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
Dear all,
The Individual Engagement Grants Committee is seeking new members. We are
diverse, consensus-based committee with members on five continents and a
variety of skills. As a group we speak 16 languages and have over 500,000
edits to a variety of Wikimedia sites. We review grant applications twice
per year in four categories: Research, Tools (usually software), Online
community organizing, and Offline outreach and partnerships.
Members may specialize in as few or as many areas as they wish.
We look for the following qualifications. This information is taken from
our Meta page.
Mandatory:
1. Experience with the Wikimedia movement and at least one Wikimedia
project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_projects>.
2. Experience with some aspect of Wikimedia programmatic or
project-based work, e.g. editor engagement, WikiProjects or other on-wiki
organizing processes, outreach, events, partnerships, research, education,
gadget or bot-building, etc.
3. Ability to edit basic wiki-markup (grant proposal discussions are
largely conducted on meta-wiki).
4. Reasonable facility with English, for reviewing and discussing grant
proposals.
5. In good community- and legal- standing (not currently blocked or
banned, involved in allegations of unethical financial behavior, etc).
6. Availability to actively engage in the selection process during the
published schedule for that round (time commitment is about 3 hours per
week, plus 1 extra day for scoring).
Preferable:
1. Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an
intended on-wiki or online impact.
2. Experience handling externally provided money and working within
budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
3. Experience applying for grants or working in grants programs (in the
Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
4. Ability to read and write in multiple languages.
Acceptable:
1. Members may apply for an Individual Engagement Grant themselves, but
they will recuse themselves from reviewing proposals in the same category
as their own during that round.
2. Membership does not conflict with membership in other Wikimedia
committees, including the Grant Advisory Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisor…>
or the Wikimania Scholarships Committee.
Please apply at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee#ieg-candidates. The
close of the application period is September 21. The Committee will review
the applications internally and announce new members by early October,
coinciding with the start of the public review period for new grant
proposals.
For the Committee,
Pine
#################################################################
5th International Workshop on
Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering
part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation
(SCS SpringSim 2015)
CALL FOR PAPERS
#################################################################
April 12-15, 2015, Alexandria, VA (USA)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim15
#################################################################
# Papers Due: *** November 10, 2014 *** Accepted papers will be
# published in the conference proceedings and archived in the ACM
# Digital Library.
#################################################################
The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based,
model-driven and software engineering with experts in simulation
methods and simulation practitioners, with the objective to
advance the state of the art in model-driven simulation
engineering.
Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable
advantages to software systems engineering activities through the
provision of consistent and coherent models at different
abstraction levels. As these models are in a machine readable
form, model-driven engineering approaches can also support the
exploitation of computing capabilities for model reuse,
programming code generation, and model checking, for example.
The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation
and its execution platform form what is known as simulation
engineering. As simulation systems are mainly based on software,
these systems can similarly benefit from model-driven approaches
to support automatic software generation, enhance software
quality, and reduce costs, development effort and time-to-market.
Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation
engineering can exploit the capabilities of model-driven
approaches by increasing the abstraction level in simulation
model specifications and by automating the derivation of
simulator code. Further advantages can be gained by using
modeling languages, such as UML and SysML, but not exclusively
those. For example, modeling languages can be used for
descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated),
for analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation
of the same system) and for implementation modeling (to define
the respective simulator).
A partial list of topics of interest includes:
* model-driven simulation engineering processes
* requirements modeling for simulation
* domain specific languages for modeling and simulation
* model transformations for simulation model building
* model transformations for simulation model implementation
* model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems
* relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore)
and distributed simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS)
* metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability
* model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms
(discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation,
sketch-based simulation, etc.)
* model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of
simulation systems
* simulation tools for model-driven software performance
engineering
* model-driven technologies for simulation verification and
validation
* model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis
* model-driven technologies for simulation visualization
* executable UML
* executable architectures
* SysML/Modelica integration
* simulation model portability and reuse
* model-based systems verification and validation
* simulation for model-based systems engineering
To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider
scope and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives
on model-driven engineering of simulation systems.
+++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++
* Abstract Submission Deadline (optional): September 12, 2014
* Paper Submission Deadline: November 10, 2014
* Decision to paper authors: January 9, 2015
* Camera ready due: February 10, 2015
* Conference dates: April 12-15, 2015
++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++
* Andrea DÕAmbrogio - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
* Paolo Bocciarelli - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Dario and company,
I heard a portion of the discussion during the September metrics meeting
about Comscore saying that Wikimedia globally has a significant decline in
unique visitors but this does not take into account mobile users.
I thought that Wikimedia was developing an internal way of measuring unique
visitors and was using Comscore data mainly to validate the internal data.
Can you give an update on what the internal data shows about global uniques?
Pine
Maybe relevant for folks on the list...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Thompson <sjt(a)jhu.edu>
Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:40 PM
Subject: [Dbworld] Abstracts for book on emerging human-machine technologies
To: dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu
*Call For Chapters*
*Emerging Human-Machine Technologies*
*Edited by Steven John Thompson*
Existing publications consider the science and technology afforded the
human-machine, and all of the inner workings for making the cyborg creation
a reality. The idea of a universal forum that discovers, explores, and
prepares the way for eventual large-scale cyborg sociocultural integration,
which just a few years ago would have been incredulous, is now upon us as
evidenced in the proximity at which science and technology are rapidly
arriving at machine sentience. Even with potential sentience a few years
down the road, and prospects of sentience leading to interactive
communication between cyborgs and humans at any conceivable level perhaps
years away from that, it is time for a worthy publication committed to the
goal of addressing critical, foundational aspects of the study of cyborgs,
including their creation, governance, rights, expectations for
participation in digital society, and other imperative aspects of their
impending existence alongside their human inhabitants in this world.
Emerging Human-Machine Technologies will publish high-quality, anonymously
peer-reviewed essays that explore universal concerns, ethics, objectives,
and principles in aspects of human enhancement technologies related to
human-machines, machine-humans, their cyber-relatives, and proliferation of
cyborg activity, culture, engineering, society, and technology. This volume
will include groundbreaking and exploratory author contributions from
engineers, practitioners, researchers, scholars, scientists, theorists,
political scientists, lawyers, philosophers, ethicists, and human factors
technologists who work closely theoretically or in practice with select
human enhancement technologies, synthetic biological sciences, military
advancements, robotics engineering, nanoscience technologies, and related
allied research interests. The book will provide a forum for cybernetics
issues in the humanities in emerging technologies, including research into
design, engineering, and technological aspects of human-machine creation
and existence for potential acceptance, ethics, participation, policy,
governance, and socialization between individuals and corporate, global,
networked, human-machine experience.
Ashgate Publishing has already expressed interest in this volume for
its *Emerging
Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs s*eries with selected
abstracts to be duly considered by publisher.
*Possible Topics*
Human-Machine Theory and Definition
• Body and Machine
• Creation and Machination
• Enhancement and Modification
• Cyborg Technical Engineering Issues
• Uses in Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society
Human-Machine Creation and Psychosocial Assimilation
• Cyborg Culture
• Current Human-Machine Artificial Intelligence Initiatives
• Human-Machine Mental Health and Psychology
• Cyborgs in Contemporary Societies
• Cyborgs in the Media
• Technological Advances and Concerns
Human-Machine Ethics and Philosophy
• Attributes and Consequences of Bionic Implants and Related Interfaces
• Core Human Enhancement Technology Concerns
• Human Rights and Requisite Modifications as Societal Controls
• Cyborg Values and Freedoms of Expression
• Metaphysical Moments
• Ethics in Health and Safety Concerns
Human-Machine Policy and Regulation
• Species Control and Potential Societal Threat
• Intimacies with Corporations, Governments, and Military Axes
• Issues in Development
• Trends in Cyborg Control, Governance, and Policy Issues
Human-Machines, Cyborgenics, Digitality, and Neuronics
• Access, Availability, and Privilege Afforded Human to Cyborg Alteration
• Corporate Technological Production and Purposed Results
• Pervasive Human-Machine Ubiquity
• Current Trends in Cyborgenics
• Participation in The Collective Hive of Perpetually Networked Humans and
Machines
*Submission Guidelines*
Deadline for abstracts (200-500 words) in MS Word or PDF format is *September
15, 2014*.
Tentative deadline for drafts of accepted papers (5000-7000 words) is *December
31, 2014*.
All inquiries and submissions should be directed to Steve Thompson as
rhetorist(a)dartmouth.edu.
_______________________________________________
Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at
large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms.
To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> Wikimedia is a nonprofit, but that doesn't mean it can't bring in money
> based on data collected from its users. I think we all know that this is
> exactly what it does.
Sorry Ed, I don't think we all know that. In fact, I'm unaware of any way
in which Wikimedia makes money based on data collected from its users. To
my knowledge, the Foundation is supported almost entirely through private
donations[1].
If there's something else you have in mind here, it would be helpful to
know what you mean. Otherwise, I think it's quite unhelpful to suggest that
the Foundation is somehow making money on the backs of users.
all the best,
Aaron
[1]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en#How_is_the_Wikimedia_Foundation_…
Thanks Andreas. Forwarding to Research.
Pine
On Sep 1, 2014 4:09 PM, "Andreas Kolbe" <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a new paper, published a couple of weeks ago. (Sorry if it's been
> mentioned before, I couldn't see a related thread.)
>
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0104880
>
> Principal findings:
>
> We find that administrators maintain a rather neutral, impersonal tone,
> while regular editors are more emotional and relationship-oriented, that
> is, they use language to form and maintain connections to other editors. *A
> persistent gender difference is that female contributors communicate in a
> manner that promotes social affiliation and emotional connection more than
> male editors, irrespective of their status in the community. Female regular
> editors are the most relationship-oriented, whereas male administrators are
> the least relationship-focused.* Finally, emotional and linguistic
> homophily is prevalent: editors tend to interact with other editors having
> similar emotional styles (e.g., editors expressing more anger connect more
> with one another).
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gendergap mailing list
> Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
>
>
Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is
accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>
Your idea can improve Wikimedia projects by building a new tool or gadget,
organizing a better process on your wiki, conducting research on an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building. Whether
you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your
own project development time in addition to funding for a team to help you.
The program has a flexible schedule and reporting structure, and
Grantmaking staff are there to support you through all stages of the
process.
Do you have have a good idea, but you are worried that it isn’t developed
enough for a grant? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff
can give you advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Also, IEG will be hosting
three Hangout Sessions for real-time discussions to help you make your
proposal better - the first will happen on September 16th. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events>
For inspiration, you can read more about past projects that received
funding<https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/> or
review open proposals <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing>. We are excited
to see some of the new ways your grant ideas can support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.
Submit your proposal in September!
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply>
Warm regards,
Ocaasi and the IEG Committee