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CFP: ICCMSN 2008 - Submission deadline extended
by James Noble 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking (ICCMSN - 2008) Dunedin, New Zealand Conference dates: 11-13 June 2008 Submission date: 9th March 2008 (note the new submission date) http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/infosci/conferences/isn2008/ Although the use of HTML and early Web browsers expanded the Internet experience from mostly one-to-one interactions to that of one-to- many, this development still did not afford the sophisticated kinds of social interactions undertaken by people in the real world. Recently, however, new technologies (such as Weblogs, Web services, RSS/Atom, tagging with folksonomies, and Wikis – sometimes collectively called “Web 2.0") have appeared that offer more socially- oriented network interactions. This has led to the new system development mode of employing lightweight scripting languages to bundle various Web 2.0 elements, or plugins, and then deploying them on network servers, thereby establishing Social Network Systems (SNS). The physical nature of the new network architectures is increasingly heterogeneous, comprising more lightweight portable devices (cell phones and PDAs) interacting with ever-more powerful network servers that host SNS. From these developments have merged such popular services such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, Flickr, and YouTube. But analysts and observers predict that SNS have much greater potential than merely exchanging media files: these are expected to afford opportunities to meet and engage in extended, creative, and more meaningful (in fact, unforeseeable) interactions that will greatly enhance their Internet experiences. How can this vision be achieved? An important new platform technology where all these developments come together is that of the new virtual environments, such as Second Life and There, which enable people to meet and engage in virtual, three-dimensional social interactions. The future of SNS will certainly be played out on these platforms. The Key Issues: In all societies, whether electronic or real, there is a fundamental tension between freedom and rules. If the interaction rules of behaviour are too rigid, people feel constrained and leave the society. On the other hand, if interaction rules are too lax, aimless inhabitants become bored – plus the society can be overrun by vandals and free-riders. To address this concern we need to explore the following questions: • How can we facilitate effective structure in a SNS? • How can we facilitate SNS collaboration/cooperation in education, e-commerce, international research etc? • How can collective knowledge be constructed and shared? • What is the role of network topologies in disease spreading, opinion dynamics, norm spreading, etc.? • How can software agents be used in the development and simulation of on-line societies? • How can various Web 2.0 tools be integrated to satisfy the needs of electronic communities? • How can realistic virtual environments be modelled, designed and developed? • How can high speed networks, such as KAREN facilitate real world experiences of virtual environments? • How can privacy, security, and trust issues be addressed in on- line communities

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List of academic publications related to Wikipedia
by Piotr Konieczny 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Since this topic has came out several times recently, I've decided to update the WP:ACST (Wikipedia in academic studies) page on Wikipedia. It now has about 200 publications. It is still not comprehensive, but after tripling it size over the past few days I hope it collects close to or more than 75% of relevant publications out there. Since it is a wiki page, it is easily updatable by us all (hint). It certainly could benefit from further additions, if you are familiar with any that are missing, as well as copyedit (double check the links; find missing keywords; standarize author's names; standarize conference names and publications outlets). Since it is a Wikipedia page, there is no chance it will ever go down and the effort of contributing to it be wasted (like apparently has happened with http://bibliography.wikimedia.de/ - do we even know who is/was responsible for maintaining that tool?). Combined with sortable table, optional abstracts and keywords, I do think that WP:ACST is THE ultimate Wikipedia research bibliography. Certainly we would benefit from agreeing on a single site we should contribute to; the current state with several sites collecting wikipedia related bibliography, mostly unlinked to each other, with partial overlapping, most missing much of what any other has (I have looked through all of the ones linked here so far, cannibalizing them for WP:ACST, and hence I stick by the above comment) is hardly helpful. As with online encyclopedias, I think it makes much sense that "one should rule them all" :) The page in question can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_academic_studies -- Piotr Konieczny "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory."

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Impressive list of publications about mining structured data from Wikipedia
by Chris Bizer 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi all, Mike Bergman has collected an impressive and (I think) comprehensive list of publications about mining structured data from Wikipedia. The list demonstrates that Wikipedia mining is starting to set the state-of-the-art in areas such as: a.. Ontology development and categorization b.. Word sense disambiguation c.. Named entity recognition d.. Named entity disambiguation e.. Semantic relatedness and relations. See http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=417 for the complete list. Mike: Thanks a lot for this! Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 chris(a)bizer.de www.bizer.de

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Wikipedia Thesaurus Visualization
by Kotaro Nakayama 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

To Wikipedia researchers, My name is Dr. Kotaro Nakayama from Osaka University in Japan. I would like to announce our latest visualization system for Wikipedia Thesaurus, a huge scale "association" thesaurus, based on Java applet. It allows users to see the relation network among concepts (articles) in Wikipedia. http://wikipedia-lab.org:8080/WikipediaThesaurusV2 (Please click on the "NetVis" to show the network for a concept) We did not just visualize the link structure of Wikipedia, but we calculated the relatedness for all concepts in Wikipedia using pfibf (Path Frequency - Inversed Backward link Frequency) analogous to tf-idf in information retrieval (See "Wikipedia Mining for An Association Web Thesaurus Construction" in WISE2007 for more information if you are interested). We are conducting several projects such as Wikipedia Thesaurus (Since 2005), Wikipedia Bilingual Dictionary, Wikipedia API and Wikipedia Ontology. Detailed information about our activities can be found under the following URL. http://wikipedia-lab.org There is no doubt that Wikipedia is an invaluable corpus for knowledge extraction and this is the time to boost the research up by collaborating each other. I hope our research is of interest to you. Sincerely yours, Kotaro Nakayama

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SWiM 0.2 released (semantic wiki for mathematics)
by Christoph LANGE 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

Dear Wiki[media] researchers, this mail is to announce the release of the current, intermediate state of SWiM, a semantic wiki for mathematics. Based on the semantic wiki IkeWiki (http://ikewiki.salzburgresearch.at), which is similar to the better-known Semantic MediaWiki but offers a better RDF and XML infrastructure and a more flexible user interface, SWiM adds support for the following mathematical markup languages: * MathML, a W3C standard in its upcoming version 3, is used for presenting mathematical formulae. * OpenMath (http://www.openmath.org) is used to enter mathematical formulae in a semantically reasonable structure, regardless of how they are rendered. * OMDoc (http://www.omdoc.org) is used to embed formulae into documents and to semantically structure these documents into mathematical theories and statements. Note the difference to wikis supporting LaTeX formulae: Here, we chiefly care about the _semantics_ of mathematical knowledge and how to benefit from these structures, and only in a second step about the visual appearance of formulae. New features in 0.2 are: 1. a completely redesigned and improved user interface, mostly thanks to the hard work Sebastian Schaffert did on IkeWiki 2. rendering of mathematical formulae in MathML 3, according to notation definitions for symbols that can dynamically be made inside the wiki, using the mmlproc renderer (http://kwarc.info/projects/mmlkit/). 3. a way to edit OMDoc XML structures as tables and OpenMath content-markup formulae in a linearized ASCII notation inside the TinyMCE HTML editor (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com) 4. import and export working for OMDoc documents, and partly working for OpenMath content dictionaries and MathML 3 notation definitions. For the next milestone, I'll mainly be working on enhancing the OpenMath support, e.g. turning SWiM into a proper editor for OpenMath content dictionaries. For technical details, see the roadmap at https://trac.kwarc.info/swim/roadmap. Check out … * the live demo at http://swim.kwarc.info * the project homepage at http://kwarc.info/projects/swim/ for further information, downloading an installable packags or the sources, and recent publications. * the bug tracker at http://trac.kwarc.info/swim/ to report bugs or to request features * the SWiM mailing list at http://lists.jacobs-university.de/mailman/listinfo/project-swim and the MathWeb wiki page at http://mathweb.org/wiki/SWiM for more announcements and to participate in detailed discussions. Best, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701

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Speaking on Wikipedia in/and schools
by Brianna Laugher 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Hello all, I am thinking to make a submission to a "computers in education" conference, either a non-refereed paper or a "workshop". The audience will be "teachers and teacher educators". Around 600 people will attend. The conference is held every two years. One of the conference themes is "E-learning including information literacy, Web 2.0 and school libraries". At first I thought to do a workshop, but their computer labs have only 15-20 computers, which seems very limited to me. So then it seems like a non-refereed paper is best. I think a good topic might be '"Safe wiki": Teaching responsible use of Wikipedia', as just like sex, an abstinence-only approach will not be very successful when it comes to students & Wikipedia. ;) Anyway I figure there may be some people here familiar with this kind of research, although I am not submitting a refereed paper it would still be useful to see what has been done before. I recall the wiki research bibliography - is it still alive? Both <http://bibliography.wikimedia.de/> and <http://tools.wikimedia.de/~voj/bibliography/> are dead links... thanks, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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The WikiTrust code has been released!
by Luca de Alfaro 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Dear All, we have just released in open-source format the code of WikiTrust, the tool we use for the Wikipedia trust coloring. The project homepage is http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ , and from there, you can follow a link to a live demo. The code itself is available from http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust . The code is suitable to the trust-coloring of a static dump of a wiki; the code for the coloring of edits in real-time, as they happen, is under development. The code is extensible, and it provides a platform over which it is (relatively) easy to write wiki analysis tools... for instance, we wrote small analysis procedures that measure the inter-edit time distribution, and the amount of text contributed by authors of various reputation ranges. As the text analysis engine and the dump traversal engines are already built, it is relatively easy to add other analysis modules. We hope this will be of interest! All the best, Luca de Alfaro (message sent on behalf also of Bo Adler and Ian Pye)

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New Deadline March 5: SemWiki2008 - The Wiki Way of Semantics (Workshop@ESWC)
by Christoph LANGE 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

[Apologies for multiple copies] Full call for papers at http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008/ Contact: chair(a)semwiki.org ---- CALL FOR PAPERS SemWiki2008 3rd Workshop: 'The Wiki Way of Semantics' June 2, 2008 http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 5 co-located with the 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) http://www.eswc2008.org/ Tenerife, Spain June 1-5, 2008 ---- === Executive Summary === SemWiki2008, the third workshop on Semantic Wikis, aims at reviewing the progress that has been made in the field of Semantic Wikis since the last workshops in 2006. We are interested in reviewing existing semantic wiki systems against the core wiki principles and thus identifying possibilities to improve them, in applying semantic technologies to existing wiki sites such as Wikipedia in order to make them even more productive for mass collaboration, but also in innovative, entirely new ideas for semantic wikis. Semantic Wikis try to combine the strengths of Semantic Web (machine processable, data integration, complex queries) and Wiki (easy to use and contribute, strongly interconnected, collaborativeness) technologies. Goals are diverse and include: * simple annotations of existing Wiki content; * tools that guide users from informal knowledge contained in texts to more formal structures; * full-fledged tools for ontology editing where the text is no longer in the focus of the system. Semantic Wikis contain in an integrated fashion many of the core challenges of the Semantic Web community: authoring, versioning, interlinked data, semantic browsing, semantic annotating, semantic diffs, semantic search and getting overview. In a Semantic Wiki, such methods have to be integrated into a coherent whole, while still remaining lightweight and easy to use. In this workshop, we investigate how these challenges can be tackled in an integrated fashion. === Important Dates (all dates GMT) === * Paper submission: March 5, 2008 (papers, posters, demos, position papers) * Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2008 * Camera ready deadline: April 18, 2008 * Workshop: June 2, 2008 === Call for Contributions === We invite submissions as full and short papers, as well as posters/demos. Papers should describe original, unpublished research and must not be under review by another conference, journal, or workshop. Authors of the highest quality contributions will be invited to present their work at the workshop. Since Semantic Wikis are a very practical topic, we are also very interested in poster and demo submissions. Posters and Demos should describe prototypical implementations of systems related to the workshop topics. Highest quality submissions will be presented in a separate poster/demo session. Contributions should adhere to the following formats: * Papers 5-15 pages * Posters/Demos 2-5 pages * Short/Position Papers: 2-5 pages Papers should be formatted using the standard LNCS format and should include an abstract of no more than 120 words. Authors will be required to submit their camera ready versions using SALT (semantically annotated LaTeX; http://salt.semanticauthoring.org). It allows authors to annotate their articles directly with semantic markup. This semantic markup will be used to extract and publish metadata of the submissions on the Semantic Web. A specialized LaTeX template will be provided by the workshop organisers that allows to easily add these annotations. === Proceedings === Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference online and in print. Post-proceedings will be published in the CEUR-WS series. === Topics of Interest === Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Text-Based Semantic Authoring * Acquisition of Formal Knowledge from Structured Text * Wikipedia and the Semantic Web * Mining Wikipedia * extending Wikipedia with semantic web features * ... * Collaborative Authoring of Formal Knowledge * Continuous and Integrated Knowledge Usage and Refinement * Usability and empirical studies of semantic wikis and human factors * Application of semantic wikis in * E-learning * software engineering * knowledge engineering * and other domains * Semantic Wikis in Enterprises * New Ways of Authoring, Browsing and Navigating Semantically Enhanced Data * Reusing data from Semantic Wikis in other systems * Personal Semantic Wikis === Programme === * Invited talk: Corporate Knowledge Management with Semantic Wikis at SUN * Presentations of research and position papers * Poster and demo session * Joint dinner, including a discussion on standardisation of semantic wiki data formats and ontologies (building on existing work such as WSR 3; http://www.wikisym.org/wiki/index.php/WSR_3). === Organisation === The workshop is supported by EU FP7 project KIWI and EU FP6 project NEPOMUK. Workshop co-ordinators: * Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research (AT) * Hala Skaf-Molli, LORIA INRIA-LORRAINE/Nancy-Université (FR) * Max Völkel, FZI/Universität Karlsruhe (TH) (DE) Programme Committee: * Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig (DE) * David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig (DE) * Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg (DE) * Björn Decker, IESE (DE) * Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig (DE) * Ludger van Elst, DFKI (DE) * Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE) * Tudor Groza, DERI (IE) * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE) * Tom Heath, Open University (UK) * Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Martin Hepp, UIBK (AT) * Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE) * Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen (DE) * Pascal Molli, Nancy University (FR) * Claudia Müller, Universität Potsdam (DE) * Amedeo Napoli, LORIA (FR) * Eyal Oren, VU (NL) * Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca (IT) * Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR) * Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT) * Peter Scheir, Know-Center Graz (AT) * Elena Simperl, DERI Innsbruck (AT) * Katharina Siorpaes Universität Innsbruck (AT) * Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau (DE) * Jakob Voß, GBV Göttingen (DE) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Complete information, including Programme Committee, instructions for submission, description of the workshop, etc. are to be found at: http://semwiki.org/semwiki2008/ -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701

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Topical Coverage of Wikipedia
by Alex Halavais 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Some of you might be interested in a new article: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2008.00403.x An Analysis of Topical Coverage of Wikipedia * Alexander Halavais & Derek Lackaff Abstract Many have questioned the reliability and accuracy of Wikipedia. Here a different issue, but one closely related: how broad is the coverage of Wikipedia? Differences in the interests and attention of Wikipedia's editors mean that some areas, in the traditional sciences, for example, are better covered than others. Two approaches to measuring this coverage are presented. The first maps the distribution of topics on Wikipedia to the distribution of books published. The second compares the distribution of topics in three established, field-specific academic encyclopedias to the articles found in Wikipedia. Unlike the top-down construction of traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia's topical coverage is driven by the interests of its users, and as a result, the reliability and completeness of Wikipedia is likely to be different depending on the subject-area of the article.

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Moderators?
by Jimmy Wales 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

For some reason I am listed as a moderator on this mailing list. I do read it, but I seldom have time to do moderation tasks. If there is another moderator, perhaps he or she could remove me from moderation? If there is no other moderator, perhaps we need one?

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