Wiki-research-l July 2008

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Wikimedia access data
by Erik Moeller 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

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

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Calling for Wikipedia Researchers
by Xiaoli Zhao 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Dear Wikipedia Researcher, I am a doctoral student in Lehigh University’s Learning Science and Technology Ph.D. program. I invite you, as an expert in this area, to participate in my qualifying research project on collaboration within the Wikipedia environment. My study is to examine the social and technical factors that have supported the creation and evolution of Wikipedia. In order to collect experts’ opinions, 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. For more information about the method, please visit http://www.lehigh.edu/~xiz4/. If you are interested in participating in this research project, please take the survey at 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

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Looking for WikiSym 2008 who would like to share a three or four bed accommodation
by Han-Teng Liao (OII) 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

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CfP: WIRW (at WikiSym 2008)
by Felipe Ortega 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Apologies for duplicate reception. ============================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================= First Workshop on "Interdisciplinary Research on Wiki Communities" September 8, 2008 http://libresoft.es/Activities/Research_activities/Workshop_WikiSym at WikiSym 2008 http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/ Porto, Portugal September 8-10, 2008 ================= Introduction ================= The array of approaches to studying wikis is a source of wealth but also a possible source of confusion: What are appropriate methodologies for the analysis of wiki communities? Which are the most critical parameters (both quantitative and qualitative) for study in wiki evolution and outcomes? Is it possible to find effective interdisciplinary approaches to augment our overall understanding of these dynamic creative environments? This workshop intends to provide an opportunity to explore these questions by researchers and practitioners willing to participate in a “brainstorming research meeting”. ================= How To Participate ================= You are invited to submit a position paper (max. length 4 pages) showing methodologies, tools and challenges in this research area. Submissions will be reviewed for quality and relevance. We plan to celebrate a dynamic brainstorming research session. If you're attending WikiSym but didn't submit a paper, you're also invited to join the workshop. Submissions should be sent to jfelipe_at_gsyc_dot_es and wiki_workshop_at_gsyc_dot_es. Submissions must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings Format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html . ================= Important Dates ================= * Submission deadline: **August 12**. * Notification of acceptance: August 19. * Workshop date: September 8, 13:30-17:00 (time to be confirmed). ================= Goals ================= The main goal of this workshop is to provide an adequate forum for wiki researchers to: * Present their own approaches for studying wiki communities from multiple perspectives (e-learning, sociology, content analysis, quantitative analysis and data mining, social networking, etc.). * Explain the main problems they face when integrating different research approaches into a coherent line of research. * Propose possible solutions in the form of tools, methodologies, research strategies and ways of collaboration that can be adopted to further such research. * Exchange research ideas with colleagues who can provide novel points of view that could complement existing research initiatives. An important outcome will be a charter to create a global virtual research planet on wiki communities. It will include wiki researchers, wiki research tools, wiki research bibliography, forums, blogs, wikis, etc. Its main objective will be to serve as a common meeting point and resource center for all researchers in this field. ================= Topics ================= Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to: Practitioner studies: * Research tools supporting quantitative analysis of wiki communities. * Content quality, assessment, and author reputation. * Social Network Analysis, web graphs, and visualization techniques for wiki communities. * Technological innovation for supporting wiki communities (e.g., content distribution, P2P, security and authentication). * Ontological and taxonomic technologies (lexical corpus and authorities, semantic searches, content categorization). Reflections upon methodological and disciplinary experiences in studying wiki communities (e.g., sociology, education, knowledge management, economics). * Dealing with human subjects review (IRB) or ethic guidelines (e.g., journalists interviewing versus oral historian) * Issues on privacy and data retention. How do these issues vary across disciplines and countries (legal/regulatory issues) * Did you try to submit your work to a journal in one discipline, have it rejected, but accepted in another? (And why was this so?) * Have you had any experiences working with collaborators from other disciplines? * Did you run into problems with your corpus of data and the tools people typically use in your discipline? ================= Agenda ================= In this context, the workshop organization will be threefold: 1.Present a complete perspective of the current state-of-the-art of Wikipedia and wiki-based open communities from different points of view. This will be achieved by presentations of position papers explaining existing tools and research methods successfully applied to the analysis of wiki environments. 2.Promote the creation of small working groups to consider the integration of distinct research strategies, including opportunities for interactions and feedback between researchers. 3.A final plenary session to consider the different solutions proposed by the working groups, and summarizing a catalog of tools, methodologies and opportunities of collaboration that may be offered to wiki researchers wanting to undertake interdisciplinary analysis in this area. A detailed agenda is available at http://libresoft.es/Activities/Research_activities/Workshop_WikiSym . ================= Organizers ================= Joseph Reagle - (NYU, USA) Felipe Ortega - GSyC/Libresoft (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain). Antonio J. Reinoso - GSyC/Libresoft (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain). Rut Jesus - CPNSS (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Reviews Coordinator: ------------------------ Gregorio Robles - GSyC/Libresoft (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain). ______________________________________________ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente.

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Study about contribution to public wikis / Étude sur la contribution aux wikis publics
by Anne GOLDENBERG 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Dear wiki-researcher, you may want to participate to this study or forward this invitation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear public wiki contributor, (Version française ci-dessous). My name is Anne Goldenberg, I'm a french PhD student in sociology and communication, doing a thesis on contributions in public wikis. I'm mostly interested in the policies and the habits that contributors develop in order to organize the collaboration in the wiki. I've set up a small survey entitled ''What is it to contribute to a wiki'', that I would like you to take. It's available here : http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/labcmo/portraitdulibre/index.php?sid=29168&lang… According to your experience with wikis, you can help us understand what are the contributors' motivations and expectations, how they learn to participate online, how contributions are discussed or legitimized and what helps to have good contributions and motivated contributors. Your answers will allow me to write an article and a thesis chapter on the notion of contribution in the wikisphere. The result will be anonymised and put online under a free license on my websites (see below). You will need about 30 to 40 min to complete the survey. Thank you in advance for your collaboration, I hope this will help your community, Best regards, Anne Goldenberg UQAM, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Unice, Nice, France PS : Please, feel free to forward this email to anyone or any mailing list that you think could be interested in this survey. http://anne.koumbit.org http://wikifarm.koumbit.org/anne == Version Française == Cher contributeur, chère contributrice aux wikis publics, Mon nom est Anne Goldenberg, je suis une doctorante française en sociologie et communication et ma thèse porte sur la contribution aux wikis publics. Je m'intéresse plus particulièrement aux habitudes et aux politiques développées par les contributeurs afin d'organiser la collaboration dans un wiki. J'ai mis en place une petite enquête intitulée "Qu'est ce que contribuer sur un wiki ?", à laquelle j'aimerai que vous participiez. Elle est disponible ici : http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/labcmo/portraitdulibre/index.php?sid=32238&lang… À partir de votre expérience avec les wikis, vous nous aiderez certainement à mieux comprendre quelles sont les motivations (et les attentes) des contributeurs, comment s'effectue leurs apprentissage d'une culture de la participation en ligne, comment se légitime et se discute les contributions, qu'est ce qui favorise une bonne participation. Vos réponses me permettront d'écrire un article et un chapitre de thèse sur la notion de contribution dans la wikisphère. Les résultats seront anonymisés et mis en ligne sous licence libre sur mes sites Web (voir ci-dessous). Il vous faudra environ 30 à 40 minutes pour répondre à l'enquête. Merci d'avance pour votre collaboration, J'espère que cela contribuera à la connaissance de votre communauté, Avec tous mes remerciements, Anne Goldenberg, UQAM, Montréal, Québec, Canada Unice, Nice, France PS : Sentez-vous libre de faire circuler ce courriel à toutes les personnes ou les listes qui pourraient être intéressées par cette étude. http://anne.koumbit.org http://wikifarm.koumbit.org/anne

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Erik Zachte, Data Analyst
by Cormac Lawler 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Forwarding whole message... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:18 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Erik Zachte, Data Analyst To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is with great pleasure that I welcome Erik Zachte as a part-time contractor to the Wikimedia Foundation. Erik will start work with us officially on September 1. Erik has worked as a Technical Analyst for Air France - KLM for more than two decades. He is probably most famous in the Wikimedia community as the developer of "WikiStats" (stats.wikimedia.org), an amazing statistics package that reveals data about the growth and editing patterns in our various wiki projects. Erik has created many other wonderful tools, featured at http://infodisiac.com/ . In his part-time role with the Wikimedia Foundation, he will continue to maintain and develop code to provide critical operational metrics about our projects. A key first project, for example, will be the integration of traffic statistics into the WikiStats package. These metrics will be key to communications, fundraising, internal evaluation, and for many other purposes. We're working in parallel to provide Erik with the support he needs to do his work, including more regularly provisioned dumps and hardware to run his scripts. I'm very pleased that Erik is joining our team, and look forward to working with him. Please join me in welcoming him. :) - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhsGukACgkQwRnhpk1wk466xACfcX+G/DjEHk8KO3RP9TMHsMpI n3MAn2aECpBhmf+iRqDTaEdEKlw6FJYk =O/we -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Erik Zachte, Data Analyst
by Cormac Lawler 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > It is with great pleasure that I welcome Erik Zachte as a part-time > contractor to the Wikimedia Foundation. Erik will start work with us > officially on September 1. [snip] Fantastic news! Perhaps this is a good time to kickstart a set of pages on Meta to help facilitate other researchers in accessing and using data - both qualitative and quantitative? I'd also be very happy to set up a learning community on Wikiversity with this in mind... (cross-posted to wiki-research-l). Cormac

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Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] New static HTML dumps available
by Casey Brown 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

This is an often asked question on this list... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:18 PM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] New static HTML dumps available To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org New static HTML dumps of all Wikipedia editions are now available: http://static.wikipedia.org/ Altogether, the dumps are 650GB uncompressed, 40GB compressed. I think a reasonable next step for this project would be to write filter scripts that take a compressed dump, reduce the article count in some way, and then recompress it, possibly in a different format. For instance, we could have a "most popular 4GB" of the English Wikipedia, based on page view statistics, recompressed as an SQLite database. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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