The November 2019 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2019/November
In this issue:
1 "First census of Wikipedia bots"2 Seasonality in pageviews reflects plants blooming and birds migrating3 Editor Interactions in Spanish and English Wikipedia4 Too many editors spoil the broth - at least for global warming5 Conferences and events6 Other recent publications6.1 "Does Sleep Deprivation Cause Online Incivility? Evidence from a Natural Experiment"6.2 "Smaller, more tightly-knit" WikiProjects may be more efficient6.3 "Web Traffic Prediction of Wikipedia Pages"6.4 "Anomaly Detection in the Dynamics of Web and Social Networks Using Associative Memory"6.5 "Operationalizing Conflict and Cooperation between Automated Software Agents in Wikipedia: A Replication and Expansion of 'Even Good Bots Fight'"6.6 "The digital knowledge economy index: mapping content production"6.7 Linking 20 GB of data from Wikidata with a biodiversity database in 10 minutes6.8 "Inspiration, Captivation, and Misdirection: Emergent Properties in Networks of Online Navigation"6.9 "Different Topic, Different Traffic: How Search and Navigation Interplay on Wikipedia"
*** 14 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
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Hi everybody,
the Analytics team is going to shutdown stat1007 for a few minutes on Thu
Dec 12th at around 15:30 CET to check if there is space for a GPU in the
server's chassis. Please let us know if this will impact your work (so we
can arrange a different maintenance window).
Thanks!
Luca
Hi everybody,
the Analytics team is going to enable Kerberos authentication for Hadoop on
Monday December 2nd. The procedure will start around 10 AM CET and will
hopefully last 3/4 hours, but since this is an invasive change there might
be a possibility that it will last more. If you have anything important
that requires Hadoop on this date please let us know in advance.
The most visible change from the user's point of view is the introduction
of a new account/password to be able to use the Hadoop services (like
Hive/HDFS/Spark/Oozie). We created a user guide about what will change with
kerberos in
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/Kerberos/UserGuide.
There is also a task opened to track any doubt/question/special-use-cases
during the next two weeks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238560.
Feel free to reach out to IRC #wikimedia-analytics on Freenode too!
Thanks!
Luca (on behalf of the Analytics team)
Good news everyone, we enabled Kerberos!
If you use the Hadoop cluster in any way, you'll need to kinit to get a
Kerberos token so you can authenticate yourself or your job. Here's the
guide again:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/Kerberos/UserGuide.
If you use our APIs or datasets, these are coming back online and updating
slowly since we paused them early today. Expect a bit more lag, but that
should clear within a few days as jobs catch up.
Let us know if you need any help on Phabricator, at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238560. And as always find us on IRC,
#wikimedia-analytics.
Your friendly neighborhood Analytics team
Apologies for cross-posting
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SEMANTiCS - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September
7 - 10, 2020
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/
====
= Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaiitime)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2020
(11:59pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59
pm,Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020
(11:59pm, Hawaii time)
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
= Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem20eu#
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2020 EU are planned to be published by Springer
LNCS & CEUR. All proceedings will be made available open access.
SEMANTiCS 2020 EU particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics
* Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
* Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* Reasoning, Rules and Policies
* Natural Language Processing
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
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* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Blockchain and Semantics
We especially encourage contributions that illustrate the applicability
of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate
the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
== Research and Innovation Track ==
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes 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 must follow the guidelines
given in the author instructions, including references and optional
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who
will judge it based on its innovativeness, appropriateness, and impact
of results in terms of effectiveness at solving real problems.
= Important Dates:
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 06, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Reviews will be carried out in a single-blind mode.
Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages and short papers of
6 pages. Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS
format. The detailed Call for Research and Innovation papers is
available here: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
== Posters and Demos Track ==
The Posters and Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in
progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller
contributions in all fields related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data
in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications
with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test
or that are yet in the conceptual phase but are worth discussing, and
also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and
potential research or business partners.
= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 22, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: August 01, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings are planned to be published via CEUR
Workshop Proceedings and should follow the guidelines of the Springer
LNCS format. The detailed Call for Poster and Demos papers is available
online.
== Industry and Use Case Track ==
Focusing strongly on industry needs and ground breaking technology
trends SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal
with semantic processing of data and/or information. A special focus of
Semantics 2019 will be on the convergence of machine learning techniques
and knowledge graphs. Additional topics of interest are Enterprise
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Data
Integration, Linked Data & Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text
Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions should have
a strong focus on real-world applications beyond the prototypical stage
and demonstrate the power of semantic systems!
= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2020 (11:59
pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Presentation: August 24, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
Submit your presentations here:
http://2020-eu.semantics.cc/submission-industry-presentations
== Workshops and Tutorials ==
Workshops and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for
presenting widely recognised contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research and commercial project consortia meetings.
= Important Dates for Workshops:
* Proposals WS Deadline: March 23, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
= Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
* Proposals Tutorial Deadline: May 11, 2020 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 01, 2020 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
== Special Calls ==
Special calls or sub-topics are dedicated towards specific topics that
are of special interest to the SEMANTiCS community. IN case we receive a
sufficient amount of high quality submissions these topics will become
special tracks within the conference program. For 2020 SEMANTiCS
Amsterdam encourages submissions to the following sub-topics:
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Blockchain and Semantics
Each sub-topic is managed by a distinct committee and encourages
submissions from the scientific or industrial domain. Scientific
submissions will undergo a thorough review process and will be published
in the conference proceedings in case of acceptance. Industrial
submissions will be evaluated and selected according to the quality
criteria of the industry track. WE are looking forward to your submissions!
== SEMANTiCS 2020 EU Organizing Committee ==
Research and Innovation Chairs:
* Eva Blomqist, Linköping University
* Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam
Industry and Use Case Presentation Chairs:
* Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer
* Marco Bratinga, Ordina
* Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
Workshops and Tutorials Chairs:
* Laura Daniele, TNO
* Tabea Tietz, FIZ Karlsruhe
Posters and Demos Chairs:
* Maria Maleshkova, University of Bonn
* Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Proceedings Chairs:
* Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten
Conference Chairs:
* Victor de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
* Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten
The program committee will be announced on the conference website
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/calls
== About SEMANTiCS ==
The annual SEMANTiCS EU conference is the meeting place for
professionals who make semantic computing work, understand its benefits,
and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts
researchers and practitioners alike from a wide spectrum of
organisations ranging from universities, non-profit organisations,
public administration bodies, to SMEs and the largest companies in the
world.
SEMANTiCS 2020 is bound to continue a long tradition of building bridges
between like minded but often separated communities of interest. To do
so, the conference aims to explore the intersections, benefits and
hurdles of various traditions in artificial intelligence, machine
learning and
semantic processing of graph data and information. SEMANTiCS 2020
invites latest scientific research as well as presentations on industry
implementations, use case prototypes and best practices.
The SEMANTiCS program will provide a rich mix of technical talks, panel
discussions on emerging topics and presentations of practical systems by
people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees will
have a unique opportunity to network with experts in a variety of
fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they
encounter technical challenges in any stage of implementation. The
expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their
careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS the key event
across Europe for a diverse community of industry leaders and academic
experts alike.
[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]
Joint Call for
(i) Papers (formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme)
(ii) Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
13th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2020 -
July 26-31, 2020
Bertinoro, Italy
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2020
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(i) Call for Papers (formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme)
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the
generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical
information.
CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed
theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as
computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces. It offers a
venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these areas and their
integration.
CICM 2020 Invited Speakers:
Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London)
Christian Szegedy (Google AI)
tba
CICM 2020 Programme committee:
see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
CICM 2020 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent computer
mathematics, in particular but not limited to
* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries
CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and
invites submissions of different forms:
1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be
published in a volume of Springer LNAI:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present
novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography)
summarize existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including
references) present digital artifacts
* system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template)
provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new
release of an existent tool
2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for
presentation based on their relevance for the community.
* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project
announcements, position statements, etc.
* posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special
sessions
3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students with a forum to present early
results and receive constructive feedback and mentoring.
*** Important Dates ***
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: March 01
- Full paper deadline: March 08
- Reviews sent to authors: April 17
- Rebuttals due: April 21
- Notification of acceptance: April 24
- Camera-ready copies due: May 03
- Conference: July 26-31
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early
travel plans while other authors submit spontaneously.
- First round submission deadline: April 15
- Notification of acceptance: May 1
- Second round submission deadline: June 15
- Notification of acceptance: July 1
All submissions should be made via easychair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm13
As in previous years, we plan to publish the CICM 2020 proceedings with Springer
LNCS.
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(ii) Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the
generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical
information.
CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed
theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as
computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces. It offers a
venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these areas and their
integration.
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), Washington DC (USA 2015), Bialystok (Poland 2016), Edinburgh
(UK 2018) and Prague (Czech Republic 2019).
Workshop Proposals
==================
CICM encourages submissions of any kind of topically suitable workshop,
including those focusing on formal results, open discussions, or practical
systems. Some of the workshops that have been held at past CICM meetings are:
Automated Reasoning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Compact Computer Algebra
Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for Mathematics
Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians
Intelligent Proof Search
Mathematical user Interfaces
Mathematics Information Retrieval
OpenMath
Pen-Based Mathematical Computation
Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems
Proof Engineering
SCIEnce
The Notion of Proof
User Interfaces for Theorem Provers
Workshop on Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians
Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2020 are solicited. Both
well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged.
Please provide the following information:
+ Workshop title
+ Names and affiliations of organizers
+ Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics
+ Proposed workshop duration (half a day up to two days)
+ If the workshop has met previously, the recent conference affiliations
+ Preferred date (if any)
Tutorial Proposals
==================
Tutorial topics should have a direct relevance to any topic in the scope of
CICM. Tutorials may be focus on theoretical methods or practical systems. We
especially welcome tutorials with a hands-on component.
Please provide the following information:
+ Tutorial title
+ Names and affiliations of organizers
+ Brief description of tutorial’s goals and/or topics
+ Tutorial duration (half or up to two days)
+ Relationship to previous tutorials (if any)
+ Preferred date (if any)
CICM will take care of copying and distributing informal printed proceedings for
workshops/tutorials (if the organizers wish that) as well as permanently
archiving open access online proceedings with CEUR-WS.org.
Important Dates
===============
Proposals should be submitted by February 01, 2020.
All proposals should be submitted via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm13
More details on the conference are available from
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2020
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From: Jakob Voß <Jakob.Voss(a)gbv.de>
Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 1:14 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Call for Contributions to WikiCite Satellite Cologne
2020
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikidata-Community!
We are happy to announce the WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 and looking
forward to your contributions. The event will take place at May 6th -
8th 2020 at GESIS in Cologne, organized together with ZB MED and FH
Köln. The event aims to connect local library institutions and academic
researchers with the WikiCite community in their shared interest in an
open infrastructure about open citations and linked bibliographic data
for research and education. See https://w.wiki/9jj for details!
Submission deadline for contributions is February 16th 2020. The
conference will contain different forms of contributions. Please specify
the format and how much time you are going to need. We especially
welcome topics such as (but not limited to):
- use of bibliographic data in Wikibase and Wikimedia projects
- applications and tools to process, analyze and visualize scientific
information
- strategies to enhance the bibliographic information on large scale
- bibliometric analyses and quantitative science studies
- ethical and social aspects of data collection and analysis
- open citations and open bibliographic data
Please suggest your contribution with a short abstract (max. 500 words),
contact information, preferred language (German or English) and its
type, which has to be one of the following options:
- hands-on workshops: practical tutorials with up to 30 participants
each (up to 150 minutes), e.g. introduction to Wikidata or other
Wikimedia projects, introduction to bibliometrics, how-to and
best-practice guides around tools
- talks: traditional presentations (10-30 minutes including questions)
- discussions: self-organized barcamp-like open discussion with up to 30
participants (up to 60 minutes)
- demos: interactive demo of a tool or prototype (10-15 minutes)
- posters: visually appealing and informative description of a topic (0
minutes) to be shown at the conference site. It’s also possible to
provide a poster without physically participating, please indicate in
your submission
All participants can also give spontaneous lightning talks.
Contributions can be submitted openly in the Wikidata wiki. Both English
and German contributions will be accepted. Please create an account (any
Wikimedia project such as Wikipedia will do) and submit your
contribution via the event page (https://w.wiki/9jj#Metadata). The
submission form opens a template to publish your submission with full
title and additional information.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Jakob Voß
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Hi everyone,
I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history of
the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know if
there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do they
know E. Ostrom, etc.)
Thanks a lot for your help !
Best regards,
*Sébastien Shulz*
*Doctorant en sociologie *
*Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés*
*06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastien-shulz>*
It's a reasonable question, for which the Wiki-research-l mailing list
(CCed) might be a better venue.
There is some data at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Audiences_Metr…
(not
a full analysis, highlighting just two example countries)
Regards, HaeB
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:19 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hoi,
> The BBC shows how dramatically expensive internet is in Africa.. For in my
> opinion local political reasons Wikipedia Zero has terminated. That is ok
> up to a point; the point being that we understand the consequences from
> this action.
>
> Given that our data is NOT local, people have to pay a premium. What are we
> going to do to compensate for expensive Wikipedia that replaced Wikipedia
> Zero? Did we study the effects or are we not interested in the consequences
> of our actions?
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-50516888
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