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SPARQL workshop and WDQS tutorials
by Dario Taraborelli 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

The Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams recently hosted an introductory workshop on the SPARQL query language and the Wikidata Query Service. We made the video stream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMdh4fXy18> and materials <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Wor…> (demo queries, slidedecks) from this workshop publicly available. Guest speakers: - Ruben Verborgh, *Ghent University* and *Linked Data Fragments* - Benjamin Good, *Scripps Research Institute* and *Gene Wiki* - Tim Putman, *Scripps Research Institute* and *Gene Wiki* - Lucas, *@WikidataFacts* Dario and Stas *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research on automatically created articles
by siddhartha banerjee 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Ziko, Thanks for your detailed email. Agree on all the comments. Some earlier comments might have been harsh, but I understand that there is a valid reason behind it and also the dedication of so many people involved to help reach Wikipedia where it is today. We should have been more diligent in finding out policies and rules (including IRB) before entering content on Wikipedia. We promise not to repeat anything of this sort in the future and also I am trying to summarize all that has been discussed here to prevent such unpleasant experiences from other researchers in this area. -- Sidd

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Fwd: [Research-Internal] Fwd: Dumps Rewrite getting underway (help needed!)
by Leila Zia 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:07 AM Subject: [Research-Internal] Fwd: Dumps Rewrite getting underway (help needed!) To: research-internal(a)lists.wikimedia.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 2:35 PM Subject: Dumps Rewrite getting underway (help needed!) To: Wikipedia Xmldatadumps-l <Xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello folks, I know a number of you have subscribed to the Dumps Rewrite project ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/dumps-rewrite/) but I bet none of you actually watch it or any of its tasks. So here's a heads up. I'm getting started on work on the job scheduler/workflow manager piece; this would accept lists of dump tasks (in the current setup, "dump stubs for el wikipedia"), call a callback to turn each of them into small jobs that can be completed in less than an hour, submit and monitor these jobs with retries, dependencies etc, call a callback to recombine the outputs of the jobs, and notify some caller on success of te whole operation. First up is evaluating existing packages and choosing one to use as a foundation. Please contribute! See the following tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143205: Draft usage scenarios for job/workflow manager <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143205> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143206: List requirements needed for task/job/workflow manager <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143206> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143207: Evaluate software packages for job/task/workflow management <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143207> Also, can someone please forward this on to analytics-l and research-l? I'm not on those lists but they will no doubt have a lot of useful expertise here. Thanks! Ariel _______________________________________________ Research-Internal mailing list Research-Internal(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-internal

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Sep 12-October 11)
by Pine W 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Forwarding. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marti Johnson <mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:34 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Sep 12-October 11) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program launches its second open call today, September 12. We will be accepting proposals through October 11 for new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects. Funds are available to support individuals, groups and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether focused on building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching an important issue, coordinating an editathon series or providing other support for community-building. Ideas from the current Inspire Campaign on addressing harassment are very welcome. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire> Do you have have a good idea, but would like some feedback before applying? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff can give you advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Once your idea is ready, it can be easily migrated into a grant request. Marti Johnson and I will also be hosting weekly proposals clinics via Hangouts for real-time discussions about the Project Grants Open Call. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. Dates and times are as follows: * Fri, Sep 16, 1400- 1500 UTC * Tues, Sep 20, 0100 - 0200 UTC * Wed, Sep 28, 1400 - 1500 UTC * Tue, Oct 4, 2200 - 2300 UTC * Tues, Oct 11, 0200 - 0300 UTC * Tue, Oct 11, 1600 -1700 UTC Links for Hangouts are available here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal between September 12 and October 11! < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply> Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org) or Alex Wang (awang(a)wikimedia.org) with questions about getting started with your project! Warm regards, Marti *Marti JohnsonProgram Officer* *Individual Grants* *Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>* +1 415-839-6885 Skype: Mjohnson_WMF Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share <http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 6(8) is out
by masssly＠ymail.com 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

The August 2016 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/12/research-newsletter-august-2016/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/August In this issue: 1 AI-generated Wikipedia articles give rise to debate about research ethics 2 Ethics researcher: Vandal fighters should not be allowed to see whether an edit was made anonymously 3 Briefly 3.1 Conferences and events *** 18 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Thanks to Denny Vrandečić for contributing. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli --- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/

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index of current research on wikipedia?
by Joe Corneli 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

Hi, I noticed that the pages here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_studies_about_Wikipedia and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia ...don't have any 2015 or 2016 articles. Naturally, such articles do exist (30,400 hits for "Wikipedia" since 2015 on Google Scholar). Indeed, given the quantity and diversity of material, keeping track of it might require an entire meta-wikipedia ;-? However the materials at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Research don't seem to provide a very comprehensive guide to existing literature. I assume some researchers are keeping track of some facets of recent work in this area: are you archiving e.g. BibTeX files somewhere? Could these be shared/curated in a wiki-like way? There is a very limited list (indeed, just one entry from 2013), here: https://zenodo.org/collection/user-wikimedia ... So that's probably not where the action is at the moment! For comparison, there is a nice (but not terribly long) crowdsourced index of papers using Stack Exchange data here; this looks reasonably up to date: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/134495/academic-papers-using-stack-… Joe

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Research or other documentation on potential GLAM partner issues
by Leigh Thelmadatter 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

(sorry for the cross posting with cultural partners l) I am working on a research project with my school and have a question. I am looking for a research paper or other documentation (if it exists) on whether or not in 2016, do potential GLAM partners still have the same questions/objections towards working with Wikipedia (time, resources, releasing materials in free licenses) despite the major collaborations we do have. I have run into this in Mexico, but dont know how much of it is a local issue and how much is a global issue.

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WSDM Cup 2017: Adobe Sponsors Awards for Vandalism Detection in Wikidata
by Martin Potthast 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

The subject says it all, but for quick reference, here's again the CfP. Cheers, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WSDM Cup 2017: Call for Participation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite you to take part in the following shared tasks: Task 1. Vandalism Detection -- Given a Wikidata revision, is it damaging? This task is about detecting vandalism as well as all other kinds of damaging edits to Wikidata. In doing so, not only Wikidata's integrity is protected, but also that of all information systems making use of the knowledge base. Task 2. Triple Scoring -- Compute relevance scores for triples from type-like relations. For example, the triple "Johnny_Depp profession Actor" should get a high score, because acting is Depp's main profession, whereas "Quentin_Tarantino profession Actor" should get a low score, because Tarantino is more of a director than an actor. Such scores are a basic ingredient for ranking results in entity search. Learn more at http://www.wsdm-cup-2017.org Register now at https://goo.gl/forms/JaVQwFFewLtVFCik2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- now open Registration Sep 1, 2016 Training data release Oct 15, 2016 Early bird software submission Dec 8, 2016 Final software submission Dec 22, 2016 Announcement of evaluation results Jan 5, 2017 Paper submission Feb 6-10, 2017 Conference and WSDM Cup workshop All deadlines are 11:59 PM, anywhere on earth (AoE). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Announcements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awards for best-performing submissions. Aobe Systems, Inc. sponsors the WSDM Cup with a total of $5000 in awards for the best-performing submissions. The winners of each task will receive an award of $1500, and the second and third runner-ups $750 and $250. Evaluation as a Service. For the sake of reproducability, we ask you to submit your software instead of just its run output. Software submissions allow for preserving your software in working condition, and for re-evaluating it as new datasets appear. To facilitate software submissions, we will make use of the cloud-based evaluation platform TIRA (www.tira.io). Open Source Proceedings. We encourage the open source release of your software. To maximize the impact of your software, we collect it at a central repository on GitHub: https://github.com/wsdm-cup-2017 Private repositories can be assigned to you at request during the competition. Benefits for early birds. Submitting your software or your notebook early, as well as registering early for the conference will be rewarded. Check out the specific benefits on our web page at http://www.wsdm-cup-2017.org

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Fwd: [cna2016] DEADLINE EXTENSION SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 - COMPLEX NETWORKS 2016 MILAN
by Bruno Goncalves 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

******************************************* Bruno Miguel Tavares Gonçalves, PhD Homepage: www.bgoncalves.com Email: bgoncalves(a)gmail.com ******************************************* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chantal Bonner <chantalbonner(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:00 AM Subject: [cna2016] DEADLINE EXTENSION SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 - COMPLEX NETWORKS 2016 MILAN To: cna2016(a)iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr Dear Colleagues, Due to many requests the submission deadline to COMPLEX NETWORKS 2016 <http://complexnetworks.org/> is extended to: September 18, 2016 (Firm) http://complexnetworks.org <http://www.complexnetworks.org/> The *Fifth International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications*, *Milan, Italy* *November 30 – December 02, 2016* *Full papers (up to 12 pages) *and *Extended Abstracts* *(up to 3 pages )* are welcome: *Keynote Speakers * Guido Caldarelli <http://www.guidocaldarelli.com> IMT Lucca - Italy Raissa D’Souza <http://mae.engr.ucdavis.edu/dsouza/> U.C Davis - USA Renaud Lambiotte <http://www.lambiotte.be/> University of Namur - Belgium Yamir Moreno <http://cosnet.bifi.es/people/yamir-moreno/> University of Zaragoza - Spain Eiko Yoneki <http://www.cnn.group.cam.ac.uk/directory/ey204@cam.ac.uk> University of Cambridge - UK Ben Y. Zhao <http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/%7Eravenben/> U.C. Santa Barbara – USA *Tutorials : *November 29, 2016 Ernesto Estrada <http://www.estradalab.org> University of Strathclyde – UK Bruno Gonçalves <http://www.bgoncalves.com/> New York University – USA *Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * · Models of Complex Networks · Structural Network Properties · Complex Networks and Epidemics · Community Structure & Discovery · Motif Discovery · Complex Networks Mining · Dynamics on and of Complex Networks · Link Prediction · Multiplex Networks · Network Controllability · Synchronization in Networks · Algorithms for Network Analysis · Networks Visual Representation · Large-scale Graph Analytics · Social Reputation, Influence, and Trust · Information Spreading in Social Media · Rumor and Viral Marketing · Recommendation Systems and Networks · Financial and Economic Networks · Political networks · Complex Networks and Mobility · Biological and Technological Networks · Mobile call Complex Networks · Bio-informatics and Earth Sciences Applications · Resilience and Robustness · Networks for Physical Infrastructures · Networks, Smart Cities and Smart Grids *Submission* All contributions should be submitted via Easy chair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complex_networks_2016>. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complex_networks_2016 -- Chantal Cherifi Associate professor University of Lyon 2 *IUT Lumière* * - DISP Laboratory**(+33) 6 50 81 71 84 <%28%2B33%29%206%2050%2081%2071%2084>*

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WikiConference North America - Submissions deadline Aug 31
by Andrew Lih 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

WikiConference North America 2016 7-10 October 2016, San Diego, CA, USA SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: August 31, 11:59pm Samoa Time! https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions WikiConference North America (formerly WikiConference USA) is the third annual conference on the North American continent devoted to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The weekend will feature both academic and casual presentations on Wikimedia-related outreach activities, workshops to improve the skills of grassroots organizers, and discussions on the past, present, and future of the Wikimedia projects. The conference features offerings about community outreach, online activity, partnerships with institutions of knowledge, and technology. Keynote speakers are scheduled to include Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer of OCLC Research. The last day of the conference will feature programming coinciding with Indigenous Peoples' Day. Registration for the conference is now open. You can register at https://wikiconference.org. Scholarships partially covering costs of travel and attendance are available for active contributors to Wikimedia projects. Apply by August 23rd for scholarships at https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Scholarships. This is a volunteer run conference and volunteers are needed for any number of tasks. If you are attending, please consider volunteering for at https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Volunteers. We seek presentations addressing topics related to Wikipedia or open access and culture. Presentations may be from any discipline regarding any relevant topic. Please submit a description of your proposed presentation using our online submission process at https://wikiconference.org/ wiki/Submissions. If you are interested in participating in the peer-reviewed academic track, see our call for academic submissions at https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Call_for_Academic_Presentations. - Sydney Poore (User:FloNight) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (User:Rosiestep), conference organizers

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