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
We’re glad to announce the release of an aggregate clickstream dataset extracted from English Wikipedia
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305770 <http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305770>
This dataset contains counts of (referer, article) pairs aggregated from the HTTP request logs of English Wikipedia. This snapshot captures 22 million (referer, article) pairs from a total of 4 billion requests collected during the month of January 2015.
This data can be used for various purposes:
• determining the most frequent links people click on for a given article
• determining the most common links people followed to an article
• determining how much of the total traffic to an article clicked on a link in that article
• generating a Markov chain over English Wikipedia
We created a page on Meta for feedback and discussion about this release: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_clickstream <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_clickstream>
Ellery and Dario
Cross-posting this request to wiki-research-l. Anyone have data on
frequently used section titles in articles (any language), or know of
datasets/publications that examined this?
I'm not aware of any off the top of my head, Amir.
- Jonathan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
Date: Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] statistics about frequent section titles
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
Did anybody ever try to collect statistics about frequent section titles in
Wikimedia projects?
For Wikipedia, for example, titles such as "Biography", "Early life",
"Bibliography", "External links", "References", "History", etc., appear in
a lot of articles, and their counterparts appear in a lot of languages.
There are probably similar things in Wikivoyage, Wiktionary and possibly
other projects.
Did anybody ever try to collect statistics of the most frequent section
titles in each language and project?
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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Jonathan T. Morgan
Senior Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
Yesterday I gave a presentation about community policing at the Cascadia
Wikimedians' end of year event with Seattle TA3M [1][2][3]. An issue that
came up for discussion is the extent to which, on English Wikipedia,
experienced Wikipedians conducting New Page Patrol create collateral damage
during their well-intentioned efforts to protect Wikipedia. Another subject
that came up is the need for more human resources for mentoring of newbies
who create articles using the Articles for Creation system [4]; one comment
I've heard previously is that the length of time between submission and
review may be long enough for the newbie to give up and disappear, and
another comment that I've heard is that newbies may not understand the
instructions that they're given when their article is reviewed. These
comments correlate with the community SWOT analysis that was done at
WikiConference USA this year, in which "biting the newbies", NPP, and
"onboarding/training" were identified as weaknesses [5]
Personally, I would like the interaction of experienced editors with the
newbies in places like NPP and AFC to look more like this
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Police_Week_May_15,_2010_on_Court_Avenue…>
and less like this
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ferguson_Day_6,_Picture_44.png>.
Granted, it's hard for a relatively small number of experienced Wikipedians
to keep all the junk and vandals out while also mentoring the newbies and
avoiding collateral damage, so one strategy could be to increase the
quantity of skilled human resources that are devoted to these domains. Any
thoughts on how to make that happen?
I am currently especially interested in this topic because of my IEG
project which officially starts this week. [6] It would be very helpful to
retain the new editors that are trained through these videos, so improving
editor retention via improved newbie experiences at NPP and/or AFC would be
most welcome.
Pine
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_policing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_reform_in_the_United_States
[3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presentations_at_Cascadia_Wikimedia…
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation
[5]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SWOT_analysis_of_Wikipedia_in_2015.…
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…
Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for the December 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201512 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Wednesday December 30 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
Accidental Technologist: How Can Libraries Improve Wikipedia?
Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits
Conflict and Computation on Wikipedia: a Finite-State Machine Analysis of Editor Interactions
Evolution of Privacy Loss in Wikipedia
Extracting Semantics from Unconstrained Navigation on Wikipedia
Information-seeking behaviour for epilepsy: an infodemiological study of searches for Wikipedia articles
Integrated Parallel Sentence and Fragment Extraction from Comparable Corpora: A Case Study on Chinese--Japanese Wikipedia
Les discussions Wikipedia : un corpus pour caractériser le genre "(wiki) discussion"
Mapping bilateral information interests using the activity of Wikipedia editors
Microtext Normalization using Probably-. Phonetically-Similar Word Discovery
Mining Wikipedia to Rank Rock Guitarist
Only 2-4% of UK 12-15 year olds use Wikipedia as first stop for information
Open Collaboration Systems Research Workshop 2015 Report
Teachers' use of Wikipedia with their Students
The implications of Wikipedia for contemporary science education: Using Social Network Analysis Techniques for Automatic Organisation of Knowledge
Understanding the Role of Participative Web within Collaborative Culture: The Case of Wikipedia
Untangling Performance from Success
Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities
Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data
Wikipedia: The difference between information acquisition and learning knowledge
Wikis and Collaborative Systems for Large Formal Mathematics
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
The Wikimedia Developer Summit starts this Monday, Jan. 4!
There will be an information and discussion session about the
in-progress Code of Conduct for technical spaces
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft) on Monday.
Thanks,
Matt Flaschen
http://metameso.org/~joe/docs/peeragogy_pattern_catalog_proceedings.pdf
is a preprint of the paper "Patterns of Peeragogy" to appear in
Proceedings of Pattern Languages of Programs 2015.
Abstract: We describe nine design patterns that we have developed in our
work on the Peeragogy project, in which we aim to help design the future
of learning, inside and outside of institutions. We use these patterns
to build an “emergent roadmap” for the project.
This paper may be of interest to people here, particularly since we
trace through the ways in which the patterns manifest in Wikimedia
projects.
The final revision is due January 15th so comments before then still
have a chance to improve the final document.
When it appears, the bibtex citation will be:
@inproceedings{patterns-of-peeragogy,
title={Patterns of {P}eeragogy},
author={Corneli, Joseph and Danoff, Charles Jeffrey and Pierce, Charlotte and Ricuarte, Paola and Snow MacDonald, Lisa},
booktitle={Pattern {L}anguages of {P}rograms {C}onference 2015 ({PLoP'15}), {P}ittsburgh, {PA}, {USA}, {O}ctober 24-26, 2015},
editor={Correia, Filipe},
year={2015},
publisher={ACM}}
Apologies for cross-postings.
Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues,
faculty members and postgraduate students.
Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Tutorials and Workshops!
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Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2016)
April 25-28, 2016
Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.iicedu.org
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The IICE is an international refereed conference dedicated
to the advancement of the theory and practices in education.
The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians
and professionals from Education.
The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians
and professionals from various educational fields with
cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote
research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The IICE 2016 invites
research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design
implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers
will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected
papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.
The topics in IICE-2016 include but are not confined to the
following areas:
*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Competitive Skills
*Continuing Education
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*E-Manufacturing
*ESL/TESL
*E-Society
*Geographical Education
*Geographic information systems
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Home Education
*Human Computer Interaction
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Internet technologies
*Imaginative Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Mobile Applications
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Reading Education
*Writing Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*Ubiquitous Computing
*Virtual Reality
*Wireless applications
*Other Areas of Education
- You can submit your research paper at
http://www.iicedu.org/Paper%20Submission.html
or email it to papers-2016april(a)iicedu.org
Important Dates:
* Abstract and Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: January 10,
2016
* Notification of Abstract and Extended Abstract (Work in Progress)
Acceptance/Rejection: January 20, 2016
* Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: January 22,
2016
* Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /
Rejection: February 05, 2016
* Proposal for Workshops Submission Date: January 10, 2016
* Notification of Workshop Acceptance / Rejection: January 15, 2016
* Posters Proposal Submission Date: January 10, 2016
* Notification of Posters Acceptance / Rejection: January 15, 2016
* Camera Ready Paper Due: February 28, 2016
* Early Bird Registration (Authors and Participants): November 20, 2015 - March
05, 2016
* Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): March 06, 2016 - March 30,
2016
* Late Bird Registration Deadline (Participants only): March 16, 2016 - April
14, 2016
* Conference Dates: April 25-28, 2016
For further information please visit http://www.iicedu.org
