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
Hi all,
For all Hive users using stat1002/1004, you might have seen a deprecation
warning when you launch the hive client - that claims it's being replaced
with Beeline. The Beeline shell has always been available to use, but it
required supplying a database connection string every time, which was
pretty annoying. We now have a wrapper
<https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/production/modules/role…>
script
setup to make this easier. The old Hive CLI will continue to exist, but we
encourage moving over to Beeline. You can use it by logging into the
stat1002/1004 boxes as usual, and launching `beeline`.
There is some documentation on this here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Cluster/Beeline.
If you run into any issues using this interface, please ping us on the
Analytics list or #wikimedia-analytics or file a bug on Phabricator
<http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics>.
(If you are wondering stat1004 whaaat - there should be an announcement
coming up about it soon!)
Best,
--Madhu :)
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
Dear all,
I'm doing some research on the use of image and video in Wikipedia and
would like to know if there is any way to track # of video views in
Wikipedia articles ?
Image view per page I use the GLAM tools, but for video, I'm not sure if
there is a tool or general Wikipedia stat on # of videos currently used in
all languages, # of Wikipedia articles containing video and # of views to
this pages.
I understand use of video online is exploiting, and wondered if the wiki
had stats on this as well.
your feedback will be most appreciated !
thanks much in advance
Trilce
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CompleNet 2017 - 8th Conference on Complex Networks
http://complenet.weebly.com/
Where and When:
Dubrovnik, Croatia, March 21st-24th, 2016.
Important dates:
* Abstract/Paper submission deadline: November 27, 2016
* Notification of acceptance: December 23, 2016
* Submission of Camera-Ready (papers): January 8, 2017
* Early registration ends on: January 20, 2017
How:
Submit your contribution through this easychair link
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complenet17>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complenet17
Speakers:
Johan Bollen <http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/jbollen/>, Indiana
University, IN, US
Guido Caldarelli <http://www.guidocaldarelli.com/>, IMT Lucca, Italy
Gourab Ghoshal <http://www.pas.rochester.edu/people/faculty/ghoshal_gourab/>,
Rochester University, NY, US
Ancsa Hannak <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ancsaaa/>, Northeastern
University, MA, US
Agnes Emoke Horvat <http://www.agneshorvat.info/>, Northwestern University,
IL, US
Vito Latora <http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~latora/>, Queen Mary, University
of London, UK
Jörg Menche <https://sites.google.com/site/joergmenche/>, Austrian Academy
of Sciences, Austria
Staša Milojević <http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/smilojev/>, Indiana
University, IN, US
Anastasios Noulas
<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/scc/about-us/people/anastasios-noulas>,
Lancaster University, UK
Giovanni Petri <https://lordgrilo.github.io/>, Fondazione ISI, Italy
Zoltan Toroczkai <http://obelix.phys.nd.edu/~toro/>, Notre Dame University,
IN, US
Call for Contributions:
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to CompleNet 2017, 8th
Conference on Complex Networks (www.complenet.org), to take place in
Dubrovnik, Croatia, on March 21st-24th, 2017.
The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2017) aims
at bringing together researchers working on areas related to complex
networks. In the past two decades scientific research has witnessed a
remarkable increase on studies in this field. Applied to problems that
span from biology to computer sciences, from economics to social sciences,
complex networks are becoming increasingly pervasive in many fields of
science. It is this interdisciplinary nature of the complex networks
approach that the workshop is addressing.
Authors are encouraged to submit their contributions on their research in
complex networks. Both theoretical and applied contributions are of
interest. Specific topics of interest are (but not limited to):
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Applications of Network Science
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Behavioral & Social Influence
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Community Structure in Networks
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Complex Networks and Epidemics
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Complex Networks and Mobility
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Complex Networks in Biological Systems
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Complex Networks in Technology
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Complex networks in Statistical Mechanics
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Dynamics on Networks
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Ecological Networks and Food Webs
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Emergence in Complex Networks
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Geometry in Complex Networks
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Impact and Success Prediction
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Information Spreading in Social Media
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Interacting Social Networks
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Link Analysis and Ranking
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Modeling Human Behavior in Complex Networks
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Models of Complex Networks
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Multiplex Networks
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Network Controllability and Observability
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Network Evolution
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Networks as Frameworks
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Rumor Spreading
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Science of science
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Search in Complex Networks
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Shocks and Bursts
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Social Networks
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Structural Network Properties and Analysis
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Synchronization in Networks
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Network Visualization
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Language Variation and Language Use
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Language and Information Diffusion
Kind of contribution
Complenet accepts contributions in the form of papers (not previously
published) and of original abstracts. Each submitted paper/abstract will be
fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least two referees.
Publication (for Papers only)
Accepted papers (not abstracts) of registered authors will be published in
the workshop proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag on the Studies
in Computational Intelligence Series.
Accepted abstracts of registered authors will be presented at the
conference but the abstract will not be included in the Springer-Verlag book
.
Presentation at Complenet
Submitted contributions (papers and abstracts) can be accepted either for
an oral presentation or for a poster presentation.
Instructions for Submissions
Submit your paper/abstract electronically in PDF format. No hardcopy or fax
submissions will be accepted. Submissions should be printable on a standard
printer on common paper formats such as A4 or letter.
Papers: Submitted papers should follow the Springer format
<https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers
should not exceed 12 pages in this format. Some works may be accepted as
short papers and shall be limited to 8 pages maximum.
Abstracts: the length of the abstract should be minimum one page and
maximum 2 pages. It should include one figure with caption within the two
pages limit.
Link for contribution:
All contributions should be submitted electronically through easychair
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complenet17>. You can find
detailed information about the submission process on the conference web site
http://www.complenet.org.
General Chair
Vinko Zlatic, Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Croatia
Program Chairs
Roberta Sinatra, CNS and Math Department, Central European University,
Hungary
Bruno Gonçalves, NYU Center for Data Science, USA
Program Committee
Visit the Committee Page on http://complenet.weebly.com/
Steering Committee
Alex Arenas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy
José Mendes, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Stephen Uzzo, NY Hall of Science, USA
Main Contact for CompleNet 2017
info(a)complenet.org
More information are available at: http://complenet.weebly.com/
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Bruno Miguel Tavares Gonçalves, PhD
Homepage: www.bgoncalves.com
Email: bgoncalves(a)gmail.com
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Hello colleagues,
Some of you might be interested in this news article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/can-wikipedia-save…
When we know that we have countless shortcomings in Wikimedia, I found it
refreshing to hear that some aspects of our content and community are
performing well and, on the whole, are serving the public interest.
Regards,
Pine
Hello -
My name is Eddie Avila and I’m with the organization Global Voices. I’ve been lurking for the past couple of months getting a feel of different experiences in research around Wikimedia-related topics.
We were recently awarded a Project Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to conduct a research project examining the current state of active and incubator Wikipedias in indigenous languages of Latin America with a special focus on identifying ongoing challenges for native-speaking editors and the demand for this content in their communities.
I believe some members of this list provided some feedback on the proposal, which was greatly appreciated. The project is still a work in progress and the final, refined proposal will be added to the original proposal. We are looking forward to adding the Lead Researcher to the team to help us better define the parameters and design the methodology.
Anyway, we recently published a call for applications (it is in Spanish because of the language requirement associated with the position), but if you or someone you might know would be interested in applying, please send them this link. Deadline is next Friday, Nov. 4.
Global Voices Busca Investigador/a Principal Para Estudio Sobre Wikipedia en Lenguas Indígenas <http://bit.ly/wikilenguas>
Looking forward to providing updates along the way.
Thanks,
Eddie
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Eddie Avila
Director, Rising Voices
Global Voices
http://globalvoicesonline.org <http://globalvoicesonline.org/>
@risingvoices
Hey folks,
I wanted to reach out to you to invite you to attend the Wikimedia
Developer Summit[1]. It's an annual meeting to push the evolution of
MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. The
next edition will be held in San Francisco on January 9-11, 2017.
Registration is free. Travel scholarships can be applied for through
Monday, Oct 24th.
I'm specifically reaching out to this list because there has been a lot of
Wiki Research interested in *algorithms and the governing roles they play
in open communities like Wikipedia*. I'll be facilitating a core topic on
Algorithms at the dev summit. So far, I've proposed a few different
sessions that I think researchers will be particularly interested in.
- Building an AI wishlist for Wikimedia Projects[2]
- Algorithmic dangers and transparency -- Best practices[3]
- Where to surface AI in Wikimedia Projects[4]
If your participation and/or independent session proposals are welcome!
Important deadlines:
- Monday, October 24: This is the last day to request travel
sponsorship. Applying takes less than five minutes.
- Monday, October 31: This is the last day to propose an activity. Bring
the topics you care about!
On-wiki discussion here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
/Topic:Td5wfd70vptn8eu4
Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested in
attending!
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit
2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147710
3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147929
4. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148690
-Aaron, the Half Acre Science Maker
Hi everybody,
due to a severe kernel vulnerability (https://access.redhat.com/
security/vulnerabilities/2706661) I need to reboot the stat1002, stat1003
and stat1004 hosts to install the new kernel. The reboots are scheduled for
9 AM CEST tomorrow (Oct 21st), please follow up with me or anybody in the
Analytics team if you have ongoing work that can't be stopped.
The Analytics Hadoop and Kafka clusters will be rebooted too during the
next hours. Event if this maintenance shouldn't cause any major issue, you
might experience some service degradation. More up to date information on
IRC in the analytics and operations channels.
Thanks and apologies in advance for the trouble!
Luca