Wiki-research-l September 2013

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Fwd: Welcome Aaron Halfaker!
by Sumana Harihareswara 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

Aaron has been a major contributor to our understanding of why we have a problem retaining new editors, during the 2011 Summer of Research and beyond. Many of our key findings<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011/…>are from his research. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail for more. Welcome, Aaron! Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:03 PM To: WMF staff Hi Everybody, It's been a long time coming, but I'd like to welcome Aaron Halfaker to the Foundation! He is starting today as a Research Analyst on the Analytics team, working out of Minneapolis. Aaron is a newly minted PhD out of the (well-known for Wikipedia studies) GroupLens Research lab. His thesis work is basically all about Wikipedia. In his research, he uses a mixture of behavioral modeling, participatory design, psychology and social science to understand, affect, and extend complex socio-technical systems like Wikipedia. He's actually been working as a contractor for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2011. Most notably, he's worked with Dario to design experiments for Article Feedback, Notifications (aka Echo) and VisualEditor. It's a pretty good fit and we're really happy that Aaron is joining us full time! Please extend him a warm welcome! -Toby

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ICIEIS2013-CFP Malaysia
by The Second International Conference on Informatics Engineering & Information Science (ICIEIS2013) 15 Sep '13

15 Sep '13

*************************************************************************** We apologize for multiples copies. Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students. *************************************************************************** [ICIEIS 2013] The Second International Conference on Informatics Engineering & Information Science Important Dates Paper due: Oct. 30, 2013 or 4 weeks from the submission date Author Notification:Oct. 30, 2013 or 4 weeks from the submission date Camera-ready due and Registration: Nov. 02, 2013 Conference Date:Nov. 12-14, 2013 For more information: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/icieis2013/ **************************************************************************** This conference, among other things, wants to bring together researchers to present and discuss novel approaches and solutions as well as recent results in this area of research, e.g. specially designed for Cloud and Grid Computing, Wireless Mesh Networks, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Wireless and Mobile Sensor Networks, Private Home Networks as well as Cyber Physical Systems and Networks. Technical Topics **Intelligent Methods and Applications Rough Set Theory And Its Applications In Data Analysis AI Methods in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Intelligent Data Acquisition, Selection, and Processing AI / Soft Computing Methods in Machine Learning AI Tools for Pattern Recognition, Signal, and Image Processing Decision Support Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Process Mining and Intelligent Planning Web Intelligence and Web Mining Hybrid and Integrated Intelligent Systems Utilization of Domain Knowledge in KDD **Information Science Multimedia Security Network Security Cloud Computing Signal Processing Image Processing & Pattern Recognition Cryptography Forensics Software Engineering Distributed Information Systems Health Informatics **Informatics Engineering Smart Homes Technologies e-Business Applications e-Commerce Technology e-Health Technology e-Tutoring, and e-Facilitating e-Skills and Information Literacy for Learning m-Learning Emergence & Strategies m-Learning System Development Bioinformatics Oil and Gas Informatics Geographic Information System (GIS) Submitted papers will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the ICIEIS 2013 venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. All registered papers will be published in one of the following special issues provided that the author do major improvements and extension within the time frame that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is approved by the chief editor: International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA) International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC) International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF) International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD) International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG) International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) Springer-Telecommuni- cation Systems Springer-Electronic Commerce Research ********************************************************************************************************************* Paper submission: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/icieis2013/openconf/openconf.php ********************************************************************************************************************* *General Chair: - Azizah Abd Manaf, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia. *Program Chair: - Mazdak Zamani, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

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Wiki-history all links in main namespace
by FARKAS, Illes 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Hello, Is anyone aware of past work extracting these two files from enwiki-history? (1) Each Page ID in namespace=0 -> Page name (2) Same Page IDs + Each version ID -> List of linked page IDs I'd like to solve this well, but it doesn't need to be perfect. I guess it cannot be. For pages-current I used wikiprep years ago. I use perl daily. Would be grateful for any advice :-) Thanks!! Illes http://hal.elte.hu/fij

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Wikinews original reporting value as a measure of news events
by Laura Hale 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikinews_original_reporting_value_… is the first in a series of research pieces I am doing as part of program design efforts for The Wikinewsie Group. Any feedback would be appreciated. :) Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

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CfP: 4th International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (SCS SpringSim 2014)
by Daniele Gianni 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ################################################################# CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (SCS SpringSim 2014) ################################################################# April 13-16, 2014, Tampa, FL (USA) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim14 ################################################################# # Papers Due: *** November 1, 2013 *** # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # and archived in the ACM Digital Library. ################################################################# The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based, model-driven and software engineering with experts in simulation methods and simulation practitioners, with the objective to advance the state of the art in model-driven simulation engineering. Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to software systems engineering activities through the provision of consistent and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As these models are in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering approaches can also support the exploitation of computing capabilities for model reuse, programming code generation, and model checking, for example. The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and its execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering. As simulation systems are mainly based on software, these systems can similarly benefit from model-driven approaches to support automatic software generation, enhance software quality, and reduce costs, development effort and time-to-market. Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering can exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing the abstraction level in simulation model specifications and by automating the derivation of simulator code. Further advantages can be gained by using modeling languages, such as UML and SysML – but not exclusively those. For example, modeling languages can be used for descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated), for analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation of the same system), and for implementation modeling (to define the respective simulator). A partial list of topics of interest includes: * model-driven simulation engineering processes * requirements modeling for simulation * domain specific languages for modeling and simulation * model transformations for simulation model building * model transformations for simulation model implementation * model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems * relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore) and distributed simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS) * metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability * model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms (discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation, sketch-based * simulation, etc.) * model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of simulation systems * simulation tools for model-driven software performance engineering * model-driven technologies for simulation verification and validation * model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis * model-driven technologies for simulation visualization * Executable UML * Executable Architectures * SysML / Modelica integration * Simulation Model Portability and reuse * model-based systems verification and validation * simulation for model-based systems engineering To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives on model-driven engineering of simulation systems. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We invite paper submissions in three forms: 1. Full paper (max 8 pages), describing innovative research results. These papers are eligible for the best paper award and may be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the SCS SIMULATION journal. 2. Work-in-progress paper (max 6 pages), describing novel research ideas and promising work that have not yet been fully evaluated. 3. Short paper (max 6 pages), describing industrial and hands-on experience on any relevant area (i.e. military, government, space, etc.). All the papers must be submitted through the SCS conference management systems (http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS14/) and select the Mod4Sim track. The submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the SCS conference template (Word template is available at http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/templates/ConferenceSubmissionWORDTempl…, guidelines are available at http://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf). All the submitted papers must be original and not submitted else where. Submitted papers will be peer reviewed with respect to their quality, originality and relevance. The authors of the accepted papers must register in advance for inclusion of their paper in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to update their papers basing on the reviews, before providing the camera ready. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Digital Library. Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interest and content appropriateness at any time. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 * Decision to paper authors: January 5, 2014 * Camera ready due: February 2, 2014 * Conference dates: April 13-16, 2014 (to be confirmed within the SpringSim schedule) ++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++ * Daniele Gianni – University Guglielmo Marconi, Italy * Arnaud Cuccuru – CEA/LIST, France +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ * Steffen Becker - University of Paderborn, Germany * Paolo Bocciarelli - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy * David Chen - University of Bordeaux I, France * Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy * Cristian Englert - Serco, The Netherlands * Huascar Espinoza - ESI-Tecnalia, Spain * Paul A. Fishwick - University of Florida, USA * Sebastien Gerard - CEA/LIST, France * Carlos Juiz - University of Balearic Islands, Spain * Cristiano Leorato - RHEA, The Netherlands * Steve McKeever - Uppsala University, Sweden * Halit Oguztüzün - Middle East Technical University, Turkey * Chris Paredis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Nicolas Rouquette - NASA/JPL, USA * Volker Schaus - DLR, Germany * Sara Tucci - CEA/LIST, France * Andreas Tolk - SimIS, USA * Anthony Walsh - European Space Agency, Germany * Heming Zhang - Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Daniele Gianni and Arnaud Cuccuru (workshop co-chairs) Emails: danielegmail-mod4sim(a)yahoo.it and arnaud.cuccuru(a)cea.fr

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Changes to language in gender preferences
by Dario Taraborelli 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Anyone analyzing gender data in Wikimedia projects via the public 'gender' setting stored in user_properties? This is to give you the heads up that the language in the preference UI recently changed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30756/7/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php See this bugzilla ticket for more context: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31816 Dario -- Dario Taraborelli Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://nitens.org/taraborelli

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I WikiTrust no more
by Luca de Alfaro 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Apologies for the pun title, but the message is this: I will no longer be maintaining the WikiTrust installation at UCSC. If anyone is interested in the data provided by WikiTrust, I would be happy to mentor them in installing WikiTrust at their institution, or on their servers. Keeping WikiTrust running at UCSC has been time consuming. At UCSC, we have very frequent power interruptions, as well as disruptions of various kinds resulting from changes in our hosting space. The hardware is also close to the end of life (indeed, some drives in the RAID for the German Wikipedia have failed). I would have loved to give WikiTrust a stable home in the cloud; something like Google Appengine would be ideal. However, this would cost several thousand dollars per month; the cloud is still expensive for intensive computation. This is a somewhat sad decision for me, but I have only so much time and energy, and I need to put the energy in new research directions. Again, if others are interested in the data WikiTrust produces, I would be happy to mentor them through an installation. Luca de Alfaro

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 3(8): a WikiSym 2013 retrospective
by Dario Taraborelli 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

(in case it hasn't reached you yet) the August 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is dedicated to a WikiSym 2013 retrospective: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/August ••• 19 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Piotr Konieczny, Taha Yasseri and Brian Keegan 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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Mozilla Science Lab
by Sumana Harihareswara 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

http://kaythaney.com/2013/09/01/our-plan-for-the-science-lab-version-1-0/ http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2013/09/science-lab-plans.html "Kaitlin Thaney, the recently-appointed Director of the Mozilla Science Lab, recently posted some thoughts about the lab's mission and plans. Long story short, its focus is to improve communication and interoperability in open science—paraphrasing William Gibson, the future is already here, but the pieces don't play nicely with each other yet, so the lab is going to help make and strengthen social and technical connections. If you have thoughts on how to accelerate this, we'd like to hear from you." -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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