Hello researchers,
For our second round of Individual Engagement Grant applications in 2014,
we have a great crop of ideas. Wikimedians have dropped by to offer
feedback, support, or expertise to some of the proposals, but many
proposals have not been reviewed by community members. Several of these
new proposals are research projects, or have major research components.
Members of this list may have key insights for our proposers. If there is
an open proposal that interests you, that you have concerns about, or that
involves an area where you have experience or expertise, please drop by the
proposal page to share your views. This will help the proposers better
hone their strategies, and will assist the IEG Committee in evaluating some
of these fresh new ideas to improve the Wikimedia projects. Working with
an IEG proposal may even inspire you to serve as a project advisor, or to
propose one of your own for the next cycle! Comments are requested until
October 20th.
Research-related IEG proposals:
- IEG/Editor Interaction Data Extraction and Visualization
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Interaction_Data_Extracti…>
- IEG/"Wikimedia's efforts in order to keep Wikipedia an open and
self-organizing network."
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/%22Wikimedia%27s_efforts_in_orde…>
Full list of proposals:
- IEG Grants/Review
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing>
Regards,
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Patrick Earley
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
pearley(a)wikimedia.org
Hello researchers,
tl;dr: Seeking feedback on a web API targeted at Wikipedia researchers and
tools developers that provides access to state-of-the-art Wikipedia-based
algorithms [1,2,3].
I've been working with Brent Hecht for about a year on a project called
WikiBrain [1] that seeks to democratize access to a wide variety of
Wikipedia-based algorithms. WikiBrain downloads, parses, stores, and
analyzes Wikipedia data in any language, providing access to
state-of-the-art NLP, AI, and GIScience algorithms with the click of a
button on commodity hardware.
While we strive to make WikiBrain installation as easy as possible, we
want researchers to be able to access WikiBrain's algorithms immediately,
with no installation required, from any programming language. We are
planning to develop a WikiBrain web API to do this, targeted at Wikipedia
researchers and Wikipedia tool developers.
We have written a Wikipedia individual engagement grant [2] to support the
development of this new API, and we'd love to hear about
Wikipedia-algorithm needs. If there's an algorithm you use or need in your
Wikipedia research, please head over to our use cases page [3] and let us
know about it!
-Shilad
[1] http://wikibrainapi.org
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiBrainTools
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiBrainTools/UseCases
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Shilad W. Sen
Associate Professor
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Dept.
Macalester College
ssen(a)macalester.edu
http://www.shilad.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/shilad
651-696-6273
Dear researchers,
This is an exciting event for those involved in Computational Social
Science research, and it would benefit greatly from papers that apply
Wikipedia data to study social processes. Registration is free of change.
Please find details attached. Apologies for cross posing.
Best,
Anna Samoilenko
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CALL FOR POSTERS
GESIS COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE (CSS) WINTER SYMPOSIUM
on DEC 1st, Cologne, Germany
http://www.gesis.org/en/events/css-wintersymposium/
IMPORTANT DATES:
POSTER SUBMISSION: OCT 29th 2014
NOTIFICATION: NOV 5th 2014
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The CSS Symposium will be a one-day event consisting of: (i) an exciting
program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different
perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social
science. (ii) an open call for contributed posters that will provide
opportunities for computational social scientists to present and discuss
their own work and (iii) an evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas
markets that will provide plenty of opportunities for further discussions
and informal networking.
The program will feature lectures from the following invited speakers (all
confirmed):
* Prof. Dirk Brockmann (HU Berlin)
* Prof. Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zürich)
* Prof. Andreas Diekmann (ETH Zürich)
* Prof. Harald Schön (U. Mannheim)
* Assistant Prof. Sophie Mützel (U. Luzern)
* Dr. Ciro Cattuto (ISI Turino)
* Dr. Suzy Moat (U. of Warwick)
Exemplary topics for posters include but are not limited to:
- Theories and models explaining the dynamics in social systems,
networks, communities and teams
- Studies of political discourse and spread of opinions, attitudes and
information on the web
- Studies of cultures and conflicts, segregation, discrimination,
prejudice via new kinds of data
- Social-/Computational aspects of health, life style, sports and diet
- Social-/Computational aspects of human movement, mobility and urban
planning
- Mixed methods and techniques (e.g. obtrusive/unobtrusive methods)
- Methods to deal with biased, selective and incomplete observational
data on the Web
- Tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online
- Tools that support social scientists to capture, store and analyze
social data on the Web
- Methods for the design and execution of online experiments for the
social sciences
Other related topics are explicitly welcome. Each accepted submission will
be given a brief plenary time slot and a poster stand during the joint
poster session of the event. Accepted submissions will be non-archival
(i.e. no proceedings).
ORGANIZATION:
The Symposium is organized by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social
Sciences. The event is chaired by Prof. Markus Strohmaier (GESIS & U. of
Koblenz).
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
We invite submissions for posters. Submissions could either consist of (i)
the poster itself or (ii) a 1 page abstract of the poster that will be
presented. Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the
potential to stimulate interesting discussions. We encourage researchers to
both submit mature work that has already been published and/or submit
work-in-progress. Authors are kindly requested to submit via the easychair
submission system for the event:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssws14
REGISTRATION:
Registration is free of charge. Poster submission is not a requirement for
attendance, talks are open to anyone interested. Attendees are highly
encouraged to participate in the informal evening event (Cologne Christmas
markets) and plan their travel accordingly. Unfortunately we cannot take
responsibility for support on visa related issues. The symposium venue is
located in the heart of Cologne, where accommodation is widely available.
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Kind regards,
Ann Samoilenko
Computational Social Science
GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany
e-mail: anna.samoilenko(a)gesis.org
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, United Kingdom
Adventures can change your life
e-mail: ann.samoilenko(a)gmail.com
I hope some of you find it of interest. Constructive criticism welcome.
Anyone who cannot access it, send me a private request and I'll see what
I can do.
Abstract:
The day Wikipedia stood still: Wikipedia’s editors’ participation in the
2012 anti-SOPA protests as a case study of online organization
empowering international and national political opportunity structures
This article contributes to the discussions on Internet mobilization and
on international social movements’ ability to influence national policy.
The event studied is the ‘first Internet strike’ of 18 January 2012
aimed against the SOPA legislation proposed in the USA. Wikipedia’s
volunteer editors from all around the world took part in the vote
concerning whether Wikipedia should undertake a protest action aimed at
influencing American policymakers. Wikipedia editors are shown to share
values of the international free culture movement, though experienced
editors were also likely to be conflicted about whether taking part in a
protest action was not violating the site’s principle of encyclopedic
neutrality. Further, Wikipedia’s participation in this protest action
allowed non-US citizens to have a visible impact on the US national
legislation. As such, Wikipedia can be seen as an international social
movement organization, whose 24 hour-long blackout of its popular
website was a major factor in the success of the anti-SOPA protests.
Wikipedia’s blackout was an expression of an international political
opportunity structure in the form of worldwide awareness and protests,
which in turn enabled a national political opportunity structure by
informing and mobilizing American citizens.
http://csi.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/26/0011392114551649
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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
(cross-posting to the research and analytics mailing lists)
Hey folks,
I've been working with a few different groups of professors, grad students
and Wikipedians to apply for grants to develop some intelligent data
services on top of the WMF labs architecture. I'm posting to ask you to
take some time to review the proposals and leave comments or an endorsement
as you see fit. I encourage you to raise conversations about each proposal
on the respective talk pages as this helps the IEG grant committee make
decisions.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Revision_scoring_as_a_service
This is a project I have been trying to sell for a while. Counter-vandalism
tools all use their own strategy for detecting low quality edits. Some of
them use simple rule based scoring systems. Others are based on relatively
advanced machine learning strategies. The goal of this project is to solve
the revision scoring problem with advanced machine learning techniques and
to make that solution available for tool builders via a web API.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiBrainTools
Brent & Shilad are professors @ UMN & Macalester College. They have been
working to develop a tool that collects information retrieval strategies
from the academic literature to make them easy to use for researchers and
wiki tool developers. This IEG is geared towards developing a web API on
top of the system to make it even easier for wiki tool developers to use.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Automated_Notability_Detection
Per my work on Articles for Creation, it seems that a main stumbling block
for newcomer page creators and reviewers is the notability of topics. In
this project, we propose to build a machine classifier to aid in decision
making around notability. One of the core use-cases is to flag article
drafts that are clearly notable to the machine, but would otherwise be
overlooked by their human reviewers.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Interaction_Data_Extracti…
In this project, we propose to extract varied datasets of different types
of editor interactions. Some examples include reverts, talk page reply,
user talk page, etc. We'd then use some natural language processing
strategies to identify the nature of interactions (e.g. positive vs.
negative affect). These datasets would be published openly for others to
make use of. We'd also use the data to explore hypotheses around which
types of interactions promote retention and which types of
editors/interactions lead to others leaving Wikipedia.
-Aaron
Forwarding from wikidata-l.
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> From: Markus Krötzsch <markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org>
> Date: October 1, 2014 at 03:37:40 PDT
> To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikidata-l] Venue for Wikidata research
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>
> Dear all:
>
> Those of you active in research may be interested in submitting to a recently announced special issue of the Journal of Web Semantics that explicitly refers to Wikidata in its call:
>
> "JWS Special Issue on Knowledge Graphs"
> http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps/announcement/view/19
>
> I am a guest editor for this issue and I would obviously be delighted to see some Wikidata-related works, but also other research on large, heterogeneous, graph-like knowledge collections is welcome. JWS is a top journal on Web data and semantic technologies, so we are looking for high-quality research here.
>
> Please spread the word as appropriate.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
> P.S. Note that JWS provides Open Access options for those who want to ensure that their work is freely licensed. However, JWS also has a tradition of keeping all of its preprints freely accessible via its preprint archive; see http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps/issue/archive
>
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