Wiki-research-l January 2016

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Parsing editor's each revision contents from wiki XML dumps
by Bowen Yu 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Hello all, I am a 2nd PhD student working in Grouplens Research group at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Recently, I am working on a project to study how identity based and bond based theories would help understand editor's behavior in WikiProjects within the group context, but I am having a technical problems that need help and advise. I am trying to parse each revision content of the editors from the XML dumps - the contents they added or deleted in each revision. I used the compare function in difflib to obtain the added or deleted contents by comparing two string objects, which runs extremely slow when the strings are huge specifically in the case of the Wikipedia revision contents. Without any parallel processing techniques, the expecting runtime to download and parse the 201 dumps would be ~100+ days.. I was pointed to altiscale, but not yet sure exactly how to use it for my problem. It would be really great if anyone would give me some suggestion to help me make more progress. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Bowen

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January 2016 Research Showcase
by Sarah Rodlund 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 11:30 (PST). YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpUby3MoqU As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Archive>. We look forward to seeing you! Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Project Coordinator-Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org This month: *Anon productivity and productive efficiency in English Wikipedia* By Aaron Halfaker Building from a call to action around measuring value-adding behavior in Wikipedia from Wikimania 2014, I'll show preliminary results of measuring editor productivity in English Wikipedia. From this analysis some surprising results have emerged: (1) IP editors contribute about 20% of good new content to Wikipedia articles, (2) the overall productivity of registered editors has been holding constant since 2007 -- despite declines in the community and labor hours invested in editing. (1) suggests that we should consider better supporting editing without an account and (2) suggests that Wikipedians are somehow contributing more efficiently than they used to. *Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy, Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia* By Jérôme Hergueux <http://www.lawecon.ethz.ch/people/hergueux.html> Relying on the behavior of Wikipedia contributors in a (game-theoretic) social experiment, I will seek to engage the community in a reflection about ways to create a more inclusive Wikipedia. First, I will identify the underlying demographic and social determinants of anti-social behavior within Wikipedia -- an often cited driver of its declining retention rates. Second, I will study the relationship between Wikipedia administrators' trust in anonymous strangers and their policing activity patterns, asking the question of the optimal level of trust that admins should exhibit in order to efficiently protect Wikipedia from malicious users while avoiding to drive well-intentioned ones away from the project.

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SEMANTiCS 2016, Leipzig, Sep 12-15, Call for Research & Innovation Papers
by Sebastian Hellmann 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Apologies for cross-posting <mailbox:///home/julia/.thunderbird/0xgpsb48.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Trash?number=18993455&part=1.2.2&filename=486eca59914e673f7b637acad4ef4466efdf01db><mailbox:///home/julia/.thunderbird/0xgpsb48.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Trash?number=18993455&part=1.2.2&filename=486eca59914e673f7b637acad4ef4466efdf01db> Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference Transfer // Engineering // Community 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 12 -15, 2016 http://2016.semantics.cc <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://2016.semantics.cc/&sa=D&ust=14531132570…> Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 14, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: April 21, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance:May 26, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: June 16, 2016(11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submissions via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf%3Dsema…> As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS’16 proceedings are expected to be published by ACM ICP. The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management. The success of last year’s conference in Vienna with more than 280 attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe. SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: * Data Quality Management * Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics) * Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org * Corporate Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies * Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ‘horizontals’ (research) and ‘verticals’ (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals * Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Big Data & Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization * Semantic Information Management * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking * Smart Data & Semantics in IoT * Semantics for IT Safety & Security * Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing * Community, Social & Societal Aspects Verticals * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Education & eLearning * Media & Data Journalism * Publishing, Marketing & Advertising * Tourism & Recreation * Financial & Insurance Industry * Telecommunication & Mobile Services * Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology * Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids * Food, Agriculture & Farming * Safety & Security * Transport, Environment & Geospatial Research / Innovation Papers The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS is a single-blind review process (author names are visible to reviewers, reviewers stay anonymous). The submitted abstract and the topics are leveraged to find adequate reviewers for submitted papers. Please write an email to semantics2016researchtrack(a)easychair.org <mailto:semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org>, if you have any questions. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must not exceed 8 pages in length for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. The layout templates can be found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedin…>All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf%3Dsema…>. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the source files (Latex, WordPerfect, Word) will also be needed. Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 14, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: April 21, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance:May 26, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: June 16, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Research and Innovation Chairs: * Anna Fensel <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.anna.fensel.com/&sa=D&ust=145311325…>, University of Innsbruck * Amrapali Zaveri <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://dumontierlab.stanford.edu/&sa=D&ust=145…>, Stanford University Contact email address:semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org <mailto:semantics2016researchtrack@easychair.org> Research and Innovation Deputy Chairs: * Bernhard Haslhofer <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bernhardhaslhofer.info/&sa=D&ust=145311…>, Austrian Institute of Technology * Artem Revenko <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-revenko-1831…>, Semantic Web Company Conference Chairs: * Sebastian Hellmann <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann.html&sa=D&us…>, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Tassilo Pellegrini <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tassilo_Pellegri…>, UAS St. Pölten Senior Program Committee: * Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid * Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari * Brian Davis, DERI NUIG * Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam * Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany * Michel Dumontier, Stanford University * Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics * Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig * Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Österreich * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim * Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten * Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology * Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam * Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds * Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science Program Committee: * Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University * Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute * Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext Corp * Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid * Stefan Bischof, Siemens AG Österreich * Volha Bryl, Springer Nature * Irene Celino, CEFRIEL * Pierre-Antoine, Champin LIRIS * Roland Cornelissen, Metamatter * Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton * Roberta Cuel, University of Trento * Aba-Sah Dadzie, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University * Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center * Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari * Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext * Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST * Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University * Ingo Feinerer, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt * Javier D. Fernández, Computer Science Department. University of Valladolid * Fabien Gandon, Inria * Jorge Garcia, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid * Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida * José María García, University of Seville * Alain Giboin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée * Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid * Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Expert System * Michael Granitzer, University of Passau * Benjamin Heitmann, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway * Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center * Laura Hollink, CWI * Katja Hose, Aalborg University * Valentina Janev, Mihailo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade * Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut * Ali Khalili, VU University Amsterdam * Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien * Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig * Christoph Lange, University of Bonn * Nelia Lasierra Beamonte, UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology * Isaac Lera, University of the Balearic Islands * Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer IAIS * Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research * Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin * Markus Luczak-Roesch, University of Southampton * Elisa Marengo, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * John P. Mccrae, National University of Ireland, Galway * Andras Micsik, SZTAKI * Andrea Moro Sapienza, Università di Roma * Dmitry Mouromtsev, NRU ITMO, Russia * Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin * Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University * Inna Novalija, Jozef Stefan Institute * Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR * Leo Obrst, MITRE * Maryam Panahiazar, Stanford University * Alexander Panchenko, Université catholique de Louvain * Viviana Patti, University of Turin * Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna * Xiuquan Qiao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications * Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid * Giuseppe Rizzo, ISMB * Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Anisa Rula, University of Milano-Bicocca * Felix Sasaki, W3C * Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) * Francois Scharffe, 3Top * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina * Nadine Steinmetz, TU Ilmenau * Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital * Simon Steyskal, Siemens AG Austria * Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague * Konstantin Todorov, LIRMM * Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck * Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU) * Joerg Waitelonis, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam * Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics * Eva Zangerle, Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck

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CFP: Social Media in the Newsroom workshop at ICWSM-16
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

======================================================= Social Media in the Newsroom (SMnews 2016), workshop co-located with ICWSM 2016http://www.smnews.newslab.ie/ 17th May, 2016 - Cologne, Germany ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in capturing and announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage. This brings along new opportunities for newsrooms and journalists by providing new means for newsgathering through access to a wealth of citizen reportage and updates about current affairs, as well as an additional showcase for news dissemination. This workshop aims to focus on the intersection of social media and journalism, as a subset of Computational and Data Journalism. It will particularly focus on the development of novel algorithms, methods, and tools, and to further understand and to make the most of social media content for the purposes of news and media industries and journalism practitioners. Topics of Interest ------------------ This workshop aims to bring together practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production, information science, data science and computer science, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research in the broad area of Data and Computational journalism, with specific focus on social media data for news production and reporting. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Newsgathering from social media * Social Event Detection * Social media content curation * Social media analytics for news * Verification of source and content * Detection of eyewitnesses and experts * Ethical issues concerning social media newsgathering and eyewitness media * Credibility assessment * Provenance * Analysis of social news and online news from traditional media * Fact-checking * Citizen journalism * Data Driven journalism * Computational Journalism * Robot journalism * Algorithmic accountability * Approaches to boost reputation of journalists in social media * Diffusion of news stories in social media * Social media news audiences and network gatekeeping * Social media and censorship * Visualisation of news and social media Important Dates --------------- * 27th February, 2016: Paper submission deadline. * 11th March, 2016: Notification to authors. * 17th March, 2016: Camera-ready papers due. * 17th May, 2016: Workshop day. Paper Submission ---------------- Two types of submissions will be accepted: full papers that present advanced work (5-8 pages), and short papers that present work in progress (up to 4 pages). Submissions will be assessed through peer review, with each submission being reviewed by at least three committee members. Papers must be in trouble-free, high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5″ x 11″) paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Submission must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Submissions will be made through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smnews2016 Organising Committee -------------------- * Bahareh R. Heravi, NUI Galway, Ireland * Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Programme Committee ------------------- * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Labs, UK * Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany * Stefano Ceccon, The Times and The Sunday Times, UK * Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aalto University, Finland * Nicholas Diakopoulos, University of Maryland, USA * George Gkotsis, King’s College London, UK * Phil Hahn, CTV News, Canada * Ulrika Hedman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Hongzhao Huang, Facebook, USA * David Laniado, Eurecat, Spain * Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Signal Media Ltd., UK * Donn Morrison, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Anika Oellrich, King’s College London, UK * Symeon Papadopoulos, ITI-CERTH, Greece * Gavin Sheridan, VizLegal (former Storyful), Ireland * Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Australia * Thomas Steiner, Google, Germany * Jane Suiter, Dublin City University, Ireland * Laura Tolosi-Halacheva, Ontotext, Bulgaria * Pablo Torres, NUI Galway, Ireland * Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria * Sumithra Velupillai, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and King’s College London, UK

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Community health statistics of Wikiprojects
by Pine W 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

I believe that Aaron and I discussed the theory that injecting some energy into WikiProjects might be a productive avenue for editor retention and productivity. Is there a dashboard somewhere that shows community health statistics for WikiProjects, such as: 1. Number of recent edits to articles that have been templated with that project's template 2. Number of active editors in those articles 3. Number of active editors in those articles who are also members of the project 4. Number of editors who have recently edited in the WikiProject's project space and talk pages 5. Whether the project has a newsletter, and if so, readership statistics for it. Thanks! Pine

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Study on how multilingual Wikipedia is used on Twitter
by Tilman Bayer 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

Thanks Alex! (CCing the social media list too) A summary of the authors' preceding paper is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/July#.23Wikipedia_… On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Here is a really neat analysis of different language links on Twitter, to > Wikipedia: > http://www.slideshare.net/evazangerle/analysing-the-usage-of-wikipedia-on-t… > > Cheers, > > Alex -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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[CfP] 5th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2016)
by Daniele Gianni 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ################################################################# IEEE WETICE 2016 5th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2016) in cooperation with (approval pending) INCOSE Italy MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S) CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# June 13-16, 2016 - Paris (France) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets16 ################################################################# # Papers Due: February 15, 2016 # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be submitted for # indexing through INSPEC, Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters, # DBLP, Google Scholar and EI Index. ################################################################# Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the investigated systems increases and the types of investigations widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more complex models and for the communications among a wider number and variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative technologies must be introduced to support these activities by fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by integrating processes, tools and platforms. Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that deal with the application of M&S practices in the field of collaborative engineering platforms. These platforms are continuously becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires systematic approaches to meet the required quality of collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to improve the quality of collaborative environments. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * collaborative requirements modeling * collaborative environments for M&S * collaborative Systems of Systems M&S * business process modeling for collaborative environments * agent-based M&S * collaborative distributed simulation * collaborative component-based M&S * net-centric M&S * web-based M&S * model sharing and reuse * model building and evaluation * modeling and simulation of business processes * modeling for collaboration * simulation-based performance analysis of collaborative engineering platforms * model-driven approaches for collaborative engineering * domain specific languages for collaborative M&S * databases and repositories for M&S * distributed virtual environments * virtual research environment for M&S * collaborative DEVS M&S * multi-method M&S To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CoMetS'16 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications and trends in the track research area. Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/ publishing/templates.html). All submissions should be submitted in PDF format and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2016 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the paper published in the proceedings. Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the conference submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/? conf=wetice2016), by selecting the ÒCollaborative Modeling and SimulationÓ track. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: February 15, 2016 * Notification to authors: March 28, 2016 * Camera Ready to IEEE: April 11, 2016 * Conference date: June 13-16, 2016 +++++++++++++++++ Program co-chairs +++++++++++++++++ Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy Gregory Zacharewicz, University of Bordeaux, France Daniele Gianni, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy *** Contact Information *** Andrea D'Ambrogio (track co-chair) Email: dambro(a)uniroma2.it

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 5(12) is out
by masssly＠ymail.com 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

The December 2015 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/07/research-newsletter-december-2015/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/December In this issue: 1 Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia? 2 Teaching Wikipedia: The Pedagogy and Politics of an Open Access Writing Community 3 "Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data" 4 Briefly 3.1 Wikipedia and the Stock Market *** 8 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Thanks to Piotr Konieczny, Tilman Bayer and Max Klein for contributing. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli --- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/

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Announcement of Keynotes & Final Call for Papers: International Conference on Social Media & Society #SMSociety (July 11-13, 2016, London, UK)
by Anatoliy 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

***Apologies for cross-posting*** Attention Social Media Researchers! We are very excited to announce two distinguished Keynotes for this year's International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 11-13, 2016, London, UK): <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/about/staff/sjh3.page> Dr. Susan Halford - Professor and Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/helen-kennedy> Dr. Helen Kennedy - Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield SUBMIT TODAY! Full papers and Work-in-Progress submissions are due next Friday, January 15. (To submit see http:// <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/> socialmediaandsociety.org <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/> /submit/ <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/> ) All accepted full papers (5-10 pages) will be published in the ACM Conference Proceedings (last year's acceptance rate was 40%). In addition, all presenters will be invited to submit their extended work to two journal special issues, which will be published in 2017: . American Behavioral Scientist <http://abs.sagepub.com/> - published by SAGE . Big Data <http://bds.sagepub.com/> & Society - published by SAGE (open access) If you have any questions, please contact us via email at ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org or on Twitter at @SocMediaConf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Dhiraj Murthy & Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

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ICWSM and WWW Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers
by Leila Zia 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi everyone, Following the successful experience of last year's Wikipedia research workshop in ICWSM 2015 <http://snap.stanford.edu/wiki-icwsm15/>, we are organizing two Wikimedia related research workshops in 2016: @ WWW 2016 (International World Wide Web Conference), Montreal, Canada, April 11 or 12, 2016 (exact date TBD) @ ICWSM 2016 (International Conference on Web and Social Media), Cologne, Germany, May 17, 2016 You can read more about the call for papers and the workshops at http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016. Please note that the deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 27 for WWW and February 27 for ICWSM. All other submissions should be received by March 11. We hope that having two workshops in two continents makes attendance easier for you, and we do look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in at least one of the workshops. :-) In the mean time, if you have questions, please feel free to reply on this thread or email us at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com Best, Robert West Leila Zia Dario Taraborelli Jure Leskovec

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