Wiki-research-l May 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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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 3(5) is out
by Dario Taraborelli 03 Aug '13

03 Aug '13

The May 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/May In this issue: • 1 Motivations to contribute to the Persian Wikipedia • 2 Science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than on the English Wikipedia? • 3 In brief • Winning and losing argument patterns in deletion debates • Why English Wikinews rejects submissions • Wikipedia as a discussion forum for Malaysian students • Using Wikipedia to predict the stock market • Main NPOV concerns in articles about corporations: Promotional language and inclusion of criticism • "Gangnam Style" pageview trends • 4 References ••• 9 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to: Piotr Konieczny, Aaron Halfaker, Taha Yasseri, 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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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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Fwd: [SOCNET] 2nd CfP: social contagion and collective behaviour (ECCS'13 -- Barcelona)
by Taha Yasseri 30 May '13

30 May '13

As usual, apologies for cross-posting -- but do consider submitting an abstract! Deadline: 30 June. Taha * * * SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ECCS '13 Computational Social Science: From Social Contagion to Collective Behaviour Barcelona, 19th September 2013 http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/collectivecontagion/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: June, 30 2013 Workshop date: September, 19 2013 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Intense scientific debate is going around the definition of the foundational concepts and appropriate methodological approaches to deal with the understanding of social dynamics. These challenges are aiming to understand human behavior in its complexity driven by intentional (and not necessarily rational) decisions and influenced by a multitude of factors. The functioning of communication-based mechanisms requires individuals to interact in order to acquire information to cope with uncertainty and thus deeply rely on the accuracy and on the completeness of information (if any). In fact, people's perceptions, knowledge, beliefs and opinions about the world and its evolution, get (in)formed and modulated through the information they can access. Moreover their response is not linear as individuals can react by accepting, refusing, or elaborating (and changing) the received information. Technology-mediated social collectives are taking an important role in the design of social structures. Yet our understanding of the complex mechanisms governing networks and collective behaviour is still quite shallow. Fundamental concepts like authority, leader-follower dynamics, conflict or collaboration in online networks are still not well defined and investigated - but they are crucial to illuminate the advantages and pitfalls of this form of collective decision-making (which can cancel out individual mistakes, but also make them spiral out of control). The aim of this satellite is to address the question of ICT mediated social phenomena emerging in multiple scales ranging from the interactions of individuals to the emergence of self-organized global movements. We would like to gather researchers from different disciplines to form a forum to discuss ideas, research questions, recent results, and future challenges in this emerging area of research and public interest. TOPICS OF INTEREST . Interdependent social contagion process . Peer production and mass collaboration . Temporally evolving networks and stream analytics . Cognitive aspects of belief formation and revision . Online communication and information diffusion . Viral propagation in online social network . Crowd-sourcing: herding behaviour vs. wisdom of crowds . E-democracy and online government-citizen interaction . Online socio-political mobilizations . Public attention and popularity Questions about the conference scope should be directed to the program co-chairs at eccs2013collectivecontagion(a)bifi.es SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS One page abstracts are to be submitted in pdf via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eccs2013collectiveco The deadline for abstract submission is 30 June 2013. The contributions to the event will be evaluated by the programme committee through a peer review process that will account for the scientific quality as well as for the relevance of the contribution to the aims of the satellite. The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified via e-mail by 15 July 2013. ORGANISING COMMITTEE . Javier Borge-Holthoefer (BIFI, University of Zaragoza, Spain) . Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca, Italy) . Rosaria Conte (ISTC CNR, Italy) . Sandra González-Bailón (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK) . Márton Karsai (Northeastern University, USA; Aalto University, Finland) . Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK) . Walter Quattrociocchi (Northeastern University, USA) . Luca Rossi (Northeastern University, USA) . Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University, USA; ISI Foundation, Italy) . Taha Yasseri (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE . Javier Borge-Holthoefer (BIFI, University of Zaragoza, Spain) . Sara Brunetti (University of Siena, Italy) . Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca, Italy) . Rosaria Conte (ISTC, CNR, Italy) . Gennaro Cordasco (University of Naples, Italy) . Santo Fortunato (Aalto University, Finland) . Bruno Gonçalves (Aix-Marseille Université, France) . Sandra González-Bailón (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK) . Márton Karsai (Northeastern University, USA; Aalto University, Finland) . Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK) . Mario Paolucci (ISTC CNR, Italy) . Walter Quattrociocchi (Northeastern University, USA) . Luca Rossi (Northeastern University, USA) . Antonio Scala (ISC CNR, Italy) . Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia) . Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University, USA) . Taha Yasseri (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK) -- 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 -------------------------------------------

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August 18-20: workshop on tools for studying digital behavior
by Sumana Harihareswara 30 May '13

30 May '13

http://crookedtimber.org/2013/05/21/call-for-participation-doctoral-worksho… They're reviewing applications right now; applying earlier is better. The application form is really short. Scholars who study Wikimedia readers' and editors' behavior, and who want better tools to analyse the datasets available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data , might benefit. > We invite doctoral students who study human behavior in digital environments, and who are at the beginning stages of their dissertation work, to apply to a workshop focusing on methodological issues in this kind of research. > The goal of the workshop is to bring together about a dozen junior and half-a-dozen senior scholars to discuss methodological best practices for the in-depth study of human behavior in digital environments. So-called “big data” offer lots of opportunities to study the social world, but may miss insights that methods such as in-person observations and interviews can discover. Bringing different types of data and methods together can help address challenges, such as biased data sets, and can help glean new insights. Workshop participants will discuss tools that exist and tools that need to be developed for sharable, sustainable, and scalable approaches to collecting, coding, and analyzing comparable data about human behavior in digital environments. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: An epistemological critique of wikipedia
by Joe Corneli 29 May '13

29 May '13

http://pierrelevyblog.com/2013/05/27/an-epistemological-critique-of-wikiped… - favorable review http://pierrelevyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/stevejankowski_thesis_v18… - PDF (199 pages)

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