Wiki-research-l February 2016

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"Quick" request
by Bruno Goncalves 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hi, I was wondering if there is any place where I can find text (without markup, etc) only versions of wikipedia suitable for NLP tasks? I've been able to find a couple of old ones for the english wikipedia but I would like to analyze different languages (mandarin, arabic, etc...). Of course, any pointers to software that I can use to convert the usual XML dumps to text would be great as well. Best, Bruno ******************************************* Bruno Miguel Tavares Gonçalves, PhD Homepage: www.bgoncalves.com Email: bgoncalves(a)gmail.com *******************************************

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Upcoming research newsletter (February 2016): new papers open for review
by masssly＠ymail.com 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hi everybody, We’re preparing for the February 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201602 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is likely Friday February 26 UTC or later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Highlights from this month: Controversy goes online: Schizophrenia genetics on Wikipedia Dynamics of Disagreement: Large-Scale Temporal Network Analysis Reveals Negative Interactions in Online Collaboration Employing Wikipedia for good not evil: innovative approaches to collaborative writing assessment From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration. ACM (2016) Gender Gap in Wikipedia Editing: A Cross Language Comparison Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation Monetary Materialities of Peer-Produced Knowledge: The Case of Wikipedia and Its Tensions with Paid Labour Request for Adminship (RFA) within Wikipedia: How Do User Contributions Instill Community Trust? Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia. WWW '16 Visualizing a Modern History of Music Using Wikipedia Data Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets WIKIPEDIA vs. ACADEMIA An investigation into the role of the Internet in education, with a special focus on collaborative editing tools such as Wikipedia 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

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Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People // March 11-12-13th, 2016 // Barcelona
by Mayo Fuster Morell 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hola! I hope of interest of people in this list, Mayo English - Català - Castellano Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for an economy of the People An encounter which aims to highlight the relevance of the commons-oriented approach of peer production and collaborative economy, while proposing public policies and providing technical guidelines to build platforms for collaborative communities. www.procomuns.net<http://www.procomuns.net> Contact: <mailto:info@dimmons.net> info(a)dimmons.net<mailto:info@dimmons.net> WHEN & WHERE During the weekend of March 12-13th, 2016, with a locally-oriented event taking place on Friday, March 11th, 2016. Barcelona Activa<http://www.barcelonactiva.cat/> (Carrer Llacuna, 162 -164, 08018 Barcelona) GOALS 1. Highlight the relevance of the commons-oriented model within the collaborative economy, and project internationally the relevance of commons – oriented production in Barcelona and Catalonia. 2. Build policy recommendations for public administrations, specifically to be sent to the Plan of Municipal Action (PAM) for the next 4 years of the Barcelona City Council, and the consultation process of the European Commission, on public policies of promotion and regulation of the collaborative economy and the model of city. 3. Provide technical guidelines to build free and open software and decentralized technologies for collaborative communities. ORGANIZERS The is organized by Barcelona Activa – Department of “Other Economies and proximity” with the BarCola – Node on collaborative economy and commons production in Barcelona (associated to the Social and Solidarian Economy Commission of the Barcelona City Council), and the P2Pvalue European project<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> (locally by Dimmons<http://www.dimmons.net/>– Digital Commons Research at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia (Dimmons.net @ IN3-UOC) and the Institute of Govern and Public Policies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (IGOPnet.cc<http://igopnet.cc/> @ UAB). Organizers collaborators of the event are Guifi.net<https://guifi.net/>, Goteo<https://ca.goteo.org/>, Pangea<https://pangea.org/>, Free Knowledge Institute (with the Digital DIY project<http://www.didiy.eu/>), the Reutilitza.cat<https://www.reutilitza.cat/en> and eReuse.org<http://www.ereuse.org/en/> projects, Amical Viquipedia<https://www.wikimedia.cat/>, and OuiShare<http://ouishare.net/>, among others. DEPARTING DIAGNOSTIC AND DIRECTION In the last two decades we have seen the emergence of Internet-enabled collaborative communities building shared and common resources. Commons-based Peer Production is rapidly growing, not just for the disruptive and very successful cases of software (with free and open software) and encyclopedias (Wikipedia) but also for information (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), accommodation (Couchsurfing) and currency (local coins). More recently, we have also seen the emergence and growth of hybrid models which retain some similar organizational logic, such as being based on collaborative principles, but privatizing others. This is the case in corporate-based peer production such as Uber or Airbnb. Are they truly collaborative economies?. This issue opens up a series of debates and opportunities about how to retain the commons and socially transformative dimension in the collaborative economy through the recognition of the distinctive values of these modes of production, beyond value approaches which focus on monetization, and new forms of open/peer/platform cooperativism. However, public debate mainly focuses on the controversies around large corporations entering the collaborative economy. Thus, the public is mostly aware of peer production through these few large corporations. There is a growing need to organize and raise the visibility of the commons and socially-oriented model, and to address which are the conditions that should be present in order to characterise an economy or enterprise as “collaborative”. Additionally, recent technological developments, such as emergent blockchain technologies, have opened up new avenues of commons production, management and distribution through more decentralized governance structures, which also open up very promising avenues for the evolution of the collaborative economy. The more important commons-based peer production becomes, the more that controversies emerge, attracting the interest of public administrations. Still, it remains largely unclear what the role of public administrations might be, which Public-Commons partnerships could be established, and what policy approach could be the most productive and beneficial. The event main goal is to highlight the relevance of the commons-oriented model within the collaborative economy, and build policy and technical resources to promote its scalability. The encounter will mix plenaries with unconference / open space working groups to achieve the targeted outcomes. Participants will have the chance to suggest other activities. Antecedents The event will follow up on the previous workshop FLOSS4P2P<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-workshop-agenda>, organized by the P2Pvalue<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> european project, this time expanding the focus to policy. It will provide an opportunity for policy people to interact with the technical teams of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) platforms for commons-based peer production communities, and to get a “deep dive” into how to promote the commons approach to collaborative economy from institutions. TOPICS Policy * Good experiences and policy recommendations for commons-oriented peer production and collaborative economy * Cities and commons * Value and commons-oriented peer production and collaborative economy Areas of collaborative economy * Open knowledge * Industrial Commons and open design * Digital DIY * Internet of Things * Open Source Hardware * Peer cooperativism * Feministing collaborative economy * Circular Economy Tech * Decentralized technologies and blockchain * Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) platforms for communities in the collaborative economy * FLOSS proposals for boosting commons communities participation, growth and resilience (e.g. architectures, reward models) * Methodologies to integrate stakeholders in the development of platforms for communities (design thinking, agile, lean) * FLOSS alternatives to “walled gardens” (in communication or collaboration), especially if decentralized ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CATALÀ Economies Col·laboratives Procomuns: Polítiques, Tecnologies i Ciutat per a les Persones Economies Col·laboratives Procomuns és una trobada que pretén posar de manifest la rellevància del model procomú de l’economia col·laborativa, proposar el co-disseny de polítiques públiques de promoció d’aquest model i avançar propostes tècniques per a la construcció de plataformes col·laboratives. www.procomuns.net<http://www.procomuns.net> Contacte: info(a)dimmons.net<mailto:info@dimmons.net> QUAN I ON 11, 12 i 13 de març de 2016 Barcelona Activa<http://www.barcelonactiva.cat/> (Carrer Llacuna, 162-164, 08018 Barcelona) OBJECTIUS 1. Ressaltar la rellevància del model procomú dins l’economia col·laborativa, i projectar internacionalment la importància de la producció orientada al procomú a Barcelona i Catalunya. 2. Obrir el debat sobre quin model a impulsar des de les administracions (procomú/local/cooperativista versus corporatiu/deslocalitzat/privatiu), generant una Carta de recomanacions polítiques, més en concret per al Pla d’Acció Municipal (PAM) de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona i a la consulta de la Comissió Europea. 3. Proporcionar directrius tècniques per a la construcció de programari obert i descentralitzat. ORGANITZADORS Els principals organitzadors i patrocinadors de la trobada “Economies col·laboratives procomuns: Polítiques, tecnologies i ciutat” són Barcelona Activa – Departament Altres Economies i proximitat i BarCola – Grup de treball sobre economia col·laborativa i producció procomú a Barcelona (vinculat al Comissionat d’economia Social i Solidaria de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona), i el projecte europeu P2Pvalue<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> (amb els grups locals Dimmons<http://www.dimmons.net/> @ Institut Interdisciplinar d’Internet de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya i el Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona IGOPnet.cc<http://igopnet.cc/> @ UAB). Les organitzacions col·laboradores de l’esdeveniment són Guifi.net<https://guifi.net/>, Goteo<https://ca.goteo.org/>, Pangea<https://pangea.org/>, Free Knowledge Institute (amb Digital DIY project<http://www.didiy.eu/>), els projectes Reutilitza.cat<https://www.reutilitza.cat/en> i eReuse.org<http://www.ereuse.org/en/> de la Universita Politecnica de Catulynya, Amical Viquipedia<https://www.wikimedia.cat/>, i OuiShare<http://ouishare.net/>, entre altres. DIAGNOSTIC I DIRECCIO Les últimes dues dècades hem comprovat com gràcies a Internet sorgien comunitats col·laboratives i noves possibilitats d’utilitzar recursos comuns. La producció procomú està creixent ràpidament, no només en l’àmbit del programari (lliure i obert) i del coneixement (projectes enciclopèdics, educatius i lingüístics com la Viquipèdia), sinó també per obtenir informació (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), maquinària (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), allotjament (Couchsurfing) o divises (monedes locals). Més recentment, també hem vist l’aparició i creixement de models híbrids que presenten lògiques d’organització similars, basades en principis de col·laboració, però privatitzant-ne d’altres. És el cas de la producció entre iguals de base corporativista com Uber o Airbnb. Però són aquestes realment les economies de col·laboració? El problema obre una sèrie de debats i oportunitats sobre com conservar el procomú i la dimensió de transformació social en l’economia col·laborativa a través del reconeixement dels valors propis d’aquests modes de producció, més enllà dels enfocaments de valor que es centren en l’obtenció d’ingressos, i les noves formes de cooperativisme obert, entre iguals i en plataformes. Tot i això, el debat públic es centra principalment en les controvèrsies al voltant de grans corporacions que irrompen en l’economia col·laborativa. Així doncs, l’opinió pública està majoritàriament al corrent de la producció entre iguals a través d’aquestes poques grans corporacions. És per aquest motiu que hi ha una creixent necessitat d’organitzar i augmentar la visibilitat del procomú i del seu model d’orientació social, i de definir quins criteris són els que caracteritzen una economia o empresa com a “col·laborativa”. A més a més, recents progressos com les tecnologies emergents blockchain han obert noves vies de producció, gestió i distribució procomú a través de models de governança més descentralitzats, que també obren noves vies molt prometedores per a l’evolució de l’economia col·laborativa. Com més important esdevé l’economia col·laborativa, més controvèrsies sorgeixen, i més s’atrau l’interès de les administracions públiques. Tot i així, encara no està clar quin podria ser el paper d’aquestes administracions públiques, quins nexes públics-procomú es podrien establir i quin enfocament de polítiques podria ser el més productiu i beneficiós. En aquest sentit, l’esdeveniment té per objectiu ressaltar la rellevància del model procomú dins l’economia col·laborativa i generar recursos de polítiques públiques i tècnics per la seva escalabilitat. La trobada planteja combinar sessions plenàries amb models participatius de desconferència (unconferences), així com sessions obertes a grups de treball per aconseguir els resultats previstos. Els participants tindran l’oportunitat de suggerir activitats. Antecedents L’esdeveniment representa el seguiment del workshop FLOSS4P2P<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-workshop-agenda>, organitzat pel projecte europeu P2Pvalue<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/>, aquest cop amb l’ampliació a l’àmbit de les polítiques públiques. Tanmateix, proporcionarà una oportunitat perquè les persones responsables de les polítiques puguin interactuar amb experts i equips tècnics de FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) per aconseguir una “immersió profunda” en la forma de promoure l’enfocament del procomú per economia col·laborativa per part de les institucions. TEMES Polítiques * Bones pràctiques i recomanacions de polítiques per al foment de producció procomú entre iguals i l’economia col·laborativa * Ciutats i procomú * Valor i procomú Àrees d’economia col·laborativa * Coneixement obert * Procomuns industrials i disseny obert * Digital DIY o “fes-ho tu mateix” * Internet de les coses * Maquinari open source * Cooperativisme entre iguals * Economia col·laborativa i feminisme * Economia circular Tecnologia * Tecnologies descentralitzades i blockchain * Plataformes Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) per l’economia col·laborativa * Propostes FLOSS per la promoció de la participació de les comunitats, el creixement i la resiliencia (per exemple arquitectures, models de recompenses, etc) * Metodologies per a integrar els actors implicats en el desenvolupament de plataformes col·laboratives (Design Thinking, Agile, Lean) * Alternatives FLOSS per a sol·lucions tancades (o “walled gardens”), amb un enfocament en la descentralització ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CASTELLANO Economías Colaborativas del Procomún: Políticas, Tecnologías y Ciudad para las Personas Un encuentro que pretende poner de manifiesto la relevancia del modelo procomún de la economía colaborativa, proponer el co-diseño de políticas públicas de promoción de este modelo y avanzar propuestas técnicas para la construcción de plataformas colaborativas. www.procomuns.net<http://www.procomuns.net> Contacto: info(a)dimmons.net<mailto:info@dimmons.net> CUÁNDO Y DÓNDE 11, 12 y 13 de marzo de 2016 Barcelona Activa<http://www.barcelonactiva.cat/> (Carrer Llacuna, 162-164, 08018 Barcelona) OBJETIVOS 1. Resaltar la relevancia del modelo procomún dentro de la economía colaborativa, y proyectar internacionalmente la relevancia de la producción orientada al procomún en Barcelona y Cataluña. 2. Abrir el debate sobre qué modelo a impulsar desde las administraciones (procomún/local/cooperativista versus corporativo/deslocalizado/privativo), generando un Carta de recomendaciones políticas, para hacer llegar al PAM del Ayuntamiento y a la consulta que está llevando a cabo la Comisión Europea. 3. Proporcionar directrices técnicas para la construcción de software abierto y descentralizado ORGANIZADORES El encuentro “Economías colaborativas del procomún: Políticas, tecnologías y ciudad para las personas” está organizado por el Departamento Otros Economías de Barcelona Activa (Ayuntamiento de Barcelona) junto con BarCola – Grupo de trabajo sobre economía colaborativa y producción procomún en Barcelona, P2Pvalue European project<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> (grupo Dimmons<http://www.dimmons.net/> @ IN3-UOC & IGOPnet.cc<http://igopnet.cc/> @ UAB). Las organizaciones colaboradoras del evento son Guifi.net<https://guifi.net/>, Goteo<https://goteo.org/>, Pangea<https://pangea.org/>, Free Knowledge Institute (desde Digital DIY project<http://www.didiy.eu/>), los proyectos Reutilitza.cat<https://www.reutilitza.cat/en> y eReuse.org<http://www.ereuse.org/en/> de la Universitat Politecnica de Catulynya, Amical Wikimedia<https://www.wikimedia.cat/> y OuiShare<http://ouishare.net/>, entre otras. DIAGNOSTICO Y DIRECCION Las últimas dos décadas hemos comprobado cómo gracias a Internet han surgido comunidades colaborativas y nuevas posibilidades de utilizar recursos comunes. La producción procomún está creciendo rápidamente, no sólo en el ámbito del software (con software libre y abierto) y del conocimiento (enciclopedias como Viquipèdia), sinó también para obtener información (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), alojamiento (Couchsurfing) o divisas (monedas locales). Más recientemente, también hemos asistido a la aparición y al crecimiento de modelos híbridos que presentan lógicas de organización similares, basadas en principios de colaboración, pero privatizando otros. Es el caso de la producción entre iguales de base corporativista como Uber o Airbnb. ¿Pero son estos realmente casos de economía colaborativa? El problema abre una serie de debates sobre cómo conservar el procomún y la dimensión de transformación social en la economía colaborativa a través del reconocimiento de los valores propios de estos modos de producción, más allá de los enfoques de valor que se centran en la obtención de ingresos, y las nuevas formas de cooperativismo abierto, entre iguales y en plataformas. Aún así, el debate público se centra principalmente en las controversias alrededor de grandes corporaciones que irrumpen en la economía colaborativa. Así, la opinión pública está mayoritariamente al corriente de la producción entre iguales a través de estas pocas grandes corporaciones. Por ese motivo hay una creciente necesidad de organizar y aumentar la visibilidad del procomún y de su modelo de orientación social, y de definir qué criterios son los que caracterizan una economía o empresa como “colaborativa”. Además, recientes adelantos como las tecnologías emergentes blockchain, han abierto nuevas vías de producción, gestión y distribución procomún a través de modelos de gobernanza más descentralizados, que también abren nuevas vías muy prometedoras para la evolución de la economía colaborativa. Cuanto más importante deviene la economía colaborativa, más controversias surgen, atrayendo el interés de las administraciones públicas. Aún así, todavía no está claro cuál podría ser el papel de estas administraciones públicas, qué partenariados públicos-procomún se podrían establecer y qué enfoque de políticas podría ser el más productivo y beneficioso. El evento tiene por objetivo resaltar la relevancia del modelo procomún dentro de la economía colaborativa, y crear recursos de políticas públicas y tecnicos para apoyar su escalabilidad. El encuentro se plantea combinar sesiones plenarias con modelos participativos tipo “unconference”, así como sesiones abiertas a grupos de trabajo para conseguir los resultados previstos. Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de sugerir actividades. Antecedentes El evento representa la continuación del workshop FLOSS4P2P<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-workshop-agenda>,organizado por el proyecto europeo P2Pvalue<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/>, esta vez con la ampliación al ámbito de las políticas públicas. Además, proporcionará una oportunidad para que personas responsables de las políticas puedan interactuar con expertos y equipos técnicos de Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) para conseguir una “inmersión profunda” en la forma de promover el enfoque del procomún de la economía colaborativa por parte de las instituciones. TEMAS Políticas * Buenas prácticas y recomendaciones para políticas que fomenten la producción procomún y la economía colaborativa * Ciudades y procomún * Valor y procomún Áreas de economía colaborativa * Conocimiento abierto * Procomunes industriales y diseño abierto * Digital DIY * Internet de las cosas * Hardware open source * Cooperativismo entre iguales * Economía colaborativa y feminismo * Economía circular Tecnología * Tecnologías descentralizadas y blockchain * Plataformas Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) para la economía colaborativa * Propuestas FLOSS para la promoción de la participación de las comunidades, el crecimiento y la resiliencia (por ejemplo arquitecturas, modelos de recompensas, etc) * Metodologías para integrar actores implicados en el desarrollo de plataformas colaborativas (Design Thinking, Agile, Lean) * Alternativas FLOSS para soluciones cerradas (o “walled gardens”), con un enfoque en la descentralización -- «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» @Lilaroja «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Faculty Affiliated. Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Director research on digital commons. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia. Researcher. Institute of Government and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ph.D European University Institute Website: http://www.onlinecreation.info Phone: 0034-648877748 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)
by Jonathan Morgan 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Thought I'd pass this along. Haven't read the whole article yet, but it sounds fascinating. TL;DR: Looks like contributions by women are accepted *more often* than those by men, but *only *if the project leader doesn't know the pull request is coming from a woman. Excellent summary: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/data-analysis-of-gith… Preprint: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/ Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed. J -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)
by Kevin G Crowston 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Coincidentally, I have the 2011 survey data open in my stats package. I can report that there is not a statistically significant difference in reported level of education between those who report being male or female but the average age reported by women is 33.4 and by men, 31.9, and that difference is statistically significant. Looking through the other variables, the few others that I checked (e.g., children) were not significantly different statistically, with the exception of self-reported performance: men averaged 6.25 (on a 1-10 scale, not at all good to extremely good) while women averaged 6.0, and the difference is statistically significant. You may make of that what you will :-) If you are curious about any of the other items on the survey, I’d be happy to check them. Kevin Crowston | Distinguished Professor of Information Science | School of Information Studies Syracuse University 348 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t (315) 443.1676 f 315.443.5806 e crowston(a)syr.edu <mailto:crowston@syr.edu> crowston.syr.edu <http://crowston.syr.edu/> From: "Kerry Raymond" <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com<mailto:kerry.raymond@gmail.com>> To: "'Research into Wikimedia content and communities’" <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect) So I can easily believe the average women on GitHub is of a higher standard of ability than the average male. I suspect the same holds true about Wikipedians. Does anyone actually have the 2011 editor survey data to compare male vs female on other questions like age, level of education, etc. It would be interesting to know how the male and female Wikipedians of 2011 are statistically different in other ways.

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Call for Participation: Policy & FLOSS for the Commons, mid-March, Barcelona
by Samer 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

Dear all, I think that the following call might be of interest to some members of the list. Please, feel free to disseminate it (thanks!): *Call for Participation: **Policy & FLOSS for the Commons* We invite you to participate in the forthcoming international workshop “Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People <http://procomuns.net/en/>” in Barcelona, March 11-13. This event if organized by the P2Pvalue project <http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> in collaboration with the Barcelona municipality. This interdisciplinary workshop will follow up the previous workshop FLOSS4P2P <http://www.p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-workshop-agenda>, this time expanding the focus to policy. It will provide an opportunity for policy people to interact with the technical teams of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) platforms for commons-based peer production communities, and to get a deep dive into how to promote the commons approach to collaborative economy from institutions. We have three aims: 1. Highlight the relevance of the commons-oriented model within the collaborative economy 2. Build policy recommendations for the European Commission concerning the regulation of the collaborative economy 3. Provide technical guidelines to build software platforms for collaborative communities The workshop will include panels on relevant topics, unconference dynamic spaces, a hackathon, and working groups to draft the mentioned policy and technical documents. We welcome proposals for: - Lightning talks (2m): summarise your idea & receive feedback from the audience - Leading Discussion (20-30m): gather those interested in your project/tech/policy/research, introduce it to the group, and discuss - Participatory sessions (30m-1h): engage the interdisciplinary attendees in co-creating, playing or creative dynamic sessions Please email: info(a)dimmons.net with your proposals, deadline Feb 29. You may find additional info at http://procomuns.net/en/ We hope you will be able to join to help pushing forward the transition to the commons! Thank you The P2Pvalue crew -- Samer | @sh3v3k <http://twitter.com/sh3v3k> | http://samer.hassan.name "We are the ones we have been waiting for" (June Jordan)

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Studies on motivations of volunteer wikipedians?
by Peeter Tinits 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

Dear Wiki-research list members, I am new to the list, so I hope this is the right place. I'm looking for studies or good sources on what motivates the volunteer Wikipedians to become involved and stay involved in writing articles to and editing Wikipedia? This motivation is probably quite multi-layered ranging from wider goals (that may be sometimes post-hoc rationalizations) and shorter goals and incentives (that may be less easily rationalized). E.g. for me, I believe somewhat in the mission, but what gets me going probably is more if I see someone being wrong on the public part of the internet. What motivates the wikipedians? What do the wikipedians get out of this for themselves? What are the proximal motivations that get them going? If you know any sources, sending them to my personal e-mail as well as to the list is ok. Many thanks! Best regards, Peeter Tinits

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2nd Call for Papers - 9th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2016 - *NEW* Deadline 9. March 2016
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Second Call for Papers & Updates 9th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2016 - July 25-29, 2016 University of Bialystok, Poland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2016 +----------------------------- NEWS ---------------------------------+ | The new abstract submission deadline 9. March 2016 and all other | | deadlines adjusted accordingly | | CICM will host 4 workshops (Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians, | | Mathematical User Interfaces, Openmath, and Theorem Provers | | Components for Educational Software) and 2 tutorials | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), Coimbra (Portugal 2014), and Washington DC (USA 2015). This is a call for papers for CICM 2016, which will be held in Bialystok, Poland, July 25-29, 2016. The principal tracks of the conference will be: * Track: Calculemus (chair: Leonardo de Moura) * Track: Digital Mathematical Libraries (DML) (chair: Frank Tompa) * Track: Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) (chair: Bruce Miller) * Track: Systems & Data (chair: Moa Johansson) * Track: Doctoral Programme (chair: TBD) Like in previous years, project descriptions are welcomed as well. The overall programme is organized by the General Program Chair Michael Kohlhase. The workshop and publicity chair is Serge Autexier. The local arrangements will be coordinated by Adam Naumowicz. We plan to have proceedings of the conference as in previous years with Springer Verlag as a volume in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). *New Important Dates* Conference submissions - Abstract submission deadline: 9. March 2016 - Submission deadline: 16. March 2016 - Reviews sent to authors: 20. April 2016 - Rebuttals due: 23. April 2016 - Notification of acceptance: 5. May 2016 - Camera ready copies due: 20. May 2016 - Conference: 25.-29. July 2016 Work-in-progress and Doctoral Programme - Submission deadline (Doctoral: Abstract+CV): 10. May 2016 - Notification of acceptance: 29. May 2016 - Camera ready copies due: 29. June 2016 More details on the conference are available from http://www.cicm-conference.org/2016/cicm.php?menu=cfp

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Short video about design thinking
by Pine W 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Perhaps of interest: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DesignThinking.ogv Pine

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] February 2016 Lightning Talks
by Pine W 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Lightning talks start in about 5 minutes. Public link at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc Optional IRC participation in #wikimedia-tech. (Note, not #wikimedia-office) Cheers, Pine -- Hi everyone, Just a reminder that the February Lightning Talks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016> start in *25 minutes.* Come join us in the 5th Floor Collab Space or follow along here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc IRC: #wikimedia-tech Hope to see you there! Megan On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > > The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from > today). We hope at least 4 people will sign up for the talks by Friday > February 12th otherwise we will postpone them another month. Lightning > Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase > something they have achieved: a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or > anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as > a whole. > > > Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions. > > Sign up here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016 > > > Next round of Lightning Talks: > > When: Tuesday February 16, 1900 UTC > < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks&is… >, > 11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun & > Learning, and Staff calendars) > > Where: 5th Floor > > Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting > > IRC: #wikimedia-tech > > YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc > > > Thanks! > > Kevin Leduc, Megan Neisler, Brendan Campbell > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- Megan Neisler Project Coordinator- Engineering Wikimedia Foundation mneisler(a)wikimedia.org <mguss(a)wikimedia.org> -- Megan Neisler Project Coordinator- Engineering Wikimedia Foundation mneisler(a)wikimedia.org <mguss(a)wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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