If you plan to attend Wikimania this year, this should be useful information.
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From: Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:05 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania '16 Scholarship & Submission
Deadlines are Approaching!
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Hi all,
Two important reminders concerning Wikimania 2016, which will be held
in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016:
The Submission deadline has been extended by the program committee to
January 17th. See:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The deadline for applications for the WMF Scholarship program is
approaching! Applications are open until Saturday, January 09 2016
23:59 UTC.
Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A
full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip
travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as
arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover
conference registration fees and shared accommodation.
To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:
https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on
the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ (
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before
submitting an application.
If you have any questions, please contact:
wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org
or leave a message at:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships
Ellie Young
Events Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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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