Wiki-research-l April 2014

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Funding research proposals - your input requested by 20 April
by Siko Bouterse 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hi researchers, Some projects that may be of interest to you are currently proposed for Individual Engagement Grants (IEG).[1] Your input is very welcome to help us decide which projects to fund. Please share any comments/questions/feedback you have directly on a proposal's talk page by April 20 2014. There are 4 research proposals: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Co-Location_Impact_Study<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Co-…> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wom…> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Optimizing_Wikimedia_Category_Sy…<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Opt…> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_use_of_Wikipedia_by_doctors_…<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The…> Why you might want to give input: *We want to encourage research that forwards the movement's ability to solve key problems, and so do you. *Questions and suggestions from people with some related expertise helps improve these projects. *Your comments provide the IEG committee with additional perspectives when they are scoring proposals and making recommendations to WMF starting in late April. *If key questions from potential stakeholders can be publicly addressed before a proposal gets to the WMF approvals stage in May, that saves everyone's time and energy and helps us fund better projects :) Thanks, Siko [1] All proposals are listed here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-join -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!*

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Wikimedia monthly research & data showcase: live streamed tomorrow
by Dario Taraborelli 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

The next Research & Data showcase will be live-streamed tomorrow Wed 4/16 at 11.30 PT. The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the showcase starts and you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. We look forward to seeing you! Dario This month: WikiProjects yesterday, today and tomorrow (Jonathan Morgan) In this talk I’ll give an overview of some research [1] [2] on English Wikipedia Wikiprojects: what kind of work they do, how they do it, and how they have changed over time. Visualizing Wikipedia Communities using Gephi (Haitham Shammaa) I will introduce Gephi as a tool for generating a visualized representation of Wikimedia projects communities. Gephi is an open-source network analysis and visualization software, and is utilized to generate graphs that represent users and the interaction among them based on the frequency they send messages to each other on their talk pages.

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Summer School - Web Science and the Mind
by Chicoisne, Guillaume 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Dear moderators, I sometime see conference announcements / CFP on wiki-research ML. I believe that one is appropriate; could you forward it to the list please? Thank you, Guillaume Chicoisne ++++++ Dear all, The Institut des sciences cognitives at UQAM (Montréal) is organising its fifth Summer School, this year on the topic of "Web Science and the Mind" * Topic includes social network analysis, semantic web, distributed cognition, … * Scholarships (500$ + registration) * Call for posters * Can be worth 3 credits Please contact us with any questions or comments you may have: summer14.isc(a)uqam.ca<mailto:summer14.isc@uqam.ca> Guillaume Chicoisne The Fifth Summer School in Cognitive Sciences : Web Science and the Mind. Organized by the UQAM Cognitive Science Institute in Montréal (Canada), from July 7th to 18th. Theme of the Summer Institute: Web Science and the Mind. This summer school will present a comprehensive overview of the interactions between the web and cognitive sciences, with topics ranging from social network analysis to distributed cognition and semantic web. The Summer School will feature a poster session. Information about this poster session is available at: http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/affiche.php<http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/affiche.php> Deadline: April 11th 2014 Registration for the Summer School is open (''Early Bird'' Registration fees until May 9th). Note that the lowest fee is for students that will attend the Summer School as a credited activity (worth 3 university credits). Details: http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php<http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php> Scholarships Scholarships for travel, accomodation and/or registration will be available for students registered in a Quebec University (CREPUQ). http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/bourses.php Want to stay in touch? Follow us on Twitter! @iscUQAM We hope to see you there in July.

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Conference venues for Social Media Researchers [Deadlines are fast approaching!]
by Anatoliy Gruzd 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Calling all Social Media and Online Communities Researchers! Please consider submitting your research to the following conferences. Deadlines are fast approaching. (1) #SMSociety14: CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY Location: Toronto, ON, Canada When: September 27-28, 2014 Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: April 18, 2014 (!!!in 4 days!!!) Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014 More info: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?page_id=549 Conference organizers: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University Barry Wellman, University of Toronto Philip Mai, Dalhousie University Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto (2) Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Minitrack: SOCIAL NETWORKING & COMMUNITIES Location: Kauai, Hawaii, USA When: January 5-8, 2015 Papers Due: June 15, 2014 More info: http://socialmedialab.ca/?page_id=9308 Minitrack co-chairs: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia Karine Nahone, University of Washington Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd <gruzd(a)dal.ca> if you have any questions about these calls.

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Research Analyst position @ WMF
by Aaron Halfaker 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Hey folks, We just listed a job opening at the WMF for a new research position. We're looking specifically for someone to help the fundraising team do background research, design experiments and analyze the results. See the job description and submit your application here: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQ&cs=9UL9Vfwt&pag… -Aaron Halfaker Research Scientist @ WMF

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Notification of IEG proposal and invitation to join the discussion
by Amanda Menking 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hi, I’ve submitted a Wikimedia IEG proposal and would like to invite the community to join the discussion. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia I look forward to your feedback! Best, Amanda

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 4(3) is out
by Tilman Bayer 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

The March 2014 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/March Contents: 1 Cross-language study of conflict on Wikipedia 2 The social construction of knowledge on English Wikipedia 3 User hierarchy map: Building Wikipedia's Org Chart 4 Briefly 4.1 Extracting machine-readable data from Wiktionary 4.2 Wikipedia as a source of proper names in various languages 4.3 "Wikipedia and Machine Translation: killing two birds with one stone" 4.4 "Knowledge Construction in Wikipedia: A Systemic-Constructivist Analysis" 4.5 Younger librarians more supportive of Wikipedia 4.6 "Preparing and publishing Wikipedia articles are a good tool to train project management, teamwork and peer reviewed publishing processes in life sciences" 4.7 "Networked Grounded Theory" analysis of views on the use of Wikipedia in education 4.8 "Risk factors and control of hospital acquired infections: a comparison between Wikipedia and scientific literature" 4.9 How a country's broadband connectivity and Wikipedia coverage are related *** 12 publications were covered in this issue *** Thanks to Federico Leva, Scott Hale, Kim Osman, Jonathan Morgan, Piotr Konieczny, Niklas Laxström and James Heilman for contributing. Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli -- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/ -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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