Has anyone done any research on a by country basis? I'm trying to fill out
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives a bit and I'm
looking for assistance. I know there has been some research but not sure
what and where, and what the breakdown was when analysis has been done.
Has anyone done comprehensive research on this subject in terms of
participation?
Thanks,
Laura Hale
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twitter: purplepopple
blog: ozziesport.com
Hi all,
Phoebe Ayers and I are leading a workshop at WikiSym this year,
"WikiLit: Collecting the Wiki and Wikipedia Literature". We would love
to have your participation!
This workshop has three key goals. First, we will examine existing and
proposed systems for collecting and analyzing the research literature
about wikis. Second, we will discuss the challenges in building such a
system and will engage participants to design a sustainable
collaborative system to achieve this goal. Finally, we will provide a
forum to build upon ongoing wiki community discussions about problems
and opportunities in finding and sharing the wiki research literature.
For more details, please see:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/workshop:wikilit
Please do not hesitate to ask questions, either by replying here on the
list or by contacting me or Phoebe (psayers(a)ucdavis.edu) directly.
Looking forward to seeing you at WikiSym!
Reid
The latest issue (December 2011) of the monthly Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-12-26
In this issue:
1 Mental health information on Wikipedia more accurate than Britannica and Kaplan & Sadock psychiatry textbook
2 Psychologists gauge impact of Wikipedia's Rorschach test coverage
3 Spell-checking the English Wikipedia
4 Wikipedians are "smart but fun", and have expertise in topics they edit
5 Wikipedia as a database for structured biological data
6 Individual and social drivers of participation in Wikipedia
7 Mining article revision histories for insights into open collaboration
8 Briefly
9 References
••• 15 items were covered in this issue •••
You can post suggestions and contributions for the next issue at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Newsletter
or by mail at researchnews(a)wikimedia.org
RSS feed for the newsletter: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/
Best,
Dario
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Dario Taraborelli, PhD
Senior Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.orghttp://nitens.org/taraborelli
Hello everyone,
I've been until now a lurker on this list, let me introduce myself - I'm
a sociologist studying digital technologies, an activist (I run Creative
Commons Poland) and I run a digital think tank / NGO in Poland.
I'm hoping someone on this list might be able to help me: I'm involved
in the celebrations of the Public Domain Day - on the 1st of January
each year works pass into the public domain of authors who've died 70
years ago (at least in Poland, and in most countries, but it might
differ in some jurisdictions).
I'm looking for a good way to determine, who died in 1941 - and thought
that Wikipedia will be a good place to find this out. I know there are
lists of people who died in a given year, but they are not complete. Is
there any way to automatically query Wikipedia for such information? I
know that it's to some extent structured, as this information is
provided in templates for biographical articles, but I don't know
whether there is any mechanism for querying?
Any advice will be much appreciated.
All the best,
Alek
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dyrektor, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska
www: http://centrumcyfrowe.pl
identi.ca / twitter: @centrumcyfrowe
Hi all;
I just want to share with you a list of 2596 papers about wikis I generated
this afternoon scraping Google Scholar results.[1] To download, use: wget
-t1 -c -i papers.txt. If you want to split the list before: split -l500
papers.txt papers-
I'm creating a wiki to compile all available bibliography about wikis, so,
I need a ton of those.
Regards,
emijrp
[1] http://pastebin.com/6MzvR6Vi
Hello everyone,
I have just read the comments related to an email I have sent earlier. My hotmail account was hacked and was sending spams to my contacts. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this might have caused.
Regards,Mohamad
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Edited Volume "The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources"
Springer book series: "Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing", E. Hovy, M.
Johnson and G. Hirst (eds.)
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/edited-book-the-peoples…
===Description===
The application of collective intelligence in the domain of language yielded collaboratively
constructed language resources (CCLR) that can be used in a variety of ways.
The aim of this book is to capture the state-of-the-art in the emerging area of research on
"Collaboratively constructed language resources." Thus, a point of reference on the topics of
construction, mining, using and interconnecting collaboratively constructed language resources
for natural language processing, knowledge discovery and other intelligent applications will be
created.
Given the appropriateness of the topics, preliminary versions of contributions may be submitted
in parallel to the 3rd workshop of "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed
Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP."
(http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop)
===Publication Schedule===
* January 8th, 2012 – deadline for abstract submission
* January 13th, 2012 – notification of abstract acceptance
* April 15th, 2012 – submission of book chapters
* June 8th, 2012 – notification of chapter acceptance
* August 31st, 2012 – final submission of book chapters
* November - December 2012 – publication by Springer
===Editors===
Iryna Gurevych and Jungi Kim
Please refer to the book website for detailed information.