Wiki-research-l April 2013

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Wikipedia Research policy
by song＠cs.umn.edu 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

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 -- Bryan Song GroupLens Research University of Minnesota

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Statistics on wiki page editing/creation by country?
by alina ostling 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

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 -- Alina ÖSTLING PhD Candidate European University Institute www.eui.eu

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WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications
by emijrp 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Hi all; WikiPapers has reached recently the 1,000 publications milestone.[1] Looks like the publication rate peaked in 2009 and has plateaued in the last 3 years. I continue adding more data... but with little help. Don't you like editing wikis? ; ) Regards, emijrp [1] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/

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Office hour with WMF researchers
by ENWP Pine 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Hi everyone, WMF researchers have agreed to participate in an office hour about WMF research projects and methodologies. The currently scheduled participants are: * Aaron Halfaker, Research Analyst (contractor) * Jonathan Morgan, Research Strategist (contractor) * Evan Rosen, Data Analytics Manager, Global Development * Haitham Shammaa, Contribution Research Manager * Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst, Strategy We'll meet on IRC in #wikimedia-office on April 22 at 1800 UTC. Please join us. Pine

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A wiki search engine
by emijrp 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hi all; I'm starting a new project, a wiki search engine. It uses MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and other minor extensions, and some tricky templates and bots. I remember Wikia Search and how it failed. It had the mini-article thingy for the introduction, and then a lot of links compiled by a crawler. Also something similar to a social network. My project idea (which still needs a cool name) is different. Althought it uses an introduction and images copied from Wikipedia, and some links from the "External links" sections, it is only a start. The purpose is that community adds, removes and orders the results for each term, and creates redirects for similar terms to avoid duplicates. Why this? I think that Google PageRank isn't enough. It is frequently abused by farmlinks, SEOs and other people trying to put their websites above. Search "Shakira" in Google for example. You see 1) Official site, 2) Wikipedia 3) Twitter 4) Facebook, then some videos, some news, some images, Myspace. It wastes 3 or more results in obvious nice sites (WP, TW, FB). The wiki search engine puts these sites in the top, and an introduction and related terms, leaving all the space below to not so obvious but interesting websites. Also, if you search for "semantic queries" like "right-wing newspapers" in Google, you won't find real newspapers but "people and sites discussing about ring-wing newspapers". Or latex and LaTeX being shown in the same results pages. These issues can be resolved with disambiguation result pages. How we choose which results are above or below? The rules are not fully designed yet, but we can put official sites in the first place, then .gov or .edu domains which are important ones, and later unofficial websites, blogs, giving priority to local language, etc. And reaching consensus. We can control aggresive spam with spam blacklists, semi-protect or protect highly visible pages, and use bots or tools to check changes. It obviously has a CC BY-SA license and results can be exported. I think that this approach is the opposite to Google today. For weird queries like "Albert Einstein birthplace" we can redirect to the most obvious results page (in this case Albert Einstein) using a hand-made redirect or by software (some little change in MediaWiki). You can check a pretty alpha version here http://www.todogratix.es (only Spanish by now sorry) which I'm feeding with some bots. I think that it is an interesting experiment. I'm open to your questions and feedback. Regards, emijrp -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/

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WikiSym 2012 papers?!
by Taha Yasseri 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Dear All, May be it's not the best place to ask, but any of you has any idea why WikiSym 2012 papers are not available on the site any more? Is that only me who cannot access? are they moved to some other places? few examples: http://orga.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p12wikisym2012.pdf http://wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p12wikisym2012.pdf http://orga.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p10wikisym2012.pdf http://orga.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p8wikisym2012.pdf bests, Taha -- Dr Taha Yasseri http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/ Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St.Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Tel.01865-287229 ------------------------------------------- Latest Article: Phys. Rev. Lett. Opinions, Conflicts, and Consensus: Modeling Social Dynamics in a Collaborative Environment<http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i8/e088701> Non-technical review: University of Oxford, Mathematical model 'describes' how online conflicts are resolved<http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/130220.html>

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Call for Contributions: Collective Behaviors and Networks, satellite @ ECCS'13, (Barcelona, September 19, 2013)
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 12 May '13

12 May '13

***** Apologies for multiple copies ***** You are cordially invited to submit a contribution to "Collective Behaviors and Networks", a one-day satellite event of the 2013 European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'13), to be held in Barcelona, September 19, 2013. Goal of this workshop is to provide a discussion venue about advances in the study of networks applied to the dynamics of social collective behaviors. Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics: - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis. - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media. - Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis. - Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics. - Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models. - Models of social capital, collective action, social movements. - Coevolution of network and behavior. More information on COVEnANT2013 can be found here: http://covenant2013.com More information on ECCS'13 can be found here: http://eccs13.eu Requirements Participants are invited to submit their contributions via the EasyChair system at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=covenant2013 Contributions must be at most 2 pages long, and must provide the following information: title, list of authors with affiliations, and abstract. Accepted format is PDF only. More information, about selection, registration, etc., can be found here: http://www.covenant2013.com/?page_id=25 Important Dates May 17, 2013 Abstract submission deadline June 19, 2013 Notification of acceptance September 19, 2013 Satellite meeting Data Challenge In order to encourage the development of predictive, data-driven models of collective phenomena, a link prediction competition will be held as part of the meeting. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the best contributions, which will be evaluated according to rigorous scientific criteria by the program committee of the event. 1st prize: US$800, 2nd prize: US$200. Further information (task, data set, dates) to be released soon. Keynote Speakers Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, US J. Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford, UK Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, US Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University, US Special Issue The best original contributions will be invited to submit an extended version for inclusion in a special issue of EPJ Data Science (Springer). Organizing Committee Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Indiana University, US Emilio Ferrara, Indiana University, US Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, US Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, US Program Committee Luca M. Aiello, Yahoo Research Barcelona, Spain Andrea Baronchelli, Northwestern University, US Pasquale De Meo, University of Messina, Italy Santo Fortunato, Aalto University, Finland Jacob Foster, University of Chicago, US Matteo Gagliolo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Bruno Gonçalves, Aix-Marseille Université, France Andrea Lancichinetti, Northwestern University, US Michael Mäs, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Tamás Nepusz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Orion Penner, IMT Lucca, Italy Nicola Perra, Northeastern University, US Filippo Radicchi, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain José J. Ramasco, IFISC, Spain Carlos Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Giancarlo Ruffo, University of Turin, Italy Daniel Villatoro, Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Spain -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Postdoctoral fellow Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University ✎ 910 E 10th St ∙ Bloomington ∙ IN 47408 ☞ http://cnets.indiana.edu/ ✉ gciampag(a)indiana.edu

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Fwd: User lifecycle via linguistic change
by Sumana Harihareswara 12 May '13

12 May '13

A few people were passing around a paper that "could be potentially very useful for EE. tl;dr: just look at figure 8." -Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/language-www13.pdf Steven Walling wrote: > Fascinating. Someone should _definitely_ run a similar study of how it > takes editors to pick up markers of in-group Wikipedia jargon, if they > haven't already. A lexicon would be fairly easy to develop. Tilman Bayer added: > See also this paper: > http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/Echoes_of_power.html (reviewed > here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/January#Admins_inf… > ) Hope this is useful! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Why are users blocked on Wikipedia?
by Sumana Harihareswara 05 May '13

05 May '13

http://blog.ironholds.org/?p=31 Ironholds looked at a sample of users with one or more edits to enwiki who were blocked in 2006-2012. The short version: spam is a bigger problem than vandalism or sockpuppetry, and the spam problem is growing. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 3(2) is out
by Dario Taraborelli 03 May '13

03 May '13

The February 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/February In this issue: 1 Wikipedia in historic context: "Stigmergic accumulation" is not new 2 UK university lecturers still skeptical and uninformed about Wikipedia 3 Saint Petersburg has more sisters than any other city in the world 4 "Distributed Wiki" proposal to replace NPOV with "every point of view (EPOV)" 5 Briefly 6 References ••• 15 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Piotr Konieczny, Taha Yasseri, Heather Ford, Sage Ross and Daniel Mietchen for contributing Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer -- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter/Identi.ca: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/

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