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 …
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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
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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
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twitter: purplepopple
(Apologies for cross-posting)
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6th Annual International
Social Media & Society Conference
Toronto, Canada
July 27-29, 2015
Website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/
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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 …
[View More]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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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.…
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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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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 …
[View More]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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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 …
[View More]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
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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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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 …
[View More]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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