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
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Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
Hi!
I am doing a PhD on online civic participation project
(e-participation). Within my research, I have carried out a user
survey, where I asked how many people ever edited/created a page on a
Wiki. Now I would like to compare the results with the overall rate of
wiki editing/creation on country level.
I've found some country-level statistics on Wikipedia Statistics (e.g.
3,000 editors of Wikipedia articles in Italy) but data for UK and
France are not available since Wikipedia provides statistics by
languages, not by countries. I'm thus looking for statistics on UK and
France (but am also interested in alternative ways of measuring wiki
editing/creation in Sweden and Italy).
I would be grateful for any tips!
Sunny regards, Alina
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Alina ÖSTLING
PhD Candidate
European University Institute
www.eui.eu
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TITLE: The First International Conference on Green Computing, Technology and Innovation (ICGCTI2013)
EVENT VENUE: The Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CONFERENCE DATES: March 4-6, 2013
EVENT URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia4/
OBJECTIVE: To provide a medium for professionals, engineers, academicians, scientists, and researchers from over the world to present the result of their research activities in the field of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. ICGCTI 2013 provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference.
KEYWORDS: green computing, engineering, algorithms, information technology, smart grids, power aware
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 15, 2012
CONTACT EMAIL: icg(a)sdiwc.net
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The Second International Conference on e-Technologies and Networks for Development (ICeND 2013)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - March 4-6, 2013
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia2/
Would like to invite Researchers for:
Call for Special Sessions: ICeND 2013:: Malaysia
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Researchers are welcome to organize special sessions. Please send your session title, your CV for this purpose to ice(a)sdiwc.net.
Topics of Interest (topics covered will include (but not limited to) the following:
E-Technologies
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:: Biometrics Technologies
:: Computer Forensics
:: Computer Security
:: Context-Aware, Location-based and Autonomous Computing
:: Cryptography and Data Protection
:: Cloud Computing
:: Data Mining
:: Data Compression
:: Distributed and Parallel Applications
:: e-Banking
:: e-Business
:: e-Commerce
:: e-Government
:: e-Learning
:: e-Logistics
:: e-Services
:: e-Payment
:: e-Procurement
:: Electronic Auctions
:: Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications
:: Grid Computing
:: Green Computing
:: Image Processing
:: Internet and Web Applications
:: Internet Modeling
:: Information and Data Management
:: Mobile-Commerce
:: Multimedia Computing
:: Semantic Web, Ontologies
:: Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
:: Web Services and Application
:: Web Design Experience
Networks
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:: Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
:: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems
:: Information Propagation on Social Networks
:: Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
:: Mobile & Broadband Wireless Internet
:: Mobile Networks & Wireless LAN
:: Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
:: Multimedia Networking
:: Network Security
:: Social Networks
:: Wireless Communications
Submission Instructions and Review Process
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:: The conference will list the session on the web. The session chair will manage the publicity of his session. It is expected that each session will attract 5 registered papers. The session chair will get a free registration for one of his papers.
:: The submission and the reviewing process for the papers of the session will be managed jointly between the chair and the conference. The chair can take the responsibility of the reviewing with the help of other researchers. However, the conference will get all the reviewing reports at the end.
:: Potential authors should submit their full paper through: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia2/openconf/openconf.php. Authors should indicate that their manuscript is being submitted to the Special Issue.
:: Submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research, which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines can be found at http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia2/camera-ready.
:: All articles selected for publication will be refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees knowledgeable in the topic. At least two reviewers must recommend eventual publication for an article to be accepted.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Date ------------- Dec. 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance -- Jan. 1, 2013
Camera Ready submission ----- Jan. 20, 2013
Registration ---------------- Jan. 20, 2013
Conference dates ------------ March 4-6, 2013
CONTACT INFORMATION
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Noah John Ucab
ice(a)sdiwc.net
www.sdiwc.net
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TITLE: The First International Conference on Green Computing, Technology and Innovation (ICGCTI2013)
EVENT VENUE: The Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CONFERENCE DATES: March 4-6, 2013
EVENT URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia4/
OBJECTIVE: To provide a medium for professionals, engineers, academicians, scientists, and researchers from over the world to present the result of their research activities in the field of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. ICGCTI 2013 provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference.
KEYWORDS: green computing, engineering, algorithms, interformation technology, smart grids, power aware
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 15, 2012
CONTACT EMAIL: icg(a)sdiwc.net
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TITLE: The Second International Conference on e-Technologies and Networks for Development (ICeND 2013)
EVENT VENUE: The Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CONFERENCE DATES: March 4-6, 2013
EVENT URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia2/
OBJECTIVE: To provide a medium for professionals, engineers, academicians, scientists, and researchers from over the world to present the result of their research activities in the field of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. ICeND 2013 provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference.
KEYWORDS: E-Technologies, computing, computer networks, security, internet, wireless communications
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 15, 2012
CONTACT EMAIL: ice(a)sdiwc.net
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This is more on the experimental side of "research" but I just
finished a prototype realtime visualization of tweets that reference
Wikipedia:
http://wikitweets.herokuapp.com/
wikitweets is a NodeJS [1] application that listens to the Twitter
Streaming API [2] for tweets that contain Wikipedia URLs, and then
looks up the relevant Wikipedia article using the API to ultimately
stream the information to the browser using SocketIO [3]. The most
amazing thing for me is seeing the application run comfortably (so
far) as a single process on Heroku with no attached database needed.
If you are curious the code is on GitHub [4].
The key to wikistream working at all is that Twitter allows you to
search and filter the stream using the original (unshorted) URL. So
for example a Tweet with the text:
Question of the Day: What’s the greatest seafaring movie ever?
Some suggestions: http://bit.ly/IqsE1e (But anything on water'll work)
#QOD [5]
Is discoverable with a search query like:
Question of the Day wikipedia.org [6]
Note "wikipedia.org" doesn't exist in the text of the original tweet
at all, since it has been shortened by bit.ly -- but it is still
searchable because Twitter appear to be unshortening and indexing
URLs. Anyhow, I thought I'd share here since this also relied heavily
on the various language Wikipedia APIs.
//Ed
[1] http://nodejs.org
[2] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods
[3] http://socket.io
[4] https://github.com/edsu/wikitweets
[5] https://twitter.com/#!/EWeitzman/status/195520487357558784
[6] https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/Question%20of%20the%20Day%20wikipedi…