Comments on these drafts are most welcome!
http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/career/phd/f05?showcomments=yes
* Wikipedia's Heritage: Vision, Pragmatics, and Happenstance -
moving on from my earlier consideration of print publishers in
Four Short Stories about the Reference Work, I consider recent
digital encycopedic works:
This essay explores development of globally available digital
reference works from their first imaginings to contemporary cases.
My hope in undertaking such a project is to identify technical and
social aspects of digital reference work production that can
contribute to an understanding of a prominent contemporary
exemplar, the Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. Why did it
take over 50 years for the vision of "[w]holly new forms of
encyclopedias" (Bush 1945: 8 to be realized? The answer,
presented in this essay, was that it required an alignment of a
coherent goal, technical practicality, and serendipity: vision,
pragmatics, and happenstance. ...
* Do as I do: leadership in the Wikipedia
In this paper I consider how notions of leadership operate in
collaborative on-line cultures. In particular, I consider the
seemingly paradoxical, or perhaps merely playful, juxtaposition of
informal tyrant-like titles (e.g., "Benevolent Dictator") in
otherwise seemingly egalitarian voluntary content production
communities such as the Wikipedia. To accomplish this, I first
introduce the Wikipedia as an open content community and review
existing literature on the role of leadership in such communities.
I then relate ethnographic and archival data on how leadership is
understood, performed, and discussed in the Wikipedia community. I
conclude by integrating concepts from existing literature and my
own findings into a theory of leadership and note other communities
and leaders against which this theory could be tested. ...
--
Regards, http://www.mit.edu/~reagle/
Joseph Reagle E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E
Dear all,
some of you might remember our survey of contributors to Wikipedia last
year. First of all, thanks to everyone who participated in the survey!
Taking both the German and the international surveys together, we have a
total sample of N=525 contributors, which would have been impossible without
support from so many people. Thank you!
Although I'm still knee-deep in analyzing the data, we already have a good
idea what keeps people motivated once they are involved in the project.
We also see a characteristic pattern in the reasons to join the project, but
we could make an even stronger point if we had a suitable reference group to
compare contributors and non-contributors.
The best reference group I can think of would be Wikipedia users. Ideally,
the best and cleanest way to get that sample is to publish the link on
Wikipedia itself (e.g. on every 10'000th page or so). Do you see any chance
to make that happen?
Of course, we can also include additional questions in the survey that might
be useful for the project.
Thanks a lot in advance for your ideas, and best wishes from Würzburg,
Joachim Schroer
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
2006 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2006)
August 21-23, 2006, Odense, Denmark
Co-located with ACM Hypertext 2006
Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB
See http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006
Research paper submission deadline: April 15, 2006
OVERVIEW
The 2006 International Symposium on Wikis brings
together wiki researchers, practitioners, and
users. The goal of the symposium is to explore
and extend our growing community. The symposium
has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as
well as plenty of space for practitioner reports,
demonstrations, and discussions. Anyone who is
involved in using, researching, or developing
wikis is invited to WikiSym 2006! To learn more
about the Wiki Symposium, feel free to browse
last year's program
(http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/program.html), the
proceedings
(http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/proceedings), and
its wiki (http://ws2005.wikisym.org). Information
about the 2006 program will be available at http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006.
We are seeking submissions for
* research papers
* practitioner reports
* demonstrations
* workshops
* panels
Research paper and practitioner report
submissions as well as workshop proposals are due
* April 15, 2006
Panel and demonstration submissions are due
* May 1, 2006
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* wikis as social software
* wiki user behavior, user dynamics
* wiki user experiences, usability
* information dynamics in wikis
* work group processes, wiki-based collaboration
* reputation systems, quality assurance processes
* wiki implementation experiences and technology
* wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse
* wiki scalability, social and technical
* wikis and the semantic web/ontologies, semantic wikis
* domain-specific/special-purpose wikis
* wikis in education
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Research papers will be reviewed by the committee
to meet rigorous academic standards of
publication. Research papers are expected to
advance the state of the art by describing
substantiated new research or novel technical
results or by reporting on significant experience
or experimentation. They are reviewed both with
respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation.
Accepted research papers will be provided as part
of the conference proceedings. They will be put
into the ACM Digital Library and can be
referenced as papers that appeared in the
Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium
on Wikis. At the symposium, the presenter will be
given a 25min + 5min Q&A presentation slot.
Research papers should not be longer than 10000
words and 20 pages and should meet the ACM SIG
Proceedings Format, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Practitioner reports will be reviewed for
suitability of presentation to the community. The
primary evaluation criterion is the interest to
the community. Practitioner reports will be
provided as part of the conference proceedings
handed out at the symposium and can be referenced
as papers that appeared in the Proceedings of the
2006 International Symposium on Wikis as well.
Practitioner reports should not be longer than
6000 words and 12 pages and should meet the ACM SIG Proceedings Format.
Demonstration, workshop, and panel submissions
will be reviewed for their interest to the
community. A submission should consist of two
pages describing what you intend to do and how
you meet this criterion. It should include a
100-word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all
people relevant to the submission. Demonstrations
will be presented in a joint demonstration
session, workshops will get a half-day or a
full-day and a room of their own (depending on
your request), and panels will get a 90min slot at the symposium.
Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF
format by the respective deadline through our
submission system, which will be available
through the WikiSym website. Questions should be
directed respectively at papers(a)wikisym.org
(research papers and practitioner reports),
workshops(a)wikisym.org (workshops),
panels(a)wikisym.org (panels), or demos(a)wikisym.org (demonstrations).
SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS
The 2006 International Symposium on Wikis will be
held at the Radisson SAS H.C. Andersen Hotel in
Odense, Denmark, August 21-23, 2006. A special
(reduced) hotel rate has been negotiated. WikiSym
2006 will be co-located with the ACM Hypertext
2006 conference (back-to-back), and participants
may register for the symposium alone, or may
jointly register for WikiSym and Hypertext 2006.
Registration is handled through the ACM Hypertext website.
If you have any questions, please contact Dirk
Riehle through chair(a)wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH, Germany (Symposium Chair)
Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, U.S.A.
Kouichirou Eto, AIST, Japan (Publicity Co-Chair)
Richard P. Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, U.S.A.
Beat Doebeli Honegger, UAS Northwestern Switzerland (Workshop Chair)
Matthias L. Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany (Panel Chair)
Samuel J. Klein, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Helmut Leitner, HLS Software, Austria (Publicity Co-Chair)
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair)
Sebastien Paquet, Socialtext, U.S.A. (Demonstrations Chair)
Sunir Shah, University of Toronto, Canada (Publicity Co-Chair)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair)
Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada
Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Alain Désilet, NRC, CNRC, Canada
Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH, Germany
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Are you refering exclusively to WikiMedia
Foundation sites and hence information contents and dynamics research?
Since you are asking about wikis in general, we
had the first research conference on wikis in
October 2005, see www.wikisym.org for proceedings
and annotated conference paper sessions. The
proceedings gives you a glimpse at what people
are doing. The 2006 CfP should be out in a week or so.
Beat Doebeli Honegger has a bibliography online,
but contents is as diverse as the ways you can do
research about wikis. If mostly you are
interested in information dynamics etc. like
Wikipedia contents, you'll probably have to go to the various research groups.
I'd also search Wikipedia itself :-)
Dirk
Dirk Riehle, ph: +49 172 184 8755, web: http://www.riehle.org
Interested in wiki research? Please see http://www.wikisym.org!
At 10.01.2006, phoebe ayers wrote:
>Researchers, I have a meta-research question :)
> does anyone know if a list of techniques for
>researching wikis (both qualitatively and
>quantitatively) has been collected anywhere? I'm
>envisioning an annotated bibliography format of
>research techniques and the various studies that
>have used them to date, though other formats
>would be possible. I haven't seen such a
>compilation anywhere and was thinking of putting
>one together (realizing that it's an ambitious
>project!) Have any of you done such a thing
>already, know if it's been done already, or have
>thoughts about such a project? cheers, phoebe
>_______________________________________________
>Wiki-research-l mailing list
>Wiki-research-l(a)Wikimedia.org
>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Researchers,
I have a meta-research question :) … does anyone know if a list of
techniques for researching wikis (both qualitatively and
quantitatively) has been collected anywhere? I'm envisioning an
annotated bibliography format of research techniques and the various
studies that have used them to date, though other formats would be
possible. I haven't seen such a compilation anywhere and was thinking
of putting one together (realizing that it's an ambitious project!)
Have any of you done such a thing already, know if it's been done
already, or have thoughts about such a project?
cheers,
phoebe
Possible publication opportunity for someone.... Here is the list of
topics that they are considering:
http://www.2100books.com/Enc_Topics.htm (see esp. "networks as
communities"). I'd be willing to work with others to write an article
but the deadline is soon.
- phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maria Manuela Cunha <mcunha(a)ipca.pt>
Date: Jan 1, 2006 1:36 PM
Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline reminder *** Encyclopedia of Networked and
Virtual Organizations *** Call for Contributions ***
To: asis-l(a)asis.org
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
(to be published by Idea Group Reference - http://www.idea-group-ref.com)
CALL FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Submission of proposals for encyclopedia entries: January 15, 2006
Editors: Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cunha
(http://www.2100books.com)
**********************************************************************
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to invite you and your research colleagues to contribute to
the "Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations", within your field
of expertise related with the encyclopedia topics.
This represents a unique opportunity to present your results and
interpretations to the widest public, and the unique opportunity for readers
to find in one place all proposals, approaches and solutions, including
yours, in order to creatively and competitively apply them to improve.
You are invited to submit a one-page proposal on or before January 15, 2006,
for each one of the encyclopedia entries you are willing to submit, which
will be under the format of (1) short articles explaining concepts,
definitions, models, applications (2,500 to 4,000 words), (2) short articles
about research/ development/ implementation projects (2,500 to 4,000 words),
(3) short write-ups or descriptions of applications and software (800 to
1,000 words), (4) in-depth description of key terms and concepts related to
networked and virtual organizations and (5) information on knowledge and
practice resources such as web resources, organizations, associations,
publications and other.
Please visit the project Webpage at http://www.2100books.com, where you can
find detailed information about this project, namely a detailed Call for
Entries (http://www.2100books.com/Encyclopedia.htm).
This encyclopedia is scheduled for publishing by Idea Group Reference
(http://www.idea-group-ref.com), an imprint of Idea Group Inc., on the first
half of 2007.
For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the editors
( encyclopedia(a)2100books.com).
Best wishes for 2006.
Kind regards,
The editors,
Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cunha
Goran D. Putnik (putnikgd(a)dps.uminho.pt )
University of Minho
Department of Production and Systems Engineering
4800-058 Guimarães
Portugal
Maria Manuela Cunha (mcunha(a)ipca.pt)
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave
Higher School of Technology
Urbanização Quinta da Formiga
4750 Barcelos
Portugal
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- phoebe s. ayers
"out of the clubs and into the libraries" since 2001
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/12811910@N00/31531217/)
*** Apology for multiple cross-postings ***
========================================================
First Call for Papers STICA06
1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative
Applications STICA06
at the
15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures
for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006) The University of Manchester,
Manchester, U.K. (26th-28th June 2006)
http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06
==========================================================
MOTIVATION
==================
With distributed information systems and the Internet continually increasing
in significance, collaboratively creating and managing information has
become an essential requirement for the success of (virtual) organizations.
This situation has led to a plethora of platforms supporting cooperation as
well as joint information access among geographically dispersed user
communities that have emerged in the last decades: collaborative information
spaces, tele-cooperation, autonomous agents or, more recently, various
Web-related forms of communication and cooperation such as discussion
forums, community portals, Wikis and blogs.
A fundamental requirement for an effective collaboration is the availability
of technologies and tools which provide an explicit and unambiguous
representation of the shared information and a feasible management of such
semantics-enhanced information repositories. The emergence of the Semantic
Web has marked an important stage in the evolution of semantic
technologies. In this context the knowledge components i.e. ontologies are
formalized using Web-suitable, but in the same time semantically unambiguous
representation languages, are accessible and can be shared and reused across
the World Wide Web.
The Semantic Web offers new opportunities for the next generation of
collaborative applications: it provides us with novel means to classify
information items i.e. by means of ontologies which formally represent the
consensual understanding of the application users w.r.t. a particular domain
of interest. Taking advantage of this technology, the first promising
implementations of Semantic Web-based collaboration platforms such as
Semantic Web portals, semantic Wikis and blogs, to name only a few, have
been proposed.
This workshop aims at contributing to this young application field by
providing a forum for practitioners and researchers to present innovative
approaches to applying Semantic Web technologies in collaborative
environments and to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to this
topic.
OBJECTIVES
================
The primary objective of this workshop is to gather researchers and
practitioners working in different emerging aspects of semantics-enabled
collaboration, ranging from discovering new application scenarios, proposing
new methods to apply Semantic Web and related emerging technologies to
current environments, pointing out issues that still need to be solved, and
reporting results and experiences gained during the deployment of
collaborative methods and the realization of support systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
=================
We invite original academic and industry contributions which report on
issues related to semantic collaboration.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-- Methodologies for collaboratively creating and managing
shared information
-- Collaborative ontology engineering
-- Semantic collaboration applications
-- Collaborative Semantic Web portals
-- Semantic community support systems
-- Semantic Wikis
-- Semantic Blogging
-- Semantic Mindmapping and Conceptmapping
-- Case studies, lessons learned and experience reports on
semantics-aware collaborative applications
-- Studies on the value added to collaboration by semantic
technologies
-- Future research directions in the area of semantic
collaboration
ORGANIZERS
=================
Robert Tolksdorf, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Klaus Schild
Freie Universität Berlin
AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme
Takustr. 9
D-14195 Berlin
Germany
{tolk|paslaru|schild}(a)inf.fu-berlin.de
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
==================
Submission of papers will take place electronically. Detailed submission
instructions will be announced on the homepage of the workshop at
http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06.
The papers should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 6 pages
in IEEE format (this will also be the page limit for the proceedings).
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people.
The accepted papers and the summary report on the workshop will be published
in the post-conference proceedings and directly mailed to the registered
authors by the IEEE Computer Press after the conference. Please note that in
order for an accepted paper to be published in the conference proceedings at
least one of its authors is required to register and present the paper at
WETICE-2006.
IMPORTANT DATES
==================
Deadline for paper submission: February 10, 2006
Decision to paper authors: April 7, 2006
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: May 12, 2006
WETICE-2006 Workshops and On-site registration: June 26-28, 2006
------------------------------------------------------
Dipl. -Inform. Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl
Netzbasierte Informationssysteme
Institut für Informatik
Freie Universität Berlin
paslaru(a)inf.fu-berlin.de
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The below has been forwarded to me; I post it for those interested.
[Begin]
First Call for Papers STICA06
1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative
Applications STICA06
at the
15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures
for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006) The University of Manchester,
Manchester, U.K. (26th-28th June 2006)
http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06
==========================================================
MOTIVATION
==================
With distributed information systems and the Internet continually increasing
in significance, collaboratively creating and managing information has
become an essential requirement for the success of (virtual) organizations.
This situation has led to a plethora of platforms supporting cooperation as
well as joint information access among geographically dispersed user
communities that have emerged in the last decades: collaborative information
spaces, tele-cooperation, autonomous agents or, more recently, various
Web-related forms of communication and cooperation such as discussion
forums, community portals, Wikis and blogs.
A fundamental requirement for an effective collaboration is the availability
of technologies and tools which provide an explicit and unambiguous
representation of the shared information and a feasible management of such
semantics-enhanced information repositories. The emergence of the Semantic
Web has marked an important stage in the evolution of semantic
technologies. In this context the knowledge components i.e. ontologies are
formalized using Web-suitable, but in the same time semantically unambiguous
representation languages, are accessible and can be shared and reused across
the World Wide Web.
The Semantic Web offers new opportunities for the next generation of
collaborative applications: it provides us with novel means to classify
information items i.e. by means of ontologies which formally represent the
consensual understanding of the application users w.r.t. a particular domain
of interest. Taking advantage of this technology, the first promising
implementations of Semantic Web-based collaboration platforms such as
Semantic Web portals, semantic Wikis and blogs, to name only a few, have
been proposed.
This workshop aims at contributing to this young application field by
providing a forum for practitioners and researchers to present innovative
approaches to applying Semantic Web technologies in collaborative
environments and to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to this
topic.
OBJECTIVES
================
The primary objective of this workshop is to gather researchers and
practitioners working in different emerging aspects of semantics-enabled
collaboration, ranging from discovering new application scenarios, proposing
new methods to apply Semantic Web and related emerging technologies to
current environments, pointing out issues that still need to be solved, and
reporting results and experiences gained during the deployment of
collaborative methods and the realization of support systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
=================
We invite original academic and industry contributions which report on
issues related to semantic collaboration.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-- Methodologies for collaboratively creating and managing
shared information
-- Collaborative ontology engineering
-- Semantic collaboration applications
-- Collaborative Semantic Web portals
-- Semantic community support systems
-- Semantic Wikis
-- Semantic Blogging
-- Semantic Mindmapping and Conceptmapping
-- Case studies, lessons learned and experience reports on
semantics-aware collaborative applications
-- Studies on the value added to collaboration by semantic
technologies
-- Future research directions in the area of semantic
collaboration
ORGANIZERS
=================
Robert Tolksdorf, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Klaus Schild
Freie Universität Berlin
AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme
Takustr. 9
D-14195 Berlin
Germany
{tolk|paslaru|schild}(a)inf.fu-berlin.de
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
==================
Submission of papers will take place electronically. Detailed submission
instructions will be announced on the homepage of the workshop at
http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06.
The papers should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 6 pages
in IEEE format (this will also be the page limit for the proceedings).
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people.
The accepted papers and the summary report on the workshop will be published
in the post-conference proceedings and directly mailed to the registered
authors by the IEEE Computer Press after the conference. Please note that in
order for an accepted paper to be published in the conference proceedings at
least one of its authors is required to register and present the paper at
WETICE-2006.
IMPORTANT DATES
==================
Deadline for paper submission: February 10, 2006
Decision to paper authors: April 7, 2006
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: May 12, 2006
WETICE-2006 Workshops and On-site registration: June 26-28, 2006
[End]
Hope that this is of interest to some of you.
Yours sincerely,
- --
James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail : james(a)jdforrester.org
IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester(a)hotmail.com
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Hi,
on http://fftw.org/~stevenj/Nature-reviews.doc, there is now a Microsoft
Word document describing the "errors" (in a broader sense) found by the
reviewing persons.
With this list, it is now much easier to deal with these articles. Note
that the kind of "error" varies from minor factual errors (wrong year)
to some kind of overall criticism (wrong proportions for competing
theories).
However, it should be possible to bring the number of "errors" in those
42 articles down to a much lower number (...and we can introduce brand
new ones, yeah!).
Thanks for helping out.
The folks at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_peer_review/Nature_December…
will be thankful for your efforts in this matter.
At de.wikipedia, I am preparing an FAQ about this review, you might want
to join or do something in your own language. There was way too much
misinterpretation done by the press (mostly "in favour" of wikipedia,
which is not a good thing).
Mathias