Wiki-research-l October 2010

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Wikipedia Research policy
by song＠cs.umn.edu 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to participate in studies. At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots. The policy proposal can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal is being described at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia community, we would like additional input about the proposal, and would welcome additional help improving it. Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research -- Bryan Song GroupLens Research University of Minnesota

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AMIJ Call For Papers
by CFP-CSC 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

***Apologies for cross-postings*** CALL FOR PAPERS Submission deadline; November 30, 2010 The 1st volume and 2nd issue of Advances in Multimedia - An International Journal (AMIJ) http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/description.php?JCode=AMIJ About AMIJ Advances in Multimedia - An International Journal (AMIJ) is a peer-review journal presenting the theory and practice of multimedia including image and video processing problems. AMIJ aims at disseminating high level research results and engineering developments to all Image or Video Processing researchers and research groups. The journal features original research work, review and tutorial papers and accounts of practical developments. By presenting practical solutions for the current Image and Video processing problems, AMIJ is intended for the rapid dissemination of knowledge and experience to Scientists and Engineers working in any area related to or using Multimedia, Image and Video Processing. It features practical results, applications, and contributions that describe advances in such areas as multimedia analysis, multimedia compression, multimedia encoding, multimedia search and retrieval, multimedia systems, computer vision, visualization, computer animation etc. To build its International reputation, we are disseminating the publication information through Google Books, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open J Gate, ScientificCommons, Docstoc and many more. Our International Editors are working on establishing ISI listing and a good impact factor for AMIJ. AMIJ List of Topics The realm of Advances in Multimedia - An International Journal (AMIJ) extends, but not limited, to the following: · Active Learning · Animation · 2D to 3D conversion · Applications of Visual and Multimedia Techniques · Color and Multi-Spectral Processing · Computer Animation · Computer Vision · Displaying · Dynamic Modeling · Image-Based Rendering · Motion Capture and Synthesis · Multimedia Aanalysis · Multimedia Compression · Multimedia Encoding · Multimedia Retrieval · Multimedia Search · Multimedia Signal Processing · Multimedia Systems · Non-Photorealistic Rendering · Printing · Rendering Models · Scanning · Texturing · Virtual Reality · Visualization IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS Paper Submission: November 30, 2010 Author Notification: January 01, 2011 Issue Publication: January / February For general inquiries regarding AMIJ ; including contact information of AMIJ Editors, please visithttp://www.cscjournals.org/csc/description.php?JCode=AMIJ or http://www.cscjournals.org. Sincerely, CFP-CSC Journals, Computer Science Journals M-3-19, Plaza Damas, Sri Hartamas 50480, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Phone: +603 6207 1607 Fax: 00603 6201 1664 Url: http://www.cscjournals.org

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Fwd: International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era: Barcelona 28 -31 October 2010
by Mayo FM 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

(English, Català, Castellano) ENGLISH Yes, oXcars (The biggest free/libre event ever) and International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era – Organization and Action(FCForum) are back at Barcelona & online! 28 -31 October 2010: http://www.fcforum.net/10 Video trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiNJrkDa2gw Artists, cultural creators, researchers and knowledge creators from all the spheres of national and international culture participate in a full surprise gala for demanding that culture stop being a merchandise of the cultural copyright industries lobbies. In the name of the “artists” they put obstacles on our access to knowledge even though artist don’t support them. The civil society reclaim the lost profit to all knowledge that is being retained and steal from the public use in the name of private benefits. We don’t want to nurture generations of cultural parasites, we want a cultural field, alive and productive. October 28th, 21ºº hrs.- Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113, Barcelona Metro: Paral.lel And, then… The FCForum 2010 Citizens will continue to work on the task of conceiving a digital era that is sustainable and benefits everybody. The oXcars will be followed by the 3-day FCForum, the 2nd International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era, which is organised by EXGAE together with the international FCForum platform, in collaboration with Arts Santa Mònica. The FCForum 2010 will assemble the main organisations and active voices in the world of Culture, free/libre knowledge and the new forms of cultural production and distribution. The FCForum is a open space to all citizens, to everybody who is seriously working towards achieving a legal and economically sustainable future. For citizens, researchers and for artists. Check out the programe: http://2010.fcforum.net/program/ See you there! How to join the Fcforum online? OXCARS 2010: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/en/ FCForum 2010: http://2010.fcforum.net/en Contact: contact[a]exgae.net Live streaming: oXcars: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/en/live/ Fcforum: http://2010.fcforum.net/live/ Microblogging: Identi.ca at @fcforum Twitter at @fcforum_net http://twitter.com/exgae Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/FcForum?ref=ts CATALA Sí, Tornen els Oxcars (el major esdeveniment de cultura lliure de tots els temps) i el Fòrum internacional d’accés a la cultura i al coneixement en l’era digital – Organització i Acció 2010 (FCFòrum)! Oxcars: 28 d’Octubre, 21ºº h – Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113 Barcelona Metro: Paral.lel Fcforum: 28 -31 d'Octubre, http://www.fcforum.net/10 Com cada any – i aquest any més que mai – EXGAE convida tothom a participar en la 3ª edició dels oXcars, el major esdeveniment de cultura lliure de tots els temps, en col·laboració amb Conservas i Telenoika, també membres d’EXGAE, i, aquest any, amb l’ajuda de Red SOStenible i les xarxes socials, com no! Artistes de tots els àmbit de la cultura nacional i internacional participen en una gala plena de sorpreses per demanar que la cultura deixi de ser una mercaderia en mans dels lobbies de les indústries. En nom dels “artistes”, es posen traves al nostre accés al coneixement, però els artistes no els donen suport. La societat civil reclama el lucre cessant de tot el coneixement que s’està retenint i sostraient a l’ús públic en nom de beneficis privats. No volem cultivar generacions de paràsits culturals, volem un territori cultural viu i productiu. Artistes com l’escriptor José Luis Sampedro, membre de la RAE, l´escriptora Belén Gopegui, el cèlebre gastrobloguer Txaber Allué, a més a més d’At Versaris; Kate Madison; Akram Khan; Reactable; Ploomba; Koulomek i altres sorpreses que no anem a contar-vos, com l’aparició eXtel·lar de Pinkertones brillaran en aquesta edició. 28 d’Octubre, 21ºº h – Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113 Metro: Paral.lel Ja a la venda el bonus d’ajuda per als oXcars Venda online (3,55€): http://www.codetickets.com/sala-apolo/es/sala-apolo.com/566/ Venda en mà (3 euros): Carrer Sant Pau 58 Baixos – Barcelona – De dilluns a divendres de 10h a14h i de 17h a 20h – tel 933020630 Y, a continuació…Fcfòrum 2010 Des de la ciutadania continuarem treballant per plantejar junts una era digital sostenible i profitosa per tots. Després dels oXcars comencen els tres dies de l’FCFòrum, el Fòrum internacional d’accés a la cultura i al coneixement en l’era digital en la seva segona edició – que EXGAE realitza conjuntament amb la plataforma internacional FcFòrum i en col·laboració amb Arts Santa Mònica. L’FcFòrum 2010 té com títol aquest any “Nous models de sostenibilitat en l’era digital” i congregarà les principals organitzacions i veus actives en el món de la cultura, el coneixement lliure i les noves formes de producció i distribució de la cultura. Entre els més de 50 participants voldríem destacar el treball de Johanna Blakley, investigadora sobre la cultura de l’entreteniment, qui sosté la tesi que l’èxit de la indústria de la moda radique en l’absència de propietat intel·lectual. Vindran destacables exemples de Nous Empresaris Culturals, com els estatunidencs // Nordamericans dels EUA// Kickstarter, els quals operen sobre un model de negoci basat en ser facilitadors entre l’artista, els fans i els productors. El seu recent prodigi comercial: aconseguir 30.000 dòlars en tres dies per a la producció del documental sobre el llegendari portal de descàrregues The Pirate Bay. A més, comptarem amb els creadors originals de The Pirate Bay: Magnus Eriksson i Peter Sunde, el qual ha creat Flattr.com, una empresa de microcrèdits per descarregar continguts com un pot de propines en l’Internet. Estaran presents també els alemanys de Freibank, els quals després de l’experiència del mític grup Einstürzende Neubauten, muntaren una cooperativa de distribució dels drets d’autor. Comptarem amb Peter Jenner, cèlebre manager de Pink Floyd, qui ha representat també a artistes com T Rex, Ian Dury, Roy Harper i The Clash. L’FcFórum és un espai obert a tota la ciutadania, a tots els agents els quals s’estan platejant seriosament un futur legal i econòmicament sostenible. Tant per ciutadans, com per artistes. Ens veiem allà! Tota la informació i com participar des de la xarxa: OXCARS 2010: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/ca FCForum 2010: http://2010.fcforum.net/ca/ Contacte: contact[a]exgae.net Retransmisió en viu: oXcars: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/en/live/ Fcforum: http://2010.fcforum.net/live/ Microblogging: Identi.ca at @fcforum Twitter at @fcforum_net http://twitter.com/exgae Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/FcForum?ref=ts CASTELLANO Sí, ¡Vuelven la Gran Gala de los oXcars y el FCForum: Foro Internacional de Acceso a la Cultura y el Conocimiento en la Era Digital – Organización y Acción 2010 (FCForum)! Como cada año – y este año más que nunca – EXGAE invita a todo el mundo a participar en la 3ª edición de los oXcars, el mayor evento de cultura libre de todos los tiempos, en colaboración con Conservas y Telenoika, también miembros de EXGAE, y, este año, con la ayuda de Red SOStenible y de las redes sociales ¡Cómo no!. Artistas de todos los ámbitos de la cultura nacional e internacional participan en una gala llena de sorpresas para pedir que la cultura deje de ser una mercancía en manos de los lobbies de las industrias culturales. En nombre de los “artistas”, se ponen trabas a nuestro acceso al conocimiento, pero los artistas no las respaldan. La sociedad civil reclama el lucro cesante de todo el conocimiento que se esta reteniendo y sustrayendo al uso público en nombre de beneficios privados. No queremos cultivar generaciones de parásitos culturales, queremos un territorio cultural vivo y productivo. Artistas como el escritor José Luis Sampedro, miembro de la RAE, la escritora Belén Gopegui, el célebre gastrobloguer Txaber Allué, además de At Versaris; Kate Madison; Akram Khan; Reactable; Ploomba; Koulomek y otras sorpresas que no os vamos a contar como la aparición eXtelar de Pinkertones brillarán en esta edición. 28 de Octubre, 21ºº hrs.- Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113, Barcelona. Metro: Paral.lel Ya a la venta el bono de ayuda para los oXCARs (3,55€) Venta online: http://www.codetickets.com/sala-apolo/es/sala-apolo.com/566/ Venta en mano (3 euros): Calle Sant Pau 58 Bajos – Barcelona – De lunes a viernes de 10h a 14h y de 17h a 20h – tel 933020630 Y, a continuación… FCForum 2010 Desde la ciudadanía seguiremos trabajando para plantear juntos una era digital sostenible y provechosa para todos. Después de los oXcars comienzan los tres días del FCForum, el Foro Internacional de Acceso a la Cultura y el Conocimiento en la Era Digital en su segunda edición, que EXGAE realiza conjuntamente con la plataforma internacional FCForum y en colaboración con Arts Santa Mònica. El FCforum 2010 tiene como título este año “Nuevos modelos de sostenibilidad en la era digital” y congregará las principales organizaciones y voces activas en el mundo de la cultura, del conocimiento libre y de las nuevas formas de producción y distribución de la cultura. De entre los más de 50 participantes querríamos destacar el trabajo de Johanna Blakley, investigadora sobre la cultura del entretenimiento, quien abraza la tesis de que el éxito de la industria de la moda radica en la ausencia de propiedad intelectual. Vendrán notables ejemplos de Nuevos Empresarios Culturales, como los americanos Kickstarter, cuyo modelo de negocios se basa en ser facilitadores entre el artista, sus fans y los productores. Su prodigio comercial más reciente: conseguir 30.000 dólares en tres días para la producción del documental sobre el legendario portal de descargas The Pirate Bay. Además contaremos con los creadores originales de The Pirate Bay: Magnus Eriksson y Peter Sunde, quien ha creado Flattr.com, una empresa de microcréditos para descargar contenidos que funciona como un bote de propinas en internet. Estarán presentes también, los alemanes de Freibank, que tras la experiencia del mítico grupo Einstürzende Neubauten, montaron una cooperativa de distribución de los derechos de autor. Contaremos con la presencia de Peter Jenner, célebre manager de Pink Floyd que ha representado también a artistas como T Rex, Ian Dury, Roy Harper y The Clash. El FCForum es un espacio abierto a toda la ciudadanía, a todos los agentes que seriamente se están planteando un futuro legal y económicamente sostenible. Tanto para ciudadanos como artistas. Nos vemos allí! Toda la información y como participar desde la red: OXCARS 2010: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/ FCForum 2010: http://2010.fcforum.net/es/ Contacto: contact[a]exgae.net Retransmisión en vivo: oXcars: http://oxcars10.exgae.net/en/live/ Fcforum: http://2010.fcforum.net/live/ Microblogging: Identi.ca at @fcforum Twitter at @fcforum_net http://twitter.com/exgae Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/FcForum?ref=ts «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Ph.D European University Institute Research collaborator. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting researcher. School of information. University of California, Berkeley. 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Editor Trends Study - Requesting your Input
by Diederik van Liere 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Dear Wikipedia Researchers, We have posted a wiki about the Editor Trends Study on the strategy wiki, you can find it here: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study We would like to have your input on our suggested approach and in particular we are curious about your thoughts concerning the following topics: 1) Definitions of New Editor and Active Editor, do these definitions correspond with your experiences and are they clear? 2) We suggest doing two types of analysis (Active editor composition by tenure and Cohort analysis New Wikipedians). What additional analysis would you suggest that could reveal crucial information that these two analyses would not generate? 3) Sample of Wikipedia sites to study, let us know if there are other Wikipedia projects that may be useful to analyze and we'll do our best to include those. Please leave your ideas / suggestions on the Talk page and thanks for your input. Best, Howie & Diederik

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New tracking page for research projects
by Erik Moeller 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hello all, I've created http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Projects as a new canonical tracking page for research projects that are either currently underway, or that have been recently completed. If you're currently conducting Wikimedia-related research projects, please list them on this page. For those not comfortable with wiki-tables, there's a simple submission form as well. Feel free to make the page or workflow more useful if you have any ideas for doing so :-) Thanks and all best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Introducing Diederik van Liere
by Howie Fung 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hello Everyone, I wanted to take a moment to introduce Diederik van Liere [1]. Diederik will be working with the Foundation on some research projects to help the community get a better understanding of editor patterns on Wikipedia. Below is a note from Diederik which gives some insight into his research experience and interests. He has done some interesting and relevant work on online communities, most recently as a post-doc at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. We're excited to have him as a research consultant, so please join me in welcoming him! Howie [1] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/diederikvanliere *Diederik van Liere* My name is Diederik van Liere and I am a research consultant at the Wikimedia Foundation. I started last week on a project, in collaboration with Howie Fung and Erik Moeller, to better understand the editor dynamics of the different Wikipedia sites. My research interests are around the broad theme of community management and community effectiveness and in particular how online tools can help in that regard. I have researched open source communities such as Firefox and Thunderbird in my previous position at the Rotman School of Management. I enjoy all phases of quantitative research: writing custom data parsers, parallelizing 'big data' challenges, and building statistical models to gain more detailed answers to research questions. I have an interest in developing tools that will allow for parallelized / distributed data processing in order to shorten processing time and get answers back to the community faster. I am excited to be part of this community because I strongly identify with Wikimedia's mission of making knowledge globally accessible and I am looking forward to the on- and offline collaborations with you. In the mean time, you will see the firsts posts about the Editor Dynamics project appearing on this mailing list and (soon) the Strategy Wiki. Feel free to drop me an email (dvanliere at gmail dot com) whenever you have a question about these topics.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Przykuta, 10/10/2010 19:17: > Old talk pages with solved problems are deleted. This is extremely strange. Talk pages are part of the article history. Ortega's thesis should be updated, perhaps. «The combination of a very active cohort of bots, together with the very low ratio of talk pages, indicates that the Polish language version is not following the same organizational pattern found in other language editions. Such a low ratio of talk pages points out the little effort undertaken on coordination actions and discussion about article contents in the Polish version.» (http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/phd-thesis , p. 91) > Talk pages of dynamic IP are deleted too (we wait ~6 months and delete them by bot). I don't know - is it standard behavior in other Wikiepdias or specific for pl. This isn't very relevant. On it.wiki they used to be deleted by (unapproved) bots (run under sysop accounts); since some years they're just replaced with a "welcome IP" template every month if they're more than a month old. >> * Finally, Polish Wikipedia has fewer active users than any of the >> next three "smaller" Wikipedias - Italian, Japanese and Spanish - >> which might be significant here. Fewer users talk less, so there's >> fewer "natural" discussion pages. >> > > True - we have only ~300 very active users. We rather use main. One of the most often used slogan is "we work here, not talk". Many times we spend in "flagged revisions" - so, we are sure, that 90% are free of vandalism. This is very important. The real question is: how can pl.wiki be so big (and useful, looking at pageviews) with such a little editor base? Seems a good result. Nemo

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Expanded Profile of Australian En-WP users
by Laura Hale 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

A copy of this post can be found at http://ozziesport.com/2010/10/expanded-profile-of-australian-en-wp-users/ My dissertation topic involves doing a demographic and geographic study of Australian sport fandom online. There are several sites and social networks where you can get publicly available demographic data to begin to formulate a picture of the user population, and then segment that population out by interest in a league, sport and athlete. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal. Recently, partly because of a trip to the Wikimedia Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Screencast>and discussions with a few people at UCNISS <http://www.ucniss.net/>, my interest in who was contributing to Australian sport wiki articles on Wikipedia increased. Finding out who edited Wikipedia articles using publicly available information is a bit of a challenge. The most reliable information for who edited comes from IP address information. IP addresses can provide an idea as to the geographic location of the contributor. It is easy enough, with the help of a friend, to create a tool that pull the history of a Wikipedia article, get a list of IP addresses that edited the article, feed the IP address into another tool that will pull up the general location of the contributor. (One of my favorite visualizations of this type of information is WikipediaVision <http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html>.) The data isn’t always accurate and if I was looking primarily at New Zealand, a country without its own dedicated IP address range, this would be even less reliable. Still, for my purposes, this data works pretty well. This data is still pretty limited. There are a lot of articles that are edited by non-anonymous users. Sometimes, it is possible to get demographic and geographic information about Wikipedia contributors by viewing their profile pages. This can just be time consuming to do manually if an article has a large number of contributors as you need to view a lot of user pages. It becomes a deterrence for trying to collect geographic information about article contributors. I was looking for a more time effective and accurate method of collecting geographic and demographic information about contributors that is publicly available on their user pages. The easiest and quickest way to get this information on a mass scale is to utilize user box information. Many user boxes, when included on a user page, put the user into a category. These categories are often then linked through the Wikipedian category structure<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians>. Beyond that, user boxes involve templates. It is easy to get a list of articles (user pages) that the template is included on. The methodology that I selected from this point is rather straightforward. It involved: 1. Select a category. 2. Copy and paste the list of articles (user pages) in the selected category to an Excel spreadsheet. Sort the list alphabetically. Copy and paste only the user pages to Notepad. Replace * User with blank. Copy and paste this list back to Excel. 3. Create a filter where the cell contains / . Select those cells. Copy them to notepad, replace / with [tab] in order to remove user subpages from the list. Copy this back to Excel. Select only the column with usernames. 4. Run an advance filter in order to remove all duplicate rows. 5. Copy this list back to the dedicated spreadsheet. Label all those users with the category from which they were pulled in a unique column. 6. Repeat steps 1 to 5 until all the categories that you want to have included are included. 7. Merge/Group all the rows by username. This method may not be the most efficient way of going about doing this. It can probably be improved by automating some of these steps. In my case, step 7 was not able to be completed using Excel. I had to e-mail the file to @woganmay <http://twitter.com/woganmay>, who I believe converted the file to a mySQL database, used the group feature, converted the results back to csv and e-mailed the file to me. In my case, I did not complete this for every category. Some categories did not seem worth it time wise as they had too few user pages to be included. In other cases, the categories were just too big to do. This included all the members of User de, User en, User es, User fr, User it, User jp. Only a selected number of categories were included because of time constraints. Data gathering was focused on categories that I perceived would have the greatest number of Australians and other possible contributors to Australian related articles. When these categories were more exhausted, categories with between 1,00 and 5,000 articles were selected. There are all sort of limitations to this data. First, not everyone includes userboxes on their profile pages. This means that there could be a lot more Australians on Wikipedia than indicated by userbox inclusion on a user page. The assumption for the resulting data is that proportional representation exists for various categories. So while there are X amount of Christians and Y amount of Atheists, the assumption that the relationship between X and Y will always be proportional to the actual population on Wikipedia. Whatever data is available thus has to be viewed as good enough or supplemented by going to individual user ages to see if other information is available when a user appears where no information for someone when running against the history of the article. Second, even when they do exist, there are often useful pieces of information that are missing. For example, in an Australian context, there is a userbox for Rugby League fans. There is not however a userbox for Australian rules footy fans. There are also not user boxes and categories for fans of NRL or AFL teams. (This type of user box and category exists for National Hockey League teams.) About halfway through this process, I realized that this data could be useful for analysis beyond who is editing Wikipedia. At the moment, I’ve only totaled data I have for Australians. It is pretty fascinating and would be neat to go further with: How does the proportional size of the Australian Wikipedian population compare against the actual population? Does the size of the Australian Atheist versus Christiah community actively reflect the proportions in Australian society? Or is the Australian Wikipedian community demographically distinct from the greater population? The following tables include the data based on people who were included in Wikipedians in Australia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Australia>and its subcategories and Australian Wikipedians <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_Wikipedians>. A copy of the raw data can be found at October 9 – Wikipedia English Data – Australians.xls<http://csv.ozziesport.com/October%209%20-%20Wikipedia%20English%20Data%20-%…>. The data is provided without comment though any attempts at explaining the patterns found are very much appreciated. Country Count Bangladesh 3 Canada 2 Egypt 2 India 1 Indonesia 2 Ireland 3 Jamaica 2 Japan 5 New Zealand 17 Papua New Guinea 1 Republic of Ireland 5 Singapore 5 South Africa 2 South Korea 1 Sri Lanka 2 Tanzania 2 Turkey 2 United States 16 State Count Australian Capital Territory 89 Canterbury 1 New South Wales 345 Northern Territory 5 Otago 1 Queensland 208 South Australia 144 Southland 1 Tasmania 54 Victoria 370 Wellington 2 Western Australia 145 Degree Count BA degrees 21 BCom degrees 2 BCS degrees 3 BE degrees 18 BMus degrees 1 BS degrees 41 MS degrees 5 PhD degrees 18 University/Alma Mater Count Australian National University 14 Avondale College 1 Charles Sturt University 1 Curtin University of Technology 7 Deakin University 6 Flinders University 7 Griffith University 1 James Cook University 2 La Trobe University 2 Macquarie University 5 Massey University 1 Monash University 19 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 10 University of Adelaide 4 University of Alberta 1 University of Canberra 3 University of Melbourne 21 University of New England 4 University of New South Wales 24 University of Newcastle 8 University of Sydney 16 University of Tasmania 3 University of Technology, Sydney 4 University of Western Australia 11 University of Wollongong 4 Victorian College of the Arts 1 Student type Count Business students 3 College students 26 Law students 9 Medical students 8 University students 59 Website Count Open Directory Project 1 OpenStreetMap 2 Wookieepedia 1 Religion Count Anglican and Episcopalian 8 Antitheist 3 Atheist 97 Buddhist 13 Catholic 7 Christian 47 Eastern Orthodox 2 Hindu 1 Jewish 4 Lutheran 1 Methodist 2 Muslim 4 Non-denominational Christian 2 Objectivist 2 Pastafarian 17 Presbyterian 3 Protestant 11 Roman Catholic 10 Ethnicity and nationality Count Argentine 2 Bangladeshi 2 British 3 English 10 Latino/Hispanic 1 Skill Count Aircraft pilots 5 Artists 3 Engineers 17 Filmmakers 17 Homebrewers 10 Mechanical engineers 1 Professional writers 1 Surfers 2 Profession Count Accountants 2 Actor 5 Actuaries 2 Aircraft pilots 5 Biologist 9 Broadcasters 5 Chemist 6 Composers 28 Computer scientists 7 Engineers 17 Filmmakers 17 Geoscientists 2 Mechanical engineers 1 Scientists 7 Teacher 18 University teacher 4 Web designers 2 Web developers 1 Interest Count Chemistry 27 Cooking 1 Physics 34 Strings (physics) 6 Sports Count Cavers 2 Cross-country runners 4 Dancers 3 Detroit Red Wings fans 2 Equestrians 2 Fencers 2 Geocachers 8 Hikers 2 Hunters 7 Outdoor pursuits 2 Rugby league fans 50 Runners 2 Sailing 1 Scuba divers 8 Snowboarders 2 Swimmers 16 Swing dancers 1 Toronto Maple Leafs fans 1 Ultimate Fighting Championship fans 2 Vancouver Canucks fans 3 WikiProject Tennis members 4 Wikipedia Status Count Administrator hopefuls 41 Administrators 45 Administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles 11 Bureaucrats 1 Contribute to Wikimedia Commons 1 Create userboxes 3 Opted out of automatic signing 4 Reviewers 10 Rollbackers 27 Service Award Level 01 12 Service Award Level 02 14 Service Award Level 03 10 Service Award Level 04 5 Service Award Level 05 6 Service Award Level 06 9 Service Award Level 07 11 Service Award Level 08 3 Service Award Level 09 2 Wikimedia Commons administrators 2 Philosophy Count Hindu 1 Humanist 6 Materialist 9 Pastafarian 16 Theist 9 -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

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baseline requirements for researcher permission
by John Vandenberg 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi, I've started a discussion about baseline requirements for the 'researcher' permission on English Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Research#baseline_requirements_… -- John Vandenberg

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searching for specific publications
by pasko＠irmo.hr 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Dear fellow researchers, I am new to the list so I will first introduce myself. My name is Pasko Bilic and I am doing PhD research in sociology on media events and Wikipedia editing practices. I am working as a research assistant at the Institute for International relations, Department for Culture and Communication, Zagreb, Croatia. I have already read numerous publications on Wikipedia which are mostly interdisciplinary. Currently I am looking for previous publications on various metrics in analyzing article content or in analyzing editor networks around single Wikipedia articles. Preferable research areas include: sociology, communication science, social-psychology, computer-mediated communication. Any kind of information, link, advice would be most helpful. Thank you in advance and with kind regards, Pasko

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