Wiki-research-l November 2014

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List of student research assignment
by John Andersson 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hi, The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and projects next year! I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - during their thesis course. I.e. not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC - but during the semesters.) If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the necessary structures for this in the future? PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked. Best, John - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sverige Project Manager Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se Skype: johnandersson86 Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana and @WikimediaSE Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider becoming a member of Wikimedia Sverige! We need your support.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7
by John Andersson 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Kerry, I agree that both aspects could be very relevant and rewarding to work on. You wrote "we probably need to have some information available to the students on the codebase and whatever else is required to be immediately productive", could you expand a bit about what you mean? Are you thinking about improving the documentation? Have you already identified some weak spots? John > From: wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7 > To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:57:40 +0000 > > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. List of student research assignment (John Andersson) > 2. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) > 3. Re: List of student research assignment (Federico Leva (Nemo)) > 4. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:48:25 +0100 > From: John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se> > To: "Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment > Message-ID: <DUB131-W90D8F08860280D1CFAD4BDBF800(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > > > The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a > number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing > them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for > either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and projects next year! > > > > > I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled > somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - during their thesis course. I.e. > not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more > comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC - but during the semesters.) > > > > If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the necessary structures for this in the future? > > > > PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked. > > > > Best, > > John > > - - - - > > > > John Andersson > > > > Wikimedia Sverige > > > > Project Manager > > > > > > > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > > > Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se > > > > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana and @WikimediaSE > Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider becoming a member of Wikimedia Sverige! We need your support. > >

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7
by John Andersson 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Nemo, I am happy to clarify! With "staff" I included university teachers and professors. I intentionally wrote it a bit more blurry as I figured that this might differ between different countries. :-) In Sweden we have so far worked directly with teachers and professors to formulate an interesting topic and they have added themselves - or colleagues - as supervisors. Wikimedia Sverige's staff is involved as external experts that will help guide the students. To make it more concrete I have included an example of a thesis topic that we have added to the university's database below: What role can Wikipedia’s material have in Sweden’s prisons? It is possible to provide prisons with an offline version of Wikipedia so that the prisoners can read and continuously educate themselves? This has already been tested in Switzerland in 2013-2014. It would be interesting to evaluate the possibilities for similar projects in Sweden and to find out what the possibilities and the obstacles are. Supervisor Henrik Hansson, DSV, John Andersson, Wikimedia Sverige https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix_-_Wikipedia_Offline https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_fängelser_2015 If there is interest from a student then the discussion continues in order to narrow down the topic - in a way that is good for both us and for the student. The result can then, hopefully, be used for an external application to fund a project. In Sweden many universities also offer the possibility for external organizations/companies to send in suggestions on thesis topics even without the contact with a professor/teacher in advance. The professors/teachers at the university will then decide if they care to be supervisors or not. A few months from now we will see if this works out well for us or not. John > From: wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7 > To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:57:40 +0000 > > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. List of student research assignment (John Andersson) > 2. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) > 3. Re: List of student research assignment (Federico Leva (Nemo)) > 4. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:48:25 +0100 > From: John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se> > To: "Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment > Message-ID: <DUB131-W90D8F08860280D1CFAD4BDBF800(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > > > The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a > number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing > them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for > either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and projects next year! > > > > > I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled > somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - during their thesis course. I.e. > not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more > comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC - but during the semesters.) > > > > If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the necessary structures for this in the future? > > > > PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked. > > > > Best, > > John > > - - - - > > > > John Andersson > > > > Wikimedia Sverige > > > > Project Manager > > > > > > > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > > > Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se > > > > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana and @WikimediaSE > Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider becoming a member of Wikimedia Sverige! We need your support. > >

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Missing index on Tool Labs
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

I know the best place to ask this would be Labs-l, but I just subscribed to it and am waiting for the list admin to be added. In the meanwhile some good soul could please forward this message there? Is there a reason why the tables on the Labs replica are not indexed? Drawing a list of random titles with page_random takes more than a minute! MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select page_id, page_title, page_random from page where page_random > rand() and page_namespace = 0 order by page_random limit 10; +----------+---------------------------------------+----------------+ | page_id | page_title | page_random | +----------+---------------------------------------+----------------+ | 18247710 | Jack_frost_comic | 0.000597330654 | | 2102857 | Prince_Carl_Christian_of_Hohenzollern | 0.000885503126 | | 21550893 | Phoberocyon | 0.000927813129 | | 2836759 | Rinascimento | 0.000943768415 | | 20972414 | Gothic_black_metal | 0.000989090479 | | 1654899 | 1500v_DC | 0.001175443821 | | 43905082 | Juan_García_Costilla | 0.00153940668 | | 1316905 | T_subsurface_stock | 0.001564608112 | | 1447578 | RPGMaker_2000 | 0.00158874586 | | 2034084 | State_Bar_of_California | 0.001697520497 | +----------+---------------------------------------+----------------+ 10 rows in set (1 min 21.14 sec) MariaDB [enwiki_p]> show index from page; Empty set (0.00 sec) MariaDB [enwiki_p]> 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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First CFP CICM 2015
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Call for Papers Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics CICM 2015 13-17 July 2015 Washington DC, USA Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), and Coimbra (Portugal 2014). This is a (short version of the) call for papers for CICM 2015, which will be held in Washington, D.C., 13-17 July 2015. The full version of the CFP is available from the conference web page at http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php ********************************************************************** The principal tracks of the conference will be: ********************************************************************** * Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning) Chair: Jacques Carette * DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries) Chair: Volker Sorge * MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management) Chair: Cezary Kaliszyk * Systems and Data Chair: Florian Rabe Publicity chair is Serge Autexier. The local arrangements will be coordinated by the Local Arrangements Chairs, Bruce R. Miller (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Abdou Youssef (The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), and the overall programme will be organized by the General Programme Chair, Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK). As in previous years, it is anticipated that there will be a number co-located workshops, including one to mentor doctoral students giving presentations. We also solicit for project descriptions and work-in-progress papers. ********************************************************************** Important Dates ********************************************************************** Conference submissions: Abstract submission deadline: 16 February 2015 Submission deadline: 23 February 2015 Reviews sent to authors: 6 April 2015 Rebuttals due: 9 April 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2015 Camera ready copies due: 27 April 2015 Conference: 13-17 July 2015 Work-in-progress and Doctoral Programme submissions: Submission deadline: (Doctoral: Abstract+CV) 4 May 2015 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2015 Camera ready copies due: 1 June 2015 More detailed information, e.g. on submission via EasyChair, can be found on http://cicm-conference.org/2015/cicm.php -- Serge Autexier, serge.autexier(a)dfki.de, http://www.dfki.de/~serge/ DFKI Bremen, Cyber-Physical Systems MZH, Room 3120 Phone: +49 421 218 59834 Bibliothekstr.1, D-28359 Bremen Fax: +49 421 218 98 59834 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH principal office, *not* the address for mail etc.!!!: Trippstadter Str. 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern management board: Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (chair), Dr. Walter Olthoff supervisory board: Prof. Hans A. Aukes (chair) Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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IMPORTANT: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO DECEMBER THE 7th
by news＠iccss2015.eu 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Conference on Computational Social Science Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015 WEBSITE http://www.iccss2015.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission: 7 December 2014 Opening of registration: 15 January 2015 Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015 EVENT OVERVIEW The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments.. PROGRAM CHAIRS Karen Cook (Stanford) Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Michael Macy (Cornell) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Opening talk by Michael Macy (Cornell) Lada Adamic (Facebook) Sinan Aral (MIT) Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and CEU) Nicholas Christakis (Yale) Robin Dunbar (Oxford) Andreas Flache (University of Groeningen) Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) Matthew Jackson (Stanford) Jure Leskovec (Stanford) Alex Pentland (MIT) Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Santo Fortunato (Aalto University), Aristides Gionis (Aalto), Heikki Hämmäinen (Aalto), Kimmo Kaski (Aalto), Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca), Jari Saramäki (Aalto), Juuso Valimäki (Aalto) TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to) Social networks Social contagion Communication dynamics Information diffusion and other spreading phenomena Social influence Crowd-sourcing Popularity dynamics Smart cities Attention economics Social design and user behavior Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis Human mobility Mobility and context-awareness Economics of trust SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Contributions to the conference have to be submitted via Easychair (www.easychair.org), the name of the event there is IC2S2. Each submission consists of an extended abstract of max 2 pages (A4). Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work, put at least one figure, otherwise it will be difficult for the PC to assess its relevance. Short, paper-like abstracts will not be considered. Abstracts do not need to refer to unpublished work. If the work is published or under submission elsewhere it is fine. We want to give to everyone the opportunity to present the most relevant work to the topics of the conference. There will be no proceedings, but we are exploring the possibility of having a special journal issue, where selected contributions will be published. Authors of those contributions would be invited to submit full papers after the conference. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by two PC members. Abstracts can be submitted from September the 15th till November 15th, 2014. We will do our best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, there will be a poster session as well. During the submission process, you will be asked to specify whether your contribution is intended for a) Plenary session presentation, b) Parallel session presentation or c) Poster session presentation. The final allocation of each contribution will be decided by the Program Committee. CONTACT For any question you might have please contact Prof. Santo Fortunato (santo.fortunato(a)aalto.fi)

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Wikimedia stewards and "What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together"
by Pine W 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

I've had a number of discussions with our stewards over the years. Many of them are dedicated, polite, clever, and highly sophisticated in the ways of the Wiki. They get no pay and little glory for their delicate work, and we often take their availability for granted. The title of this article [1], "The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia: What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together" overstates the stewards' influence a bit, but I enjoyed reading the article and think that other Wikimedians might also. To our stewards: thank you. Pine [1] https://medium.com/matter/the-36-people-who-run-wikipedia-21ecca70bcca

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Experimenting on Wikimedians
by Aileen Oeberst 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

I am currently on vacation and will not be able to answer your mail before November 10. But I will get back then as soon as possible. Best regards, Aileen Oeberst

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Poke for the mailing list admins, whoever they are
by Oliver Keyes 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Bah; research-l On 1 November 2014 22:33, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Could we temporarily moderate Aileen, please? This is getting somewhat > ridiculous and cluttering the archives (and my inbox) with automated dross. > > (Mandatory pause while I wait for Aileen's autoresponder to prove my point) > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Experimenting on Wikimedians
by Pine W 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Forwarding to Research and Analytics for discussion. Pine On Oct 30, 2014 8:13 PM, "MZMcBride" <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Splitting this out from the GLAMs/Chapters thread, I continue to regularly > wonder whether we need stricter guidelines and guidance in the area of > experimenting on Wikimedians. > > Erik mentioned trying to further implement A/B testing in software > development, but to me that quickly raises consent and trust issues. My > view is that Wikimedians should be treated as colleagues, not customers. > > Of course the stark reality is that A/B testing on users (typically > readers, not editors) during the annual Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser > has been a major component of the Wikimedia Foundation's growth. > > Worth repeating, from <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Experiments>: > > --- > Current practices in Web analytics reflect their commercial origins. For > better or worse, the greatest motor behind the use of Web analytics has > been the profit interests of online retailers and social networks, for > whom the user is a commodity. These profit interests have profoundly > shaped the discourse of Web analytics, setting both the tenor and the tone > of debate (consider the values implicit in "funnels," a term of art). > > A thoughtless application of Web analytics to Wikimedia wikis would import > a moral outlook that is incompatible with (and, indeed, rightfully > offensive to) its community. It also wouldn't work well, because neither > Wikimedia wikis nor their editing communities are for sale. It is > therefore crucial that technical efforts be accompanied by a process of > reflection, the goal of which should be to articulate criteria for Web > analytics that express and promote the broader ambitions of the Wikimedia > movement and the moral commitments that underlie it. > --- > > I think this about sums it up better than I ever could. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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