I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a
kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different
introduction.
Often the reason people don't read or use WikiPedia is articles are too
complex at the start.
Having an adaptive setting that can be chosen but users as default needs
facilitating by WikiMedia technology.
Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are
welcomed.
Regards,
Aaron
--
Aaron Gray
Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.
Hi Team ,
This is Kaushik Reddy again.
After a long work, I would like to introduce you to my idea proposal for
the (Wikimedia) GSoC '19.
Here is it:
1) Building an animation to dynamically create popups overlapped on a
geographical map using a real-time API from Wikimedia.
I had found the root of this in here( I have gone through it a bit):
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data
I would like to work this out as my Google summer of code-19 project for
Wikimedia. I request anyone of you to please mentor me over this for GSoC'
19. I'm confident that I could build this one. Also, feel free to comment
on this.
With regards,
Kaushik.
I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a
kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different
introduction. Often the reason people don't read WikiPedia articles is they
are too complex at the start.
This needs facilitating by WikiMedia technology.
Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are
welcomed.
Regards,
Aaron
--
Aaron Gray
Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.
“[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older layers,
which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti applied by vandals
can by its sheer informality convey meaningful information, just like
historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei. Likewise
view patterns can tell future historians a lot about what was hot and what
wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view data are meant to be
preserved for a long time.”
Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post
<https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>
almost
ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he gave
us. Erik retired <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> this
past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with
him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful
celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement.
His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his signature
pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid 2000s
<https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—has
been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual
attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and make
sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, driven by
curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the communities that
most needed it.
Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data describing the
growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and
projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the very
center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors" that
defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the
academic community to understand some of the growing pains and editor
retention issues
<https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>
the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by nearly
a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what
Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like elections
<https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/…>
or public health crises
<https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>.
He has created countless
<https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169> visualizations
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wikiped…>
that show the enormous gaps in local language content and representation
that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia for
and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts
<https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-co…>,
which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards.
Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited over
1,000 times
<https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedia.org>
in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators in the
same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one of the
most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much of a
stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has made
available had a direct causal role in the birth and growth of the academic
field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online
collaboration.
Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable
colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human
being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together.
Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, read
his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> to learn
what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait
<https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired published a
while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data
Trove".
Dario
--
*Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
<http://twitter.com/readermeter>
Rupert, presentation sheets are at http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/2014%20London.pdf
Cheers, Erik
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Many thanks erik and all the best!! One sentence in eriks blog post cited i found surprising. What type of modesty you guys were talking about?
"At Wikimania London (2014) I talked about how we should err on the side of modesty. That message never came across. I started to have a discussion on this within WMF but failed to bring this to fruition. My bad."
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 22:18 Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
> “[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older
> layers, which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti
> applied by vandals can by its sheer informality convey meaningful
> information, just like historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls
> of classic Pompei. Likewise view patterns can tell future historians a
> lot about what was hot and what wasn’t in our times. Reason why these
> raw view data are meant to be preserved for a long time.”
>
> Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post <
> https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/
> 2009/07/michael-jackson/
> >
> almost
> ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he
> gave us. Erik retired
> <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> this past Friday,
> leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with him for
> several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement.
>
> His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his
> signature pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid
> 2000s
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.or
> g/
> >—has
> been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual
> attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and
> make sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history,
> driven by curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the
> communities that most needed it.
>
> Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data
> describing the growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across
> languages and projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller
> communities at the very center of his attention. He coined metrics
> such as "active editors" that defined the benchmark for volunteers,
> the Wikimedia Foundation, and the academic community to understand
> some of the growing pains and editor retention issues <
> https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/
> 2009/12/new-editors-are-joining-english-wikipedia-in-droves/
> >
> the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by
> nearly a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to
> understand what Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current
> events like elections <
> https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/
> 2008/09/sarah-palin/
> >
> or public health crises
> <
> https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/
> 2009/05/h1n1-flu-or-new-flu-or/
> >.
> He has created countless
> <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169>
> visualizations <
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wi
> kipedia/
> >
> that show the enormous gaps in local language content and
> representation that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an
> encyclopedia for and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of
> pie charts <
> https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/
> wp-content/uploads/2008/10/piechartscorrected.png
> >,
> which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards.
>
> Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited
> over
> 1,000 times
> <
> https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedi
> a.org
> >
> in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators
> in the same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would
> be one of the most influential authors in the field, and I don't think
> it is much of a stretch to say that the massive trove of data and
> metrics Erik has made available had a direct causal role in the birth
> and growth of the academic field of Wikimedia research, and more
> broadly, scholarship of online collaboration.
>
> Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable
> colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human
> being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together.
>
> Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement,
> read his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm>
> to learn what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait
> <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired published
> a while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's
> Massive Data Trove".
>
> Dario
>
>
> --
> *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
> research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
> <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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Erik,
It's been an incredible honor to work with you as a colleague and a
volunteer. Thank you for the stats and all the conversations about
categories, topics, languages, ..., but even more so for showing me
the path and the purpose, time after time. I will dearly miss you in
Wikimedia Foundation, and I hope that I can be a steward of what you
stood for (or at least I can say that I will continue to try:).
Enjoy your new endeavors and see you around.
Regards,
Leila
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 3:22 PM Christian Aistleitner
<christian(a)quelltextlich.at> wrote:
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> Thank you for your work!
>
> When I first came across Wikistats, it completely blew my mind. Such a
> huge collection of raw data turned into digestible information. It's
> amazing, stunning, and above all: enlightening.
> I've spent countless hours digging through Wikistats in awe.
>
> But besides the gargantuan effort that Wikistats represents, I even
> more value your passion for the data and information it holds, your
> second-to-none expertise on it, and your willingness to go through the
> details and numbers with each and everyone, regardless where they come
> from, your openness, your unbiased-ness, your constructive approach,
> and your never-shying-away from discussions about the numbers and
> trends.
>
> Enjoy your retirement from WMF, and seeing your blog post and your
> tree mapping project, I'm sure it'll be an amazing "Unruhestand" :-)
>
> Have fun,
> Christian
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:17:48PM -0800, Dario Taraborelli wrote:
> > “[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older layers,
> > which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti applied by vandals
> > can by its sheer informality convey meaningful information, just like
> > historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei. Likewise
> > view patterns can tell future historians a lot about what was hot and what
> > wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view data are meant to be
> > preserved for a long time.”
> >
> > Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post
> > <https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>
> > almost
> > ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he gave
> > us. Erik retired <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> this
> > past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with
> > him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful
> > celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement.
> >
> > His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his signature
> > pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid 2000s
> > <https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—has
> > been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual
> > attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and make
> > sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, driven by
> > curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the communities that
> > most needed it.
> >
> > Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data describing the
> > growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and
> > projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the very
> > center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors" that
> > defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the
> > academic community to understand some of the growing pains and editor
> > retention issues
> > <https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>
> > the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by nearly
> > a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what
> > Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like elections
> > <https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/…>
> > or public health crises
> > <https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>.
> > He has created countless
> > <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169> visualizations
> > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wikiped…>
> > that show the enormous gaps in local language content and representation
> > that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia for
> > and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts
> > <https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-co…>,
> > which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards.
> >
> > Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited over
> > 1,000 times
> > <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedia.org>
> > in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators in the
> > same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one of the
> > most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much of a
> > stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has made
> > available had a direct causal role in the birth and growth of the academic
> > field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online
> > collaboration.
> >
> > Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable
> > colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human
> > being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together.
> >
> > Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, read
> > his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> to learn
> > what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait
> > <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired published a
> > while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data
> > Trove".
> >
> > Dario
> >
> >
> > --
> > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
> > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
> > <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Analytics mailing list
> > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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>
>
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Hi all,
Sorry, I didn't know where to raise this issue. I was recently reading
about some CS theory topics, and came across this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ming_Li&oldid=882127233
Clearly something weird is going on. Going into the edits, I found
that the strange parts about a cat from Groningen are from this bot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KolbertBot
Does anyone know what's up with this?
Sorry if this is the wrong venue, but I thought people might be
familiar with this bot or its owner.
Thanks,
Daniel
Forwarding.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
Update time.
Given that this is a long email: there is an action item in the 5th
bullet point below for the language communities who want to
participate in the next iteration of the study. If you are interested
to have your language included in the study, we need a response by
2019-02-15. See below for more.
* The paper on Why the World Reads Wikipedia is accepted in WSDM '19
[1]. If you are planning to attend the conference, stop by to hear
Florian Lemmerich presenting the work. You can read the paper at
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00474 . If you have time to only read one
subsection of the paper, we would recommend section 4.4. Summary of
Results. From there, you can start reading the other parts of the
paper depending on your interest about introduction, methodology and
data, etc. If you prefer to watch a presentation about the paper, you
can check out the December 2018 Research showcase [2].
* Remember that our offer to provide presentations and discuss the
result with your language community, if your language is part of the
14 languages in the study [3], is still on the table. :) If you want
to talk with us about this topic, sign up at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read…
. No pressure from us: only if having a conversation about readers
help your language community in what you do.
* We have put extensive effort to document the code [4] and data [5]
for this research such that each language community can dive in their
data as they see fit.
* What's next?
The previous results made one point clear to us: geography and
language matter and depending on from where in the world the reader is
accessing a specific Wikipedia language, they may have different needs
and motivations [6]. We hypothesize that age, gender, education,
native language, as well as geographic region the reader is from can
help us understand and characterize the needs and motivations of
Wikipedia readers better. As some of you may already be guessing:
there are some big questions ahead of us. For example, are there
disparities in access to content depending on the readers' age or
gender? Does the trajectory of readers differ depending on their
demographics? We'd like to start addressing questions along these
lines and better understand the needs and motivations of
sub-populations within a country or language community.
To do the above, we will rerun the study and this time we will include
some demographics questions as part of the study.
* How can your language community participate in the upcoming study of
reader demographics?
As always, research on this front is not possible without a very close
collaboration between the language communities who will participate in
this study and the researchers. If you want your language to be
included in this round of the study, please sign up at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read…
on or before 2019-02-15 .
Please note that the priority will be given to the 14 languages that
participated in the previous round and that we will do our best to
include new languages. Also note that we may not be able to run the
study in all the languages that sign up: the traffic to the language
edition, the diversity that the inclusion of the language can bring to
the language pool, our capacity to run the analysis in the language,
the availability of the point of contact from the language for
translations will all play a role in the final list of languages that
we can include in the study. This being said, please don't shy away
from listing your language there if you're interested. :)
Best,
Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich,
Diego Saez, Markus Strohmaier, Bob West, and myself)
[1] http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018
[3] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…
[6] The needs and motivations themselves don't change, but the
distribution over possible options can change, as well as the reader
characteristics that can describe them.
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Update time.
>
> Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the
> different stages of the analysis for this study. We have now concluded
> the study based on the survey of the 14 Wikipedia languages [1]. Here
> is what will happen next:
>
> * We are doing some relatively major documentation at
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…
> . The goal is to have that page and the sub-pages in a way that can be
> consumed more easily by audiences beyond researchers. I expect the
> pages to come to life almost completely on or before 2018-09-14. We
> will need the first couple of weeks of October for data and code
> documentation to make sure you have all the data you need for your
> languages to dig deeper if you choose to. By the end of October,
> please expect all documentation to be completed.
>
> * We are happy to try to give presentations about this research to
> your language community if there is interest on your end and we can
> make it work on our end. The priority will be given to languages that
> already participated in the study. If you want to sign up for one,
> please go to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…
>
> * Our November Research Showcase [2] will most likely be on this
> topic, so if you want to have a general overview of the results, keep
> an eye on that.
>
> * We have submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed conference
> based on this work. There is an anonymization process for the reviews
> and in order to not break that we will wait until the results are out
> (towards the end of October) and only then put the full paper on
> arxiv, under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a more permissive license.
>
> * We are discussing with our collaborators to potentially set up a
> challenge for researchers to work with a subset of the data
> (anonymized/aggregated/...) to answer an interesting research
> questions. If you want to brainstorm with us about this, please drop a
> line at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read…
>
> * Do you have an idea about how to more effectively disseminate this
> knowledge? please call it out. There is quite a bit of knowledge to
> share and we're honestly not 100% sure what the best way to do it is
> across a global movement. As a result, we're offering a mix of
> documentation, pinging points of contacts in each language so they're
> aware of them, general presentations, language specific presentations,
> as well as data documentation for you to be able to dig on your own
> deeper.
>
> Best,
> Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez,
> Bob West, and myself)
>
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> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
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DEADLINE EXTENSION to 10 February, 2019.
Already submitted abstracts can be updated using EasyChair.
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IC2S2 2019 – 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
July 17-20, 2019
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/
Twitter:@IC2S2 <https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2
Deadline for abstracts: 10 February 2019
This summer the fifth edition of IC2S2 is hosted by the University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IC2S2 brings together researchers in
computational science, complexity, and social science, and provides a
platform for new work in the field of computational social science.
Following a day of tutorials on July 17, contributed abstracts are
presented orally in parallel thematic sessions or as posters at the
three day conference, which takes place at the University of Amsterdam
in the Netherlands from July 18 to 20.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Kenneth Benoit (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Jana Diesner (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Deen Freelon (University of North Carolina)
Mirta Galesic (Santa Fe Institute)
Cesar Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab)
Devra Moehler (Facebook Research)
Scott Page (University of Michigan)
Leto Peel (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Emma Spiro (University of Washington)
Lukas Vermeer (Booking.com)
Claudia Wagner (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
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SPECIAL SESSION “5 YEARS OF IC2S2"
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After an opening talk by Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research), several
renowned computational social scientists from the field will engage in a
panel discussion on the future of the field of computational social
science. Among confirmed panelists are:
Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zürich)
Sandra González-Bailón (University of Pennsylvania)
Helen Margetts (University of Oxford, The Alan Turing Institute)Markus
Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen University)
Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research)
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CALL FOR PAPERS (ABSTRACTS)
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IC2S2 solicits abstracts from researchers in the social sciences with a
clear component of computation, simulation or data analysis or data
science. This includes for example sociology, psychology, communication
science, anthropology, media studies, political science, public health,
and economics. In addition, contributions from computer science, data
science, and computational science with real-world applications in the
social sciences or related fields, are welcome. We emphatically welcome
abstracts that try to integrate both components. This is not limited to
empirical studies; more general theoretical contributions are also welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Network analysis of social systems
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Large-scale social experiments
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Agent-based or other simulations of social phenomena
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Text analysis and natural language processing (NLP) of social phenomena
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Cultural patterns and dynamics
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Computational science studies (sociology of science)
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Social news curation and collaborative filtering
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Social media studies
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Theoretical discussions in computational social science
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Causal inference and computational methods for social science
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Ethics in computational social sciences
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Reproducibility in computational social science
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Large scale infrastructure in computational social science
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Novel digital data sources
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Computational analyses for addressing societal challenges
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Methods and analyses of observational social data
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Computational social science research in industry
Contributions to the conference should be submitted via EasyChair
at:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019>
Please follow the extended abstract template guidelines for Word
(ic2s2-word-template.docx
<https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-word-template.docx>)
and LaTeX (ic2s2-latex-template.zip
<https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-latex-template.zip>)
for formatting instructions. Note that abstracts should be submitted as
a PDFfile no larger than 20MB. Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit
(including figures and references) will be automatically rejected.
The extended abstract should include a title and a list of 5 keywords,
but no authors’ names or affiliations. The abstract should outline the
main contribution, data and methods used, results, and the impact of the
work. Authors are encouraged to include one figure in their submission
(the figure counts towards the page limit).
Please do not include authors’ names and affiliations in the submitted
document, as peer review will be double blind. Each extended abstract
will be reviewed by multiple members of the Program Committee, composed
of experts in computational social science.
When submitting on EasyChair you will be asked to provide information
about the authors and their affiliations and to include a one-sentence
summaryof the extended abstract (20-50 words). The summary will be used
for assigning reviewers. You can indicate a preference for an oral
presentation or a poster presentation, but your preference may not be
honored in the final decision.
Submissions will be non-archival, and the presented work can be already
published, in preparation for publication elsewhere, or ongoing
research. Submission implies willingness to present a talk or poster at
the conference.
The deadline for abstract submission is February 10, 2019.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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February 10, 2019 – Regular abstract submission deadline
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March 6, 2019 – Acceptance notification
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April 30, 2019 – Early bird registration deadline
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June 30, 2019 – Registration deadline
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July 17-20, 2019 – Conference
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SPONSORSHIP
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Do you want to affiliate your organisation to IC2S2? Bespoke sponsorship
packages are available on request. Contact the local chairs Eelke
Heemskerk and Frank Takes at ic2s2(a)uva.nl
IC2S2 2019 is hosted byCORPNET <https://corpnet.uva.nl/>, University of
Amsterdam and so far it is sponsored by Microsoft Research, Facebook,
Statistics Netherlands, ODISSEI, University of Amsterdam, Leiden
University, Municipality of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Inequality
Studies and SAGE Publishing.
Please watch the video “IC2S2 comes to Amsterdam
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWvAysyqPk&t=2s>”.
Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/ Twitter:@IC2S2
<https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2
Hi developers,
This is K. Kaushik Reddy from India. I'm keen into Data science & good with
python. I am looking to participate in GSoC'19 for your organisation. I
also have gone through the ideas page for GSoC'19 , but looking for few
data science projects with python as the code base this year.
In future, I'm planning to take Research & Development as my career. I
always wanted to know how you people plan and execute a project in action.
Secondly, Could you please guide me with relevant bugs that need to be
fixed, so as to get involved in GSoC'19 along with you guys.
Hoping to learning more and have fun with you people.
Best,
K. Kaushik Reddy.
