For those of you who haven't seen it, take a look at Domas' Mituzas wiki-stats:
http://dammit.lt/wikistats/
This is real, accurate hourly snapshot data on the access to Wikipedia
captured from the Wikimedia Squid servers. Project counts show the
total access in a time period to the different language editions.
This is great stuff for visualization, behavioral pattern analysis,
and other purposes. If you do something with it, let us know. :-)
URL may change in the future - we'll put a redirect on the above one
if that happens.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Dear Wikipedia Researcher,
I am a doctoral student in Lehigh University’s Learning Science and
Technology Ph.D. program. I am contacting you because you have been
identified as part of the growing community of scholars who are
researching aspects of Wikipedia. I am hoping you, as an expert in this
area, might be willing to participate in my qualifying research project
on collaboration within the Wikipedia environment.
My study is to examine the factors that support the creation and
evolution of Wikipedia in an effort to describe why this “community of
practice” (as defined by Lave and Wenger, 1991) has been so successful.
In order to collect experts’ opinions about Wikipedia’s success, I am
employing a research methodology called the “Delphi technique” (Linstone
& Turoff, 1975), which derives consensus among a group of experts using
a series of questionnaires and feedback.
Thus, participation in this study will involve responding to one or more
online questionnaires. In the first round, experts will answer one
open-ended question related to Wikipedia’s success and an informational
survey. This first round should take 15-20 minutes to complete. Based
on your responses, you may be contacted to participate in the second and
later round of questionnaires. In the second and later rounds, each
expert will receive feedback about the results of the previous round,
and will be asked to review, rate, and comment on the group’s previous
responses. This process will be repeated until consensus among the
experts has been achieved, typically in 3-4 rounds. All later
questionnaires will include multiple-choice questions and should take
less than 10 minutes to complete each. All responses and demographic
information will be maintained in confidence and will be utilized for
the sole purpose of this research.
If you are interested in participating in this research project, please
visit the Website
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gs8Gebnb3XwRGuOr8ZAeWw_3d_3d.
If you have more questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at
xiz4(a)lehigh.edu. Thank you for your participation.
Sincerely,
Xiaoli Zhao
Doctoral Student, Learning Sciences and Technology
Lehigh University
xiz4(a)lehigh.edu
Dr. M.J. Bishop
Associate Professor
Lehigh University
mj.bishop(a)lehigh.edu
(apologies for cross-postings)
2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice (SCooP) on June 27th
2008 at Jacobs University Bremen.
http://jem-thematic.net/seminar/scoop2008
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Come join us for the 2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice
(SCooP) on June 27th at the Jacobs University Bremen.
We are very proud to announce our invited speakers:
David Chavalarias, researcher at the Paris Ile-de-France Complex Systems
Institute (http://iscpif.fr) focusing on social cognition and social
systems modeling. His talk will be about reconstructing and representing
the evolution of a field of science at different levels by extracting
structure from a large publication corpus of the complex systems
community. A series of methods as well as visualization will be
presented.
Florian Rabe, Ph.D. at the Jacobs University Bremen will give an
overview over the history of logic and the foundations of mathematics
and analyzes it from the point of view of communities of practice.
Please see the agenda online. Proceedings will be published soon in the
JEM Portal and at http://kwarc.info/events/scoop/scoop2.html
NOW IT IS UP TO YOU
- REGISTRATION IS OPEN -
Please register at http://jem-thematic.net/seminar/scoop2008 (bottom of
the page; you need to log in to see the registration field)
Registration fee is 10 Euros.
- DIRECTIONS -
The workshop will take place in West Hall 2 on campus of Jacobs
University Bremen see the following map
http://kwarc.info/events/papers/directions.pdf
- FURTHER LINKS -
* SCooP Mailing List:
http://lists.jacobs-university.de/mailman/listinfo/project-scoop
* SCooP Interest Group at http://jem-thematic.net/sig/scoop
The workshop is funded by the Joining Educational Mathematics Network
http://jem-thematic.net/
(apologies for cross-postings)
2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice (SCooP) on June 27th
2008 at Jacobs University Bremen.
http://jem-thematic.net/seminar/scoop2008
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Come join us for the 2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice
(SCooP) on June 27th at the Jacobs University Bremen.
We are very proud to announce our invited speakers:
David Chavalarias, researcher at the Paris Ile-de-France Complex Systems
Institute (http://iscpif.fr) focusing on social cognition and social
systems modeling. His talk will be about reconstructing and representing
the evolution of a field of science at different levels by extracting
structure from a large publication corpus of the complex systems
community. A series of methods as well as visualization will be
presented.
Florian Rabe, Ph.D. at the Jacobs University Bremen will give an
overview over the history of logic and the foundations of mathematics
and analyzes it from the point of view of communities of practice.
This year's exciting program includes talks in the following fields:
* The Power of Semantic Markup for CoP services such as the propagation
of changes and visualization of interrelation of a CoP's repertoire
* Wiki surveys and prototypes for Capturing and Refactoring CoP
knowledge as well as to facilitate participation
* User group modeling to facilitate intelligent tutoring
* Authoring and Management tools for CoPs
NOW IT IS UP TO YOU
- REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW -
Please register at http://jem-thematic.net/seminar/scoop2008 (bottom of
the page; you need to log in to see the registration field) Registration
fee is 10 Euros. Contact c.mueller(a)jacobs-university.de for further
questions.
- FURTHER LINKS -
* SCooP Mailing List:
http://lists.jacobs-university.de/mailman/listinfo/project-scoop
* SCooP Interest Group at http://jem-thematic.net/sig/scoop
The workshop is funded by the Joining Educational Mathematics Network
http://jem-thematic.net/
Hello all
>From my thesis research, I have a list of about 15 people who have done some
interesting research with and about wikipedia in the last couple of years. I
would suggest to "officially" invite them to this mailing list. Do you think
this is a good idea? And who should do this "officially"?
This also raises once more the question: how and where can we build a common
worspace for wiki research? A mailing list is a good thing to have, but far from
ideal. A Wiki somewhere... maybe? Or should be integrate with Wikiversity?
Perhaps we could set up a bibsomomy group for wiki research too -- there is
already a lot of papers there: <http://www.bibsonomy.org/tag/wikipedia>. A
system with support for tagging, bibtex, etc seems better to me than the flat
list at WP:ACST.
So, what do you think?
-- Daniel
Hello all
Due to popular demand, I have translated some key chapters of my thesis about
creating a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia into english. See here:
<http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiWord/Excerpt>
I hope this text gives a good impression of what I'm doing. I will soon add
translation of the appendices that describe the usage of the WikiWord program as
well as the individual source bundles and the data files used for evaluation.
Regards,
Daniel
Apologies for cross-posting.
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