Is there a way to retrieve a canonical list of bots on enwiki or elsewhere?
I'm interested in omitting automated revisions (sorry Stuart!) for the
purposes of building co-authorship networks.
Grabbing everything under 'Category:All Wikipedia bots' excludes some major
ones like SmackBot, Cydebot, VIAFbot, Full-date unlinking bot, etc. because
these bots have changed names but the redirect is not categorized, the
account has been removed/deprecated, or a user appears to have removed the
relevant bot categories from the page.
Can anyone advise me on how to kill all the bots in my data without having
to resort to manual cleaning or hacky regex?
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lazer Lab
College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University
Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University
Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
b.keegan(a)neu.edu
www.brianckeegan.com
M: 617.803.6971
O: 617.373.7200
Skype: bckeegan
Hello All,
I'm working on the Open-Access Signalling Project[1], which aims to signal
and badge when a reference in Wikipedia is Open Access source. I'm writing
the bot at the moment to do this, and I'm encountering a question - how do
I keep track of the values of the template {{Cite doi | doi=value}}, in as
close to real-time as possible?
The most efficient approach I can come up with is to query the SQL servers
on Labs in constant loop, returning the results of "What transcludes {{Cite
doi}}" and seeing if the last_edited timestamp is newer than previous? If
the last_edit is newer, then get the content of the page and see if the
{{Cite_doi}} value has changed, checking against a local database.
This seems horribly inefficient still. Is there a hook to know when a
template on a page has been edited, rather than having to check every time
the page has been edited?
This is possibly not the right list for this question. If not, which other
would you suggest? Wikitech-l did not seem right either?
Thanks in advance,
Max Klein
‽ http://notconfusing.com/
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_…
hi Pine,
this is an excellent point, and I believe there are definitely too few
systematic studies on the topic, as well as targeted programs.
<blatant promotion mode on>
In my book, "Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia", which has
left the press last week, I have a whole chapter ("Between Anarchy and
Bureaucracy: Wikimedia Governance") dedicated to issues of governance and
internal leadership.
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
Unfortunately, Google Books preview has most of the pages limited (and
Stanford University Press is not too keen on open access of their
publications, sadly).
http://books.google.pl/books?id=hBpuAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA178&dq=jemielniak%20comm…
</blatant promotion mode off>
best,
dariusz "pundit"
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I've heard the word "leadership" used a lot in WMF, synonymously with
> "management" in my experience. That makes sense in a somewhat hierarchical
> organization like WMF, although this model has received some criticism from
> the community for allegedly excessive top-down thinking. I'm not familiar
> enough with the culture in the WMF Office to comment about its strengths
> and weaknesses, but I would like to ask questions about leadership in the
> community.
>
> In the community, which is diffuse and where roles are highly flexible,
> there have been some studies done done about leadership but the ones I know
> about usually focus on hierarchies within the community, especially how
> people get chosen for administrator roles on-wiki. As we are thinking about
> our online culture, we can be thinking about movement leadership. Who are
> the leaders, how are they trained, how are they selected, what do they do,
> what makes them effective, and how can they be given ongoing support and
> training? I think many of us would agree that adminship and leadership are
> not always synonymous, and there are many ways that people exercise
> leadership in non-hierarchical ways.
>
> I hear frequently about stress from members of English Wikipedia's Arbcom,
> and I hope WMF is thinking about how to train and support people who get
> chosen for such visible, important, and often stressful volunteer roles.
>
> I would also like to point out that Wikimedia is developing training
> materials for leaders of chapters and programs.
>
> Is there anyone at WMF who is taking a holistic view of community
> leadership and how to understand, train and support it in ways that support
> the strategic plan goals?
>
> Training that might be relevant could include how to create friendly
> spaces online,
> resolve online conflicts, engage in cross-cultural communication,
> encourage strategic thinking, influence change, and maintain morale. I
> think a series of five-minute training modules could be helpful for online
> and offline volunteers, along with dedicating some Program & Evaluation or
> Research time to understanding leadership in the non-hierarchical
> community. These initiatives could help with encouraging teamwork and
> collaboration online by influencing and training "leaders".
>
> I would also be interested in hearing about how WMF thinks about
> "leadership" internally, since there seems to be some community feeling
> that WMF's thinking about leadership is incompatible with the community's.
> I don't have an opinion but I would like to be more informed, and hopefully
> encourage WMF to think about how the organization as a whole interacts with
> the community.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pine
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profesor zarządzania
kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
i centrum badawczego CROW
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl
członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Dear all,
With the aim to compare Wikipedia traffic report data (e.g. viewing versus
editing, regional differences within a language version, etc.), I have made
a few more interactive infographics which show the historical changes since
late 2011. (Historical numbers are scraped from the past versions archived
by the Internet archive)
For more, please visit follow the link below:
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2014/05/16/wikipedia-traffic/
It has at least one nice interactive feature: a user can zoom and pan to
view the chart easily with a mouse or mousepad. The SVG vector-based
presentation insures the picture quality is consistent when users zoom in
to compare data points. (I haven't figured out how mpld3's html tooltip
work for this project, though.)
It is also possible to extend the prototype with dynamic json objects
so that the chart/tables can be updated automatically.
Any suggestions and comments are welcome.
Best,
han-teng liao
*Apologies for cross-posting*
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Hi,
I'm trying to find a client side software that will enable me to record
*all* actions of the users:* local action* on the tablet (save, pinch,
swipe, open documents, etc...) and *server transactions* (web searches,
sending information, clicking on adds, etc...). I have found several such
programs for window os, but not for the android platform (found in android
software that records server transactions only).
Any help on the subject would be welcomed,
Simon
CICM 2014 - Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
7-11 July 2014 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2014
* * * Announcement of Invited Speakers * * *
* * * Call for Work-in-Progress Papers -- Deadline June 1 * * *
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As computers and communications technology advance, greater
opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While
computer algebra, automated deduction, mathematical publishing and
novel user interfaces individually have long and successful histories,
we are now seeing increasing opportunities for synergy among these
areas. CICM 2014 offers a venue to discuss these areas and their
synergy.
The conference will take place at the University of Coimbra, Portugal,
and consists of four tracks:
* Calculemus, Chair: James Davenport
* Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML), Chair: Petr Sojka
* Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM), Chair: Josef Urban
* Systems and Projects, Chair: Alan Sexton
As in previous years, there will be a Doctoral Programme for the
mentoring of Doctoral students and several co-located workshops.
* MathUI 2014: Mathematical User Interfaces
* OpenMath Workshop 2014
* The Notion of Proof 2014
* ThEdu 2014: TP Components for Educational Software
* Doctoral Programme
All of these are now accepting contributions. Please see the web site
for their calls for submissions.
The overall programme is organised by the General Program Chair
Stephen Watt.
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CICM Invited Talks
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* Yves Bertot, INRIA
A naive view of homotopy type theory and its relation to
the calculus of constructions
* Jaime Carvalho e Silva, U Coimbra
What international studies say about the importance and limitations
of using computers to teach mathematics in secondary schools
* Antonio Leal Duarte, U Coimbra [Joint Speaker with ADG 2014]
Teaching Tiles
* Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos Natioanl Laboratory
Towards robust hyperlinks for web-based scholarly communication
* Eric Weisstein, Wolfram|Alpha
Computable data, mathematics, and digital libraries
in Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha
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Work-in-Progress Call-for-Papers
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Work-in-progress submissions are intended to provide a forum for the
presentation of original work that is not (yet) in a suitable form for
submission as a full or system description paper. This includes work
in progress and emerging trends. Papers may be on any CICM topic,
including those from Calculemus, DML, MKM and Systems and Projects.
Accepted work-in-progress papers will be presented at the conference
as short teaser talks and as posters. The work-in-progress
proceedings will be published digitally in the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org).
WiP papers should be prepared in LaTeX and formatted according
Springer's LNCS series (the corresponding style files can be
downloaded from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Papers should be between 5 and 10 pages in length.
By submitting a paper the authors agree that if it is accepted at
least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it.
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Work-in-Progress Submission Particulars
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WiP paper submission deadline : 1 June 2014
WiP paper notification of acceptance : 15 June 2014
WiP Camera ready copies due : 20 June 2014
Conference : 7-11 July 2014
Electronic submission is done through Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2014wip
Note that this is different from the main CICM submission page.
==========
Calculemus
==========
Calculemus 2014 invites the submission of original research
contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the
conference. Calculemus is a series of conferences dedicated to the
integration of computer algebra systems (CAS) and systems for
mechanised reasoning like interactive proof assistants (PA) or
automated theorem provers (ATP). Currently, symbolic computation is
divided into several (more or less) independent branches: traditional
ones (e.g., computer algebra and mechanised reasoning) as well as
newly emerging ones (on user interfaces, knowledge management, theory
exploration, etc.) The main concern of the Calculemus community is to
bring these developments together in order to facilitate the theory,
design, and implementation of integrated mathematical assistant
systems that will be used routinely by mathematicians, computer
scientists and all others who need computer-supported mathematics in
their every day business.
All topics in the intersection of computer algebra systems and
automated reasoning systems are of interest for Calculemus. These
include but are not limited to:
* Automated theorem proving in computer algebra systems.
* Computer algebra in theorem proving systems.
* Adding reasoning capabilities to computer algebra systems.
* Adding computational capabilities to theorem proving systems.
* Theory, design and implementation of interdisciplinary systems for
computer mathematics.
* Case studies and applications that involve a mix of computation and
reasoning.
* Case studies in formalization of mathematical theories.
* Representation of mathematics in computer algebra systems.
* Theory exploration techniques.
* Combining methods of symbolic computation and formal deduction.
* Input languages, programming languages, types and constraint languages,
and modeling languages for mathematical assistant systems.
* Homotopy type theory.
* Infrastructure for mathematical services.
===
DML
===
Mathematicians dream of a digital archive containing all peer-reviewed
mathematical literature ever published, properly linked, validated and
verified. It is estimated that the entire corpus of mathematical
knowledge published over the centuries does not exceed 100,000,000
pages, an amount easily manageable by current information
technologies.
Track objective is to provide a forum for development of math-aware
technologies, standards, algorithms and formats towards fulfillment of
the dream of global digital mathematical library (DML). Computer
scientists (D) and librarians of digital age (L) are especially
welcome to join mathematicians (M) and discuss many aspects of DML
preparation.
Track topics are all topics of mathematical knowledge management and
digital libraries applicable in the context of DML building --
processing of math knowledge expressed in scientific papers in natural
languages, namely:
* Math-aware text mining (math mining) and MSC classification
* Math-aware representations of mathematical knowledge
* Math-aware computational linguistics and corpora
* Math-aware tools for [meta]data and fulltext processing
* Math-aware OCR and document analysis
* Math-aware information retrieval
* Math-aware indexing and search
* Authoring languages and tools
* MathML, OpenMath, TeX and other mathematical content standards
* Web interfaces for DML content
* Mathematics on the web, math crawling and indexing
* Math-aware document processing workflows
* Archives of written mathematics
* DML management, business models
* DML rights handling, funding, sustainability
* DML content acquisition, validation and curation
===
MKM
===
Mathematical Knowledge Management is an interdisciplinary field of
research in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, library
science, and scientific publishing. The objective of MKM is to develop
new and better ways of managing sophisticated mathematical knowledge,
based on innovative technology of computer science, the Internet, and
intelligent knowledge processing. MKM is expected to serve
mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who produce and use
mathematical knowledge; educators and students who teach and learn
mathematics; publishers who offer mathematical textbooks and
disseminate new mathematical results; and librarians and
mathematicians who catalog and organize mathematical knowledge.
The conference is concerned with all aspects of mathematical knowledge
management. A non-exclusive list of important topics includes:
* Representations of mathematical knowledge
* Authoring languages and tools
* Repositories of formalized mathematics
* Deduction systems
* Mathematical digital libraries
* Diagrammatic representations
* Mathematical OCR
* Mathematical search and retrieval
* Math assistants, tutoring and assessment systems
* MathML, OpenMath, and other mathematical content standards
* Web presentation of mathematics
* Data mining, discovery, theory exploration
* Computer algebra systems
* Collaboration tools for mathematics
* Challenges and solutions for mathematical workflows
====================
Systems and Projects
====================
The Systems and Projects track of the Conferences on Intelligent
Computer Mathematics is a forum for presenting available systems and
new and ongoing projects in all areas and topics related to the CICM
conferences:
* Deduction and Computer Algebra (Calculemus)
* Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML)
* Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM)
The track aims to provide an overview of the latest developments and
trends within the CICM community as well as to exchange ideas between
developers and introduce systems to an audience of potential users.