Dear all,
due to several requests we decided to extend the deadlines for the R&I
track.
The new dates are as follows:
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 05, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time
- originally March 22)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time -
originally March 29)
Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
For details please go to: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
Stay tuned and stay safe!
With kind regards,
Mehwish Alam & Paul Groth
-- R&I Track Chairs --
In this showcase, Prof. Danielle Bassett will present recent work studying
individual and collective curiosity as network building processes using
Wikipedia.
Date/Time: March 17, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/17:30pm CET)
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw2s_Y4J2tI
Speaker: Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: The curious human
Abstract: The human mind is curious. It is strange, remarkable, and
mystifying; it is eager, probing, questioning. Despite its pervasiveness
and its relevance for our well-being, scientific studies of human curiosity
that bridge both the organ of curiosity and the object of curiosity remain
in their infancy. In this talk, I will integrate historical, philosophical,
and psychological perspectives with techniques from applied mathematics and
statistical physics to study individual and collective curiosity. In the
former, I will evaluate how humans walk on the knowledge network of
Wikipedia during unconstrained browsing. In doing so, we will capture
idiosyncratic forms of curiosity that span multiple millennia, cultures,
languages, and timescales. In the latter, I will consider the fruition of
collective curiosity in the building of scientific knowledge as encoded in
Wikipedia. Throughout, I will make a case for the position that individual
and collective curiosity are both network building processes, providing a
connective counterpoint to the common acquisitional account of curiosity in
humans.
Related papers:
Hunters, busybodies, and the knowledge network building associated with
curiosity. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/undy4
The network structure of scientific revolutions.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08381https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#March_2021
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Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear All,We are reaching out to share that we have proposed a project - A study on analysis of leadership wrt Gender and its impact on projects, individual and community growth in India. We will be studying the gender gap in the leadership positions in Indian Wikimedia communities and its impact on participation, performance, and retention of editors.
Please find the details here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Research_Grant/A_study_on_an….
If you like the project, please show your support to us by endorsing us. Thank you,
Regards,Praveen Kumar YadavAssistant Professor,Cochin University of Science & Technology,Kochi, Kerala - 682022
Hi,
We are reaching out to share that we have proposed a project - Designing a
template for a sustainable education program. In the proposed program, we
will study the previously organized education programs, their outcomes,
challenges, and issues. We will also design and practice a methodology on a
structured and governed education program to observe the difference in
engagement and outcome. As a final outcome, we expect to create and share a
template for a sustainable education program in India.
Please find more details here-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Research_%26_Engagement_Proj…
If you like the project, please show your support by endorsing us.
Regards,
Febin
Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme
14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2021 -
July 26-31, 2021
Timisoara, Romania
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2021
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information.
CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed
theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such
as computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces.
It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of
these areas and their integration.
CICM 2021 Invited Speakers:
Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT)
Michael Kohlhase (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Laura Kovacs (TU Vienna, Austria)
Angus McIntyre (London/Edinburgh, UK)
CICM 2021 Programme committee:
see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
CICM 2021 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent
computer mathematics, in particular but not limited to
* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries
CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this
area and invites submissions of different forms:
1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers
will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present
novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography)
summarize existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including
references) present digital artifacts
* system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template)
provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new
release of an existent tool
2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and
selected for presentation based on their relevance for the
community.
* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project
announcements, position statements, etc.
* posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special
sessions
3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students with a forum to
present early results and receive constructive feedback and
mentoring.
*** Important Dates ***
- Abstract deadline: As soon as possible before the fullpaper submission deadline.
- Full paper deadline: March 26
- Reviews sent to authors: May 4
- Rebuttals due: May 8
- Notification of acceptance: May 13
- Camera-ready copies due: May 29
- Conference: July 26-31
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
- Submission deadline: May 15
- Notification of acceptance: June 1
All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2021
As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2021 proceedings with
Springer LNCS.
For the LNCS style files, see:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours on 2021-03-16 at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/5pm CET).
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are
welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
-
You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin (WMF Research Team)
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
--
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear All,
I am User:Hydriz on Wikimedia wikis and I am working on a grant
proposal to facilitate browsing and downloading of Wikimedia datasets
(including the database dumps as well as other datasets). It is a
proposed rewrite of the existing system which focused primarily on
archiving the datasets to the Internet Archive. [1]
My proposal aims to modernize the software used for automatically
archiving datasets to the Internet Archive. More importantly, it aims
to put researchers and downloaders first, by providing both a
human-readable and a machine-readable interface for browsing and
downloading datasets, whether present or historical. I also intend to
integrate a "watchlist" feature that can automatically notify users
when new datasets are available.
Please do express your support for this proposal and help make this
project a reality. Thank you!
Warmest regards.
Hydriz Scholz
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hydriz/Balchivist_2.0
Thank you for your question.
The datasets are intended to be retained forever, as researchers may
want access to historical data. If any removal is necessary for
compliance with local and international laws, it will be primarily
handled by the Internet Archive, as they are the ones storing the
data.
Warmest regards,
Hydriz Scholz
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 13:59, colin johnston <colinj(a)gt86car.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Are you going to implement retention times for data sets and removal of data info under gdpr order when asked ?
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> > On 15 Mar 2021, at 01:59, Hydriz Scholz <hydriz(a)jorked.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am User:Hydriz on Wikimedia wikis and I am working on a grant
> > proposal to facilitate browsing and downloading of Wikimedia datasets
> > (including the database dumps as well as other datasets). It is a
> > proposed rewrite of the existing system which focused primarily on
> > archiving the datasets to the Internet Archive. [1]
> >
> > My proposal aims to modernize the software used for automatically
> > archiving datasets to the Internet Archive. More importantly, it aims
> > to put researchers and downloaders first, by providing both a
> > human-readable and a machine-readable interface for browsing and
> > downloading datasets, whether present or historical. I also intend to
> > integrate a "watchlist" feature that can automatically notify users
> > when new datasets are available.
> >
> > Please do express your support for this proposal and help make this
> > project a reality. Thank you!
> >
> > Warmest regards.
> > Hydriz Scholz
> >
> > [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hydriz/Balchivist_2.0
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Xmldatadumps-l mailing list
> > Xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l
--
Hydriz Scholz
Hi all,
Thank you for your interest in the 2020 Wiki Comparison <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhz…> dataset. We received questions regarding the differences between Wiki Comparison and the monthly Wikimedia Movement Metrics that our team also publishes[1]. After investigation, we found that they were due to:
A bug affecting editor counts, which was present in the published dataset for 4 days and has been corrected
Differences between metric definitions
Further details are below.
We hope this is helpful in addressing the differences and their causes, and we apologize for any inconvenience the bug affecting editor counts may have caused. Please feel free to reach out should you have further questions or require further clarification.
Bug affecting editor counts
Five months of editor data were double counted, resulting in inflated numbers in three metrics: monthly editors, monthly active editors, and monthly new active editors (Column H, I, L in datasheet ‘Dec 2020’ <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhz…>), and understated numbers in one metric: unique devices per editor (Column G in datasheet ‘Dec 2020’ <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhz…> ). The datasheet with the issue was published on Feb 22, 2021, and corrected on Feb 26, 2021. During the time when the bug was in place, any data reference to a year-over-year comparison or an absolute number of the four metrics would have been impacted, whereas the trends across wikis within the same year were consistent.
Differences between metric definitions
Unique devices
In Wikimedia Movement Metrics, unique devices are reported for only one project family: Wikipedia. Wiki Comparison contains data across 16 project families.
For the Wikipedia family alone, the total number of unique devices in Wiki Comparison is 25% higher than that in Wikimedia Movement Metrics. This is because the calculations are aggregated by different cookie definitions:
Wikimedia Movement Metrics: unique devices are aggregated based on the last global access cookie across all projects.
Wiki Comparison: unique devices are aggregated based on the last access cookie in one project.
Therefore, adding unique devices of each project together resulting in a 25% higher total in Wiki Comparison than in Product Movement Metrics.
2020 monthly avg
Wikimedia Movement Metrics
Wiki Comparison
Wiki comparison / Wikimedia Movement Metrics
Unique devices (all Wikipedias)
1.65B
2.06B
1.25X
Editors
Total active editors in Wiki Comparison is 1.26x of active editors in Wikimedia Movement Metrics. This is due to the metric definitions and how we count global editors:
Wikimedia Movement Metrics: the number of active editors is the number of registered users who made at least 5 content edits across all projects
Wiki Comparison: the number of active editors is the number of registered users who made at least 5 content edits in that project.
When adding the active editors of each project together into the total in Wiki Comparison, global editors can be counted multiple times if they contributed to multiple wikis. In Wikimedia Movement Metrics, global editors are counted only once no matter how many wikis they contributed to. This results in 26% more active editors in Wiki Comparison if we sum all wikis together.
This difference also applies to new active editors.
2020 monthly avg
Wikimedia Movement Metrics
Wiki Comparison
Wiki comparison / Wikimedia Movement Metrics
Active editors
92378
116202
1.26X
New active editors
19375
20821
1.07X
[1] Wikimedia Movement Metrics are published monthly on Commons; e.g. for December 2020: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:December_2020_Wikimedi… <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:December_2020_Wikimedi…>
Regards,
Jennifer & Kate
Product Analytics <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Analytics>
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Apologies for cross-posting
====
SEMANTiCS - 17th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September
6 - 9, 2021
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/
====
= Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: March 29, 2021 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
= Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem21eu#
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2021 EU are planned to be published by Springer
LNCS & CEUR. All proceedings will be made available open access.
SEMANTiCS 2021 EU particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management, and Deep Semantics
* Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
* Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
* Natural Language Processing
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
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* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
We especially encourage contributions that illustrate the applicability
of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate
the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
== Research and Innovation Track ==
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes papers on novel
scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the
conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must follow the guidelines
given in the author instructions, including references and optional
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who
will judge it based on its innovativeness, appropriateness, and impact
of results in terms of effectiveness at solving real problems.
= Important Dates:
* Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: March 29, 2021 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Reviews will be carried out in a single-blind mode.
Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages and short papers of
6 pages. Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS
format. The detailed Call for Research and Innovation papers is
available here: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
== Posters and Demos Track ==
The Posters and Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in
progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller
contributions in all fields related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data
in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications
with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test
or that are yet in the conceptual phase but are worth discussing, and
also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and
potential research or business partners.
= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 05, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings are planned to be published via CEUR
Workshop Proceedings and should follow the guidelines of the Springer
LNCS format. The detailed Call for Poster and Demos papers is available
online.
== Industry and Use Case Track ==
Focusing strongly on industry needs and ground breaking technology
trends SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal
with semantic processing of data and/or information. A special focus of
Semantics 2019 will be on the convergence of machine learning techniques
and knowledge graphs. Additional topics of interest are Enterprise
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Data
Integration, Linked Data & Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text
Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions should have
a strong focus on real-world applications beyond the prototypical stage
and demonstrate the power of semantic systems!
= Important Dates:
* Presentation Submission Deadline: April 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m.,Hawaii
time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 p.m., Hawaii
time)
* Camera-Ready Presentation: July 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m.,
Hawaii time)
Submit your presentations here:
http://2021-eu.semantics.cc/submission-industry-presentations
== Workshops and Tutorials ==
Workshops and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for
presenting widely recognised contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research and commercial project consortia meetings.
= Important Dates for Workshops:
* Proposals WS Deadline: March 01, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time)
= Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
* Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 07, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii
time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2021 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
== Special Calls ==
Special calls or sub-topics are dedicated towards specific topics that
are of special interest to the SEMANTiCS community. IN case we receive a
sufficient amount of high quality submissions these topics will become
special tracks within the conference program. For 2021 SEMANTiCS
Amsterdam encourages submissions to the following sub-topics:
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
Each sub-topic is managed by a distinct committee and encourages
submissions from the scientific or industrial domain. Scientific
submissions will undergo a thorough review process and will be published
in the conference proceedings in case of acceptance. Industrial
submissions will be evaluated and selected according to the quality
criteria of the industry track. WE are looking forward to your submissions!
== SEMANTiCS 2021 EU Organizing Committee ==
The program committee is announced on the conference website
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/committee
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp