This weekend, TechWeek Chicago starts: http://techweek.com/
The Foundation's Peter Gehres is copresenting the analytics presentation
"How Wikipedia Doubled its Online Fundraising" this Saturday. If you're
at TechWeek, he and other Wikimedians want to meet with you and talk shop!
http://schedule.techweek.com/event/003fc017e0530c08eb34f08033c50f86
Saturday June 23, 2012 4:00pm - 4:45pm @ 1 - Main Stage (222 Merchandise
Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL)
"In 2010, online donations to Wikipedia more than doubled, from $7.5
million to $16 million and, in 2011, increased another 33%. Much of this
increase was driven by user research conducted in Chicago. Design
researcher Billy Belchev from Webitects will get into the nitty-gritty
of form design and testing, user interviews. Do one-step forms work
better than multi-step? Does PayPal help or hurt your numbers? What are
the effect of “Jimmy” banners? The answers are based on data from the
fifth most trafficked website in the world."
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
June 26-29, a bunch of us will be in Portland, Oregon, USA for the Open
Source Bridge conference.
http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2012/schedule
WMF is sponsoring the Friday unconference day, and will host a hacking
table that day as well as (I hope) the Tuesday "Hacker Lounge
Project/Community Night."
Wikimedians are giving several talks during OSBridge:
"Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a community" by
Brandon Harris: Tuesday, 1:30
"A snapshot of Open Source in West Africa" by Renaud Gaudin:
Tuesday, 3:45
"Building A Visual Editor for Wikipedia" by Roan Kattouw and Trevor
Parscal: Tuesday, 4:45
"Internationalization @Wikipedia: Helping add the next billion web
users" by Alolita Sharma: Wednesday, 10am
"Why you need to host 100 new wikis just for yourself." by Ward
Cunningham: Wednesday, 2:30
"Outreach Events: My Triumphs, My Mistakes" by Asheesh Laroia and
me: Thursday, 3:45
I give the opening keynote address on Tuesday morning. My tentative
title: "Be Bold."
If you're in or near Portland and want to come, let me know; I might be
able to hook you up with a free conference pass.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
This is a reminder that you're invited to the pre-Wikimania hackathon,
10-11 July in Washington, DC, USA:
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference:
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
(Unfortunately, the period for requesting scholarships is now over.)
At the hackathon, we'll have trainings and projects for novices, and we
welcome creators of all Wikimedia technologies -- MediaWiki, gadgets,
bots, mobile apps, you name it -- to hack on stuff together and teach
each other.
Hope to see you!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
I think I brought this up in another post about developing a methodology to
determine this based on a number of offline conversations I was having. As
this might be of interest to people doing research on women's involvement
for Wikipedia, I'm crossposting this here from my blog. The entry can be
found at
http://ozziesport.com/2012/06/measuring-the-influence-of-wikipedia-on-publi….
It isn't necessarily the one I will ultimately use when I set out to
do
this, but working to set up some of the tools to allow measuring for this
in the near future. If anyone has any thoughts on how to better measure
the influence of Wikipedia for public thought formation, especially as it
pertains to women's issues, that would be much appreciated.
*
*
*Measuring the influence of Wikipedia on public thinking (in Australian
women’s sport): A proposed methodology*
This entry was posted by Laura on Monday, 18 June, 2012
I spend a lot of time thinking about Wikipedia and talking to people in
Australia’s sport sector about Wikipedia, Wikinews and Commons. Some of
those I have talked to tend to agree that Wikipedia has value, potentially
more value than a news story from a traditional outlet where the story
quickly disappear. There is still a question of: “Why does Wikipedia
matter?” The most obvious answer is “Page views demonstrate meaning.
People are going to Wikipedia for information about sport, Australian
sport, and women’s sport. The page views clearly demonstrate that
Wikipedia matters and is worth contributing to as an organisation.” This
argument doesn’t always work and I’ve been challenged to demonstrate
Wikipedia’s influence on the topic of Australian women’s sport.
This is in some ways a frustrating endeavor. How do you measure
Wikipedia’s influence beyond page views? As a person who loves research
design, I have a number of ideas but how to implement and analyze
information is still something I am struggling with because I keep coming
back to the need to possibly use a qualitative approach reliant on survey
research… and that always makes me nervous. Still, with this in mind, the
following methodology is one I have been leaning towards trying to write up
more formally.
*
Benchmark English Wikipedia, English Wikinews and Commons coverage of
Australian women’s sport:*
Develop a list of all existing articles pertaining to Australian
women’s sport on English Wikipedia. The list would include biographies,
sport teams, leagues, organisations and people connected to administering
women’s sport, competitions, articles about women’s sport in the country,
articles about sport in the country, general sport articles that broadly
intersect with Australian women’s sport such as women’s basketball and the
Olympic games. Once the list is created, benchmark the following for each
article:
Determine the existing size of the article.
Identify projects the article is part of.
Identify current article assessment.
Date article was created and who created it.
Determine the number of contributors to the article.
Determine the gender ratio for article contributors.
Determine the geographic location of article contributors.
Determine the historic page views for the article.
Determine if the article has appeared at Did you Know, and average
traffic before and after it appeared.
Determine if there is a spoken word version of the article.
Count the number of pictures on each article.
Develop a list of all existing news stories about Australian women’s
sport on English Wikinews.
Determine the historical traffic to these articles.
Identify the categories these articles are included in.
Identify if the article is synthesis or original research.
Identify all Wikipedia articles the story is linked on.
Develop a list of all photographs pertaining to Australian women’s
sport on Commons.
Develop a list what articles these images are used on across
Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Develop a list of contributors for images in this space.
This data will provide a framework for understanding the story of
Australian women’s sport coverage on Wikipedia, and will enable case
studies to be developed around any potential editing efforts affiliated
with a study. This data is largely background, which can help to
contextualise data around Wikipedia as it pertains to influence thought
formation.
*Benchmark interest in English Wikipedia, English Wikinews and Commons
coverage of Australian women’s sport:*
The next step is possibly the more difficult one: How do we contextualise
Wikipedia articles to understand where they sit as resources people turn to
for information? Below are quantitative, web based measures to try to
determine this:
The News
Find the number of articles in the media that link to/mention an
article on Wikipedia about a topic.
Check articles about a topic to find examples of media plagiarism
of Wikipedia articles.
Academia
Identify the number of times an academic text uses Wikipedia as a
source.
Identify which academics reference Wikipedia.
Sport Institutions
Count the number of links to Wikimedia content on their website.
Count the number of links to Wikimedia content on their social
media related portals.
The Community
Facebook
Measure the number of likes for a Wikipedia article on Facebook.
Twitter
Measure the number of links to an article.
Identify who is tweeting about the article, get their
individual Twitter metric data.
Get the metric data for all the followers of a person tweeting
about a topic.
Google+
Measure the number of links to an article.
Identify who is tweeting about the article, get their
individual Google+ information.
LiveJournal and clones
Measure the number of mentions for an article on LiveJournal
and its clones.
Get the community or user metrics for including the links.
Google search
Determine the ranking of the Wikipedia and Wikinews articles on
Google.
Using Google Trends, determine the relative number of searches
for these topics and where they are origination from, both with and without
Wikipedia in the search phrase.
Yahoo!Answers
Measure the number of questions about the topic. (Closed, and
open.)
Measure the number of questions on Wikipedia about articles.
Measure the number of answers that reference the article.
While these can help measure a certain level of influence, they do not
necessarily explain why people are citing or how this forms thinking.
Results would just suggest current levels of awareness but not necessarily
influence. The two are really separate points.
*Survey attitudes towards English Wikipedia, English Wikinews and Commons
coverage of Australian women’s sport:*
A third methodology is needed to complement the previous two. As much as
it pains me, a qualitative methodology needs to be used: Survey work needs
to be completed. The following groups need to be surveyed with questions
seeking specific information in certain areas. The following are some
broad themes for this group.
The media
As a journalist, what is their opinion of Wikipedia in this area?
Have they used Wikipedia, Wikinews or other projects as a resource
when working on a story?
Academics and students
As an academic or student, what is their opinion of Wikipedia in
this area?
Have they used Wikipedia, Wikinews or other projects as a resource
when working on papers?
Sport industry participants including athletes
As members of the sport industry, what is their opinion of
Wikipedia in this area?
Have they actively sought to improve content related to themselves
or their sport organisation on WMF projects?
Sport fans and participants
Do they use Wikipedia for information and how reliable do they
consider it to be?
Do they contribute to Wikipedia?
This information would then need to be wrapped around existing research
that discusses the influence of the media, in this case in an Australian
and sport context, academia and industry influence on forming public
perception. An approach also needs to be developed which can include a
before and after treatment for a content improvement drive in this area.
In doing the first part, it should hopefully become apparent where there is
a need for articles to be improved or created to develop a class of
articles for improvement.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
--
twitter: purplepopple
blog: ozziesport.com
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
Industry Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development,
Socialflow.com
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.
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.
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
[Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.]
The 3rd workshop on the People's Web Meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to
NLP
Jeju, Republic of Korea
July 13, 2012
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop
==Registration==
Information on registration is provided at the ACL 2012 website
(http://www.acl2012.org/).
==Program==
July 13, 2012
09:15-09:30 Opening Remarks
09:35-10:05 Sentiment Analysis Using a Novel Human Computation Game /
Claudiu Cristian Musat, Alireza Ghasemi, Boi Faltings
10:10-10:30 A Serious Game for Building a Portuguese Lexical-Semantic
Network / Mathieu Mangeot and Carlos Ramisch
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20 Collaboratively Building Language Resources while
Localising the Web / Asanka Wasala, Reinhard Schaeler,
Ruvan Weerasinghe, Chris Exton
11:25-12:30 Invited talk
Phrase Detectives: The First Three Years / Massimo Poesio
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 Resolving Task Specification and Path Inconsistency in
Taxonomy Construction / Hui Yang
14:35-15:55 EAGER: Extending Automatically Gazetteers for Entity
Recognition / Omer Farukhan Gunes, Tim Furche, Christian
Schallhart, Jens Lehmann, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
15:00-15:30 Extracting Context-Rich Entailment Rules from Wikipedia
Revision History / Elena Cabrio, Bernardo Magnini,
Angelina Ivanova
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Panel discussion
Collaboratively Looking Ahead: How to Make Sustainable
Goods out of Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources?
==Invited Speaker==
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex
- Title -
Phrase Detectives: the First Three Years
- Abstract -
Phrase Detectives, one of the first games-with-a-purpose for corpus
annotation (www.phrasedetectives.org) went officially online on December
1st 2008, and one of its very first presentations in front of an NLP
audience took place at the first edition of the "People's Web Meets
NLP" workshop in Singapore in 2009. The option of annotating Italian
documents was added in 2010, and a Facebook version went live in January
2012. Although the project that funded its creation ended in September
2009, the game has stayed very much alive, in fact it is getting more
active all the time - we recently passed the 11,000 players mark and are
about to reach 200,000 words of fully annotated documents, with a goal of
annotating at least 1 million. In the talk I will discuss recent
developments and analyze the results so far in terms of quality and
quantity of annotated data and annotation costs.
References: Massimo Poesio, Jon Chamberlain, Udo Kruschwitz, Livio
Robaldo, and Luca Ducceschi, In Press - Phrase Detectives: Utilizing
Collective Intelligence for Internet-Scale Language Resource Creation, ACM
Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.
- Short bio -
Massimo Poesio is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Essex and the Director of the Language Interaction and Computation Lab at
the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento. He is best known
for his work in anaphora resolution, corpus annotation, and the
acquisition of common sense knowledge.