***Apologies for cross-posting***
Dear Colleagues,
The organizing committee of the 10th Annual International Conference on
Social Media and Society (#SMSociety) invites you to visit Toronto on July
19-21, 2019. This year's conference will be held at the Ted Rogers School of
Management and hosted by Ryerson University Social Media Lab. The 2019
conference theme is "Rethinking Privacy and Trust in the Social Media Age."
The Conference offers an intensive 3-day program including hands-on
workshops, full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters featuring the
latest in social media research. This year, we are honoured to have two
highly distinguished scholars as our keynote speakers:
* Tarleton Gillespie, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New
England, and an affiliated professor in the Department of Communication and
Department of Information Science at Cornell University. His new book,
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden
Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale University Press) was published in
June 2018.
* Valerie Steeves, a professor in the Department of Criminology at the
University of Ottawa. As the lead researcher of MediaSmarts' Young Canadians
in a Wired World research project, she has been tracking young people's use
of new media since 2000. She is also the principal investigator of The
eQuality Project, a seven-year partnership exploring young people's
experiences of privacy and equality in networked spaces. More info at:
https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2019/announcement-of-2019-keynotes/
Submission Deadline:
There is still time to submit a poster, panel or hands-on workshop proposal
(due March 18, midnight, Hawaiian time). We hope you consider submitting
your work to the conference and join our interdisciplinary community of
researchers. More info at: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/
If you have any questions, please contact us via email at
ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org> or on
Twitter at @SocMediaConf <https://twitter.com/SocMediaConf>
--
2019 SMSociety Organizing Committee
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From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:13 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
As I mentioned in an earlier thread [1], we will be running reader
surveys across a number of Wikipedia languages to learn about the
reader needs and motivations in these languages as well as some of
their demographic information (and perhaps the correlations between
demographics and user motivations and characteristics).
If your language community is interested to have statistics on the
distribution of reader gender, age, education, native language, and
geographic region (rural/urban) in your language (and depending on how
much data we collect in your language, perhaps more insights), this is
your chance to indicate interest at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read…
I initially communicated 2019-02-15 as the deadline to sign up. Since
then, we have run a pilot test on enwiki and we are investigating some
of the results to see if any changes in the survey questions are
needed. You have now time until 2019-03-15 to indicate interest.
As always: this call is primarily a service to your language
community. If you like it, take action on it. If you don't, no action
is needed. :)
Best,
Leila
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-February/091762.html
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Hi everybody,
the Analytics team has been working with the SRE Data Persistence team
during the last months to replace dbstore1002 with three brand new nodes,
dbstore100[3-5]. We are moving from a single mysql instance (multi-source)
to a multi-instance environment.
For more info please check:
* T210478 and related subtasks.
* https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_access#MariaDB_replicas
We are planning to decommission the dbstore1002 host (namely stopping mysql
and shutting down the server) on Monday March 4th (EU morning). We have
recently been following up with a lot of users to help them migrate to the
new environment, so we are reasonably sure that this move should not
heavily impact anybody, but if we have left some use case aside please let
us know in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215589. If we don't hear
anything before the March 4th deadline we'll proceed with the host
decommission maintenance.
Luca (on behalf of the Analytics team)
Hi,
A final call for papers for a conference in Sydney in June
https://www.wow2019.net/
worlds of wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across cultures
Dr Bunty Avieson | Lecturer
The University of Sydney
Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Rm N225, John Woolley | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
+61 2 8627 0201
bunty.avieson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au> | sydney.edu.au<https://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/bunty.avieson.php>
I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation
as the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work
Forwarding to additional lists. I believe that in the past there has been
consideration of using automated image recognition to categorize images on
Commons.
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From: caip2019(a)unisa.it <caip2019(a)unisa.it>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 6:58 AM
Subject: [AI] Extended call for Workshops/Tutorials at CAIP 2019 in
Salerno, Italy
To: <ai(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The CAIP2019 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops and
tutorials in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Computer
Analysis of Images and Patterns. The workshops and tutorials will be held
as side events of the main conference.
*Proposals for Workshop*
The CAIP2019 workshops will provide forums where participants will have
opportunities to discuss technical topics and actively share ideas. The
topics of the workshops should be at the frontiers of academic research or
important applications in the domain of computer vision and pattern
recognition. Each proposal will be assessed for its scientific content,
structure and relevance. Cogently, good proposals would encourage
discussion and interaction between the participants, achievable in a
several ways, e.g., through presentations of submitted work, panel
discussions and hands-on sessions.
Download here the Call for Workshops
<http://caip2019.unisa.it/pages/submission/callcaip2019workshop.pdf>
*Proposals For Tutorials*
The CAIP 2019 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be
held as side events of the main conference in Salerno, Italy. Tutorials
should serve one or more of the following objectives:
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Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of CAIP research
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Provide instruction on established practices and methodologies
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Survey a mature area of CAIP research and/or practice
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Motivate and explain a CAIP topic of emerging importance
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Introduce expert non-specialists to a CAIP research area
Proposals should contain the following information:
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The title and a brief description of the tutorial
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A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length of
tutorial: either 3 hours (half day) or 6 hours (full day). If it is a
full-day tutorial, please give a brief justification
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Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial,
including prerequisite knowledge and estimated number of attendees
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A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a
substantial part of the CAIP audience
-
A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, title,
affiliation, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, example of
work in the area (e.g. publications and/or industrial work).
Download here the Call for Tutorials
<http://caip2019.unisa.it/pages/submission/callcaip2019tutorials.pdf>
*Submission*
Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the CAIP Organizing
Committee (caip2019(a)unisa.it)
*Important Dates*
Deadline for workshop proposal:
*March 11, 2019 *Notification of Acceptance: *March 15, 2019*
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[Apologies for cross-postings]
Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme
12th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2019 -
July 8-12, 2019
CIIRC, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2019
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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 2019 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 very 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 with 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 a forum to present early results
receive constructive feedback and mentoring.
* Important Dates *
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: March 08 (extended)
- Full paper deadline: March 15 (extended)
- Reviews sent to authors: April 15
- Rebuttals due: April 17
- Notification of acceptance: April 20
- Camera-ready copies due: May 03
- Conference: July 08-12
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 01
- Second round submission deadline: May 15
All submissions should be made via easychair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2019
Forwarding in case people are interested in seeing what was funded.
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From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led
projects
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
In the latest round of Project Grants, the committee has recommended 20
projects for a total of approximately $678,666 USD in funding. We received
42 proposals for review, the largest round of proposals we’ve received in a
single round. Please join me in congratulating the applicants! I’d also
like to express my thanks to all applicants this round for their hard work
and engagement with their proposals, and to the Project Grants Committee
for their careful diligence in reviewing and providing crucial feedback
during this round. Without further ado, here’s what we’re funding:[1]
==Software: five projects funded==* Commons Android app v3: This third
version of the Commons mobile uploader app aims to increase app stability,
improve a recommendations feature for nearby places, maintain a limited
connectivity mode, and provide better outreach to underrepresented
communities. [2]
* Scribe: Scribe is an editing tool to support underserved Wikipedia
editors, helping them to plan the structure of their new articles and to
find references in their language.[3]
* Culture Gap Monthly Monitoring: The Wikipedia Cultural Diversity
Observatory (WCDO) proposes a set of solutions to regularly assist
communities and individual editors to increase the cultural diversity in
their language editions’ content.[4].
* GlobalFactSyncRE: GlobalFactSyncRE will extract all infobox facts and
their references to produce a tool for Wikipedia editors that detects and
displays differences across infobox facts in an intelligent way to help
sync infoboxes between languages and/or Wikidata. The extracted references
will also be used to enhance Wikidata.[5]
* Wikidata & ETL: This project aims at improving management and increasing
automation of processes loading data into Wikidata, and proposes a tool as
a platform for creation of repeatable processes for bulk loading data into
Wikidata and other Wikibase instances from various data sources.[6]
==Online organizing: four projects funded==* Wiki Loves Monuments
international team/2019 coordination: The international coordination team
for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) [7] proposes to strengthen the foundation
for healthy and sustainable WLM competitions across the world. In this
grant, the team will focus considerable effort on increasing the
sustainability of these events by addressing known issues around developing
best practices, resourcing local teams to run successful events, and
adapting to mobile engagement.[8]
* CEE Spring 2019: This annual international article writing contest
generates
content from every country and region in Central and Eastern Europe on 30+
Wikipedias. CEE Spring’s remarkable community spirit plays a central role
in fostering a thriving, collaborative volunteer base in the region. The
grant will continue incentivizing content creation focused on similar
themes from last year, including closing the gender gap, and expanding
minority language Wikipedias, and showcasing the cultural heritage of
Central and Eastern Europe. [9]
* WM HU/Editor retention program: This grant will fund the editor retention
program in the Hungarian Wikipedia. The project helps the Hungarian
Wikipedia community in decreasing the negative experiences and
strengthening the positive experiences of the contributors; improving the
community atmosphere and strengthening the community cohesion, the
Wikipedia identity, the sense of mission and pride in Wikipedia.[10]
* VisibleWikiWomen2019: Whose Knowledge?, in partnership with Wikimedians
and women’s and feminist organizations around the world, is organizing a
campaign to add more diverse and quality images of women to Commons and
Wikipedia throughout March 2019 to celebrate International Women’s Month.
This year, the organization plans to take what they have learned from 2018
#VisibleWikiWomen and grow the campaign, creating more materials and
connections that will be useful for this year’s campaign and many more
years to come.[11]
==Offline outreach: ten projects funded==* Smithsonian
Wikimedian-in-Residence for Gender Representation: This project will
establish a Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Smithsonian Women's History
Initiative, and increase the representation of women on Wikimedia projects,
and seek ongoing support for a permanent Wikimedian-in-Residence at the
institution.[12]
* Action Plan for Wikipedia + Libraries Training in Mexico: OCLC will
investigate the viability of and approach to a Wikipedia+Libraries training
program for library staff in Mexico, to leverage the libraries in support
of the Wikimedia Foundation’s New Readers initiative. This project will
identify a Mexico-based organization that would lead the training, develop
an advisory group, and produce an action plan for how to design and deliver
the training.[13]
* Offline Wikipedia in Senegal Schools: The problem this project plans to
address is the absence of an easy, rapid and reliable way to access the
treasure-trove of information contained in Wikipedia. The Offline Wikipedia
in Senegal Schools project is a Train the Trainers project: trainers will
attend a seminar teaching them about offline Wikipedia the Kiwix program.
They will then go out to remote schools in and in turn run a seminar
presenting Kiwix to the teachers. This seminar will be part of the
certification process.[14]
* Heritage GLAM: This project will focus on growing successful GLAM
partnerships with government institutes, capacity building and documenting
rare archives, books and artwork of historical and cultural importance to
North India with no or little online presence via our project Wiki Loves
Heritage. A part of the project will also be focused on integration of
content with Wikisource and Wikipedia.[15]
* Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO 2019-2020: Past engagement with UNESCO
has demonstrated that working with Wikipedia to share knowledge allows
UNESCO to reach a far wider public with detailed information that
traditional report publication. The applicants have prepared a roadmap to
mass adoption of open licensing and sharing of content on Wikimedia
projects across the UN. By the end of this grant in early 2020, the project
will result in policies, documentation and processes in place to share
knowledge from across the UN on Wikimedia projects. [16]
* Wiki Loves Africa 2019: Funding for this project will support prize
distribution efforts associated with local contests supported by Wiki Loves
Africa 2019, an annual public contest where people across Africa can
contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to
Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.[17]
* Wiki Kouman 2019 en Côte d'Ivoire (Local langua in Côte d'Ivoire): The
aim of the WikiKouman project is to increase the visibility and content of
Côte d'Ivoire’s local languages through the Wiktionary and other related
projects. WikiKouman derives its etymology from Dioula, one of the local
languages, in which "Kouman" means "to speak"[18]
* History of Quebec and French-speaking North America: This
Wikimedian-in-Residence project with the Fondation Lionel-Groulx (FLG) aims
to build and support the community of individuals and organizations
interested in developing and improving wikimedia contents pertaining to the
history of Quebec and French-speaking North America.[19]
* Wikipedia Women and Ancestral Knowledge from the Global South in the
Colombian context: In collaboration with Centro de Internet y Sociedad
Universidad (ISUR), this project is aimed at supporting indigenous
communities in Colombia to participate on Wikipedia and enhance the
participation of women through promotion of digital skills and article
development on multiple Wikipedia projects to represent their knowledge.[20]
* Editathons in Pistoia district: The project centers on an edit-a-thon
series in the Pistoia district of Italy. This grant is a way to get a
complete deep-level coverage and to develop a model for localized work for
other regions in Italy.[21]
==Research: one project funded==
* Machine Learning to Predict Wikimedia User Blocks: This project will
involve investigating user misconduct on English Wikipedia using machine
learning techniques to better understand and predict what circumstances
lead to user blocks. [22]
With thanks,
Chris Schilling
1. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications>
2. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Commons_app/Commons_Android_…
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3. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Scribe:_Supporting_Under-res…
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WCDO/Culture_Gap_Monthly_Mon…
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5. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncRE>
6. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/MFFUK/Wikidata_%26_ETL>
7. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna…
>
8. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments>
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikimedians_of_CEE/CEE_Sprin…
>
10. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WM_HU/Editor_retention_progr…
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11. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Whose_Knowledge/VisibleWikiW…
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12. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Effie_Kapsalis/Smithsonian_W…
>
13. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/OCLC/Action_Plan_for_Wikiped…
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14. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Offline_Wikipedia_in_Senegal…
>
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM>
16. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UNESCO/Wikimedian_in_Residen…
>
17. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019>
18. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Modjou/Wiki_Kouman_2019_en_C…
>
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/History_of_Quebec_and_French…
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ISUR/Wikipedia_women_and_anc…
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Editathons_in_Pistoia_distri…
>
22. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/University_of_Virginia/Machi…
>
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
He/His/Their
Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
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Please join us for a special full-day event on
*THE FUTURE OF THE OPEN WEB*
to be held at
*THE WEB CONFERENCE*
in San Francisco on May 16, 2019.
https://www2019.thewebconf.org/event-future-open-web
The Web has seen tremendous growth thanks to some of the technical and
social decisions that were made in the Web’s formation. Many of these
decisions reflect public, cooperative principles—an Open Web—rather than a
network that is exclusive, walled, private, and proprietary. However, many
questions about the governance and state of the Web have shifted or
remained unanswered over time. In this conversation, we will ask what the
future of the Web should say about our values, what our values should say
about the future of the Web, and how our hopes for an ideal Web of the
future might pan out in practice.
An exciting line-up of speakers already bodes well for the discussion (and
more speakers will be announced soon):
- Lawrence Lessig (Harvard University)
- Marietje Schaake (Member of European Parliament)
- Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)
- Nadia Eghbal (Protocol Labs)
- Tim Smith (CERN)
- Alexandra Elbakyan (SciHub)
- Adam Knight (University of Oxford)
- Jan Gerlach (Wikimedia Foundation)
As a reminder, the early-bird registration deadline for The Web Conference
is coming up soon -- on March 6 -- so get your tickets soon!
https://www2019.thewebconf.org/registration
Bob West, EPFL
Stephen LaPorte, Wikimedia Foundation
Luc Henry, EPFL