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
Hi!
I am doing a PhD on online civic participation project
(e-participation). Within my research, I have carried out a user
survey, where I asked how many people ever edited/created a page on a
Wiki. Now I would like to compare the results with the overall rate of
wiki editing/creation on country level.
I've found some country-level statistics on Wikipedia Statistics (e.g.
3,000 editors of Wikipedia articles in Italy) but data for UK and
France are not available since Wikipedia provides statistics by
languages, not by countries. I'm thus looking for statistics on UK and
France (but am also interested in alternative ways of measuring wiki
editing/creation in Sweden and Italy).
I would be grateful for any tips!
Sunny regards, Alina
--
Alina ÖSTLING
PhD Candidate
European University Institute
www.eui.eu
Hi everyone,
We have two Wikipedia literature reviews recently accepted for
publication, both at the Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology. Open access versions are available on the
Concordia University institutional repository:
* Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders: A systematic review of
scholarly research on Wikipedia readers and readership
(https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978617/). This article reviews
studies on ranking and popularity; Wikipedia as a knowledge source;
student readership; and commercial aspects of Wikipedia, among other
topics.
* “The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly
research on the content of Wikipedia
(https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978618/). This article reviews
studies on the quality of Wikipedia (including reliability,
comprehensive, and antecedents to quality) and the size of Wikipedia.
These are part of our larger literature review on Wikipedia (working
paper at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2021326; online database of studies at
http://wikilit.referata.com). We are currently working on detailed,
focused review papers on other important Wikipedia research topics like
motivations to participation, collaborative culture, Wikipedia as a
textual corpus, and other topics.
Unfortunately, because of the tremendous breadth of the topic, the
reviews mainly cover journal articles and doctoral theses (with several
important conference papers) up to 2011-2012.
We would very much appreciate your comments and feedback on the two
accepted papers, and on the working paper with the other topics.
Regards,
Chitu Okoli
Mohamad Mehdi
Mostafa Mesgari
Finn Årup Nielsen
Arto Lanamäki
Just tuning in briefly into Wikia:
> Part of the reason may be that they don't offer regular data dumps.
> But WikiTeam has remedied and recovered dumps for most of their top
> 14k wikis (as well as all images):
> https://archive.org/details/wikia_dump_20140125
> https://archive.org/search.php?query=wikia_dump
>
> It's possible to release updates if needed, just tell us with some
> advance because it takes weeks or months due to aggressive throttling
> and blocking policies.
==> Thanks for that great piece of work. Are there also data dumps for
a random sample (e.g. N = 1000) of wikis available?
Thanks for the info,
Michael
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:56:25 +0900
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I wanted to cite a statistic on whether vandalism at Wikia is higher or
lower than on Wikipedia, but couldn't find anything. Is anyone familiar
with research that I may want to check out? I am drawing almost nothing
for studies of Wikia, outside the recent paper by Aaron Shaw and
Benjamin Mako Hill (CC-ed), which did not however focus on vandalism.
Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically
under-researched...
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:40:16 +0200
From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
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Piotr Konieczny, 29/05/2014 05:56:
> Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically
> under-researched...
Part of the reason may be that they don't offer regular data dumps.
But WikiTeam has remedied and recovered dumps for most of their top 14k
wikis (as well as all images):
https://archive.org/details/wikia_dump_20140125https://archive.org/search.php?query=wikia_dump
It's possible to release updates if needed, just tell us with some
advance because it takes weeks or months due to aggressive throttling
and blocking policies.
Nemo
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 19:22:45 +0900
From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl>
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That's intriguing, any idea why Wikia is being so unfriendly with that?
Are they doing the usual corporation "our data is ours/secrecy is
good/we don't need your research as it may reveal things we don't want
the world/competitors to know about" shtick?
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
On 5/29/2014 15:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Piotr Konieczny, 29/05/2014 05:56:
>> Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically
>> under-researched...
>
> Part of the reason may be that they don't offer regular data dumps.
> But WikiTeam has remedied and recovered dumps for most of their top
> 14k wikis (as well as all images):
> https://archive.org/details/wikia_dump_20140125
> https://archive.org/search.php?query=wikia_dump
>
> It's possible to release updates if needed, just tell us with some
> advance because it takes weeks or months due to aggressive throttling
> and blocking policies.
>
> Nemo
>
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:55:48 +0200
From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
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Piotr Konieczny, 29/05/2014 12:22:
> That's intriguing, any idea why Wikia is being so unfriendly with
that?
> Are they doing the usual corporation "our data is ours/secrecy is
> good/we don't need your research as it may reveal things we don't
want
> the world/competitors to know about" shtick?
Nothing like that: they consistently reply that dumps are wonderful and
in their opinion they do all they should.
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikia#Download
When you explain them that it's not enough, they don't disagree, but
passive-aggresively refer to someone else in the chain of command (I
think I covered it all by now). Their current excuse is that they're
not
sure they have enough disk space on
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/*
Nemo
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I wanted to cite a statistic on whether vandalism at Wikia is higher or
lower than on Wikipedia, but couldn't find anything. Is anyone familiar
with research that I may want to check out? I am drawing almost nothing
for studies of Wikia, outside the recent paper by Aaron Shaw and
Benjamin Mako Hill (CC-ed), which did not however focus on vandalism.
Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically under-researched...
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
Hi everybody,
we’re preparing for the May 2014 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201405 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
• Detecting epidemics using Wikipedia article views: A demonstration of feasibility with language as location proxy
• Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders: A systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia readers and readership
• "The sum of all human knowledge": a systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia
• Uneven Openness: Barriers to MENA Representation on Wikipedia
• Sex ratios in Wikidata
• Automatically Detecting Corresponding Edit-Turn-Pairs in Wikipedia
• A Novel Methodology Based on Formal Methods for Analysis and Verification of Wikis
• Okinawa in Japanese and English Wikipedia
• Bipartite Editing Prediction in Wikipedia
• Increasing the Discoverability of Digital Collections Using Wikipedia: The Pitt Experience
• Playscript Classification and Automatic Wikipedia Play Articles Generation
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
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Dear Colleagues,
Please find a call for abstracts for a workshop on Computational Social
Science below.
I apologise for cross posting.
Best,
Taha
=============================================
Apologies for cross-posting.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Computational Social Science: Social Contagion, Collective Behaviour, and
Networks
to be held in Lucca, Italy, 24-25 September 2014
Website: http://cssworkshop.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline 22 June 2014
Conference date 24-25 September 2013
Event Overview
Technology-mediated social collectives are taking an important role in the
design of social structures. Yet our understanding of the complex
mechanisms governing networks and collective behaviour is still deplorably
shallow. Fundamental concepts of on- and off-line networks such as power,
authority, leader-follower dynamics, consensus emergence, information
sharing, conflict, and collaboration are still not well defined and
investigated. These are all crucial to illuminate the advantages and
pitfalls of collective decision-making, which can cancel out individual
mistakes, but also spiral out of control.
In recent endeavours, data from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Wikipedia, and
weblogs have been shown to strongly correlate to, and even predict,
elections, opinions, attitudes, movie revenues, and oscillations in the
stock market, to cite few examples. Similar data provided insights into the
mechanisms driving the formation of groups of interests, topical
communities, and the evolution of social networks. They also have been used
to study polarization phenomena in politics, diffusion of information, and
the dynamics of collective attention. However, a deeper understanding of
these phenomena is still very much on demand. In parallel, and even
preceding the surge in interest towards social media, the area of
agent-based modeling (ABM) has grown in scope, focus and capability to
produce testable hypotheses, going beyond the original goal of explaining
macroscopic behaviors from simple interaction rules among stylized agents.
The aim of this satellite is to address the question of ICT-mediated social
phenomena emerging over multiple scales, ranging from the interactions of
individuals to the emergence of self-organized global movements. We would
like to gather researchers from different disciplines and methodological
backgrounds to form a forum to discuss ideas, research questions, recent
results, and future challenges in this emerging area of research and public
interest.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Interdependent social contagion process
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Peer production and mass collaboration
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Temporally evolving networks and dynamics of social contagion
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Cognitive aspects of belief formation and revision
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Online communication and information diffusion
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Viral propagation in online social network
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Crowd-sourcing; herding behaviour vs. wisdom of crowds
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E-democracy and online government-citizen interaction
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Online socio-political mobilizations
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Public attention and popularity
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Temporal and geographical patterns of information diffusion
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User-information interplay
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Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis.
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Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media.
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Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis.
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Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics.
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Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models.
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Models of social capital, collective action, social movements.
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Coevolution of network and behavior.
Questions about the conference scope should be directed to the program
co-chairs at css2014(a)indiana.edu
Submission Instructions
Submissions will be made by sending one A4 page abstract in pdf via
Easychair <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=css14>.
The deadline for abstract submission is 22 June 2014.
The contributions to the event will be evaluated by the programme committee
through a peer review process that will account for the scientific quality
as well as for the relevance of the contribution to the aims of the
satellite.
The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified via e-mail by end of
July 2014.
Invited Speakers (to be completed)
János Kertész (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)
Esteban Moro (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Alain Barrat (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France)
Organising Committee
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Javier Borge-Holthoefer (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar)
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Jonathan Bright (OII, University of Oxford, UK)
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Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia (CnetS, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
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Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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Emilio Ferrara (CnetS, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
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Alessandro Flammini (CnetS, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
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Márton Karsai (ENS de Lyon, INRIA, France)
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Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University – USA, ISI Foundation,
Italy)
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Taha Yasseri (OII, University of Oxford, UK)
Call for Participation: Human Computation – A new, interdisciplinary and open-access journal
This might be relevant to some of you:
Today we launched a new interdisciplinary journal called “Human Computation” that brings together human computation / crowdsourcing research and expertise from a variety of fields, covering a wide range of topics related to HC (Find a full list at http://hcjournal.org).
The journal is open-access and authors pay no fees. The editorial and advisory boards are constituted of top HC researchers from many different fields.
Particularly in relation to the Wiki(pedia) research community, topics for submissions could include – among others:
Applications - novel or transformative applications
Modalities - general interaction paradigms (e.g., gaming) and related methods
Interfaces - HCI or related human factors methods or issues
One could for example think about the integration of human “workers” with semi-automatic vandalism detection, the interaction of editors with bots on a daily basis or one of the many other processes in Wikipedia where the actions of humans and machines are tightly interwoven.
If you have ideas for a journal publication in this field, the journal is now accepting submissions (CFP: http://t.co/xlY7yy3zDI) and the first issue will be published in Summer 2014.
You can find author guidelines, board members, review process documentation and instructions for submitting at http://hcjournal.org.
Best,
Fabian
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Dipl.-Medwiss. Fabian Flöck
Research Associate
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods
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