Hi all,
Some of you on this list do research in the area of bias on Wikimedia
projects. If you do, the workshop on Data and Algorithm Bias (DAB)
2017 [1] can be a good venue to submit your work. DAB 2017 is part of
CIKM [2] which is a great conference to attend as well. :)
Best,
Leila
[1] http://dab.udd.cl/2017/
[2] http://www.cikm2017.org/
--
Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello friend,
Just take a look at that cool things, I'm just amazed! Check it out http://common.allyourhiphop.com
Sincerely yours, alexandre.rosado
From: Research into Wikimedia content and communities [mailto:wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org]
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 5:05 PM
To: alexandre.rosado(a)globo.com
Subject: Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0! :D
Speaking as someone who has been through and seen some severely ducked up shit, I understand that it looks like there is nothing left, but I promise you there are many wonderful things still out there waiting to happen to you. the important thing is to hold try and hold on. Yes, I know that sometimes it seems like the bad out weighs the good, but you just need to find one little thing. Just one thing can change your life around!
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Hi, folks,
Is there a way to find all historical Wikipedia Good Articles (GAs)?
I checked the following page, which seems only include the current GAs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
**** DEADLINE EXTENSION****
Due to several requests the SEMANTiCS 2017 conference extends its
submission deadlines.
3rd Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference
13th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 11 -14, 2017
http://2017.semantics.cc
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. Papers should follow the ACM
ICPS guidelines for formatting
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must
not exceed 8 pages in lenght for full papers and 4 pages for short
papers, including references and optional appendices.
Research & Innovation Papers are published within ACM ICP Series.
Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: extended: May 31, 2017 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: extended: June 7, 2017
(11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls
or contact the Research and Innovation Chairs:
Catherine Faron Zucker, faron [@] i3s.unice.fr, Université Nice Sophia
Antipolis
Rinke Hoekstra, rinke.hoekstra [@] vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam
As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS’17 proceedings will be published by
ACM ICP (pending).
SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot
topics:
* Data Science (special track, see below)
* Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
* Corporate Knowledge Graphs
* Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
* Data Quality Management
* 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
* Semantics in 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
Data Science Special Track Horizontals
* Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale
graphs)
* Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics)
* Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design,
Crowdsourcing)
* Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance)
Verticals
* Industry & Engineering
* Life Sciences & Health Care
* Public Administration
* e-Science
* Digital Humanities
* 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 & Privacy
* Transport, Environment & Geospatial
For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls
Pine wrote:
>
> I'm finding it encouraging to see that a number of researchers and
> journalists are taking these problems seriously, trying to understand them,
> and trying to improve the situation.
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/misinformation-on-social-media-could…
I'm encouraged by the studies, but confused about why the fake news
phenomenon is considered novel, rather than continuations of age-old
disinformation, yellow journalism, aggressive public relations,
manufactured consent, astroturfing, propaganda, and deceptive
marketing. There's nothing new about it other than the term.
Hi all,
One of my PhD students, Meen Chul Kim, is a data scientist with experience
in bibliometrics and we will be working on some citation-related research
together with Aaron and Dario in the coming months. Our main goal in the
short term is to develop an enhanced citation dataset that will allow for
future analyses of citation data associated with article quality,
lifecycle, editing trends, etc.
The project page is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_the_context_of_citat…
The project is just getting started so this is a great time to offer
feedback and suggestions, especially for features of citations that we
should mine as a first step, since this will affect what the dataset can be
used for in the future.
Looking forward to seeing some of you at WikiCite!!
Andrea
--
:: Andrea Forte
:: Associate Professor
:: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
:: http://www.andreaforte.net
Hi all,
I've started working on a paper with folks who ran a fascinating project
called "Wikipedia Primary School" [1] where they investigated different
mechanisms or models for eliciting and developing Wikipedia content that
was relevant to the South African national primary school curriculum. We
are currently writing a paper that assesses each of the different types of
"interventions" that were tested/tried out in trying to fill in these gaps
- including editathons, contests and collaborations with scientific
journals. It seems as though there are a host of different types of models
that are used to fill in Wikipedia's gaps beyond the original "volunteer
edits what interests them in their spare time" model (e.g. Wikipedians in
residence, editing Wikipedia as part of class assignments). If anyone has
any good references to work already undertaken in this area please let me
know!
Many thanks,
Heather.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School
Dr Heather Ford
University Academic Fellow
School of Media and Communications <http://media.leeds.ac.uk/>, The
University of Leeds
w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> / t:
@hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>