocked because of >>> >> JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp with a nice shiny link to his long-term abuse >>> >> page. >>> > >>> > It probably wouldn't work because of proxies and people that would >>> > emulate/help him. >>> > >>> > Still, ideas that would affect less people rather than more like that >>> > are almost certainly IMO the way to go; for example restricting the >>> > range of characters and checking that the move title consists of words >>> > in a dictionary before permitting non admins or users with a small >>> > number of edits to complete a move might be desirable. >>> > >>> >> - Joe >>> > >>> > -- >>> > -Ian Woollard >>> > >>> > We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly >>> > imperfect world would be much better. >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > WikiEN-l mailing list >>> > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> You have successfully failed! >> > > > > -- > You have successfully failed! > -- You have successfully failed!

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The effects of localisation on usability and user attraction
by Gerard Meijssen 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

Hoi, I have written my thoughts on what a study on localisation and user statistics could be like. I have the feeling that localisation is only one factor in attracting users to Wikipedia. Localisation is one aspect of usability and it only becomes relevant when the technical environment is available and ready for users. This is already much to ask for; on my Windows XP computer only Safari of the modern browsers supports my home page in edit mode on the Lingala wikipedia. What I hope to learn from you is how we can best prove what the value of localisation is. I am known to be an advocate of localisation and usability and I often find that people do not welcome my message. I am convinced that localisation is an essential part of attracting new people to both editing and reading and become part of our communities. With a better understanding of ist relative merit we may be possible to give localisation the right priority. Thanks, GerardM http://ln.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utilisateur:GerardM&action=edit

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CFP - ACL/IJCNLP-2009 Workshop - The People's Web meets NLP - Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
by Torsten Zesch 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

ACL/IJCNLP-2009 Workshop "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" Co-located with Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing Singapore 6-7 August 2009 http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/acl-ijcnlp-2009-workshop/ INTRODUCTION In recent years, online resources collaboratively constructed by ordinary users on the Web have considerably influenced the NLP community. In many works, they have been used as a substitute for conventional semantic resources and as semantically structured corpora with great success. While conventional resources such as WordNet are developed by trained linguists [1], online semantic resources can now be automatically extracted from the content collaboratively created by the users [2]. Thereby, the knowledge acquisition bottlenecks and coverage problems pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources can be overcome. The resource that has gained the greatest popularity in this respect so far is Wikipedia. However, other resources recently discovered in NLP, such as folksonomies, the multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, or Q&A sites like WikiAnswers or Yahoo! Answers are also very promising. Moreover, new wiki-based platforms such as Citizendium or Knol have recently emerged that offer features distinct from Wikipedia and are of high potential in terms of their use in NLP. The benefits of using Web-based resources come along with new challenges, such as the interoperability with existing resources and the quality of the knowledge represented. As collaboratively created resources lack editorial control, they are typically incomplete. For the interoperability with conventional resources, the mappings have to be investigated. The quality of collaboratively constructed resources is questioned in many cases, and the information extraction remains a complicated task due to the incompleteness and semi- structuredness of the content. Therefore, the research community has begun to develop and provide tools for accessing collaboratively constructed resources [2,5]. The above listed challenges actually present a chance for NLP techniques to improve the quality of Web-based semantic resources. Researchers have therefore proposed techniques for link prediction [3] or information extraction [4] that can be used to guide the "crowds" to construct resources that are better suited for being used in NLP in return. [1] Christiane Fellbaum WordNet An Electronic Lexical Database. MIT press, 1998. [2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller and Iryna Gurevych Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2008. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/ http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/ [3] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge. Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007. [4] Daniel S. Weld et al. Intelligence in Wikipedia. Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008. [5] Kotaro Nakayama et al. Wikipedia Mining - Wikipedia as a Corpus for Knowledge Extraction. Proceedings of the Annual Wikipedia Conference (Wikimania), 2008. http://wikipedia-lab.org/en/index.php TOPICS The workshop will bring together researchers from both worlds: those using collaboratively created resources in NLP applications such as information retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those using NLP applications for improving the resources or extracting different types of semantic information from them. Hopefully, this will turn into a feedback loop, where NLP techniques improved by collaboratively constructed resources are used to improve the resources in exchange. Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Different types of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based platforms, Q&A sites or folksonomies; * Using collaboratively constructed resources in NLP such as information retrieval, text categorization, information extraction, etc.; * Analyzing the properties of collaboratively constructed resources related to their use in NLP; * Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with conventional semantic resources and between themselves; * Converting unstructured information into structured lexical semantic information; tools for mining social and collaborative content; * Quality issues with respect to collaboratively constructed resources. We also encourage the submission of short papers describing publicly available tools for accessing or analyzing collaboratively created resources. During the breaks, tables can be provided for demonstrations. INVITED SPEAKER Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas SUBMISSION INFORMATION Full paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus one extra page for references. Short paper submissions should also follow the two-column format of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 proceedings, and should not exceed four (4) pages, including references. Submission will be electronic using a submission software that will be available later at the conference website. All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (full and short): May 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance of papers: June 1, 2009 Camera-ready copy of papers due: June 7, 2009 ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshops: Aug 6-7, 2009 ORGANIZERS Iryna Gurevych Torsten Zesch Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Delphine Bernhard Technische Universiät Darmstadt Paul Buitelaar DFKI Saarbruecken Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin Pablo Castells Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid Philipp Cimiano Karlsruhe University Irene Cramer Dortmund University of Technology Andras Csomai Google Inc. Ernesto De Luca University of Magdeburg Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Andreas Hotho University of Kassel Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Ed Hovy University of Southern California Jussi Karlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science Boris Katz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Adam Kilgarriff Lexical Computing Ltd Chin-Yew Lin Microsoft Research James Martin University of Colorado Boulder Olena Medelyan University of Waikato David Milne University of Waikato Saif Mohammad University of Maryland Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas Kotaro Nakayama University of Tokyo Ani Nenkova University of Pennsylvania Guenter Neumann DFKI Saarbruecken Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science Manfred Stede Potsdam University Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar Tonio Wandmacher University of Osnabrueck Rene Witte Concordia University Montreal Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg

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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009), LNBIP proceedings, deadline: Feb 1 2009
by Dominik Flejter 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009) Poznan, Poland April 27, 28 or 29, 2009 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?i=37&ws=saw2009 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2009 =========================================================================== In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication channel, extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer" communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new ways to create, share, and use knowledge in a social way. This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions, attitudes and even legal aspects, as well as ways of working and doing business. The change also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually do so, and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the social, business and technology dimensions. Following the two previous events, the goal of the 3rd Workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. TOPICS OF INTEREST * People on the social Web * Individuals on the Web (identity, privacy, incentives, activity models, trust and reputation, ...) * Communities on the Web (roles, leadership, social norms and conflicts, types of communities, ...) * Collaboration on the Web (content and data development and maintenance, decision taking ...) * On-line and off-line life (mixed interaction models, on-line vs. off-line communities, ... ) * Business activities in the social Web (sales, exchanges, word-of-mouth, recruiting, marketing, ...) * Data and content on the social Web * Social content organization (tagging, classification, recommendations, collaborative filtering, ...) * Content dynamics (content flow and evolution, mashups, comments, collaborative creation, ...) * Semantic social Web (standards, annotation of social content/data, ontology learning, ...) * Data and social network portability (standards, policies, technologies, licenses, ...) * Social software and services * Specific types of social software (social networks, blogs, wikis, resources sharing, ...) * Development (architectures, technologies, platforms, infrastructures, ...) * Adoption (critical mass problem, socio-technical gap, data and social network migration, ...) * Alternative user interaction models (games, mobile, mixed reality, ...) * Social software in the enterprise (knowledge management, CRM, collaborative software, ...) * Business models of social services (pricing, cost models, customer relation, content acquisition, ...) * Mining the social Web * Mining user-generated content (opinion, comments, rankings, forums, ...) * Mining the social graph (collaborative filtering, social network analysis, ...) * Mining activity patterns (access, used features, participation, interactions, ...) * Entity-centric content integration (on people, experts, objects, companies, locations, ...) * Social Web mining in business (for marketing, products design, customer support, ...) SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0. Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saw2009. Papers approved for presentation at SAW 2009 will be published in BIS 2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * February 1, 2009 - submission deadline for papers * February 22, 2009 - notification of acceptance/rejection * March 15, 2009 - submission of final papers * April 27, 28 or 29, 2009 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Dominik Flejter * Tomasz Kaczmarek * Marek Kowalkiewicz PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany * Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan * Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia * Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China * Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany =========================================================================== -- Dominik Flejter < http://dominik.flejter.net/ > Poznan University of Economics Department of Information Systems < http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ > SAW 2009 PC Chair

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Discussion archives
by J. Michael Lyons 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Does anyone have a suggestion on converting discussion archives for analysis? When you convert them to PDFs you lose anything with a {{discussion-top}} box thing around it. I was hoping to use them in Atlas.ti (qualitative analysis software) which is supposed to be pdf friendly in its latest version. Thanks, Mike Lyons

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