Wiki-research-l January 2014

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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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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request for statistics: effectiveness of WikiLove
by ENWP Pine 15 Mar '14

15 Mar '14

Also remember that barnstars and PUAs existed before Wikilove and continue to be awarded without using Wikilove. Pine

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WikiDashboard down - anyone knows how to contact people at PARC who developed it?
by Piotr Konieczny 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

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/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

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Biases in Wikipedia Coverage of Academics
by Taha Yasseri 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

Dear All, This is a quick note to announce that our article titled "The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics" is now officially published by EPJ Data Science: http://www.epjdatascience.com/content/3/1/1 A draft of that has been previously featured in: Wikimedia research Newsletter: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/October#Wikipedia.2… The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/does-your-professor-h… Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/wikipedia-professors-study_n_42411… And some of you had made great suggestions to improve the article, specially Paolo Massa, whom I thank again here. Further comments and feedbacks are more than welcome. best 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

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Editing patterns on English Wikipedia for cohorts with mental disorders and learning disabilities
by Laura Hale 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

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

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Six million labels in English
by Gerard Meijssen 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

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

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Call for Submissions: 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) - Sep 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada
by Anatoliy Gruzd 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

*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

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Reminder DBpedia Community meeting, 30th January at VU Amsterdam
by Sebastian Hellmann 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Dear DBpedians, organisation of the DBpedia Community meeting in Amsterdam is progressing quite well for the short time we had to organise it. Here are some news: * Schedule: the meeting page and schedule has (and constantly is ) updated: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 * Twitter hashtag : #DBpediaAmsterdam : https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DBpediaAmsterdam&f=realtime * Lunch and drinks are sponsored by the Semantic Web Company (http://semantic-web.at) and the National library of the Netherlands (http://www.kb.nl/) * Almost 50 participants have registered since the last announcement email: http://nl.dbpedia.org/DBpediaMeeting/ # Sponsors: We still have one open slot for a sponsor, who will be linked on the page and prominently placed in the summary report as well. # Presentation submission open: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 # Register Please register right now here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgXBFSqdVAOndDEwNDY2MkpYUHM5cl… Hope to see you in Amsterdam, Gerard, Gerald (from Dutch DBpedia), Lora and Victor from VU Amsterdam, Mariano from the Spanish DBpedia and Dimitris and Sebastian -- Sebastian Hellmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Events: * *30th January, 2014*: 1st DBpedia Community meeting (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014) * *Sept. 2014* MLODE Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, http://linguistics.okfn.org, http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org Stop asking, it's here: http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis

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OpenSym (WikiSym) 2014 Call for Papers
by Dirk Riehle 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

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. -- Website: http://dirkriehle.com - Twitter: @dirkriehle Ph (DE): +49-157-8153-4150 - Ph (US): +1-650-450-8550

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