Researchers who are interested in software development will want to
attend this office information session (details below). We want to make
it very easy for you to write and share your Wikimedia-related tools in
our Git repository, so if you have any questions about that, please ask!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git
best,
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] Git Office Hours - May 22nd
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:38:52 -0400
From: Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
CC: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
I'd like to invite anyone who is interested in Git, Gerrit and
code review to office hours I will be holding on IRC next
week. Here are the full details:
Channel: #wikimedia-dev on Freenode
Date: May 22, 2012
Time: 18:30-19:30 UTC (13:30 EDT, 11:30 PDT)
Subject: Git/Gerrit
I will be on hand to answer any questions you have about
the git migration so far, the process moving forward, and
anything else interesting you can think up.
Have a great week, and I hope you can join us next Tuesday!
-Chad
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I was looking at official stats, but I seem to be unable to find out an
answer to the following question:
* how many of Wikipedia editors have X edits (or fall within a range of
edits)
To be more precise, I am curious how many Wikipedians have:
* exactly 1 edit
* between 2-9 edits
* between 10-50 edits
I know that the total number of registered accounts is reported at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Can anybody direct me to the right page/counter that would allow me to
obtain the above information? I hope it is obtainable without having to
download the dump...
Incidentally, if anybody has those numbers, in addition to replying here
feel free to add the information and/or source the one present at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Thanks,
--
Piotr Konieczny
PhD Candidate
Dept of Sociology
Uni of Pittsburgh
http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
Piotr, the Toolserver community (list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l ) and the
larger Wikimedia software development community (list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l and Freenode IRC
channel at #mediawiki) might be useful places for you to ask for help or
suggest trades. Best of luck.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 05/16/2012 01:00 PM, wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:09:18 -0400
> From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl>
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of
> editors compared to the population?
> Message-ID: <4FB3DF3E.8080708(a)post.pl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"
>
> Dario,
>
> Thanks, but the last time I looked into this, running queries required
> knowing how to code going way beyond a simple knowledge of wiki syntax
> or excel functions. I think it was at WikiSym few years back where we
> raised that issue - that much of the data Wikimedia provides is limited
> to the small subset of scholars who can code with pretty names like Java
> or Pearl and such. I am pretty sure this is the reason for why social
> sciences have been lagging in Wikipedia research since day one...
>
> Now, if I am wrong about any of the above, do let me know. But the last
> time I looked at
> https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Database_access#Command-line_access it
> didn't look too user friendly (for a non-coder).
>
> Is there any place where a non-coder can ask a Toolserv coder to run
> some of those queries? I'd be happy to trade some of my Wiki skills (as
> in, writing a DYK, or reviewing a GA) for such assistance :)
>
> --
> Piotr Konieczny
>
> "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --J?zef Pilsudski
>
>
> On 5/10/2012 2:29 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote:
>> Piotr,
>>
>> if you are interested in getting fresh figures about lifetime edit
>> counts I recommend you register an account on the toolserver where you
>> can run queries against the user table (which holds cumulative edit
>> counts across all namespaces for a specific wiki). For
>> namespace-specific counts you will need to use the revision table and
>> that's much more time consuming.
>>
>> On a related note, this real-time dashboard I just uploaded to the
>> toolserver (representing account registrations and the fraction of new
>> users clicking on the edit button or passing the 1 edit threshold )
>> could be of interest http://toolserver.org/~dartar/reg2/
>> <http://toolserver.org/%7Edartar/reg2/>
>>
>> Best
>> Dario
Hi,
I had a chance to chat with some one today who is involved in the public
sector about the potential importance of Wikimedia related projects to
developing dialog, resources related to, and having a larger societal
impact on women as it pertains to women's related coverage on Wikimedia
related projects. Page views are one way to measure, and exposure for
women's topics on the front page of Wikipedia through Featured Article, Did
You Know, Featured Picture and In The News is certainly valuable in terms
of total page views on the day for that content but the value is not very
clear from a return on investment point of view. The same can even be said
about taking an article from Stub to C class. There is some inherent value
in doing this, but institutionally, getting support for it can be
problematic unless you can begin to figure out a tangible way of assessing
the value that can justify institutional resources into a project that is
nominally for a greater good of promoting a topic such as women's health,
women's sport, women's rights by just improving the ease of access to
reliably sourced, neutral materials that adequately cover these topics.
Has anyone done any research on or developed a framework work doing
research to measure the impact of Wikipedia and its projects on thought
formation and how to measure the influence of Wikipedia in our society?
--
twitter: purplepopple
blog: ozziesport.com
Hi all, just a reminder that the deadline for CSCW papers is less than
three weeks away!
Information on other contribution types including workshops, videos,
demos, posters, and panel submissions have also been updated on the
site and in the CfP below.
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CSCW 2013 SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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16th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
San Antonio, TX, Feb 23-27th
http://cscw.acm.org
CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on
how technology intersects with social practices. By bringing together
top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry in the
area of social computing, CSCW addresses both the technical and social
challenges encountered when supporting collaboration.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
CSCW invites a wide variety of contribution types. For complete
information about deadlines, submission procedures, and revision
timelines, see calls for participation at http://cscw.acm.org.
• Papers
May 25, 2012: Title and Abstract requested
June 1, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Submissions due
• Workshops
June 29, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT
• Videos
October 23, 2012, 5:00 PM PDT
• Demos
November 2, 2012, 5PM PDT
• Interactive Posters
November 2, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT
• Panels
November 2, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT
PAPERS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_paper.html
We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the
design or deployment of systems. The scope of CSCW includes, but is
not limited to, social computing, technologically-enabled or enhanced
communication, collaboration, information sharing, and coordination.
It includes socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in
education, in healthcare, in the arts, for socializing and for
entertainment. To support diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW
employs a two-phase review process and does not impose an arbitrary
length limit on papers submissions. Please see the conference website
for details about the review process and aligning paper contribution
and length.
Papers co-chairs: Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota & Cliff
Lampe, University of Michigan
papers2013(a)cscw.acm.org
WORKSHOPS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_workshop.html
Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas
of CSCW research with a group of like-minded researchers and
practitioners from industry and academia. Workshops may focus on any
aspect of CSCW theory or practice, established concerns or new ideas;
however, radical new ideas expected to draw a sufficient number of
participants are very much encouraged! The goal of a workshop is to
share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities,
to learn from each other and to envision future directions.
Workshops co-chairs: Jeremy Birnholtz, Cornell University & Andy
Crabtree, University of Nottingham
workshops2013(a)cscw.acm.org
VIDEOS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_video.html
The CSCW Videos Program provides researchers, designers, and
practitioners with opportunities to present their cutting-edge work in
an interactive fashion in front of an expert audience. Videos are
ideally suited to demonstrate the practical application of research
results and the functionality of CSCW systems, visualize the outcome
of research and development projects, or describe inspiring visions of
future systems that are grounded in today′s reality. The Videos
Program provides a venue to present work that involves dynamic
interaction, ranging from demonstrations of new systems to complex
aspects of group communication and work practice.
Videos co-chairs: Sasa Junuzovic, Microsoft Research & Carman
Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University
videos2013(a)cscw.acm.org
DEMONSTRATIONS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_demo.html
CSCW 2013 demonstrations present implementations of new CSCW systems
and concepts. The peer-reviewed demonstrations allow conference
participants to view novel and noteworthy CSCW systems in action,
discuss the systems with those who created them, and try them out.
Appropriate demonstrations include applications, technologies, and
research prototypes, and may showcase work that has been or is being
published at CSCW or elsewhere. Demonstrations can also serve to
showcase novel commercial products not previously described in the
research literature. Demonstrations should be interactive and provide
attendees a hands-on experience. The demo forum is not an opportunity
for marketing or sales presentations. Presenters must have been
directly involved with the development of the system and be able to
explain the unique and novel contributions of the system.
Demos co-chairs: Dan Cosley, Cornell University & Travis Kriplean,
University of Washington
demos2013(a)cscw.acm.org
INTERACTIVE POSTERS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_poster.html
CSCW 2013 will include an interactive poster category for
late-breaking and preliminary results, smaller results not suitable
for a full or short paper, innovative ideas not yet validated through
user studies, early student research, and other research best
presented in an interactive forum. Posters will be presented in a
special Poster Session where researchers will interact directly with
conference attendees. The posters will remain up throughout the
remainder of the conference.
Posters co-chairs: Gary Hsieh, Michigan State University & Chen Zhao, Microsoft
posters2013(a)cscw.acm.org
PANELS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_panel.html
Panels are a great way to generate debate and raise new and
interesting issues at CSCW. With panels we want to provide a forum for
discussing provocative, controversial, innovative, emerging,
boundary-spanning and boundary-breaking issues. While paper sessions
provide detailed discussions of work recently completed, panels
provide an opportunity to explore what is on the horizon — or what is
already here but not adequately recognized, acknowledged or discussed.
Panels co-chairs: Darren Gergle, Northwestern University & Siân
Lindley, Microsoft Research
panels2013(a)cscw.acm.org
Conference co-chairs: Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech & Scott Counts,
Microsoft Research
chairs2013(a)cscw.acm.org
--
:: Andrea Forte
:: Assistant Professor
:: College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University
:: http://www.andreaforte.net
No, Fabian. Unfortunately, our revert graph tool was never online, and the
software is owned by PARC, so it will not be online in the future either.
WikiDashboard was online until very recently, but just now, I couldn't get
anything at it's old addresses:
wikidashboard.com and wikidashboard.parc.com
Ed
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:05 PM, <
wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> I'm currently intending to visualize the network of reverts between editors
> in single articles. I tried to find the revert graph tool developed by the
> guys from PARC [1] [2] online, but was not successful. Can someone tell me
> if this is still available somewhere and if there is some similar solution
> out there (maybe even of a more recent date)?
>
>
>
> Any hints would be much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Fabian
>
>
>
>
>
> [1] Suh, B. ; Chi, E. H. ; Pendleton, B. A. ; Kittur, A. Us vs. them:
> understanding social dynamics in Wikipedia with revert graph
> visualizations.
> IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST '07). 2007
> October 30 - November 3; Sacramento, CA. Piscataway NJ: IEEE; 2007;
> 163-170.
>
> http://www.parc.com/publication/1927/us-vs-them.html
>
>
>
> [2] A. Kittur, B. Suh, B. A. Pendleton, and E. H. Chi. He says, she says:
> conflict and coordination in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI
> conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI ?07, pages 453?462,
> New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
> Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods
>
> Dipl.-Medwiss. Fabian Fl?ck
> Research Associate
>
> Building 11.40, Room 222
> KIT-Campus South
> D-76128 Karlsruhe
>
> Phone: +49 721 608 4 6584
> Skype: f.floeck_work
> E-Mail: fabian.floeck(a)kit.edu
> WWW: http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Fabian_Fl?ck
>
> KIT ? University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and
> National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association
>
Hi all,
I'm currently intending to visualize the network of reverts between editors in single articles. I tried to find the revert graph tool developed by the guys from PARC [1] [2] online, but was not successful. Can someone tell me if this is still available somewhere and if there is some similar solution out there (maybe even of a more recent date)?
Any hints would be much appreciated.
Best,
Fabian
[1] Suh, B. ; Chi, E. H. ; Pendleton, B. A. ; Kittur, A. Us vs. them: understanding social dynamics in Wikipedia with revert graph visualizations. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST '07). 2007 October 30 - November 3; Sacramento, CA. Piscataway NJ: IEEE; 2007; 163-170.
http://www.parc.com/publication/1927/us-vs-them.html
[2] A. Kittur, B. Suh, B. A. Pendleton, and E. H. Chi. He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI ’07, pages 453–462, New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM.
--
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods
Dipl.-Medwiss. Fabian Flöck
Research Associate
Building 11.40, Room 222
KIT-Campus South
D-76128 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49 721 608 4 6584
Skype: f.floeck_work
E-Mail: fabian.floeck(a)kit.edu<mailto:fabian.floeck@kit.edu>
WWW: http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Fabian_Flöck
KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and
National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association
Apologies for cross-posting
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CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS AND RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS POSTERS
What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on
Social Media
Where: School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 28-29, 2012
Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12
Twitter hashtag: #Influence12
ABOUT THE EVENT:
This is a two-day symposium and workshop organized and hosted by the
Social Media Lab (http://SocialMediaLab.ca) at Dalhousie University and
supported by MITACS, SSHRC, NCE GRAND, Dalhousie's Faculty of Computer
Science and Faculty of Management.
It is no secret that social media has become mainstream in recent years,
and its adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of its growing popularity,
users' online contributions and membership in online social networks
have exploded. With a multitude of voices all talking at once on social
media, finding interesting and influential voices among the masses can
be difficult. The objective of this 2-day workshop is to bring together
experts in social media and online social networks from both the
academic and business worlds, to share ideas on the best practices
around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and
specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will
provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate
their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build
academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn
about latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective.
SCHEDULE:
During the first day, the participants will present and conduct
discussions based on their work in this area. Over the second day, the
participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for
studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media.
Industry Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development,
Socialflow.com
REGISTRATION FEE: None
STUDENT TRAVEL SUBSIDIES:
A limited number of competitive travel subsidies ($500 + 3-night shared
accommodation with another student in a local hotel) will be available
to PhD and Postdoctoral students from Canadian academic institutions.
Please indicate on your submission whether you would like to be
considered for a travel subsidy.
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
1) Position Papers: Proposals should be in the form of a position
paper (up to 1,000 words excluding references) and formatted using the
ACM Proceedings Format (a template is available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The
position paper must be on a completed or well-developed project relating
to the main theme of the workshop. If selected, the author(s) will be
invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A
period.
2) "Work-in-progress" Posters: Posters will display visual
presentations of early-stage projects. Proposals should be in the form
of a short abstract (up to 500 words excluding references). If selected,
author(s) will have an opportunity to present their poster as part of a
dedicated poster session during the workshop.
*All submissions are due June 15, 2012, 23:59 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard
Time)* and must be submitted via the EasyChair website at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=influence12
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE:
. Influential User Detection
. Information Visualization in Social Media
. Mobile Applications
. Online and Offline Social Networks
. Online Community Detection
. Online Identity
. Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
. Political Mobilization & Engagement on Social Media
. Scalability Issues and Social Media Data
. Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning Analytics,
etc.)
. Social Media Mining
. Social Network Analysis
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and
evaluated based on their relevance and potential contribution to the
main theme of the workshop: How do we define and measure influence on
social media? The goal is to select and invite up to 50 researchers to
participate in the workshop. Accepted and finalized papers and posters
will be published on the Social Media Lab website after the event and
promoted through various media channels. The workshop presentations will
also be streamed online.
IMPORTANT DATES:
. Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012, 23:59 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard
Time)
. Notification Date: July 15, 2012
. Camera-Ready Deadline: August 30, 2012
. Workshop Dates: September 28-29, 2012
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* danah boyd, Microsoft Research, USA
* Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing
* Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada
* Andrea Forte, Drexel University, USA
* Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University, USA
* Carolyn Hank, McGill University, Canada
* Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia, Canada
* Susan Herring, Indiana University, USA
* Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford, UK
* Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto, Canada
* Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University, Canada
* Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario, Canada
* Diane Rasmussen Neal, University of Western Ontario, Canada
* Anthony Rotolo, Syracuse University, USA
* Marc Smith, Social Media Research Foundation, USA
* Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University, Canada
* Monica Whitty, University of Leicester, UK
For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)dal.ca