Interesting.
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Date: 2013/1/22
Subject: [FC-discuss] Publishing Open Access... Only.
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Hey everyone,
Today I've made an important personal announcement: I've decided to
only publish in open-access academic publications. Even after years of
being in this group, it was still difficult to come to this decision,
but I'm glad I've finally reached it. You can, and I encourage you to,
read more about my thoughts here -- http://alexleavitt.com/oa/ -- and
if you feel inclined, please share it with colleagues and your
respective networks.
Thanks,
Alex
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USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
http://alexleavitt.com
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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
(Sorry for the cross-posting, but today is Saturday.)
*Important dates:*
Proposals Submission Due: January 31, 2013
Full Chapters Due: March 15, 2013
Final Submission Due: July 1, 2013
*Editors (to whom chapters should be sent and questions addressed):
Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu <mailto:fichman at indiana.edu>); Noriko
Hara (nhara at indiana.edu <mailto:nhara at indiana.edu>) Indiana
University, Bloomington.
*Introduction:*
Wikipedia offers articles in 285 languages and more than 80% of
Wikipedia articles are written in languages other than English. In
addition, the English Wikipedia itself attracts users from all over the
world. This global nature of Wikipedia provides a rich socio-technical
environment to examine a wide range of international and cross-cultural
issues. Despite the global reach of Wikipedia, most of the published
works about Wikipedia are based on the English site. More research
should pay attention to the global, multilingual nature of Wikipedia to
gain a better understanding of online international cooperation, on one
hand, and of cross-cultural variations in mass knowledge production
processes and outcomes, on the other. The purpose of this book is to
explore a wide range of international and cross-cultural issues as they
are manifested on Wikipedia. We are particularly interested in research
that takes a socio-technical perspective on the global Wikipedia and
integrates social theory to explain online interactions. For example, we
invite studies on online global collaboration, coordination, and
conflict management in this rich socio-technical environment. We hope
that these works will highlight implications for other socio-technical
environments or extend the use and development of social theory. This
unique publication aims to be a collection of international and
cross-cultural research on the Wikipedia.We expect that this edited
volume will appeal to academic researchers, graduate, and undergraduate
students interested in Wikipedia and, more broadly, in social studies of
information and communication technologies, as well as to Wikipedia
contributors.
*Recommended topics*:
We are seeking chapters that include both empirical and conceptual work
and soliciting innovative analysis of international and cross-cultural
aspects of Wikipedia to be part of this book.
Appropriate topics for chapters include (but are not limited to) the
following list:
·Case studies of Wikipedia in one of the 285 languages, with special
interest in small and medium size Wikipedias; for example, focusing on
policies, processes, interactions or information quality
·Conflict and collaboration in editing international entries on any
particular language of Wikipedia
·International and cross-cultural collaboration; for example,
international cooperation in fighting vandalism
·Intercultural synergy across boundaries on Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects
·Cross-cultural studies that compare more than one Wikipedia, for
example, focusing on:
·Cross-cultural comparisons of content, structures, and contributions
·Comparative studies of policies, interactions, and processes
·Efforts to understand similarities and differences across Wikipedia in
multiple languages in user motivations, establishment and maintenance of
local communities and challenges
·Comparative analysis of editing policies around the globe
·Information quality across two or more Wikipedia languages
·Comparison of scope and representation of topics across Wikipedia in
several languages
·Vandalism and trolling behaviors across national and language boundaries
Chapters are expected to have between 4000 and 5000 words (excluding
references, figures, and tables). Only original work whose copyright is
owned (or cleared) by the chapter authors and not considered for
publication elsewhere can be considered for inclusion.
*Important dates*:
*January 31, 2013: submit 2-3 page chapter proposals and authors’ bios
(200 words)
*Feb 1, 2013: receive acceptance notification
*March 15, 2013:*submit first full chapters
*May 15, 2013: receive reviewers’ comments
*July 1, 2013: submit final versions
This book is scheduled to be published by Scarecrow Press. For
additional information, please visit https://rowman.com/Scarecrow.
Scarecrow Press is the publisher of, among other titles, /Digital
Media/: /Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World/
(2011). The publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
FYI
-Giovanni
-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: [nan-l] Dataset of 13 billion clicks available
Data: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:37:30 -0500
Mittente: Fil Menczer <fil(a)indiana.edu>
Rispondi-a: Fil Menczer <fil(a)indiana.edu>
A: NaN <nan-l(a)indiana.edu>, cns-nwb-l(a)indiana.edu, i-complex-l(a)indiana.edu
Feel free to share this announcement with any interested parties.
To foster the study of the structure and dynamics of Web traffic
networks, we are making available to the research community a large
Click Dataset of about 13 billion HTTP requests collected at Indiana
University. During about seven months of collection in 2006-2007, our
system generated data at a rate of about 60 million requests per day,
or about 30 GB/day of raw data. We hope that this data will help
develop a better understanding of user behavior online and create more
realistic models of Web traffic. The potential applications of this
data include improved designs for networks, sites, and server
software; more accurate forecasting of traffic trends; classification
of sites based on the patterns of activity they inspire; and improved
ranking algorithms for search results.
The data was collected by Mark Meiss and is available here:
http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/webtraffic/click-dataset
-Fil
Filippo Menczer
Professor of Informatics and Computer Science
Director, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research
Indiana University, Bloomington
http://cnets.indiana.edu/people/filippo-menczer
Call for Participation: Sepublica 2013 -an ESWC Workshop
Machine-comprehensible Documents Bridging the Gap between Publications
and Data.
** May 26-30, 2013, Montpelier, France.
Workshop Web site: http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/
*** Relevant dates ***
Submission Deadline: March 4,2013
Acceptance Notification: April 1,2013
Camera-Ready: April 15,2013
*** Topics ***
Publishing of scholarly works is on the cusp of great change. Data is
now routinely published accompanied by or in some semantic form, but
this is not the case for scholarly works. Advances in technology have
made it possible for the scientific article to adopt electronic
dissemination channels, from paper-based journals to purely electronic
formats. Yet, despite the improvements in the distribution,
accessibility and retrieval of information, little has really changed in
the publishing of scholarly works compared to that of the data about
which scholarly works are written. The availability of data and the
open, digital form of scholarly works is leading to a drive to
semantically enable scholarly works to make the works themselves more
computationally useful as well as to link them intimately to the data
about which they are written. Sepublica is a forum in which to discuss
and present what is best and up and coming in semantic publishing.
How are new technologies changing scholarly communication? How do we
want scholarly communication to change? Where do we want it to go?
Semantics, within publication workflows, is usually added post hoc, how
could we support publications to be born semantic? At Sepublica we will
discuss and present new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and
analyzing such scientific resources as well as reasoning over the data
to discover new links and scientific insights. Sepublica is not,
however, limited to the scientific domain; the humanities, cultural
industries, news, commerce etc. all have published works that can
benefit from semantic enhancement and data to which they can link; all
are welcome.
topics include, but are not limited to:
* How could we realize a paper with an API? How could we have a
paper as a database, as a knowledge base?
* How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data? How
could such an interface be delivered in a contextual manner?
* How are semantic scholarly works to be created?
* How are news agencies adopting technologies in support of their
publications? Has the delivered technology been adopted? What are the
experiences from news agencies been so far? Lessons learnt.
* How could semantic technologies be used to represent the knowledge
encoded in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
* Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets
* What semantics and ontologies do we need for representing
structural elements in a document?
* Moving from the bibliographic reference to the full content within
a linked
environment?
*** Call for Papers ***
Sepublica 2013 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously
published nor concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of
the topics outlined above. The organizing committee is happy to discuss
possible submissions with authors.
Submissions will be welcome from a broad range ofapproaches to semantic
publishing. We are particularly keen on submissions that are themselves
examples of semantic publishing of scholarly works. LaTeX documents in
the LNCS format can, e.g., be annotated using SALT or sTeX. We also
invite submissions in XHTML+RDFa or in the format of YOUR semantic
publishing tool. However, to ensure a fair review procedure, authors
must additionally produce a narrative submitted as a PDF that is
submitted as normal.
Submission is via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2013).
Papers must formatted according to the LNCS format
*** Submission Types ***
1. Full paper, 12 pages
2. Position paper, 5 pages.
3. Software demo papers, 2 pages
4. Late-breaking news, 1 page.
*** Contact ***
Please email sepublica2013(a)easychair.org For any enquiries.
*** Organizing Committee ***
Alexander Garcia Castro, alexgarciac(a)gmail.com, Florida State University
Christoph Lange, math.semantic.web(a)gmail.com, University of Birmingham
Phillip Lord, phillip.lord(a)newcastle.ac.uk, University of Newcastle
Robert Stevens, Robert.stevens(a)manchester.ac.uk, University of Manchester
Haven't seen this call here yet... Apologies if it's a duplication! -Jodi
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From: Noriko Hara <nhara(a)indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:16 PM
Subject: [Air-L] CFP> Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural
issues in online collaboration
To: air-l(a)aoir.org
*Call for Chapters: *
*Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online
collaboration*
*Important dates:*
Proposals Submission Due: January 31, 2013
Full Chapters Due: March 15, 2013
Final Submission Due: July 1, 2013
*Editors *(to whom chapters should be sent and questions addressed):**
Pnina Fichman (fichman(a)indiana.edu <mailto:fichman@indiana.edu>); Noriko
Hara (nhara(a)indiana.edu <mailto:nhara@indiana.edu>)
Indiana University, Bloomington.
**
*Introduction:*
Wikipedia offers articles in 285 languages and more than 80% of Wikipedia
articles are written in languages other than English. In addition, the
English Wikipedia itself attracts users from all over the world. This
global nature of Wikipedia provides a rich socio-technical environment to
examine a wide range of international and cross-cultural issues. Despite
the global reach of Wikipedia, most of the published works about Wikipedia
are based on the English site. More research should pay attention to the
global, multilingual nature of Wikipedia to gain a better understanding of
online international cooperation, on one hand, and of cross-cultural
variations in mass knowledge production processes and outcomes, on the
other. The purpose of this book is to explore a wide range of international
and cross-cultural issues as they are manifested on Wikipedia. We are
particularly interested in research that takes a socio-technical
perspective on the global Wikipedia and integrates social theory to explain
online interactions. For example, we invite studies on online global
collaboration, coordination, and conflict management in this rich
socio-technical environment. We hope that these works will highlight
implications for other socio-technical environments or extend the use and
development of social theory. This unique publication aims to be a
collection of international and cross-cultural research on the Wikipedia.We
expect that this edited volume will appeal to academic researchers,
graduate, and undergraduate students interested in Wikipedia and, more
broadly, in social studies of information and communication technologies,
as well as to Wikipedia contributors.
*Recommended topics*:
We are seeking chapters that include both empirical and conceptual work and
soliciting innovative analysis of international and cross-cultural aspects
of Wikipedia to be part of this book.
Appropriate topics for chapters include (but are not limited to) the
following list:
·Case studies of Wikipedia in one of the 285 languages, with special
interest in small and medium size Wikipedias; for example, focusing on
policies, processes, interactions or information quality
·Conflict and collaboration in editing international entries on any
particular language of Wikipedia
·International and cross-cultural collaboration; for example, international
cooperation in fighting vandalism
·Intercultural synergy across boundaries on Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects
·Cross-cultural studies that compare more than one Wikipedia, for example,
focusing on:
·Cross-cultural comparisons of content, structures, and contributions
·Comparative studies of policies, interactions, and processes
·Efforts to understand similarities and differences across Wikipedia in
multiple languages in user motivations, establishment and maintenance of
local communities and challenges
·Comparative analysis of editing policies around the globe
·Information quality across two or more Wikipedia languages
·Comparison of scope and representation of topics across Wikipedia in
several languages
·Vandalism and trolling behaviors across national and language boundaries
Chapters are expected to have between 4000 and 5000 words (excluding
references, figures, and tables). Only original work whose copyright is
owned (or cleared) by the chapter authors and not considered for
publication elsewhere can be considered for inclusion.
*Important dates*:
*January 31, 2013:*submit 2-3 page chapter proposals and authors’ bios (200
words)
Feb 1, 2013: receive acceptance notification
*March 15, 2013:*submit first full chapters
May 15, 2013: receive reviewers’ comments
*July 1, 2013:*submit final versions
This book is scheduled to be published by Scarecrow Press. For additional
information, please visit https://rowman.com/Scarecrow. Scarecrow Press is
the publisher of, among other titles, /Digital Media/: /Technological and
Social Challenges of the Interactive World/ (2011). The publication is
anticipated to be released in 2014.
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To: asis-l(a)asis.org
Subject: [Asis-l] CFP> Global Wikipedia: International and
cross-cultural issues in online collaboration
Call for Chapters:
Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online
collaboration
Important dates:
Proposals Submission Due: January 31, 2013
Full Chapters Due: March 15, 2013
Final Submission Due: July 1, 2013
Editors (to whom chapters should be sent and questions addressed):
Pnina Fichman ( fichman(a)indiana.edu ); Noriko Hara ( nhara(a)indiana.edu )
Indiana University, Bloomington.
Introduction:
Wikipedia offers articles in 285 languages and more than 80% of
Wikipedia articles are written in languages other than English. In
addition, the English Wikipedia itself attracts users from all over
the world. This global nature of Wikipedia provides a rich
socio-technical environment to examine a wide range of international
and cross-cultural issues. Despite the global reach of Wikipedia, most
of the published works about Wikipedia are based on the English site.
More research should pay attention to the global, multilingual nature
of Wikipedia to gain a better understanding of online international
cooperation, on one hand, and of cross-cultural variations in mass
knowledge production processes and outcomes, on the other. The purpose
of this book is to explore a wide range of international and
cross-cultural issues as they are manifested on Wikipedia. We are
particularly interested in research that takes a socio-technical
perspective on the global Wikipedia and integrates social theory to
explain online interactions. For example, we invite studies on online
global collaboration, coordination, and conflict management in this
rich socio-technical environment. We hope that these works will
highlight implications for other socio-technical environments or
extend the use and development of social theory. This unique
publication aims to be a collection of international and
cross-cultural research on the Wikipedia. We expect that this edited
volume will appeal to academic researchers, graduate, and
undergraduate students interested in Wikipedia and, more broadly, in
social studies of information and communication technologies, as well
as to Wikipedia contributors.
Recommended topics :
We are seeking chapters that include both empirical and conceptual
work and soliciting innovative analysis of international and
cross-cultural aspects of Wikipedia to be part of this book.
Appropriate topics for chapters include (but are not limited to) the
following list:
· Case studies of Wikipedia in one of the 285 languages, with special
interest in small and medium size Wikipedias; for example, focusing on
policies, processes, interactions or information quality
· Conflict and collaboration in editing international entries on any
particular language of Wikipedia
· International and cross-cultural collaboration; for example,
international cooperation in fighting vandalism
· Intercultural synergy across boundaries on Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects
· Cross-cultural studies that compare more than one Wikipedia, for
example, focusing on:
· Cross-cultural comparisons of content, structures, and contributions
· Comparative studies of policies, interactions, and processes
· Efforts to understand similarities and differences across Wikipedia
in multiple languages in user motivations, establishment and
maintenance of local communities and challenges
· Comparative analysis of editing policies around the globe
· Information quality across two or more Wikipedia languages
· Comparison of scope and representation of topics across Wikipedia in
several languages
· Vandalism and trolling behaviors across national and language boundaries
Chapters are expected to have between 4000 and 5000 words (excluding
references, figures, and tables). Only original work whose copyright
is owned (or cleared) by the chapter authors and not considered for
publication elsewhere can be considered for inclusion.
Important dates :
January 31, 2013: submit 2-3 page chapter proposals and authors’ bios
(200 words)
Feb 1, 2013: receive acceptance notification
March 15, 2013: submit first full chapters
May 15, 2013: receive reviewers’ comments
July 1, 2013: submit final versions
This book is scheduled to be published by Scarecrow Press. For
additional information, please visit https://rowman.com/Scarecrow .
Scarecrow Press is the publisher of, among other titles, Digital Media
: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World (2011).
The publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.
The December 2012 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/December
This issue completes the 2nd volume of the newsletter.
1 How Wikipedia deals with a mass shooting
2 Network positions and contributions to online public goods: the case of the Chinese Wikipedia
3 Quality of pharmaceutical articles in the Spanish Wikipedia
4 Wikipedia editing patterns are consistent with a non-finite state model of computation
5 Wikipedia as our collective memory
6 SOPA blackout decision analyzed
7 Bots and collective intelligence explored in dissertation
8 Briefly
9 References
••• 20 publications were covered in this issue •••
Thanks to Daniel Mietchen, Piotr Konieczny, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Taha Yasseri, Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw and Sage Ross for contributing
Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer
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Is favicon only in the Chinese Wikipedia top 100?
It seems so, and is odd if the problem is a web browser bug.
John Vandenberg.
sent from Galaxy Note
On Dec 28, 2012 4:07 PM, "Johan Gunnarsson" <johan.gunnarsson(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 5:33 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Johan,
> >
> > Thank you for the lovely data at
> >
> > https://toolserver.org/~johang/2012.html
> >
> > I posted that link to my facebook (below if you want to join in
> > there), and a few language specific facebook groups, and there have
> > been some concerns raised about the results, which I'll list below.
> >
> > These lists are getting some traction in the press so it would be good
> > to understand it better.
> >
> > http://guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/27/wikipedia-most-viewed
>
> Cool, cool.
>
> >
> > Why is [[zh:Favicon]] #2?
> >
> > The data doesnt appear to support that
> >
> > http://stats.grok.se/zh/201201/Favicon
> > http://stats.grok.se/zh/latest90/Favicon
>
> My post-processing filtering follows redirects to find the "true"
> title. In this case the page Favicon.ico redirects to Favicon. This is
> probably due to broken browsers trying to load the icon.
>
> >
> > Number 1 in French is a plant native to asia. The stats for December
> disagree
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_crenata
> > http://stats.grok.se/fr/201212/Houx_cr%C3%A9nel%C3%A9
>
> French's Ilex_crenata redirects to Houx_crénelé.
>
> Ilex_crenata had huge traffic in April:
> http://stats.grok.se/fr/201204/Ilex_crenata
>
> There are a bunch of spikes like this. I can't really explain it. I
> talked to Domas Mituzas (the maintainer of the original dumps I use)
> yesterday and he suggested it might be bots going crazy for whatever
> reason. I'd love to filter all these false positives, but haven't been
> able to come up with an easy way to do it.
>
> Might be possible with access to logs with the user-agent string, but
> that would probably inflate the dataset size even more. It's already
> past the terabyte. However that could probably be solved by sampling
> (for example) 1/100 of the entries.
>
> Comments and ideas are welcome!
>
> >
> > Number 1 in German is Cul de sac. This is odd, but matches the stats
> > http://stats.grok.se/de/201207/Sackgasse
>
> RIght. This one is funny. It has huge traffic on weekdays only.
> Deserted on weekends.
>
> >
> > Number 1 in Dutch is a Chinese mountain. The stats for December disagree
> > http://stats.grok.se/nl/201212/Hua_Shan
>
> July/August agree: http://stats.grok.se/nl/201208/Hua_Shan
>
> >
> > Number 4 in Hebrew is zipper. The stats for December disagree
> > http://stats.grok.se/he/201212/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%9F
>
> April agrees:
> http://stats.grok.se/he/201204/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%9F
>
> >
> > Number 2 in Spanish is '@'. This is odd, but matches the stats
> > http://stats.grok.se/es/201212/Arroba_%28s%C3%ADmbolo%29
> >
> > --
> > John Vandenberg
> > https://www.facebook.com/johnmark.vandenberg
>