*The 11^th International Conference on Computational Social Science*
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 IC^2 S^2 conference will take
place in Norrköping, Sweden on July 22-24, 2025.
The International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC^2 S^2 )
is the premier conference in computational social science and brings
together leading academics and practitioners from social science, data
science, complexity science, and network science.
Please visit the conference website for detailed information:
https://www.ic2s2-2025.org
Please note that the abstract submission deadline is February 24, 2025.
The deadline for tutorial proposals is January 17, 2025.
We look forward to seeing you in Norrköping!
Marc Keuschnigg, Peter Hedström, Sonia Yeh, Nina Tahmasebi, Yuan Liao,
and Martin Arvidsson
Hi all,
We have opened a User Experience (UX) Research Manager position in the
Research team [1] at WMF. The manager who will join us in this capacity
will be accountable for the UX and Design Research team and operations [2].
This email serves multiple purposes:
- A courtesy announcement so you're aware
- Sharing the job posting with you if you are interested to apply
- Asking for your support to spread the word about the position if you
know of people who may be interested
The job description and application form is at:
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6340851
If you have questions about how we organize work within the Research team,
this opening, or other topics that you would like to talk with me about, I
invite you to book one of my office hours which you can schedule through
[3].
Best,
Leila
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://design.wikimedia.org/strategy/index.html
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours#Schedule
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday October 16,
at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729096200>. With numerous elections
taking place all around the world this year, the theme for this
showcase is *Wikipedia
for Political and Election Analysis*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://youtube.com/live/61j55R7UZZA?feature=share. As usual, you can join
the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
*Throw Your Hat in the Ring (of Wikipedia): **Exploring Urban-Rural
Disparities in Local Politicians' Information Supply*By *Akira Matsui,
Yokohama National University*This talk explores the socio-economic factors
contributing to disparities in the supply of local political information on
Wikipedia. Using a dataset of politicians who ran for local elections in
Japan, the research investigates the relationship between socio-economic
status and creating and revising politicians' Wikipedia pages. The study
reveals that areas with different socio-economic backgrounds, such as
employment industries and age distribution, exhibit distinct patterns in
information supply. The findings underscore the impact of regional
socio-economic factors on digital platforms and highlight potential
vulnerabilities in information access for political content.Party positions
from Wikipedia classifications of party ideologyBy *Michael Herrmann,
University of Konstanz*We develop a new measure of party position based on
a scaling of ideology tags supplied in infoboxes on political parties'
Wikipedia pages. Assuming a simple model of tag assignment, we estimate the
locations of parties and ideologies in a common space. We find that the
recovered scale can be interpreted in familiar terms of "left versus
right." Estimated party positions correlate well with ratings of parties'
positions from extant large-scale expert surveys, most strongly with
ratings of general left-right ideology. Party position estimates also show
high stability in a test-retest scenario. Our results demonstrate that a
Wikipedia-based approach yields valid and reliable left-right scores
comparable to scores obtained via conventional expert coding methods. It
thus provides a measure with potentially unlimited party coverage. Our
measurement strategy is also applicable to other entities.
Best,Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello,
Hopefully final meeting about this COST Action before submission sometime
next week.
Same link as above, https://meet.google.com/yum-qabj-szx Friday at 4 Warsaw
time.
It will be best if you come with maybe a follow up grant that you can write
with some of the people while we wait for the results of this one, I am
looking into an OPUS LAP in December for instance. looking especially at
those from exotic places.
Best,
Brett
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM Brett Buttliere <b.buttliere(a)uw.edu.pl>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> The WikiSci COST Action
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nqb-5WDQYSpvBf1620BuWHQ0746fGdRK48Q2mG…>
> application is again going well in our opinion. It is now in a 'first
> final' version and ready for feedback in comments etc. Thank you,
> sincerely, to everyone who read it so far and provided feedback.
>
> Since the grant is due in about 1 month, it is a sort of final chance to
> join with your own working group, so i encourage you to read it and suggest
> something if you want. It is a 4 year commitment, but if you have a group
> you think can be a track at a conference about wikimedia and science
> communication, we will try to support you how we can.
>
> Thus, we meet this friday, *September 20, 2024, at 4pm, Warsaw Time*, at
> this Google Meet <https://meet.google.com/yum-qabj-szx>.
>
> Hopefully, see you Friday at this link!
> Brett Buttliere, Matt Vetter, Iolanda Pensa, Daniel Mietschen, et al.
> University of Warsaw
>
If you use Wikidata data, please read on.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] [Survey] Help Shape the Future of Wikidata's Data
Access – We Need Your Feedback!
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
Are you building applications or services using data from Wikidata? We
would love to hear from you!
We are currently researching how to make it easier for developers to
access Wikidata’s data. We have a short survey to better understand
which access methods you are currently using, what issues you have
with them and what we can improve for the future. For more details
please see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Usability_and_usefulness/2024-Data_a…
Cheers and thank you!
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - https://lydiapintscher.de - WD:Q18016466
Portfolio Lead for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
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Dear Wiki research community,
we are happy to announce the program for the first European MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference is out: https://conference.knowledge.wiki
The program covers a wide range of topics from MediaWiki community and development aspects, business and government use cases as well as MediaWiki in research and GLAM settings.
There are still seats left for participation in Vienna, so please make sure to book tickets at https://mwstake.eventbrite.com/
We want to express our gratitude to our sponsors!
Gold Sponsors:
https://bluespice.com/ Hallo Welt! - The company behind BlueSpice, the open-source enterprise wiki software
https://gesinn.it/ - gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG. We develop software that makes knowledge accessible and information work more productive.
https://www.wikiteq.com/ - WikiTeq. MediaWiki Built for your Business
Silver Sponsors:
https://professional.wiki/ and https://wikibase-solutions.com/
See you in one month in Vienna!
Best,
Bernhard Krabina - general chair
Sabine Melnicki - program chair
Daniel Dobriy - online chair
Reminder - please consider taking our survey and share with others!
Call for Survey Participants - Wikimedia-Engaged Academic Researchers and Scientists
Survey Link: https://iup.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0wfRHBdZmtbEuW2
Despite the growing interest in open educational resources in higher education, relatively few academics and scientists have significantly committed to sharing their research expertise in open knowledge projects. In fact, they often face opportunity costs when engaging with platforms like Wikipedia, as the time spent contributing can detract from more traditional scholarly outputs, such as peer-reviewed publications, conferences, and pursuing grants. This research project invites Wikimedia-engaged academics, scientists, and researchers to help us better understand how to make Wikimedia contributions “count” for academic researchers.
To that end, we'll be surveying and interviewing academic researchers and scientists who have previously engaged Wikimedia projects in an effort to discover the most suitable metrics and models for our project, as well as to develop a broad network of like-minded individuals interested in discovering how Wikimedia provides a platform for a broad open science infrastructure.
Taking the survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time. If you agree to participate in an interview as part of the survey, this will be conducted via Zoom and take approximately 30-45 minutes of your time.
Brett Buttliere
University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
b.buttliere(a)uw.edu.pl
Matthew Vetter
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA, U.S.
mvetter(a)iup.edu
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS (PHONE 724.357.7730).
Survey Link: https://iup.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0wfRHBdZmtbEuW2
Matt Vetter, PhD (he/him)
Professor of English
Dept. of Language, Literature, and Writing
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
http://mattvetter.net<http://mattvetter.net/>
Connect with me on Zoom,
https://iupvideo.zoom.us/my/dr.vetterzooms
Managing co-editor, Writing Spaces<http://www.writingspaces.org/>
Co-chair, CCCC Wikipedia Initiative<https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/wikipedia-initiative/>
Available as open access ebook, Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003094081/wikipedia…..>