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Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude
by Pine W 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Thinking big here: popular internationalized computer games can have 10+ million unit sales. Some of the most popular online games have millions of monthly active users. I'm wondering if the research community, including Design Research, can envision a way for Wikimedia to scale up from 80,000 active monthly users to 8,000,000 active monthly users. What would we need in order to stimulate and nourish this kind of growth? What can we learn from popular internationalized games about design that could benefit Wikimedia on a large scale? Pine

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Wikipedia quality statistics
by Pine W 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hi research community, I have been struggling to find a way to present the subject of Wikipedia's quality to newbies for the LearnWiki video series. On the one hand, I have heard of studies that compare Wikipedia favorably to Britannica, and studies showing that medical students and licensed professionals consult Wikipedia. On the other hand, we have lots of stub articles, and in the August WMF Metrics and Activities meeting we heard that some users are skeptical of the quality of an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. I am thinking that quality of an article, as well as quality of Wikipedia as a whole (in varied language editions), could be measured in terms of completeness, verifiability, and neutrality, assuming that measures of those three dimensions are possible. For completeness, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Completeness, which has fascinating if somewhat unhelpful descriptions of encyclodynamics and encyclostatics. Another resource, which may be a bit more helpful, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessme… . I believe that there have been studies about vandalism reversions, and the accuracy or inaccuracy of Wikipedia science articles. I am wondering if there have been any more holistic studies of Wikipedia completeness, verifiability, and neutrality, either using sampling methods or using automated tools. Thanks, Pine

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August 31 Final day to submit program sessions at WikiConference North America
by Sydney Poore 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hello everyone, Tomorrow, August 31st, is the final day to submit proposals for program sessions for WikiConference North America on October 8-10 in San Diego. https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Submissions There are already some proposal that would be of interest to the people on this mailing list. But we welcome more submissions. Sydney Poore User:FloNight WikiConference North America https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore

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Spreadsheet autoformatting errors, MRIs, and more reasons for open research
by Pine W 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Two articles of potential interest to medical and Wikimedia researchers: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/sunday/do-you-believe-in-god-or-i… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-o… <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-o…> Pine <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-o…>

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude
by Amir E. Aharoni 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

I agree with pretty much all that Bob says here, except one important point: This is probably correct for Wikipedia in English, and maybe a few other very big languages. A rarely remembered fact: most people don't know English. In other languages there's much work to do in writing articles on math, history, geography, medicine and what not (and dictionaries and textbooks and public domain works), but a lot of potential people who would do it fall into two categories: 1. People who know English and can read the English Wikipedia article and don't notice that an article in their language is missing. 2. People who don't know English and can neither translate from the English Wikipedia nor other English-only sources. The upcoming Task List feature in Content Translation ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96147 ) will try to address this by giving people a more convenient way to see the gaps and fill them, although it will be only a technical tool, which cannot solve everything by itself. As Bob notes, targeted outreach to experts will be needed as well. בתאריך 28 באוג׳ 2016 22:27,‏ "Bob Kosovsky" <bobkosovsky(a)nypl.org> כתב: I've been active with Wikipedia since 2006. My impression (which corresponds with data) is that 2008 was the year with the highest number of editors on English Wikipedia. While it may sound good on paper, in some ways it was a mess because of the frequency of vandalism. Nowadays I know there are more automated techniques for detecting vandalism, but if you want to increase the number of users just to make the stats look good, you're going to get more dubious data into the encyclopedia as well as frustration from editors who dislike spending their time on so much maintenance (although I'm sure there are some editors who would jump at the chance to make corrections all day). I suspected from the outset of Wikipedia's creation that the project would mirror the well-known "life cycle of email lists" as I've always believed Wikipedia is a "social encyclopedia." I feel this well-known meme accurately reflect's Wikipedia's evolution so I repeat it here as a tool from which to learn: *1. Initial enthusiasm* (people introduce themselves, and gush a lot about how wonderful it is to find kindred souls). *2. Evangelism* (people moan about how few folks are posting to the list, and brainstorm recruitment strategies). *3. Growth* (more and more people join, more and more lengthy threads develop, occasional off-topic threads pop up). *4. Community* (lots of threads, some more relevant than others; lots of information and advice is exchanged; experts help other experts as well as less experienced colleagues; friendships develop; people tease each other; newcomers are welcomed with generosity and patience; everyone -- newbie and expert alike -- feels comfortable asking questions, suggesting answers, and sharing opinions). *5. Discomfort with diversity* (the number of messages increases dramatically; not every thread is fascinating to every reader; people start complaining about the signal-to-noise ratio; person 1 threatens to quit if *other* people don't limit discussion to person 1's pet topic; person 2 agrees with person 1; person 3 tells 1 & 2 to lighten up; more bandwidth is wasted complaining about off-topic threads than is used for the threads themselves; everyone gets annoyed). *6a. Smug complacency and stagnation* (the purists flame everyone who asks an 'old' question or responds with humor to a serious post; newbies are rebuffed; traffic drops to a doze-producing level of a few minor issues; all interesting discussions happen by private email and are limited to a few participants; the purists spend lots of time self-righteously congratulating each other on keeping off-topic threads off the list). *OR* *6b. Maturity* (a few people quit in a huff; the rest of the participants stay near stage 4, with stage 5 popping up briefly every few weeks; many people wear out their second or third 'delete' key, but the list lives contentedly ever after). I feel Wikipedia is at stage 6 (both a and b). Unless there's a significant change in functionality and design, the days of 2008 will never return, and we should stop bothering to think it's possible to replicate them (because their existence was due to the novelty of the project). Instead, I think Wikimedia projects should cultivate those individuals with specialized knowledge. A lot of these people are in specialized communities (for example educators, medical professionals, researchers/scholars, devoted amateurs). These are communities which formerly looked down on Wikipedia but now are reconsidering their formerly negative opinions of the encyclopedia. I feel the as-yet small successes in the medical and GLAM communities (I am sure there are others) show great promise. Being part of the GLAM community, I know there are outreach efforts underway to others within that community. Being part of WM NYC, I know there's a lot of librarians involved in chapter activities--and most of those activities take place in libraries or museums (often museum libraries). Until this year, the WMF showed no real interest in continuous engagement and dialogue with the community that edits the projects. I totally agree with the person who said WMF needs to have a marketing department. This is especially true for the kinds of research which marketers report on and are typical of any organization, profit or non-profit. That would be a first step: Understanding who are the variety of its users/editors from which it can then create action items to determine how it can increase the number of users by going after specific market segments. This would not eliminate the "anyone can edit" ethos, but could be a more effective means to increasing users rather than appealing to a broad public. Bob Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts blog: http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2 Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users - My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions - *Inspiring Lifelong Learning* | *Advancing Knowledge* | *Strengthening Our Communities * _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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SwellRT contest for a decentralized free web
by Samer 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Dear all, I think that the following call might be of interest to some members of the list. Please, feel free to disseminate it (thanks!): [image: Imágenes integradas 1] <http://swellrt.org/contest> If you like to code, free software and to boost a decentralized Internet, the SwellRT project invites you to participate in its Free Software Contest 3000€, 2000€ and 1000€ prizes will be awarded to the best 3 projects which use or improve SwellRT technology. Find more info at: http://swellrt.org/contest [image: Imágenes integradas 2] <http://swellrt.org/> SwellRT is a real-time decentralized storage platform enabling real-time collaboration for Web applications. Multiple users can share and edit JavaScript objects in real-time with transparent conflict resolution (eventual consistency). Changes are distributed in real-time to any user or app accessing the shared object. SwellRT provides also out-of-the-box collaborative rich-text editing for Web applications through an extensible text editor Web component and API. SwellRT can be deployed as a decentralized network, so shared objects can be stored and synced in different federated servers in real time. -- Samer | @sh3v3k <http://twitter.com/sh3v3k> | http://samer.hassan.name

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CFP ChASM'16 - Computational Approaches to Social Modeling EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Bruno Goncalves 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Computational Approaches to Social Modeling Call for Papers Bellevue, WA as part of SocInfo'16 (usa2016.socinfo.eu/call-for-workshops/) *Workshop:* Modern life is infused with a myriad of gadgets and new technologies that are quickly becoming online extensions of our offline lives. How we interact with others, where we are and where we go are all facets that are increasingly captured with ever greater detail by our online tools and gadgets. Digital traces constantly produced by these tools create hitherto unseen possibilities for the study of human behavior, but also pose their own challenges. The avalanche of data we are witnessing demands new tools and concepts to be analyzed and the new problems that are within our reach demand new algorithms and models to be developed. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners of both computer science and social science so that both may better understand the challenges faced by each other and how best they may collaborate to overcome them. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Workshop papers submission: September 12, 2016 EXTENDED Workshop paper acceptance notification: September 27, 2016 Workshop final camera-ready paper due: October 14, 2016 Workshop date: November 14, 2016 *Topics of Interest:* Topics include, but are not limited to: - Social Modeling, Theories and Analytics - Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems - Social and Behavioral Changes - Online Social Movements - Collective Behavior - Human Dynamics - Voter Behavior - Measures, metrics in characterization of Social Networks - Digital Epidemiology - Human mobility, models and data - Analysis of Proxy Data - Prediction and Prediction Markets (Wisdom of Crowds) - Language Variation and Language Use - Dialects - Geographical Patterns - Language Evolution and Language Change - Impact of language on information diffusion - Mixed Methods and Methodologies - combining reactive and non-reactive, obtrusive and unobtrusive research methods for exploring social phenomena - for collecting and storing social datasets to make research results reproducible and verifiable - for analyzing biased, selective and incomplete social data on the Web - for preserving individuals' privacy while studying social phenomena - Algorithms, Tools and Applications - Analysis of social data - that allow to capture social data - that exploit social science findings and theories (e.g., tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online) *Submissions:* Due to differing publishing practices of social scientists, physicists and computer scientists, submissions can take 3 forms: Extended *2 page* abstracts of previously published manuscripts Short papers: should not exceed *8 pages* Full papers: should not exceed *14 pages* All page counts exclude references and any appendix. Paper submissions must be written in English and should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). The review process will be single-blind (i.e., submissions do not need to be anonymized). All papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chasm16). *Organizers:* Bruno Gonçalves, New York University Center for Data Science, US Nicola Perra, Greenwich University, London, UK Andrea Baronchelli, Department of Mathematics, City University London, UK *PC Members (Alphabetical):* Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research Barcelona Sitaram Asur, HP Labs* Alain Barrat, CNRS, France Javier Borge-Holthoefer, IN3-UOC, Barcelona, Spain Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation Ed Chi, Google Research* Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University* Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research* Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo* Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Paul Groth, VU University of Amsterdam * Brian Keegan, University of Colorado, Boulder Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California* Vera Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jared Lorince, Indiana University Elaheh Momemi, University of Vienna* Esteban Moro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh Nathan Poor, The Underwood Institute Jose Ramasco, University Islas-Baleares Bruno Ribeiro, Carnegie Mellon University Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy Philipp Singer, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Markus Strohmeier, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Claudia Wagner, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences* Katrin Weller, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Qian Zhang, Northeastern University Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology * To be confirmed ******************************************* Bruno Miguel Tavares Gonçalves, PhD Homepage: www.bgoncalves.com Email: bgoncalves(a)gmail.com *******************************************

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CFP ChASM'16 - Computational Approaches to Social Modeling
by Bruno Goncalves 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

Computational Approaches to Social Modeling Call for Papers *Workshop:* Modern life is infused with a myriad of gadgets and new technologies that are quickly becoming online extensions of our offline lives. How we interact with others, where we are and where we go are all facets that are increasingly captured with ever greater detail by our online tools and gadgets. Digital traces constantly produced by these tools create hitherto unseen possibilities for the study of human behavior, but also pose their own challenges. The avalanche of data we are witnessing demands new tools and concepts to be analyzed and the new problems that are within our reach demand new algorithms and models to be developed. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners of both computer science and social science so that both may better understand the challenges faced by each other and how best they may collaborate to overcome them. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Workshop papers submission: August 27, 2016 Workshop paper acceptance notification: September 27, 2016 Workshop final camera-ready paper due: October 14, 2016 *Topics of Interest:* Topics include, but are not limited to: - Social Modeling, Theories and Analytics - Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems - Social and Behavioral Changes - Online Social Movements - Collective Behavior - Human Dynamics - Voter Behavior - Measures, metrics in characterization of Social Networks - Digital Epidemiology - Human mobility, models and data - Analysis of Proxy Data - Prediction and Prediction Markets (Wisdom of Crowds) - Language Variation and Language Use - Dialects - Geographical Patterns - Language Evolution and Language Change - Impact of language on information diffusion - Mixed Methods and Methodologies - combining reactive and non-reactive, obtrusive and unobtrusive research methods for exploring social phenomena - for collecting and storing social datasets to make research results reproducible and verifiable - for analyzing biased, selective and incomplete social data on the Web - for preserving individuals' privacy while studying social phenomena - Algorithms, Tools and Applications - Analysis of social data - that allow to capture social data - that exploit social science findings and theories (e.g., tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online) *Submissions:* Due to differing publishing practices of social scientists, physicists and computer scientists, submissions can take 3 forms: Extended *2 page* abstracts of previously published manuscripts Short papers: should not exceed *8 pages* Full papers: should not exceed *14 pages* All page counts exclude references and any appendix. Paper submissions must be written in English and should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). The review process will be single-blind (i.e., submissions do not need to be anonymized). All papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chasm16). *Organizers:* Bruno Gonçalves, New York University Center for Data Science, US Nicola Perra, Greenwich University, London, UK Andrea Baronchelli, Department of Mathematics, City University London, UK *PC Members (Alphabetical):* Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research Barcelona Sitaram Asur, HP Labs* Alain Barrat, CNRS, France Javier Borge-Holthoefer, IN3-UOC, Barcelona, Spain Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation Ed Chi, Google Research* Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University* Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research* Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo* Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Paul Groth, VU University of Amsterdam * Brian Keegan, Northeastern University Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California* Vera Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jared Lorince, Indiana University Elaheh Momemi, University of Vienna* Esteban Moro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh Nathan Poor, The Underwood Institute Jose Ramasco, University Islas-Baleares Bruno Ribeiro, Carnegie Mellon University Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy Philipp Singer, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Markus Strohmeier, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Claudia Wagner, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences* Katrin Weller, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Qian Zhang, Northeastern University Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology * To be confirmed

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Weigh in on whether to finalize intro to "Committee" section of Code of Conduct
by Matthew Flaschen 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

Please comment on whether to approve the introduction to the "Committee" section of the draft Code of conduct for technical spaces. The draft text is at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/Draft&oldid=220… . This is the part after the "Page: Code of Conduct/Committee" heading and before the "Diversity" heading. You can comment at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_introduc… . A position and brief comment is fine. You can also send private feedback to conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org . Thanks again, Matt Flaschen P.S. Sorry, I should have combined this into my previous email.

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Weigh in on whether to finalize "Diversity" and “Conflict of interest” sections of Code of Conduct
by Matthew Flaschen 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Please comment on whether to approve the "Diversity" and "Conflict of interest" section of the draft Code of conduct for technical spaces: * Diversity - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Diversity * Conflict of interest - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Conflict_of_interest You can comment at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_.22Diver… . A position and brief comment is fine. You can also send private feedback to conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org . Thanks again, Matt Flaschen

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