Wiki-research-l November 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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research on who creates new articles on English Wikipedia?
by Heather Ford 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi there, I'm thinking there must be research about whether it is new or experienced editors who are creating new articles on English Wikipedia but I can't seem to find anything. Anyone know of anything like this? Many thanks! Best, Heather. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115> http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>

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Communicating on Wikipedia while female
by Laura Hale 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hey, I posted some new research to meta at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Communicating_on_Wikipedia_while_f… . It is titled: Communicating on Wikipedia while female A discursive analysis of the use of the word cunt on English Wikipedia user talk pages. Thought it might be of some interest to people on this list. Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple

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#SMSociety15: Social Media & Society Conference - Call for Submissions
by Anatoliy Gruzd 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

(Apologies for cross-posting) ------------------------------------ 6th Annual International Social Media & Society Conference Toronto, Canada July 27-29, 2015 Website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ ------------------------------------ Call for Submissions Academic research on social media is growing exponentially across various disciplines including: Communications, Information / Library Science, Computer Science, Business, Sociology, Education, Psychology, Health and others. The Web of Science alone indexed nearly 5,000 journal and conference publications over the last decade. This growing body of research revealed many interesting factors about social media platforms, their users, and a glimpse of our society at large. But are we any closer to understanding the broader implications of social media on our increasing networked society? The 2015 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety15) invites scholarly and original submissions that build on the previous work and critically evaluate the role of social media for social and political change, community engagement, marketing, new forms of governance, support of individuals and organizations in domains such as business, information, management, public administration, academia, health, and journalism (just to mention a few). We are also calling for submissions that develop and apply novel methods and theories to collect, analyze, and visualize social media data as well as those that discuss ethical and privacy implications of using big and small data. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work in the broad area of Social Media & Society that crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media. Whether you are just starting a new research project or ready to report on the final results, you will find that #SMSociety15 is a great venue for you! The 2015 conference invites a wide range of submissions: - short papers on completed or well-developed projects (Due: March 2, 2015) - work-in-progress paper abstracts (Due: April 10, 2015), - panel discussions (Due: March 2, 2015) - poster presentations (Due: May 1, 2015). New to this year, we are also calling for proposals to host: - half-day workshops (Due: February 2, 2015) on a well-defined area or technical tutorials that will examine a particular method or tool for the analysis of social media data in more detail MORE INFORMATION AT http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES All accepted short papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their full papers to the special issue of the Information, Communication & Society journal (published by Taylor & Francis). BACKGROUND The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 6th year, the 2015 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from July 27 to 29, 2015. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ryerson 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. The 2014 conference hosted over 200 attendees, featured research from 238 authors across several fields from 21 different countries. TOPICS OF INTEREST Social Media & Small Data • Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media • Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media • Sampling Issues • Value of Small Data Social Media & Big Data • Visualization of Social Media Data • Social Media Data Mining • Scalability Issues & Social Media Data • Social Media Analytics • Ethics of Big Data Social Media Impact on Society • Private Self/Public Self • The Sharing/Attention Economy • Virality & Memes • Political Mobilization & Engagement • Social Media & Health • Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) • Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) • Social Media & Public Administration • Social Media & the News Theories & Methods • Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches • Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis • Social Network Analysis • Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Online/Offline Communities • Trust & Credibility in Social Media • Online Community Detection • Influential User Detection • Online Identity Social Media & Mobile • App-ification of the Society • Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World • Apps for the Social Good • Networking Apps PROGRAM COMMITTEE The list of the Program Committee members is available at https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1346 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Anatoliy Gruzd Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Director, Social Media Lab Ryerson University, Canada Twitter: @gruzd Barry Wellman Professor & Director, NetLab University of Toronto, Canada Twitter: @barrywellman Philip H. Mai Manager of Academic Communications Ryerson University, Canada Twitter: @phmai Jenna Jacobson PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto, Canada Twitter: @jacobsonjenna MORE INFORMATION AT http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)ryerson.ca

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WikiProject Biophysics in The Atlantic
by Jonathan Morgan 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Inspiring and touching: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/what-wikipedia-taught… -- Jonathan T. Morgan Learning Strategist Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org

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Pagelink diff dumps?
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, is there any differential dumps of the pagelinks table available for download? I am looking at something where additions (and possible also removals) of links between pages is recorded with some form of time information, alongside with source and target page of course :) The closest thing I've come across so far is this dataset from Google and Wikimedia DE but it only covers infobox attributes, but of course not all attributes of an infobox are links, so it would require some cleaning. http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/05/distributing-edit-history-of-wik… Thanks in advance! Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia ✎ 919 E 10th ∙ Bloomington 47408 IN ∙ USA ☞ http://www.glciampaglia.com/ ✆ +1 812 855-7261 ✉ gciampag(a)indiana.edu

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Wikimedia Research Showcase (November 14th)
by Aaron Halfaker 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Streaming for this event will be starting shortly at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FQ-TtTCdJo On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey folks, > > This month we're holding a special edition of the Research and Data > showcase > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase>. > We've invited Dr. Yan Chen, Professor from the UMuch iSchool to present her > work studying community dynamics with Kiva (micro-lending platform) and > what her results might imply for Wikimedia's sites. To take advantage of > her travel schedule, we'll be holding the event on *Friday** November 14 > at 11.30 PST (UTC-8) *rather than the usually 3rd Wednesday. The event > will be live streamed and recorded as usual. You can join the conversation > via IRC on freenode.net in the the #wikimedia-research channel. > > We look forward to seeing you there, > > -Aaron > > *Does Team Competition Increase Pro-Social Lending? Evidence from Online > Microfinance.*By Yan Chen <http://yanchen.people.si.umich.edu/>In the > first half of the talk, I will present our empirical analysis of the > effects of team competition on pro-social lending activity on Kiva.org, the > first microlending website to match lenders with entrepreneurs in > developing countries. Using naturally occurring field data, we find that > lenders who join teams contribute 1.2 more loans per month than those who > do not. Furthermore, teams differ in activity levels. To investigate this > heterogeneity, we run a field experiment by posting forum messages. > Compared to the control, we find that lenders from inactive teams make > significantly more loans when exposed to a goal-setting message and that > team coordination increases the magnitude of this effect.In the second > part of the talk, I will discuss a randomized field experiment we did in > May 2014, when we recommend teams to lenders on Kiva. We find that lenders > are more likely to join teams in their local area. However, after joining > teams, those who join popular teams (on the leaderboard) are more active in > lending. >

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Adding or submitting one's research project about Wikipedia to Wikipedia's Research project page
by Xiangju Qin 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Dear all, I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland. I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia? I would also like to know the following question: When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people. I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project? Many thanks! Have a nice weekend everyone! Best wishes, Xiangju -- Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI Email: qinxiangju(a)gmail.com or xiangju.qin(a)ucdconnect.ie Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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Wikimedia Research
by Aaron Halfaker 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hey folks, This month we're holding a special edition of the Research and Data showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase>. We've invited Dr. Yan Chen, Professor from the UMuch iSchool to present her work studying community dynamics with Kiva (micro-lending platform) and what her results might imply for Wikimedia's sites. To take advantage of her travel schedule, we'll be holding the event on *Friday** November 14 at 11.30 PST (UTC-8) *rather than the usually 3rd Wednesday. The event will be live streamed and recorded as usual. You can join the conversation via IRC on freenode.net in the the #wikimedia-research channel. We look forward to seeing you there, -Aaron *Does Team Competition Increase Pro-Social Lending? Evidence from Online Microfinance.*By Yan Chen <http://yanchen.people.si.umich.edu/>In the first half of the talk, I will present our empirical analysis of the effects of team competition on pro-social lending activity on Kiva.org, the first microlending website to match lenders with entrepreneurs in developing countries. Using naturally occurring field data, we find that lenders who join teams contribute 1.2 more loans per month than those who do not. Furthermore, teams differ in activity levels. To investigate this heterogeneity, we run a field experiment by posting forum messages. Compared to the control, we find that lenders from inactive teams make significantly more loans when exposed to a goal-setting message and that team coordination increases the magnitude of this effect.In the second part of the talk, I will discuss a randomized field experiment we did in May 2014, when we recommend teams to lenders on Kiva. We find that lenders are more likely to join teams in their local area. However, after joining teams, those who join popular teams (on the leaderboard) are more active in lending.

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Drop in amount of wiki research?
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

The data needs cleaning (and every small edit or redirect helps), but multiple sources agree on a trend similar to this, from 2011 to 2014 (partial): 943, 778, 489, 250. http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2011 http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2012 http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2013 http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/2014 What's going on? Nemo

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