SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference
13th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 11 -14, 2017
_http://2017.semantics.cc_ <http://2017.semantics.cc/>
*# Workshops & Tutorials*
This year's SEMANTiCS includes two days of exciting and interesting
satellite events on the 11th and 14th of September. Scheduled in several
_parallel tracks_ <https://2017.semantics.cc/workshops>, workshops and
tutorials will provide a forum for groups of researchers and
practitioners to discuss and learn about hot topics in Semantic Web
research. If you did not purchased a ticket for the main conference, day
passes for the SEMANTiCS workshops and tutorials are at €40 (excl.
registration fee and VAT). Day passes include lunch and coffee and can
be purchased _here_ <https://2017.semantics.cc/prices>.
*Have a closer look at the *_*programme*_
<https://2017.semantics.cc/workshops>*and do not forget to register in
advance for the workshops and tutorials you are planning to attend!*To
register, select your workshop of choice _here_
<https://2017.semantics.cc/workshops>and once in the workshop page click
on the registration link at the bottom.
*# DBpedia Day - Call for Participation*
During the SEMANTiCS 2017 the DBpedia Community will get together on
the**14th of September for the DBpedia Day.
* Highlights *
- Keynote session
- DBpedia Association hour & Dutch DBpedia hour
- A _session on DBpedia ontology_
<http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/DBpedia_Ontology_Committee>by
members of the DBpedia ontology committee.
- Tell us what cool things you do with DBpedia:
_https://goo.gl/forms/0mAMVEMLxiICB5bF3_
- As always, there will be tutorials to learn about DBpedia and a
DBpedia showcase session
* Quick Facts *
- Web URL & Tickets: _http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2017_
- When: September 14th, 2017
- Where: Meervaart Theatre, Meer en Vaart 300, 1068 LE Amsterdam,
Netherlands
- Call for Contribution: _https://goo.gl/forms/0mAMVEMLxiICB5bF3_
- Attending the DBpedia Community Meeting costs €40 (excl. registration
fee and VAT). DBpedia members get free admission, please contact your
nearest DBpedia chapter or the _DBpedia Association_
<mailto:holze@infai.org>for a promotion code.
/We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the
SEMANTiCS in Amsterdam! /
Here's an interdisciplinary group of researchers that work on things that I
thought would be relevant and interesting to a lot of us who study
Wikipedia: http://themaintainers.org
Cheers,
Morten
Hello Wikiresearchers,
I wondered who of us is at Wikimania (maybe there is a subpage somewhere to
write one’s names in?)
I would be particularly interested in meeting with people who use
qualitative and ethnographic methods, but I don't mind a chat about
statistics either :-)
Jan
--
Jan Dittrich
UX Design/ User Research
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Mostly ethnographic and qualitative work here. I'll be talking about my
recent research project at Wikimania, as well as I'd love to meet other
researchers.
Best
Zach McDowell
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:56:43 +0200
> From: Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>
> To: Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] (qualitative?) Wiki Researchers at
> Wikimania?
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> Hello Wikiresearchers,
>
> I wondered who of us is at Wikimania (maybe there is a subpage somewhere to
> write one’s names in?)
> I would be particularly interested in meeting with people who use
> qualitative and ethnographic methods, but I don't mind a chat about
> statistics either :-)
>
> Jan
>
> --
> Jan Dittrich
> UX Design/ User Research
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
> http://wikimedia.de
>
> Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
> der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
> Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:08:37 +0200
> From: Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Jan Dittrich
> <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] (qualitative?) Wiki Researchers at
> Wikimania?
> Message-ID:
> <CADeSpGV-h=
> NQbRiHrvnmPfAgdT8uyy7QR0C5VprGyH+_GaNqSA(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> I'll be there and I'd love to meet :)
>
> dj
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Wikiresearchers,
> >
> > I wondered who of us is at Wikimania (maybe there is a subpage somewhere
> to
> > write one’s names in?)
> > I would be particularly interested in meeting with people who use
> > qualitative and ethnographic methods, but I don't mind a chat about
> > statistics either :-)
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > --
> > Jan Dittrich
> > UX Design/ User Research
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
> > http://wikimedia.de
> >
> > Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in
> the
> > sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
> > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> unter
> > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
> > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> >
>
>
>
> --
> __________________________
>
> <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
> kierownik katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies)
> Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
> http://NeRDS.kozminski.edu.pl <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/>
>
> associate faculty w Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society,
> Harvard University
>
> Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
> Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University
> Press) mojego autorstwa (Dorothy Lee Award 2015, Nagroda
> Naukowa Prezesa PAN 2016) http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 12:04:24 -0700
> From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Dariusz Jemielniak
> <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] (qualitative?) Wiki Researchers at
> Wikimania?
> Message-ID:
> <
> CAK0Oe2vvBD0J+0d+bhuKrw8DkoTuo1BccxU+pjxzZcM-4nepTA(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> If you decided to include quants with admiration for quals, ping me. ;)
> I'll be there if the timing works.
>
> On Aug 3, 2017 11:09, "Dariusz Jemielniak" <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote:
>
> > I'll be there and I'd love to meet :)
> >
> > dj
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Wikiresearchers,
> > >
> > > I wondered who of us is at Wikimania (maybe there is a subpage
> somewhere
> > to
> > > write one’s names in?)
> > > I would be particularly interested in meeting with people who use
> > > qualitative and ethnographic methods, but I don't mind a chat about
> > > statistics either :-)
> > >
> > > Jan
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jan Dittrich
> > > UX Design/ User Research
> > >
> > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
> > > http://wikimedia.de
> > >
> > > Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in
> > the
> > > sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
> > >
> > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
> > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> > unter
> > > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
> > > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > __________________________
> >
> > <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
> > kierownik katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies)
> > Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
> > http://NeRDS.kozminski.edu.pl <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/>
> >
> > associate faculty w Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society,
> > Harvard University
> >
> > Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
> > Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University
> > Press) mojego autorstwa (Dorothy Lee Award 2015, Nagroda
> > Naukowa Prezesa PAN 2016) http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 14:47:03 -0500
> From: Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] (qualitative?) Wiki Researchers at
> Wikimania?
> Message-ID:
> <
> CANQe2T_jo2MA6kTcxS5kXsJNz0_+GaXM8HFeJzuE-Ut9+mY+Hg(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> I'll be there. I'm running the mentors program at the Hackathon. Let me
> know if you'd like to mentor some new researchers/proto-researchers :)
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > If you decided to include quants with admiration for quals, ping me. ;)
> > I'll be there if the timing works.
> >
> > On Aug 3, 2017 11:09, "Dariusz Jemielniak" <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > I'll be there and I'd love to meet :)
> > >
> > > dj
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Jan Dittrich <
> jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Wikiresearchers,
> > > >
> > > > I wondered who of us is at Wikimania (maybe there is a subpage
> > somewhere
> > > to
> > > > write one’s names in?)
> > > > I would be particularly interested in meeting with people who use
> > > > qualitative and ethnographic methods, but I don't mind a chat about
> > > > statistics either :-)
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jan Dittrich
> > > > UX Design/ User Research
> > > >
> > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > > > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
> > > > http://wikimedia.de
> > > >
> > > > Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share
> in
> > > the
> > > > sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
> > > >
> > > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
> V.
> > > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> > > unter
> > > > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
> für
> > > > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > __________________________
> > >
> > > <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
> > > kierownik katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies)
> > > Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
> > > http://NeRDS.kozminski.edu.pl <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/>
> > >
> > > associate faculty w Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society,
> > > Harvard University
> > >
> > > Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
> > > Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University
> > > Press) mojego autorstwa (Dorothy Lee Award 2015, Nagroda
> > > Naukowa Prezesa PAN 2016) http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:16:25 -0700
> From: Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] (qualitative?) Wiki Researchers at
> Wikimania?
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> I'd love to meet!
>
> Leila and Aaron are honorary quals ;) Leila does a massive amount of survey
> research, and Aaron is building a system to capture qualitative judgements
> around ORES scores.
>
> - J
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'll be there. I'm running the mentors program at the Hackathon. Let me
> > know if you'd like to mentor some new researchers/proto-researchers :)
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > If you decided to include quants with admiration for quals, ping me. ;)
> > > I'll be there if the timing works.
> > >
> > > On Aug 3, 2017 11:09, "Dariusz Jemielniak" <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'll be there and I'd love to meet :)
> > > >
> > > > dj
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Jan Dittrich <
> > jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello Wikiresearchers,
> > > > >
> > > > > I wondered who of us is at Wikimania (maybe there is a subpage
> > > somewhere
> > > > to
> > > > > write one’s names in?)
> > > > > I would be particularly interested in meeting with people who use
> > > > > qualitative and ethnographic methods, but I don't mind a chat about
> > > > > statistics either :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Jan
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Jan Dittrich
> > > > > UX Design/ User Research
> > > > >
> > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > > > > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
> > > > > http://wikimedia.de
> > > > >
> > > > > Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share
> > in
> > > > the
> > > > > sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens
> e.
> > V.
> > > > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
> Berlin-Charlottenburg
> > > > unter
> > > > > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
> > für
> > > > > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > > > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > __________________________
> > > >
> > > > <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
> > > > kierownik katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital
> Societies)
> > > > Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
> > > > http://NeRDS.kozminski.edu.pl <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/>
> > > >
> > > > associate faculty w Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society,
> > > > Harvard University
> > > >
> > > > Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
> > > > Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University
> > > > Press) mojego autorstwa (Dorothy Lee Award 2015, Nagroda
> > > > Naukowa Prezesa PAN 2016) http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> > > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wiki-research-l mailing list
> > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan T. Morgan
> Senior Design Researcher
> Wikimedia Foundation
> User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
www.zachmcdowell.com
Hi Everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, July 26,
2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1jgK8C8aQ
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#July_2017>.
This month's presentation:
Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer
Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall*In addition to encyclopedia articles
and software, peer production communities produce *structured data*, e.g.,
Wikidata and OpenStreetMap’s metadata. Structured data from peer production
communities has become increasingly important due to its use by
computational applications, such as CartoCSS, MapBox, and Wikipedia
infoboxes. However, this structured data is usable by applications only if
it follows *standards.* We did an interview study focused on
OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes to investigate how – and how
successfully – this community creates and applies its data standards. Our
study revealed a fundamental tension between the need to produce structured
data in a standardized way and OpenStreetMap’s tradition of contributor
freedom. We extracted six themes that manifested this tension and three
overarching concepts, *correctness, community,* and *code,* which help make
sense of and synthesize the themes. We also offer suggestions for improving
OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes, including new data models,
sociotechnical tools, and community practices.
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the May 2017 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201705 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Friday August 4 UTC although actual publication might take place several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
• “A wound that has been festering since 2007”: The Burma/Myanmar naming controversy and the problem of rarely challenged assumptions on Wikipedia
• An algorithm designed to expand Wikipedia in all languages
• A productive clash of perspectives? The interplay between articles’ and authors’ perspectives and their impact on Wikipedia edits in a controversial domain
• Analysing Timelines of National Histories across Wikipedia Editions: A Comparative Computational Approach
• Automatic Classification of Wikipedia Articles by Using Convolutional Neural Network
• Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?
• Connecting the sum of all human knowledge, one edit at a time
• Cumulative Experience and Recent Behavior and their Relation to Content Quality on Wikipedia
• Cyberfeminism on Wikipedia: Visibility and deliberation in feminist Wikiprojects
• Do wikipedia science articles reflect on state-of-the-art research?
• Embracing Wikipedia as a teaching and learning tool benefits health professional schools and the populations they serve
• Estimating the Quality of Articles in Russian Wikipedia Using the Logical-Linguistic Model of Fact Extraction
• How Does Knowledge Come By?
• Information Has Value: A View from Three Institutions
• Nation image and its dynamic changes in Wikipedia
• Projects Wikisource and Wikibooks as information resource
• Student perceptions of writing with Wikipedia in Australian higher education
• Wikipedia Controversial Articles by Size of Controversy Section
• Wikipedia Matters
• Wikipedia Vandal Early Detection: from User Behavior to User Embedding by Marry Trame - network, memory, deep learning
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter
Hi all,
With the start of the new fiscal year in Wikimedia Foundation on July
1, the Research team has officially started the work on Program 12:
Growing contributor diversity. [1] Here are a few
announcements/pointers about this program and the research and work
that will be going to it:
* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project on the
corresponding research page on meta. [2]
* Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking
systems. This being said, any task that we can break down and track
will be documented under the corresponding Epic task on Phabricator.
[3]
* The goals for this Program for July-September 2017 (Quarter 1) are
captured on MediaWiki. [4] (The Phabricator epic will be updated with
corresponding tasks as we start working on them.)
* Our three formal collaborators (cc-ed) will contribute to this
program: Jérôme Hergueux from ETH, Paul Seabright from TSE, and Bob
West from EPFL. We are thankful to these people who have agreed to
spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year, and
to those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the
proposal for this project and are planning to continue your
contributions to this program. :)
* I act as the point of contact for this research in Wikimedia
Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it
cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments/questions about the
project in the coming year.
Best,
Leila
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work…
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166083
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q1#Resear…
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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
This was in the recent Research Newsletter:
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/127472/1/847290360.pdf
They found a correlation between the length of articles about tourist
destinations and the number of tourists visiting them. They tried to
influence other destinations by adding content and did not find a
correlation in the subsequent number of tourists, suggesting that the
causation flows from tourism to article length instead.
But I was taken aback by the last line of their paper, "using the
suggested research design to study other areas of information
acquisition, such as medicine or school choices could be fruitful
directions."
Are there any ethical guidelines concerning whether this is
reasonable? Should there be?