Hi all,
I recently wrote this essay on a concept I've been pondering for a
while that I call the learn, share, invent cycle. I'd like to know
your thoughts and any feedback, either here or on the essay talk page.
I think it could be a great model for how to engage researchers more
in Wikipedia contribution in a way that fits into their existing
workflow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Learn,_share,_invent_cycle
Short preview:
The learn, share, invent cycle is a model describing how researchers
can incorporate Wikipedia editing into their existing professional
workflow. It is composed of three basic steps:
* Learn: The researcher does background research in an area, based on
an immediate need such as a research idea in that area.
* Share: The researcher creates new Wikipedia articles or fact-checks
and expands existing articles to summarize what they have just learned
about the area.
* Invent: The researcher uses what they have learned to derive novel results.
--
Derrick Coetzee, User:Dcoetzee
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dcoetzee/
Hi All,
I am working on a project where I need to identify entities in a text and
link them back to Wikipedia articles or freebase IDs. I can detect the
entities but I need a system that can disambiguate them. As I noticed many
systems use Wikipedia as a backend for knowledge. I would like to hear your
opinion regarding any previous experiences dealing with any of the
different available systems. I tried till now Wikipedia miner, and the
problem it can not detect most of the _real_ ambiguous situations. For
example, the American town called
Hebron<http://wikipedia-miner.cms.waikato.ac.nz/demos/annotate/?source=Hebron+is+a…>.
Accuracy can be traded in case the system is really fast as we are planning
to process huge amount of data.
Regards.
--
Rami Al-Rfou'
Stony Brook University
PhD student @ Computer Science Dept.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Στις 12-11-2011, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 00:31 +1100, ο/η John Vandenberg
> έγραψε:
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:18 PM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Forwarding...
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
>> > Date: 2011/11/11
>> > Subject: Old English Wikipedia image dump from 2005
>> > To: wikiteam-discuss(a)googlegroups.com
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi all;
>> >
>> > I want to share with you this Archive Team link[1]. It is an old English
>> > Wikipedia image dump from 2005. One of the last ones, probably, before
>> > Wikimedia Foundation stopped publishing image dumps. Enjoy.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > emijrp
>> >
>> > [1] http://www.archive.org/details/wikimedia-image-dump-2005-11
>>
>> People interested in image dumps may be also interested in my post
>> relating to the GFDL requirements, which I think mean images need to
>> be included in the dumps.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Terms_of_use&diff=prev&ol…
>>
>> excerpt:
>>
>> "..the [GFDL] license requires that someone can download a
>> ''complete'' Transparent copy for one year after the last Opaque copy
>> is distributed. As a result, I believe the BoT needs to ensure that
>> the dumps are available ''and'' that they can be available for one
>> year after WMF turns of the lights on the core servers (it allows
>> 'agents' to provide this service). As Wikipedia contains images, the
>> images are required to be included. .."
>>
>> discussion continues ..
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use#Right_to_Fork
>>
>
> I would read this as requiring access to the images to remain available,
> not necessarily in dump form.
I dont believe that is the case. The GFDL, like the GPL, requires
that it is possible to rebuild the product from the distributed
source, minus any seperately distributed dependencies.
It is necessary to provide a simple mechanism for reliably downloading
the used images on each project and incorporating all of the dumps
needed to regenerate a replica of each project.
The 'source' can be broken into chunks, but it would be obviously
contray to the spirit of the license to require that each and every
image needs to be downloaded individually.
_and_ it needs to be possible for any consumer to perform the task of
obtaining the source. Does the WMF block people who attempt to mirror
the project content one item at a time? IMO blocking them is very
sane, but if that is the only way to obtain the source then it would
again be breaking the licence.
InstantCommons means that those images dont need to be redistributed
in order for the projects to be compliant with the GFDL.
--
John Vandenberg
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# Papers Due: *** December 6, 2011 ****** Extended
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
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The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based, model-
driven and software engineering with experts in simulation methods and
simulation practitioners, with the objective to advance the state of
the art in model-driven simulation engineering.
Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to
software systems engineering activities through the provision of
consistent and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As
these models are in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering
approaches can also support the exploitation of computing capabilities
for model reuse, programming code generation, and model checking, for
example.
The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and
its execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering.
As simulation systems are mainly based on software, these systems can
similarly benefit from model-driven approaches to support automatic
software generation, enhance software quality, and reduce costs,
development effort and time-to-market.
Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering
can exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing
the abstraction level in simulation model specifications and by
automating the derivation of simulator code. Further advantages can be
gained by using modeling languages, such as UML and SysML – but not
exclusively those. For example, modeling languages can be used for
descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated), for
analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation of the
same system), and for implementation modeling (to define the
respective simulator).
A partial list of topics of interest includes:
* model-driven simulation engineering processes
* requirements modeling for simulation
* domain specific languages for modeling and simulation
* model transformations for simulation model building
* model transformations for simulation model implementation
* model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems
* relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore) and
distributed simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS)
* metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability
* model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms
(discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation, sketch-based *
simulation, etc.)
* model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of
simulation systems
* simulation tools for model-driven software performance engineering
* model-driven technologies for simulation verification and
validation
* model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis
* model-driven technologies for simulation visualization
* Executable UML
* Executable Architectures
* SysML / Modelica integration
* Simulation Model Portability and reuse
* model-based systems verification and validation
* simulation for model-based systems engineering
To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope
and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives on model-
driven engineering of simulation systems.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
We invite paper submissions in three forms:
1. Full paper (max 8 pages), describing innovative research results.
These papers are eligible for the best paper award and may be invited
for an extended version in a special issue of the SCS SIMULATION
journal.
2. Work-in-progress paper (max 6 pages), describing novel research
ideas and promising work that have not yet been fully evaluated.
3. Short paper (max 6 pages), describing industrial and hands-on
experience on any relevant area (i.e. military, government, space,
etc.).
All the papers must be submitted through the SCS conference management
systems (http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS12/), selecting the Mod4Sim
track in the "Submission Categories" section. All the submitted papers
must be in PDF format and must conform to the SCS conference template
(Word template is available at
http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/templates/ConferenceSubmissionWORDTempl…
, guidelines are available athttp://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf).
All the submitted papers must be original and not submitted else
where. Submitted papers will be peer reviewed with respect to their
quality, originality and relevance. The authors of the accepted papers
must register in advance for inclusion of their paper in the
conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to
update their papers basing on the reviews, before providing the camera
ready.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and
archived in the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplorer and IEEE CS Digital
Library. However, **only** accepted **full papers** will be printed in
hard copy.
Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interest and
content appropriateness at any time.
Due to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for submission
of papers. In order to expedite the review process, authors must
submit an abstract and information about the paper/authors in the
submission system before November 25, 2011. The paper should be
uploaded into the system before December 6, 2011.
+++++++++++++++
Important Dates
+++++++++++++++
Abstract Submission: November 25, 2011 **** Extended
Paper Submission: December 6, 2011 **** Extended
Notification: January 15, 2012
Ready-Camera Paper: February 5, 2012
Conference: March 26-29, 2012
++++++++++++++++++++
Organizing Committee
++++++++++++++++++++
* Daniele Gianni - European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Nicolas Rouquette - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
+++++++++++++++++
Program Committee
+++++++++++++++++
* Steffen Becker - University of Paderborn, Germany
* David Chen - Univeristy of Bordeaux I, France
* Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy
* Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Hans-Peter De Koning - European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Christopher Delp - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
* Dov Dori - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA
* Howard Eisen - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
* Huascar Espinoza - European Software Institute and Tecnalia, Spain
* Paul A. Fishwick - University of Florida, USA
* Joachim Fuchs - European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Carlos Juiz - University of Balearic Islands, Spain
* Cristiano Leorato - Rhea, The Netherlands
* Steve McKeever - University of Oxford, UK
* Halit Oguztüzün - Middle East Technical University, Turkey
* Chris Paredis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe - University of Antwerp, Belgium and McGill
University, Canada
* Anthony Walsh - European Space Agency, Germany
* Heming Zhang - Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni and Nicolas Rouquette (workshop co-chairs)
Emails: daniele.gianni(a)esa.int and nicolas.f.rouquette(a)jpl.nasa.gov
*************** Deadline Extended to December 6, 2011 ***************
****** Please submit your abstract before November 25, 2011 *********
#####################################################################
CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd International Workshop on
Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering
part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation
(SCS SpringSim 2012)
#####################################################################
March 26-29, 2012, Orlando, FL (USA)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim12
#####################################################################
# Papers Due: *** December 6, 2011 ****** Extended
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
archived
# in the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplorer and IEEE CS Digital
Library.
# The Symposium is co-sponsored by IEEE.
#####################################################################
The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based, model-
driven and software engineering with experts in simulation methods and
simulation practitioners, with the objective to advance the state of
the art in model-driven simulation engineering.
Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to
software systems engineering activities through the provision of
consistent and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As
these models are in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering
approaches can also support the exploitation of computing capabilities
for model reuse, programming code generation, and model checking, for
example.
The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and
its execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering.
As simulation systems are mainly based on software, these systems can
similarly benefit from model-driven approaches to support automatic
software generation, enhance software quality, and reduce costs,
development effort and time-to-market.
Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering
can exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing
the abstraction level in simulation model specifications and by
automating the derivation of simulator code. Further advantages can be
gained by using modeling languages, such as UML and SysML – but not
exclusively those. For example, modeling languages can be used for
descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated), for
analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation of the
same system), and for implementation modeling (to define the
respective simulator).
A partial list of topics of interest includes:
* model-driven simulation engineering processes
* requirements modeling for simulation
* domain specific languages for modeling and simulation
* model transformations for simulation model building
* model transformations for simulation model implementation
* model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems
* relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore) and
distributed simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS)
* metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability
* model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms
(discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation, sketch-based *
simulation, etc.)
* model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of
simulation systems
* simulation tools for model-driven software performance engineering
* model-driven technologies for simulation verification and
validation
* model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis
* model-driven technologies for simulation visualization
* Executable UML
* Executable Architectures
* SysML / Modelica integration
* Simulation Model Portability and reuse
* model-based systems verification and validation
* simulation for model-based systems engineering
To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope
and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives on model-
driven engineering of simulation systems.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
We invite paper submissions in three forms:
1. Full paper (max 8 pages), describing innovative research results.
These papers are eligible for the best paper award and may be invited
for an extended version in a special issue of the SCS SIMULATION
journal.
2. Work-in-progress paper (max 6 pages), describing novel research
ideas and promising work that have not yet been fully evaluated.
3. Short paper (max 6 pages), describing industrial and hands-on
experience on any relevant area (i.e. military, government, space,
etc.).
All the papers must be submitted through the SCS conference management
systems (http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS12/), selecting the Mod4Sim
track in the "Submission Categories" section. All the submitted papers
must be in PDF format and must conform to the SCS conference template
(Word template is available at
http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/templates/ConferenceSubmissionWORDTempl…
, guidelines are available athttp://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf).
All the submitted papers must be original and not submitted else
where. Submitted papers will be peer reviewed with respect to their
quality, originality and relevance. The authors of the accepted papers
must register in advance for inclusion of their paper in the
conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to
update their papers basing on the reviews, before providing the camera
ready.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and
archived in the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplorer and IEEE CS Digital
Library. However, **only** accepted **full papers** will be printed in
hard copy.
Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interest and
content appropriateness at any time.
Due to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for submission
of papers. In order to expedite the review process, authors must
submit an abstract and information about the paper/authors in the
submission system before November 25, 2011. The paper should be
uploaded into the system before December 6, 2011.
+++++++++++++++
Important Dates
+++++++++++++++
Abstract Submission: November 25, 2011 **** Extended
Paper Submission: December 6, 2011 **** Extended
Notification: January 15, 2012
Ready-Camera Paper: February 5, 2012
Conference: March 26-29, 2012
++++++++++++++++++++
Organizing Committee
++++++++++++++++++++
* Daniele Gianni - European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Nicolas Rouquette - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
+++++++++++++++++
Program Committee
+++++++++++++++++
* Steffen Becker - University of Paderborn, Germany
* David Chen - Univeristy of Bordeaux I, France
* Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy
* Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Hans-Peter De Koning - European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Christopher Delp - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
* Dov Dori - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA
* Howard Eisen - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
* Huascar Espinoza - European Software Institute and Tecnalia, Spain
* Paul A. Fishwick - University of Florida, USA
* Joachim Fuchs - European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Carlos Juiz - University of Balearic Islands, Spain
* Cristiano Leorato - Rhea, The Netherlands
* Steve McKeever - University of Oxford, UK
* Halit Oguztüzün - Middle East Technical University, Turkey
* Chris Paredis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe - University of Antwerp, Belgium and McGill
University, Canada
* Anthony Walsh - European Space Agency, Germany
* Heming Zhang - Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni and Nicolas Rouquette (workshop co-chairs)
Emails: daniele.gianni(a)esa.int and nicolas.f.rouquette(a)jpl.nasa.gov
Forwarding...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/11/11
Subject: Old English Wikipedia image dump from 2005
To: wikiteam-discuss(a)googlegroups.com
Hi all;
I want to share with you this Archive Team link[1]. It is an old English
Wikipedia image dump from 2005. One of the last ones, probably, before
Wikimedia Foundation stopped publishing image dumps. Enjoy.
Regards,
emijrp
[1] http://www.archive.org/details/wikimedia-image-dump-2005-11
http://opendatahackdc.eventbrite.com/
International Open Data Hackathon DC
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Free to attend
Wikimedia DC is one of the organizers. If you're in the Washington, DC,
USA area, please consider attending! You'll meet participants from the
Sunlight Foundation, Library of Congress, World Bank, and other
institutions, and participants will discuss and design "solutions to
make data more open and make better use of open data."
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
.. please note that it's now redirecting to the WMF-hosted version of
the data. So if you have any automated scripts that use this data,
they will have to be updated.
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hi all, Cliff Lampe and I have been working with Barry Wellman to
create a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on Open
Collaboration and Wiki Research.
Here's the CfP!
- Andrea
*****************************************************************
Special Issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research
American Behavioral Scientist
Editors: Andrea Forte, Cliff Lampe, Barry Wellman
In the past decade, the popularization of open collaboration tools
have led to innovation and disruption of established processes in
nearly every dimension of social life. Phenomena like transparency in
governance, citizen journalism, open source, open content production,
crowdsourcing and distributed innovation have captured the attention
of scholars from diverse fields. Although Wikipedia made it a
household term, in popular press, the term “wiki” has come to
represent a much broader range of ideas than an editable web page.
We invite paper submissions that examine diverse aspects of open
collaboration. By open collaboration we mean the development of novel
social structures supported by technologies including wikis and other
content management systems that allow people to share and build
content. The intent of this special issue is to showcase cutting edge
research on how open collaboration is organized and how systems that
support it are designed, implemented and used in a variety of task
contexts. We encourage submissions from diverse disciplines that study
social systems, culture and technology.
Suggestions for submission topics include but are not limited to:
* Social structure and organization of open collaborations
* Motivation and incentive to participate
* Technical features of systems that support collaboration
* The use of reputation and rating in open collaboration systems
* The impact of open collaboration on
- education and learning
- scientific collaboration
- journalism
- government
- business
- knowledge management
American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) is a monthly, peer-reviewed
journal that provides in-depth perspectives on contemporary topics
throughout the social and behavioral sciences. Each issue offers
comprehensive analysis of a single topic, examining
inter-disciplinary, important, and diverse arenas.
Abstracts Due: Dec 15, 2011
Invitations to Submit: Jan 5
Papers Due: Mar 31
Notification: May 1
****Please email abstract submissions to aforte(a)drexel.edu, subject: ABS
Wiki Research***