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
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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
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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.
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
http://wikinewsreporter.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/editing-patterns-on-englis…
It took a few days of writing, research and playing with Wikimetrics, but
this is a piece of research I did about how people with mental disorders
and learning disabilities contribute to English Wikipedia. It specifically
looks at OCD, social anxiety, autism, Asperger's Syndrome, ADD/ADHD,
dyslexia and dyscalculia.
I haven't seen any research specifically related to this topic, so if
anyone has any feedback it would be appreciated. It would also be
appreciated if anyone has any links to research they have seen on this
topic as it would be very interesting to read.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
--
twitter: purplepopple
Hoi,
In Wikidata there are currently over 6 million labels in the English
language. It is a number that is growing quite rapidly.
Obviously most of the items that have a label but no article in the English
Wikipedia are part of the "long tail" of what people are interested in. As
Wikidata grows the relations between all its items improve, these items
become more accessible. As it becomes easier to discover them, they may
gain more page views as well.
I wonder if there are tools in place to monitor such relations.
Thanks,
Gerard
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Call for Submissions: Papers (extended abstracts), Panels and Posters
2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14)
September 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada
Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: April 18, 2014
Paper & Panel Notification: May 19, 2014
Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014
Poster Notification: June 13, 2014
Conference Dates: September 27-28, 2014
DESCRIPTION
We live in an era of "Big Data". Petabyte and exabyte-size datasets
are becoming increasingly common. Much of the data is coming from
social media in the form of user-generated content. What do we do with
all of these "social" data and how do we make sense of it all? What
are the inherent challenges and issues surrounding working with social
media data? How are social media platforms and the data that they
generate changing us as individuals, changing our organizations and
changing our society? Additionally what are the political, ethical,
privacy, and security implications of the wide availability of these
data? These are just a few questions that we have for this year’s
participants of the 2014 Social Media & Society Conference
(#SMSociety14).
The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of
leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its
5th year, the 2014 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from
September 27 to 28. From its inception, the conference has focused on
the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social
media on society. The conference offers an intensive two-day program
comprising of paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters
covering wide-ranging topics related to social media. Organized by the
Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University, the conference provides
attendees an opportunity to exchange ideas, present their original
research, learn about recently completed and work-in-progress studies,
and strengthen connections with their peers. Last year’s conference
hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and
practitioners across several fields from over 60 institutions in 15
different countries.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
We invite you to submit papers (extended abstracts), panel proposals
and posters on a variety of topics including (but not limited to!):
Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories &
Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. Full papers are not required
for this conference, only an extended abstract (~500 words, excluding
references) on a completed or well-developed project related to the
broad theme of “Social Media & Society.” All submissions will be
peer-reviewed. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a
15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period at the
conference.
Author(s) of accepted paper abstracts may also be invited to submit
their full papers to the new Big Data & Society Journal published by
SAGE.
Instructions for authors and more information is available at
http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Social Media & Big Data
- Visualization of Social Media Data
- Social Media Data Mining
- Scalability Issues and Social Media Data
- Social Media Analytics
Social Media Impact on Society
- Private Self/Public Self
- The Sharing/Attention Economy
- Virality & Memes
- Political Mobilization & Engagement
- Social Media and Health
- Social Media and Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.)
- Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning Analytics, etc.)
- Social Media and Public Administration
- Social Media and the News
Theories & Methods
- Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
- Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
- Social Network Analysis
- Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media
Online/Offline Communities
- Trust and Credibility in Social Media
- Online Community Detection
- Influential User Detection
- Online Identity
- Case Studies of Online and/or Offline Communities Formed on Social Media
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada
Philip Mai, Dalhousie University, Canada
Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada
OpenSym (WikiSym) 2014, the 10th International Symposium on Open
Collaboration, http://opensym.org/os2014
August 27-29, 2014 | Berlin, Germany
About the Conference
====================
The 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2014) is the
premier conference on open collaboration research, including wiki and social
media, Wikipedia, free, libre, and open source software, open data, open
access, and IT-driven open innovation research.
OpenSym is the first conference series to bring together the different strands
of open collaboration research, seeking to create synergies and inspire new
research between computer scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and
everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing
the world.
OpenSym 2014 will be held in Berlin, Germany, on August 27-29, 2014.
OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the
conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like all
prior editions.
Research Track Call for Submissions
===================================
The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on
* Free, libre, and open source software research, chaired jointly by Jesus M.
Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
For the call for papers please see
http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-source/
* Open data research, chaired by Ina Schieferdecker of Fraunhofer FOKUS and
Free University of Berlin.
For the call for papers please see
http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-data/
* IT-driven open innovation research, chaired by Kathrin Möslein of
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
For the call for papers please see
http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-innovati…
* Wikipedia research, chaired by Nicolas Jullien of Telecom Bretagne (University).
For the call for papers please see
http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/wikipedia/
* Wikis and open collaboration research, chaired by Brent Hecht of University
of Minnesota.
For the call for papers please see
http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-collab-w…
Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive
new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or
deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be
reviewed by a research track program committee to meet rigorous academic
standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual
quality, innovation and clarity of presentation.
Each track has its own submission site, which you can find at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2014. Please select the
appropriate track. Submission deadline is April 20th, 2014.
Authors, whose submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the
conference have a choice of having their paper become part of the official
proceedings, archived in the ACM Digital Library, having no publication record
at all but only the presentation at the conference. For more information,
please see http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/paper-types/
OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different research disciplines
it draws on.
Doctoral Symposium Call for Submissions
=======================================
OpenSym seeks to explore the synergies between all strands of open
collaboration research. Thus, we will have a doctoral symposium, in which
Ph.D. students from different disciplines can present their work and receive
feedback from senior faculty and their peers.
The Doctoral Symposium has its own submission site, which you can find at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2014. Please select the
Doctoral Symposium track. Submission deadline is June 1st, 2014.
Community Track Call for Submissions
====================================
OpenSym is also seeking submissions for experience reports (long and short),
tutorials, workshops, panels, non-research posters, and demos. Such work
accepted for presentation or performance at the conference is considered part
of the community track. It will be put into the proceedings in a community
track section; authors can opt-out of the publication, as with research papers.
The community track its own submission site, which you can find at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2014. Please select the
Community track. The first submission deadline is May 7th, 2014. A second
submission deadline for late-comers (at the risk of not getting a seat) is
June 15th, 2014.
The OpenSym Conference Experience
=================================
OpenSym 2014 will be held in Berlin on August 27-29, 2013. Research and
community presentations and performances will be accompanied by keynotes,
invited speakers, and a social program in one of the most vibrant cities on
this planet.
The open space track is a key ingredient of the event that distinguishes
OpenSym from other conferences. It is an integral part of the program that
makes it easy to talk to other researchers and practitioners and to stretch
your imagination and conversations beyond the limits of your own
subdiscipline, exposing you to the full breadth of open collaboration
research. The open space track is entirely participant-organized, is open for
everyone, and requires no submission or review.
The general chair of the conference is Dirk Riehle of Friedrich-Alexander
University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Feel free to contact us at info(a)opensym.org with
any questions you might have.
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Website: http://dirkriehle.com - Twitter: @dirkriehle
Ph (DE): +49-157-8153-4150 - Ph (US): +1-650-450-8550