Pine:
I'm sorry that I can't read the graphic at
http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/608-what-is-wikipedia-…
It just doesn't zoom enough to read the part entitled "How to read
it". I also can't find the graphic on the company's website
http://www.askmedia.fr/
Frankly, it looks pretty flashy but if the content is supposed to be
"What is Wikipedia about?" they've failed by getting a partial
population from Wikidata. A random sample is usually a lot better
than a partial population for this type of thing.
For example, see my graphic on "What's in Wikipedia?" at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_(1000_vol…
That's only for the English-language Wikipedia of course. Also see
the discussion at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smallbones/1000_random_results
Just two quick questions. How does Wikipedia's coverage of science
compare to its coverage of biographies of living sportsmen? Which
graphic gives you that information?
Pete
aka User:Smallbones
Forwarding announcement.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:09 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] 6-April-2016 CREDIT call for demos
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
As I noted recently, we're merging the WMF technical showcase with the
lightning
talks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks> into what we're
calling *CREDIT <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>.*
The next CREDIT showcase will be 6-April-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100 SF).
Please add your demos to https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Thanks!
-Adam
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Hello,
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Exploring the Past of the Web: Alexandria & Archive-It Hackathon
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Web Science 2016 Hackathon: http://www.websci16.org/hackathon
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Hackathon Chairs
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Avishek Anand, L3S Research Center, Germany
Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, USA
The Web has pervaded all walks of life and has become an important
corpus for studying the humanities, social sciences, and for use by
computer scientists and other disciplines. Web archives collect,
preserve, and provide ongoing access to ephemeral Web pages and hence
encode traces of human thought, activity, and history. This makes them a
valuable resource for analysis and study. However, there have been only
few concerted efforts to bring together tools, platforms, storage,
processing frameworks, and existing collections for mining and analysing
Web archives.
We present the Alexandria & Archive-It Hackathon @ WebSci’16 as a forum
for scientists, engineers, practitioners, and enthusiasts to work with
Web archive collections at scale and use and help build tools that can
help realize the largely untapped potential of using Web archives in
their research and work. The goal of the Hackathon is to bring together
a small and focused group of participants to collaboratively work with
Web archive collections using open-source tools and platforms and to
discuss new ideas in exploring and analyzing these collections.
We will provide access to focused, subject-specific Web archive
collections from a diverse set of institutions and topics. The data
consists of collections from Archive-It, Internet Archive’s web
archiving service, and is housed on a commercial data cluster (provided
generously by www.altiscale.com) for processing and analysis, but can be
browsed on the Web as well through their collection pages
athttps://archive-it.org/. The topics range from web pages collected
around events (like the U.S. Occupy Movement), interest groups
(politics, art, et cetera), home pages (museums, universities) and more.
All collections were archived over a notable period of time and can
support multiple analytical approaches and tools.
A range of collections will be available for use in the hackathon. Some
examples of the types of collections to be included:
[1]. Human Rights web archive collected by Columbia University:
https://www.archive-it.org/collections/1068
[2]. Occupy Movement 2011/2012, collected by Internet Archive:
https://archive-it.org/collections/2950
[3]. Auction Houses web archive, collected by New York Art Resources
consortium: https://www.archive-it.org/collections/2135
[4]. Contemporary Women Artists on the Web, collected by National Museum
of Women in the Arts:https://archive-it.org/collections/2973
To lower the entry barrier in accessing and analysing this data we will
provide a small hands-on session on Day 1, using existing open source
tools, and will be able to provide some coaching during the Hackathon to
groups not yet fully fluent with working with large data clusters. We
want to ensure that participation will be truly cross-disciplinary with
the hope of fostering cross-fertilization of ideas from users and
researchers from multiple disciplines, including social and political
sciences, the humanities, and computer science. We will end the
Hackathon on Day 4 with presentations of team accomplishments as well as
discussions and exchange of ideas for future projects and
collaborations.
The Hackathon will run in parallel to the WebSci’16 conference, to allow
participants to register and attend the conference, and will finish one
day after the conference. Participants will receive promotional
materials from the event hosts and Internet Archive and Archive-It. The
research team with the most accomplished plan, project, or future work
will receive a complimentary Archive-It account that can be used to
build their own web archive collection for use in their own future
research. Alexandria and Archive-It also plan on convening additional
hackathons and web archive data mining challenges in conjunction with
future conferences and events.
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Registration
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The registration for the Hackathon is free for WebSci'16 participants,
however we waive off the charges for participating only in the
Hackathon.
If you want to register for "Hackathon Only": People who only want to
attend the hackathon, can register on http://websci16.org/registration
by selecting "Dinner only" first and on the next page below their
personal details select "Hackathon only".
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions at:
websci-hackathon(a)l3s.de.
Best Regards,
Ujwal Gadiraju
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Ujwal Gadiraju
L3S Research Center
Leibniz Universität Hannover
30167 Hannover, Germany
Phone: +49. 511. 762-5772
Fax: +49. 511. 762-19712
E-Mail: gadiraju(a)l3s.de
Web: www.l3s.de/~gadiraju/
Hey folks,
I just gathered my notes about CSCW 2016
<https://cscw.acm.org/2016/index.php> which happened last week in San
Francisco. I figured that some here might like to read a bit about what I
saw there. In the report, I discuss a workshop that we organized and 7
papers/presentations that I thought were interesting.
<goog_1722106129>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/CSCW_2016_report
Enjoy!
-Aaron
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
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| Abstract Deadline: March 9th, 2016 |
| CICM will host *5* workshops (Formal Mathematics for |
| Mathematicians, Mathematical User Interfaces, Openmath, Proof |
| Engineering (Constructing, Maintaining and Understanding Large |
| Proofs) and Theorem Provers Components for Educational Software) |
| as well as 2 tutorials |
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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: Martin Suda)
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
I've lurked on this list for about 6 months now. Basically I've been
looking for sources to address questions that I run across as an
editor, not as an academic.
I have to comment on Corneli's question and Darnell's answer: the
"category system is hopelessly muddled." I can only agree - in 10
years as a pretty active editor, I've never figured out what can be
done using the present categorization system. It's not because I'm
not interested in categories.
Please see (and comment on if you'd like) my informal investigation
on "What's in Wikipedia?" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smallbones/1000_random_results . If
nothing else, you might be interested in the graphic
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_(1000_vol…
Re: the gender gap, please take a look at the bottom of the write-up
on how biographies (Women vs. Men) improve over time. It's got a new
(AFAIK) use of the ORES output.
All comments welcome - here, on the discussion page, or, if you really
want to lay into me, via e-mail.
Thanks,
Pete
User:Smallbones
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