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Any research on "use of Wikipedia in mass media" or similar?
by Ganesh Paudel 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hi Everyone, I am carrying a research on "Use of Wikipedia by journalists for their information need" in Nepal. If you know somebody have carried research in similar topic in the past, please let me know. It would be helpful for me. With Best Regards Ganesh K. Paudel Dept. of Mass Communication & Journalism Kantipur City College Purwanchal University Kathmandu Nepal

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#WebSci14: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** The 6th ACM Web Science Conference will be held 23-26 June 2014 on the beautiful campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. Web Science continues to focus on the study of information networks, social communities, organizations, applications, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web. The WebSci14 program includes 29 paper presentations, 35 posters with lightening talks, a documentary, and keynotes by Dame Wendy Hall (U. of Southampton), JP Rangaswami (Salesforce.com), Laura DeNardis (American University) and Daniel Tunkelang (LinkedIn). Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference on topics such as Altmetrics, computational approaches to social modeling, the complex dynamics of the Web, the Web of scientific knowledge, interdisciplinary coups to calamities, Web Science education, Web observatories, and Cybercrime and Cyberwar. Conference attendees will have an opportunity to enjoy the exhibit Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. Finally, we will award prizes for the most innovative visualizations of Web data. For this data challenge, we are providing four large datasets that will remain publicly available to Web scientists. For more information on the program, registration, and a full schedule please visit http://WebSci14.org <http://websci14.org/> and follow us on Twitter (@WebSciConf) or like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WebSci14). -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia ✎ 919 E 10th ∙ Bloomington 47408 IN ∙ USA ☞ http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/ciampaglia/ ✆ +1 812 287-3471 ✉ gciampag(a)indiana.edu

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FW: [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Round 1 2014 Individual Engagement Grantees
by ENWP Pine 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Forwarding for the benefit of those not on other lists. Individual Engagement Grants have been announced for topics relevant to mobile tech, research, and editor engagement. Congrats to grantees and I hope we see them on these lists. Consider applying in the next round, and visit IdeaLab to propose and discuss ideas! [1] IdeaLab is for everyone, even if you are not personally requesting funding such as if you have an idea and hope that someone else executes it. For more detail about grants funded see [2] Pine (IEGCom member) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Idealab [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/30/new-grantees-fresh-perspectives-resea… Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 11:50:49 -0430 From: hahc21(a)gmail.com To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Round 1 2014 Individual Engagement Grantees Today we're announcing the latest round of Individual Engagement Grantees. These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online impact.[1] This round, the IEG committee recommended and WMF approved 12 projects led by 16 grantees with countless volunteer participants from around the world. For the first time, Individual Engagement Grants are funding mobile app development, Wikipedia research, and projects aimed at improving Wikivoyage and Wiktionary. Introducing Wikimedia's round 1 2014 Individual Engagement Grantees: Making Telugu Content Accessible, led by Santhosh, funded at 104,000 Rupees.[2] Medicine Translation Community Organizing, led by CFCF, funded at $10,000.[3]Open Access Reader, led by Edward Saperia, funded at $6550.[4] Optimizing Wikimedia Category Systems, led by Paul J. Weiss, funded at $9750.[5] Promoting Wikivoyage, led by Tammy Bennert, funded at $600.[6] Pronunciation Recording, led by Rilke with participation from Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV and Infovarius, funded at ?1450.[7]Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship, led by I JethroBT, Soni, and Gabrielm199, funded at $22,600.[8] Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia, led by Vojtěch Veselý with participation from Vojtěch Dostál, Václav Šulc, and Jan Sokol, funded at 160,000 CZK.[9] Tools for Armenian Wikisource and Beyond, led by Xelgen with participation from HrantKhachatrian and Mahnerak, funded at $7600.[10] The Wikiquiz, led by Addis Wang, Mys 721x, and Ericmetro, funded at $1070.[11] WikiTrack, led by Hari Prasad Nadig, funded at $2500.[12]Women and Wikipedia, led by Amanda Menking, funded at $8075.[13] You can read more about them all on the WMF blog.[14] To everyone who contributed to this round of grants with proposals, ideas, feedback and suggestions: thank you! The next call for proposals opens on 1 September - we look forward to seeing more of your ideas and engagement again soon. Sincerely, Harold HidalgoIndividual Engagement Grants Committee 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Making_telugu_content_accessible 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Com… 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Open_Access_Reader 5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Optimizing_Wikimedia_Category_Sy… 6. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Promoting_Wikivoyage 7. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pronunciation_Recording_(Finish_… 8. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Reimagining_Wikipedia_Mentorship 9. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Senior_Citizens_Write_Wikipedia 10. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Tools_for_Armenian_Wikisource_an… 11. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikiquiz 12. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiTrack 13. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia 14. http://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/ _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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