Hello my friends,
After a very productive week in Berlin and 3 days visiting our fellows from Portugal and many Portuguese universities in Lisboa, Porto and Coimbra we finally confirmed the 1st International Wikipedia Scientific Conference (2nd Brazilian edition).
That project was created by the Wiki Education Brasil last year and discussed with Wikimedia Portugal in Berlin and many other chapters.
We are finishing the composition of the international scientific committee and the general organization committee during the next weeks.
The event will be in Niterói - Rio de Janeiro organized in partnership with the Federal Fluminense University in November 8-10 2017.
To have global coverage, we will need your help to promote the conference in your country.
Our team is producing press releases and printed materials (A4 and A3) with information regarding the event and the call for papers.
Translation help will be appreciated!
Here you can see some pictures of the last year's edition https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Congresso_Cient%C3%ADfico_Brasi…
Best regards
Rodrigo Padula
Wiki Educação Brasil - User Group
http://facebook.com/wikiedubr/
Following the process described in the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia
technical spaces <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct>, the
Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Collaboration team has selected five
candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee and five candidates
to become auxiliary members.
Here you have their names in alphabetical order. For details about each
candidate, please check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee_members
Committee member candidates:
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Amir Sarabadani (Ladsgroup)
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Lucie-Aimée Kaffee (Frimelle)
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Nuria Ruiz (NRuiz-WMF)
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Sébastien Santoro (Dereckson)
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Tony Thomas (01tonythomas)
Auxiliary member candidates:
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Ariel Glenn (ArielGlenn)
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Caroline Becker (Léna)
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Florian Schmidt (Florianschmidtwelzow)
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Huji
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Matanya
This list of candidates is subject to a community review period of two
weeks starting today. If no major objections are presented about any
candidate, they will be appointed in six weeks.
You can provide feedback on these candidates, via private email to
techconductcandidates(a)wikimedia.org. This feedback will be received by
the Community
Health
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_health>
group handling this process, and will be treated with confidentiality.
We want to thank all the people who has considered the possibility to
support the Code of Conduct with their participation in this Committee. 77
persons have been contacted during the selection process, counting
self-nominations and recommendations. From these, 21 made it to a short
list of candidates confirmed and (according to our estimation) a potential
good fit for the Committee. Selecting the five candidates for the Committee
has been hard, as we have tried to form a diverse group that could work
together effectively in the consolidation of the Code of Conduct. Selecting
the five auxiliary members has been even harder, and we know that we have
left out candidates who could have contributed just as much. Being the
first people assuming these roles, we have tended a bit towards more
technical profiles with good knowledge of our technical spaces. We believe
that future renewals will offer better chances to other profiles (not so
technical and/or not so Wikimedia veteran), adding a higher diversity and
variety of perspectives to the mix.
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Dear Wikimedia technical community members,
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct
>
> The review of the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces has been
> completed and now it is time to bootstrap its first committee. The
> Technical Collaboration team is looking for five candidates to form the
> Committee plus five additional auxiliary members. One of them could be you
> or someone you know!
>
> You can propose yourself as a candidate and you can recommend others
> *privately* at
> techconductcandidates AT wikimedia DOT org
>
> We want to form a very diverse list of candidates reflecting the variety
> of people, activities, and spaces in the Wikimedia technical community. We
> are also open to other candidates with experience in the field. Diversity
> in the Committee is also a way to promote fairness and independence in
> their decisions. This means that no matter who you are, where you come
> from, what you work on, or for how long, you are a potential good member of
> this Committee.
>
> The main requirements to join the Committee are a will to foster an open
> and welcoming community and a commitment to making participation in
> Wikimedia technical projects a respectful and harassment-free experience
> for everyone. The committee will handle reports of unacceptable behavior,
> will analyze the cases, and will resolve on them according to the Code of
> Conduct. The Committee will also handle proposals to amend the Code of
> Conduct for the purpose of increasing its efficiency. The term of this
> first Committee will be one year.
>
> Once we have a list of 5 + 5 candidates, we will announce it here for
> review. You can learn more about the Committee and its selection process at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee and you can ask
> questions in the related Talk page (preferred) or here.
>
> You can also track the progress of this bootstrapping process at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#
> Bootstrapping_the_Code_of_Conduct_Committee
>
> PS: We have many technical spaces and reaching to all people potentially
> interested is hard! Please help spreading this call.
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
>
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
(Apologies for cross-posting)
We would like to invite you to attend the 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) happening on July 28-30 in Toronto, Canada. This year’s theme is on “Social Media for Social Good or Evil”.
The May 1, 2017 early-bird deadline is fast approaching. Register today at: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/
The 2017 #SMSociety Conference offers an intensive 3-day program that includes numerous methods workshops (https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2017-workshops/), over 100 full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and over 40 posters featuring the latest in social media research. Our interdisciplinary research community brings researchers from a wide variety of disciplines including Communication, Information Science, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and other fields.
This year, we are honoured to have two highly distinguished scholars and leaders as our keynotes speakers:
* Lee Rainie – Director, Pew Research Center’s Internet <http://www.pewinternet.org/> & American Life Project, USA
* Ronald Deibert – Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab <http://www.citizenlab.org/> at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada.
And two featured panels:
* “ <https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2017/smsociety-conference-toronto-jul-28-…> Women in Social Media: Safe and Unsafe Spaces” organized by Caroline Haythornthwaite (Syracuse University), Stephanie Teasley (University of Michigan), Jennifer Stromer-Galley (Syracuse University), Ingrid Erickson (Syracuse University), Libby Hemphill (Illinois Institute of Technology), and Alyssa Friend Wise (New York University);
* Industry panel on “ <https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2017/social-media-twitter-analytics-brand…> Social Media and Twitter Analytics for Brands” organized by Twitter Canada.
We hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area!
If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at: ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org>
--
2017 #SMSociety Organizing Committee:
• Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair
• Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada – Conference Chair
• Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair
• Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK – WIP Chair
• Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA – WIP Chair
• Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA – Poster Chair
Advisory Board:
• William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA
• Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada
Programme Committee:
• Visit: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/
I just ran across a new-ish (Feb 17) resource for people interested in
running editathons for scientists, developed by the Simons Foundation. You
can read the blog post[1] and download the guide in PDF form[2].
The guide provides a well-organized and comprehensive set of practical tips
for organizing, publicizing, and running editathons and is tuned to the
needs and interests of science SMEs.
Forwarding because I know there are many folks on this list who are
involved in this sort of work and/or could be.
Cheers,
Jonathan
1.
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/education-outreach/crowdsourcing-expertise/
2.
http://simonsfoundation.s3.amazonaws.com/share/sciencesandbox/Crowdsourcing…
--
Jonathan T. Morgan
Senior Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
Hi all,
I recently attended WWW2017 conference in Perth, Australia, and thanks to
the generosity of Wikimedia Australia folks, got a chance to spend some
time with them as well. I've written an informal trip report that will give
you some pointers to an excerpt of what I did while in Perth and the talks
and presentations I attended and learned from. If you are interested,
please read it at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF
)/Trip_reports.
Best,
Leila
p.s. As I mentioned on top of the page linked above, I'm experimenting with
whether there is some use for writing these reports. On the one hand, I'd
like to share good presentations and papers that I learn from or the
research experiences I have with the rest of you, on the other hand, I
understand that many of you on this list attend quite a few conferences
every year and this information may be redundant. I'll monitor that page
for activity and will continue writing in the future if we see there is
some use for that content. :)
--
Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April 19,
2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Prf0Vb-k1I
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#April_2017>.
This month's presentations:
Using WikiBrain to visualize Wikipedia's neighborhoodsBy *Dr. Shilad Sen
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shilad>*While Wikipedia serves as the
world's most widely reference for humans, it also represents the most
widely use body of knowledge for algorithms that must reason about the
world. I will provide an overview of WikiBrain, a software project that
serves as a platform for Wikipedia-based algorithms. I will also demo a
brand new system built on WikiBrain that visualizes any dataset as a
topographic map whose neighborhoods correspond to related Wikipedia
articles. I hope to get feedback about which directions for these tools are
most useful to the Wikipedia research community.
--
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Dear All,
I'm starting a new (and irregular) mailing list dedicated to sharing events
and resources aimed at researchers in other areas that are interested in
working with data (big or small). Please subscribe at:
http://tinyletter.com/dataforscience
if this sounds like you and if you have any suggestions on topics or
resources to share, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Best,
Bruno
*******************************************
Bruno Miguel Tavares Gonçalves, PhD
Homepage: www.bgoncalves.com
Email: bgoncalves(a)gmail.com
Twitter: @bgoncalves
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Apologies for cross-posting
Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials
SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference
13th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 11 -14, 2017
http://2017.semantics.cc
For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates (Research & Innovation Track):
*Abstract Submission Deadline:May 17, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
*Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
*Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
*Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track):
*Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
*Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
*Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Important Dates (Workshops & Tutorials):
*Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops without Call for Papers: June 30,
2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
*Notification of Acceptance: April 13, 2017 (23:59
Hawaii Time)
*Workshop Website/Call for Papers Online: April 30, 2017 (23:59
Hawaii Time)
*Camera-Ready Proceedings: September 4, 2017 (23:59
Hawaii Time)
*SEMANTiCS 2017 Workshop & Tutorial Days: September 11 and 14, 2017
Important Dates (Industry & Use Case Presentations):
*Submission Deadline June 23, 2017
*Notification of Acceptance July 4, 2017
*Presentation Ready August 15, 2017
As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS’17 proceedings will be published by
ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings.
SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot
topics:
*Data Science (special track, see below)
*Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
*Corporate Knowledge Graphs
*Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
*Data Quality Management
*Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
Following the success of previous years, the ‘horizontals’ (research)
and ‘verticals’ (industries) below are of interest for the conference:
Horizontals:
*Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
*Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
*Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
*Semantics in Big Data
*Text Analytics
*Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
*Semantic Information Management
*Document Management & Content Management
*Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
*Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking
*Smart Data & Semantics in IoT
*Semantics for IT Safety & Security
*Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
*Community, Social & Societal Aspects
Data Science Special Track Horizontals:
*Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale
graphs)
*Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics)
*Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design,
Crowdsourcing)
*Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance)
Verticals:
*Industry & Engineering
*Life Sciences & Health Care
*Public Administration
*e-Science
*Digital Humanities
*Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
*Education & eLearning
*Media & Data Journalism
*Publishing, Marketing & Advertising
*Tourism & Recreation
*Financial & Insurance Industry
*Telecommunication & Mobile Services
*Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology
*Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids
*Food, Agriculture & Farming
*Safety, Security & Privacy
*Transport, Environment & Geospatial
Dear All,
FYI...
Best
Taha
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Title: *SocInfo2017*
Conference Dates:
*13-15 September*Paper Submission Deadline: *31 May 2017*
Location: *Wolfson College, Oxford*
*Read more about the conference and about the call for papers on the
**Conference
website <http://socinfo2017.oii.ox.ac.uk/>**.*
We are delighted to welcome the 9th International Conference on Social
Informatics (SocInfo 2017) to Oxford, UK, in September 2017.
SocInfo is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer
Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to share
ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the
interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena.
The ultimate goal of Social Informatics is to create better understanding
of socially-centric platforms not just as a technology, but also as a set
of social phenomena. To that end, we are inviting interdisciplinary papers,
on applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, on
applying social concepts in the design of information systems, on applying
methods from the social sciences in the study of social computing and
information systems, on applying computational algorithms to facilitate the
study of social systems and human social dynamics, and on designing
information and communication technologies that consider social context.
--
Dr Taha Yasseri
@TahaYasseri <https://twitter.com/TahaYasseri>
==*New Article*==
Understanding and coping with extremism in an online collaborative
environment: A data-driven modeling
<http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0173561>
Csilla Rudas, Olivér Surányi, *Taha Yasseri*, and János Török
PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173561 (2017).
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http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/
Research Fellow in Computational Social Science, Oxford Internet Institute,
Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences, Wolfson College,
University of Oxford,
and
Faculty Fellow, Alan Turing Institute for Data Science.
Tel. +44-1865-287229
1 St. Giles
Oxford OX1 3JS
UK