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
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
For the last week or so I am getting the following error when trying to
use the http://wikidashboard.appspot.com/ tool: "403: User account
expired. The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user
wiki_researcher, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are
automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To
prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block
requests to expired content. If you think you are receiving this page in
error, or you have a question, please contact the owner of this
document: wiki_researcher [at] toolserver [dot] org. (Please do not
contact Toolserver administrators about this problem, as we cannot fix
it---only the Toolserver account owner may renew their account.)"
I've tried contacting the owner, and send an email to PARC
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29> (it's their project,
per the logo seen at the project page ) through their web form, but so
far - nothing. Can anyone help to contact them?
The tool is useful not only for research (I've used and I am sure so
have others here); it is also one of the tools used by Good Article
reviewers (and linked from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Good_article_tools)
Why we allow toolserver tools used by the community to expire in such a
confusing way is beyond me.
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
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
Hi all - The CSCW DC is a great opportunity to meet with outstanding senior
researchers and students. As an alumn of the 2006 cohort, I highly
recommend it!
--
***Please forward to Ph.D. students at your institution***
The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and
discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW
researchers and practitioners. The colloquium itself will begin with
dinner Saturday night February 15, 2014 and continue all day Sunday
February 16, 2014.
All submissions must be received by the chairs by 5:00pm (17:00)
Pacific Time on October 7, 2014. Submissions received after this date
will not be considered. All submissions will be acknowledged by email.
We welcome applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches
that inform CSCW, including anthropology, sociology, computer science,
cognitive science, organizational studies, and related fields. We are
particularly interested in applications from institutions and groups
that have not traditionally been well-represented at past CSCW
conferences.
Applicants should be Ph.D. students with an already well-established
direction of research relevant to CSCW, but whose research would
benefit from guidance provided by peers and senior colleagues at the
Doctoral Colloquium. Preference will be given to students who have a
defined topic and program of work e.g., who have proposed their topics
and are within 2 years of graduation within a 5 year program or are
half way through a 3 (or 4) year program.
The Colloquium committee will select approximately 15 participants who
will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their work
during the Colloquium, to be followed by extensive group discussion.
Participants will also present their research in an interactive poster
session during the main technical program of the conference.
Applicants should submit the following items by email to
dc2014(a)cscw.acm.org with the subject line "CSCW2014 Colloquium
Submission." All items below should be collated into one PDF file
named YOURNAME_CSCWDC2014.pdf (substitute your full name where it
reads YOURNAME):
* A FOUR-page overview of your doctoral research that describes your
research question, work in progress, and expected contributions. This
overview should also include (1) a paragraph that articulates what you
hope to gain from attending the CSCW Doctoral Colloquium, and (2) an
abstract of no more than 100 words. Your overview will be published in
the ACM Digital Library and distributed to all attendees as part of
the Conference Extended Abstracts. Please submit your overview in the
Extended Abstracts Format.
* A short (2-3 paragraph) biographical sketch on another page.
* An up-to-date curriculum vitae.
* Optionally, one publication that you feel best illustrates your
progress in your research.
* An email letter from your supervisor sent to dc2014(a)cscw.acm.org
indicating that they support your application to the colloquium and
that they agree that your research is at an appropriate stage for
participation. These letters should also make reference to how you
might benefit from the Doctoral Colloquium and how they expect that
you might benefit the other students in this group experience. The
email should have "CSCW Doctoral Colloquium: " + YOUR NAME in the
subject header.
Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs
Claus Bossen, Aarhus University
Darren Gergle, Northwestern Universitydc2014(a)cscw.acm.org
Researchers, you might find this useful if you submit your papers in
LaTeX. :-)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:44 -0400
From: David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
CC: Lee Worden <worden.lee(a)gmail.com>
I think this is going to be great news for WorkingWiki
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki
Cheers,
Micru
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> <quote name="Dirk Hünniger" date="2013-08-04" time="10:05:35 +0200">
> > Hello,
> > I made a new debian package, which resolves the security issues you
> > mentioned.
> > It is available here:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/files/mediawiki2latex/6.5/
> > Yours Dirk
>
> I had to use a mailing list archive to see the full thread here, which
> started way back in 2004(!!!):
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/281372
>
> A highlight I noticed: the wb2pdf that Dirk links above when from a
> 90+meg download to only a 2.8 meg Debian package.
>
> Thanks for your persistence, Dirk.
>
> Greg
>
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Dear all,
we are quickly approaching the NETTAB 2013 Workshop on Semantic, Social,
and Mobile Applications
for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories, October 16-18, 2013,
Lido of Venice, Italy.
Start preparing your participation:
- check the provisional scientific programme on-line
- submit your poster for the Call for Late posters
- register to participate in the workshop
- define your travel plan and book your hotel.
Here are the latest news.
The Call for Late posters is now open.
The provisional Scientific Programme is now available.
Registration is now open. Register at the early registration cost within
September 13, 2013.
Stay in touch with NETTAB Workshops:
- by LinkedIn: NETTAB Workshops group
- by Twitter: @NETTABWorkshops and #NETTAB2013
- by Google groups: subscribe to nettab-announce(a)googlegroups.com
I'm looking forward to see you in Venice very soon.
Paolo Romano
====
NETTAB 2013 Workshop
on Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and
Biomedical Laboratories,
October 16-18, 2013, Lido of Venice, Italy.
http://www.nettab.org/2013/
KEYNOTE TALKS
*Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed
Participation*
Antony Williams, Royal Society of Chemistry
*Semantic, Social, and Mobile technologies for the automation of
research in biomedicine*
Ross D. King, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
*SCIMOBS; the million minds approach revisited in mobile context*
Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands,
and Netherlands Bioinformatics Center
TUTORIALS
*Semantic Web for Life Sciences: vision, aims, tools, platforms *
Andrea Splendiani, IntelLeaf, United Kingdom, and Digital Enterprise
Research Institute, Ireland
*Open_PHACTS and NanoPublications *
Christine Chichester, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CALIPHO group,
Geneva, Switzerland
*Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap*
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, W3C/ERCIM, Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France
*Mobile applications for life sciences: perspectives, limitations, and
real examples*
Alex Clark, Molecular Materials Informatics, Inc
DEADLINES
NEW! September 16, 2013:
Abstract submission deadline for SPECIAL Oral communications
(for this deadline, authors must get in touch ASAP with Paolo Romano by
email)
NEW! September 16, 2013:
Abstract submission deadline for Late Posters
Submit a two to three pages abstract, according to Instructions, at
http://conference.embnet.org/index.php/NETTAB/NETTAB2013
You will find the complete text of the Call for Abstracts at
http://www.nettab.org/2013/call.php
REGISTRATION
Early registration deadline is on September 13, 2013.
Be prepared to register on time and take profit from reduced costs.
I'm looking forward to see you all in Venice in October.
Best regards.
Paolo Romano
on behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees
--
Paolo Romano
Bioinformatics Lab, Biopolimers and Proteomics Service
IRCCS AOU San Martino IST, Genova, Italy
Email: paolo.dm.romano(a)gmail.com
Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for
the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve
your text.
I recommend that you:
* go into your browser history
* search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org
* go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the content someplace,
preferably on a public wiki, even if it's just in your userspace
* replace the content of the Etherpad with a link to the wiki page
you've moved the text to
And just as a reminder: Etherpad is not a production-level service, and
therefore any data within an etherpad should be considered both public
and able to disappear at any time. This is one reason I recommend that
people use Etherpads for short-term defined collaboration sessions, and
frequently do backups, and always archive documents to a wiki after a
session ends.
-Sumana
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two
weeks - backup time
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:02:13 -0700
From: Mark Holmquist <mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad
Lite has now replaced Etherpad "Classic" in production, and the labs
instance
is on its way out.
This is my as-wide-as-possible email warning to say that everything on the
labs instance, as really should have been expected, is going to be gone
soon.
Not immediately - we intend to give you two weeks to get your important data
off the instance and onto the new one at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ -
but you should _absolutely_ be moving things as soon as possible. We will
also keep a data dump around, in case anything else needs to get pulled out
of the pads, but I would suggest not relying on that if you don't have to.
And in the future: If a URL has "wmflabs.org" in it...don't put anything,
ANYTHING, important there. The purpose of labs is to let us experiment with
new technology without having to worry about reliability.
Thanks so much for your help and understanding in the course of this
migration.
tl;dr: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org is going down in 2 weeks, get yer
stuff off it.
--
Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist
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