Colleagues,
I'm wondering if anyone else might be interested in trying to ramp-up the
activity of the Research Network? More discussion of results, research
ideas, methodologies, log manipulation, collaborative work, script
sharing, visualization techniques, funding, etc?
I'm not sure exactly how to make this happen but thought that it might
make a good topic itself. I'm wondering who might be coming to Boston? I'd
be willing to buy the beer if we'd like to try to get together.
Kevin
Kevin J. Gamble. Ph.D.
Associate Director eXtension Initiative
North Carolina State University
Jabber/XMMP: kjgamble(a)chat.extension.org
Web: about.extension.org
Blog: it.extension.org/kevin
Hi,
one and a half month ago I started an online survey "Wikis in
Unternehmen" (Wikis in Enterprises) in German language. Until today more
than 200 people took the German survey but I was often asked to
translate it to English to open it up to an international audience.
I needed some time (my english is awfull...), but it is done now: the
English online survey "Wikis in Enterprises" can be found here:
http://wikipedistik.de/survey/
This survey is part of the study "Wikis in Enterprises" by the
Department of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management of the
University of Cologne. I'm writing my diploma thesis about this subject.
The survey adresses enterprises of any size and also enterprises not
using a wiki. It is held short on purpose and answering it will take
only 5-10 minutes at most.
Aim of the survey "Wikis in Enterprises" is the examination of the
factors which work in favor or disfavor for the use of wikis in
enterprises. These factors can for example be the affiliation to a
business sector, the size of an enterprise, the listing or the
outsourcing of IT activities. Dependencies between these factors may
also lead to interesting conclusions.
Why should you participate?
* The survey is answered in only a few minutes.
* Only with a large group of participants a big data pool can be
generated which allows valid results and cognitions and recommendations.
* The participans get noticed about the results.
* You support "Wikimetrics"...
Thank you!
Feel free to blog it :-)
The German survey was named in two printed magazines, but most
participants came through the blogosphere.
Bye, Tim 'avatar' Bartel.
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Hi,
In Germany the first scientific book about Wikipedia has been published:
Frost, Ingo: Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in virtuellen
Gemeinschaften. Eine systemwissenschaftliche Analyse des
deutschsprachigen Wikipedia-Projektes. München: Herbert Utz Verlag,
2006. 152 S., € 29,00. ISBN 3-8316-0609-9
It's the diploma thesis of Ingo Frost, accesible at
http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~ifrost/
an english abstract is at
http://www-lehre.inf.uos.de/~ifrost/offiziell/engl_abstract.html
Wikimedia Germany has supported the printing.
More scientifc works of Wikipedia research can be found at
http://bibliography.wikimedia.de/
And it's getting more with Wikimania and WikiSym conferences in August.
According to his weblog Andrew Lih is writing a book about Wikipedia so
you will also get a book in English, but we were the first, afaik ;-)
Greetings,
Jakob
Hi,
The program of WikiSym (2006 International Symposium on Wikis) at August
21th-23th in Odense, Denmark is published:
http://ws2006.wikisym.org/space/Symposium+Program
Not all abstracts are uploaded yet, but the names and titles promise an
interesting, constructive meeting of Wiki researchers. Angela will give
a general talk on Wikipedia and I'll do a workshop on Wikipedia
research, based on a review of the Wiki Research bibliography - so I
would be glad to meet you in Odense! If you think about participating in
the Workshop on Wikipedia Research please add yourself here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_on_Wikipedia_Research%2C_WikiSym_20…
The Workshop on Wiki Markup Standard is also relevant for Wikmedia if we
want to make our content more shareable - I'd like to see Brion there,
maybe the Foundation can send him?
At this year's Wikimania, there will also be a research event, but it
seems not to be decided yet:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program/Research_thingy
I've seen that Fernanda Viegas will speak at both Wikimania and WikiSym,
and Semantic MediaWiki (which is really great by the way, I hope to get
it into Wikipedia soon!) will also be presentated at both conferences.
So there is some overlap, but in general WikiSym seems to be more
scientific orientated - I you are more lucky than me then just come to
both events! For WikiSym you should register until June 19th (in 10
days!) because its cheaper until this date!
Greetings and see you in Odense,
Jakob
I think this was intended for wiki-research-l(a)wikimedia.org...
See also the many replies already in the wikitech-l archives, starting with
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-June/036044.html.
Jeremy
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Some statistics I wish I had...
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>,
wiki-research-l(a)wikia.com, Wikimedia developers
<wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org>
(Sorry for the cross posting, but there are several groups who might
find this interesting.)
For years now, it has been common for people to claim that "all the good
editors are jumping ship" or "we are losing our best people".
Generally, this has not proven to be true: people come and go, to be
sure, but as some people drift away, others have drifted in. Whether
the rate of burnout is "too high" or "too low" or "just right" is quite
hard to say.
However, it ought to be possible to at least quantify what that rate
actually is, by using the Erik Zachte statistics or a modification of them.
I would be fascinated if we could figure out such statistics as
"For any given edit, what is the average length of service of the
editor?" "For any given edit, what is the median length of service of
the editor?" These could be measured by either time since first edit,
or total number of edits or (perhaps best) some weighted average of the
edit history.
It would be nice to track that number over time... are we becoming
"younger" as a community, "older" as a community? Staying about the
same? Are old-timers sticking around longer than they used to, or
jumping ship faster?
There are also a whole set of related questions around newbies:
Are newbies more likely to stick around, or less likely to stick around,
than they were a year ago. Some people feel we are being overrun by
newbies, others feel that we are becoming a more closed and cliqueish
community which does not welcome newbies.
I would measure this by saying "Of people who made at least 100 edits a
month ago, how many of them made at least 100 edits this month". And
similar stats for "at least 10 edits". (Merely looking at "new
accounts" would not be right, because we had a huge spike in new account
creation when it became necessary to have an account to create a new page.)
--Jimbo
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Hi,
There is an interesting discussion on wikitech-l about statistics. Tim
has already generated some data - I collected the graphs at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Days_since_first_edit
and wrote something about it in my blog at
http://wm.sieheauch.de/?p=44
Because there still seem to be people that are not aware of the steep
distribution of activity per contributor: It's confirms [[Lotka's Law]]
- at least for the majority of contributors - a power law in the form
"contributors * edits^1.5 = constant" (see page 56f. in my masters
thesis [1]).
Greetings,
Jakob
[1] http://jakobvoss.de/magisterarbeit/MagisterarbeitJakobVoss.pdf (in
German)
Sorry if this has gone out before... I got it from a librarians
mailing list. Interesting! What do you all think? It's like what
Nature did, only ad-hoc. There's no contact information for the
original survey developer, which is a little odd...
-- phoebe/brassratgirl
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From: "Carla Wilson Buss" <cbuss(a)UGA.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:26 AM
Subject: Fw: Wikipedia quality survey
> Hello LIBREFers!
> A Comp Sci colleague of mine has developed a survey to measure the quality
> of Wikipedia. Would you please take a moment to fill it out? It's short -
> 4
> minutes at most. Thanks for participating!
> Survey URL:
> http://express.perseus.com/perseus/surveys/1734848031/1e78143f.htm
>
> -- Caroline<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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> Caroline Bordinaro, MLIS
> Library Instruction and Information Literacy Coordinator
> University Library
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> cbordinaro(a)csudh.edu
> 310-243-2084
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> Caroline Bordinaro
> tenorclef(a)netzero.net
>
Dear conference committee members
(especially Helmut, Sunir and Kouichirou, since you're the Publicity
People)
Could you please post our CFP out to as many people (who just might be
interested) as humanly possible?
I have already started sending this out to the following mailing
lists:
announcements(a)oopsla.acm.org
ecoop-info(a)ecoop.org
chi-announcements(a)listserv.acm.org
seworld(a)cs.colorado.edu
SIGWEB mailing list
semantic-web(a)w3.org
but it is really important for potential authors (and thus, the most
likely potential attendees) to see the CFP from as many different
directions as possible - and ideally from people they know and whose
judgement they trust. This means you!
I think three weeks out from the deadline gives people enough time to
decide to write a paper, and to get something in - so please, do
encourage your friends, colleagues (and strangers you meet in dark
alleys - says Dirk!) to consider submitting to WikiSym; or even
consider submitting yourself.
but for now, the most important thing is to distribute this CFP.
thanks (in adavnce) for your help.
cheers
James Noble,
programme chair WikiSym 2006
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). For additional 2006 program information,
including confirmed speakers Angela Beesley, Doug Engelbart, Mark
Bernstein, and Ward Cunningham please see the main page
(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, Wikimedia Foundation, 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 Desilet, 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 Universitat Berlin, Germany