Forwarding exciting news that might be of interest to some on this list as
well.
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:11 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and other 60+ organizations launch the
Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Open Access
discussions <openaccess(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikicite-discuss <
wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org>
Hey all,
I wanted to let you know that we launched an initiative this morning
called: Initiative for Open Citations <https://i4oc.org/> (I4OC).
Prior to the launch of I4OC, only 1% of scholarly papers made citation data
available in the open. Today, that number has jumped to 40%. We're proud to
make a growing piece of fundamental data for open knowledge available to
everyone, with no copyright restriction whatsoever.
The I4OC has been in the making for the past 6 months, with lots of
individual discussions with scholarly publishers, asking them to flip the
switch and release this data. Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia UK, the Wiki
Edu Foundation, the Internet Archive, Mozilla, PLOS and many other open
knowledge and open data organizations are among the official endorsers of
the initiative.
You can read more about this initiative on a post
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/06/initiative-for-open-citations/> we
published this morning on the Wikimedia Blog, on the joint press release
<https://i4oc.org/press.html>, or follow @i4oc_org
<https://twitter.com/i4oc_org> for more updates.
Best,
Dario
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Hi everyone,
I've been working with Wiki Education for the last nine months researching
student learning using Wikipedia based assignments. We have a ton of
amazing data that I'll be posting about shortly and releasing under an open
license (as well as a summary of some preliminary findings).
I've written a grant proposal for WMF to continue this research as we've
really only touched the tip of the iceberg here. Please check it out and if
you're interested I'd love your feedback (and your support).
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Learning_with_Wikipedia_Base…
best
Zach
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Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government
Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation
Managing Editor, communication +1
www.zachmcdowell.com
Hi all,
Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a workshop (June 23, 2017) on digital
engagement / digital volunteer work.
The aim of the workshop is to identify with other stakeholders ("classic"
NGOs, Free- and Open-Movement, Volunteers, state authorities) open
questions on digital engagement / digital volunteer work that should be
answered.
Research questions could be as follows:
- What is the difference between digital and analog engagement?
- What are the core characteristic of digital engagement?
- What should state authorities on the national and local level do in order
to support digital volunteers?
- How important is digital engagement for our society?
- ...
Is there anybody from the Wikimedia movement who can help us to broaden our
German perspective and give us international insides on this topic (e.g.
via a ten minutes video message)?
Do you know any inspiring study?
Cheers,
Julian Fischer
Head of Volunteer Support
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | D-10963 Berlin
Tel. +49-(0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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Greetings Wikimedia Researchers!
It looks like nobody forwarded this year OpenSym 2017 to this
list yet! Please consider submitting a paper, attending to the doctoral
consortium, etc. All please help us spread the word about the
conference!
I've included the CFP itself below!
Regards,
Mako
OpenSym 2016 General Call for Papers
====================================
OpenSym 2017, the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
August 23-25, 2017 | Galway, Ireland
Conference Website: http://os2017.opensym.org
Call for Papers: http://opensym.lero.ie/cfp/
About the Conference
--------------------
The 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2017)
is the premier conference on open collaboration research and practice,
including open source, open data, open science, open education, wikis
and related social media, Wikipedia, and IT-driven open innovation
research.
OpenSym is the first conference series to bring together the different
strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create
synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer
science, information science, social science, humanities, and everyone
interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing
the world.
This year’s conference will be held in Galway, Ireland, on August
23-25, 2017. A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 22, 2017.
OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the
conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library
like all prior editions.
The research paper submission deadline is April 07, 2017.
Submission Information and Instructions
---------------------------------------
Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on
subjects related to open collaboration including:
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Open Policy/Open Government
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research
Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2017 will be organized as a one track
conference in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of
this conference and to encourage discussion.
Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is April
7th 2017. Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or
original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical,
and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts,
systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed to meet
rigorous academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed
for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of
presentation.
Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted
papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution
of a paper relative to its length. Papers should report research
thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A typical length of a
“long research paper” is 10 pages (formerly the maximum length limit
and the limit on OpenSym tracks), but may be shorter if the
contribution can be described and supported in fewer pages— shorter,
more focused papers (called “short research papers” previously) are
encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. While we will
review papers longer than 10 pages, the contribution must warrant the
extra length. Reviewers will be instructed to reject papers whose
length is incommensurate with the size of their contribution. Papers
should be formatted in ACM SIGCHI paper format. Reviewing is not
double-blind so manuscripts do not need to be anonymized.
Posters: As in previous years, OpenSym will also be hosting a poster
session at the conference. To propose a poster, authors should submit
an extended abstract (not more than 4 pages) describing the content of
the poster which will be published in a non-archival companion
proceedings to the conference. Posters should use the ACM SIGCHI
templates for extended abstracts. An example of a poster abstract can
be found here. Reviewing is not double-blind so abstracts do not need
to be anonymized.
Paper Proceedings: OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and
ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM
digital library like all prior editions. OpenSym seeks to accommodate
the needs of the different research disciplines it draws on including
disciplines with archival conference proceedings and disciplines where
authors usually present at conferences and publish later. Authors,
whose submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the
conference have a choice of (1) having their paper become part of the
official proceedings, archived in the ACM Digital Library or (2)
having no publication record at all but only the presentation at the
conference.
Response from authors: For the first time at OpenSym, authors will be
given the opportunity to write a response to their reviews before
final decisions are made. This should be treated as an opportunity to
correct any mistakes or misconceptions in the reviews as well as to
propose minor changes that the authors can make during the two weeks
between notification and the camera-ready deadline.
Important Dates
---------------
- Submission deadline: April 07, 2017
- Reviews sent to authors: June 02, 2017
- Response to reviews from authors due: June 30, 2017
- Decision notification: July 07, 2017
- Camera-ready papers due: July 21, 2017
Conference Organization
-----------------------
The general chair of the conference is Lorraine Morgan, Lero (the
Irish Software Research Centre) and Whitaker Institute, NUI
Galway. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at
info(a)opensym.org.
The program co-chairs are Claudia Müller-Birn (Freie Universität
Berlin) and Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington).
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Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
Call for Workshop Proposals
10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2017 -
July 17-21, 2017
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to
investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra,
automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user
interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their
integration can lead to synergies offering significant added
value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM)
offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great
challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas.
CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, co-locating
related conferences and workshops to advance work in these
subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (UK 2008),
Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011),
Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (UK 2013), Coimbra (Portugal 2014),
Washington DC (USA 2015) and Bialystok (Poland 2016).
This is the call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2017
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 17-21, 2017.
Some of the workshops that have been held at past CICM meetings are:
Automated Reasoning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Compact Computer Algebra
Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for Mathematics
Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians
Intelligent Proof Search
Mathematical user Interfaces
Mathematics Information Retrieval
OpenMath
Pen-Based Mathematical Computation
Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems
Proof Engineering
SCIEnce
The Notion of Proof
User Interfaces for Theorem Provers
Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2017 are solicited. Both
well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged.
Please provide the following information:
+ Workshop title.
+ Names and affiliations of organizers.
+ Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics.
+ Proposed workshop duration (half a day up to two days is possible).
+ If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference
affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new,
please indicate so.
CICM will take care of copying and distributing informal printed
proceedings for workshops that would like this service, as well as
permanently archived open access online proceedings with CEUR-WS.org.
All proposals should be sent via email to the CICM workshop chair
Petros Papapanagiotou (pe.p(a)ed.ac.uk).
Important dates:
Deadline for proposal submissions: 17. April 2017
Workshop dates: 17-21. July 2017
More details on the conference are available from
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2017
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A thought-provoking newspaper column about a University of Washington
professor's troubling findings:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/uw-professor-the-informat…
Quoting briefly from the article:
"Starbird is publishing her paper as a sort of warning. The information
networks we’ve built are almost perfectly designed to exploit psychological
vulnerabilities to rumor."
"Your brain tells you ‘Hey, I got this from three different sources,’ ” she
says. “But you don’t realize it all traces back to the same place, and
might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of
this as a virus, I wouldn’t know how to vaccinate for it.”
Pine
Pardon the slight off topic, though I guess many on this list find the
topic of networks of interest!
Giovanni
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From: IUNI - IU Network Institute <iuni(a)indiana.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 29, 2017, 16:52
Subject: [iuni-discussion-l] NetSci 2017: Registration, school, satellites,
and accepted papers
To: iuni-discussion-l(a)list.iu.edu <iuni-discussion-l(a)list.iu.edu>
*Please pardon cross-posting. *
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*NETSCI 2017 REGISTRATION OPEN: *http://netsci2017.net/registration
*Note:* Early-bird discount deadline is May 4
International School and Conference on Network Science
June 19-23, Indianapolis, IN (JW Marriott Indianapolis) |
http://netsci2017.net <http://netsci2017.net>
*SCHOOL: *http://netsci2017.net/program/school
*Day One (Monday, June 19)*
*Network Structure*: Alex Arenas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
*Contagion and spreading processes on networks*: Alessandro Vespignani
(Northeastern U)
*Day Two (Tuesday, June 20)*
*Maximum-entropy methods for financial and economic networks:* Diego
Garlaschelli (Leiden U & Oxford U)
*Network Control*: Raissa D'Souza (UC Davis)
*Learning, Mining, and Networks*: Tina Eliassi-Rad (Northeastern U)
*SATELLITE SYMPOSIA (June 19 & 20)*
Satellite Symposia are full and half-day meetings devoted to particular
topics. See full schedule and programs in development*: *
http://netsci2017.net/program/satellites
1. Controlling Complex Networks: From Biological to Social and
Technological Systems
2. 2nd Workshop on Statistical Physics of Financial and Economic Networks
3. 1st Annual Consortium for the Society of Young Network Scientists
(SYNS)
4. Cognitive Network Science
5. Higher-Order Models in Network Science (HONS 2017)
6. Dynamics on and of Complex Networks – X
7. Information, Self-Organizing Dynamics and Synchronization on Networks
(ISODS III)
8. Machine Learning in Network Science
9. Network Neuroscience
10. Network Medicine: Quantitative interactome and multilayer networks
taking medicine beyond the genome
11. Networks Of Networks: Systemic Risk and Infrastructural
Interdependencies (NetONets2017)
12. NetSciReg'17 — Network Models in Cellular Regulation
13. Quantifying Success
14. Social Influence in Networks
15. Statistical Inference for Network Models
16. Urban Systems and Networks Science
17. NetCrime—Structure and Mobility of Crime
18. Contagion on Networks: Progress and Issues with Models and Data
19. Network Science for National Defense
20. Strengthening Reproducibility in Network Science
21. NetSciEd 6: Satellite Symposium on Network Science and Education
22. Knowledge Networks in Science and Technology
*MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM (June 21, 22 & 23)*
*KEYNOTES AND INVITED SPEAKERS CONFIRMED: *http://netsci2017.net/speakers
*Keynote Speakers*:
Danielle S. Bassett (U Penn)
Steve Borgatti (U Kentucky)
Jennifer A. Dunne (Sante Fe Institute)
*Invited Speakers:*
Meeyoung Cha (KAIST)
Alex Fornito (Monash U)
Lise Getoor (UC Santa Cruz)
César A. Hidalgo (MIT)
Maximilian Schich (UT Austin)
Shawndra Hill (Microsoft Research NYC & U Penn)
M. Ángeles Serrano, (U Barcelona)
Roberta Sinatra (Central European U)
Xiaofan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong U)
*Presentations: *The list of abstracts accepted for oral presentations,
lightning talks, and posters is available*: *http://netsci2017.net/abstracts
*ABOUT NETSCI 2017*
NetSci 2017, the International School and Conference on Network Science,
will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana from June 19 to 23, 2017. NetSci 2017
aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners working in the
emerging area of network science. The conference fosters interdisciplinary
communication and collaboration in network science research across computer
and information sciences, physics, mathematics, statistics, the life
sciences, neuroscience, environmental sciences, social sciences, finance
and business, arts and design.
*ORGANIZERS*
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Yong-Yeol Ahn (Indiana University
Bloomington), Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation) & Tina Eliassi-Rad
(Northeastern University)
SATELLITE CO-CHAIRS: Réka Albert (Pennsylvania State University) & Filippo
Radicchi (Indiana University Bloomington)
SCHOOL CO-CHAIRS: Santo Fortunato (Indiana University Bloomington) & M.
Ángeles Serrano (Universitat de Barcelona)
SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS: Giovanni Ciampaglia & Alessandro Flammini (Indiana
University Bloomington)
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Fil Menczer & Olaf Sporns (Indiana University
Bloomington)
*NetSci 2017 is hosted by the Indiana University Network Science Institute
(**http://iuni.iu.edu* <http://iuni.iu.edu>*). It is the annual meeting of
the Network Science Society (**http://www.netscisociety.net*
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Scientist, Indiana University
FYI all: Deadline for presentations has been extended to April 10.
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From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 9:53 PM
Subject: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimania
general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
We have extended the deadline for submitting presentations, panels,
roundtables and workshops to Wikimania until *April 10*. The deadline for
posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions remains *May 15*.
Please see below for the call for submissions for Wikimania, and submit
your ideas! Please also note, for those who have already submitted, there
is now a field in the registration form for "completed" or "in-progress"
submission. When you are ready to have your submission reviewed, please
note that it is "completed". Thank you!
Please contact us with any questions: wikimania-program(a)wikimedia.org
best,
Phoebe
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:10 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> All,
> I'm very pleased to send out the Wikimania Montréal Call for Submissions,
> which can be found in French here:
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr
> and in English here:
> https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania programme committee,
> Phoebe Ayers
> -----
>
> Que vous soyez un membre de la communauté de l’un des projets Wikimédia
> (tels que Wikipédia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia
> Commons, Wiktionnaire, MediaWiki ou autres), un créateur de contenu libre
> ou un consommateur, nous recevrons avec plaisir votre proposition pour une
> session lors de Wikimania 2017.
>
> *dates importantes*
>
> Appel aux propositions ouvert : 2 février 2017
> Date limite de soumission des présentations (conférence, panneau, table
> ronde et atelier) : *15 avril 2017*
> Date limite de soumission des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions
> d’oiseaux de la même plume : 15 mai 2017.
> Notification d’acceptation des présentations : 20 avril 2017
> Notification d’acceptation des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions
> d’oiseaux de la même plume : 10 juin 2017
>
> *Types de soumissions & Comment soumettre: *https://wikimania2017.wikimedi
> a.org/wiki/Submissions/fr
>
> *Des questions ?* Merci de contacter le Comité du programme par
> wikimania-program(à)wikimedia.org.
>
> ----
>
> Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects (such
> as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons,
> Wiktionary, MediaWiki or others), or a fellow open content creator or
> consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session at Wikimania 2017.
>
> *Important dates*
>
> Call for proposals opens: February 2, 2017
> Deadline for submitting presentation (lecture, panel, roundtable and
> workshop) submissions: *April 10, 2017*
> Deadline for submitting lightning talks, poster, and birds of a feather
> submissions: May 15, 2017
> Notification of acceptance for presentations: April 20, 2017
> Notification of acceptance for lightning talks, poster and birds of a
> feather submissions: June 10, 2017
>
> *Submission types & how to submit:* https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en
>
>
> *Any questions?* Please contact the Programme Committee at
> wikimania-program at wikimedia.org
>
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Hello,
I am looking for research on how editors transition through various levels
of involvement in their time as editors. The questions I ask myself are:
- How many people to come each month?
- How many editors leave?
…those are not too difficult to answer but…
- How many people become more involved over time? E.g. How many each month
come to a level where they are interested in handling many pages on the
watchlist, learn the less obvious aspects of wiki culture etc.
In my work as designer I am often involved in features for intermediate
and/or very involved users and I’m wondering if there are any ballpark
estimates of how many people learn these features each month.
Jan
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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.