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xml dumps of Czech wikis?
by ABEL SERRANO JUSTE 17 May '19

17 May '19

Hi! I'm here at the wikimedia hackathon happening in Prague and I was looking for the XML dumps of the Czech wikimedia wikis, for instance the Czech wikipedia, but I can't see any at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html. Where could I get them? -- Regards, *Abel Serrano Juste.*

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Research showcase for May
by Pine W 14 May '19

14 May '19

Hello Research-l, Does anyone know whether there will be a Wikimedia Research Showcase this month? I think that these are usually scheduled for 3rd Wednesdays. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Propose a Community Growth session at Wikimania before June 1!
by Jonathan Morgan 13 May '19

13 May '19

Hello, The Community Growth <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Community_Growth> space at Wikimania 2019 is now accepting submissions! The deadline for submission <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions> is June 1. See below for submission topics and session formats. In the Community Growth space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions: - What is and is not working around attracting and retaining newcomers? - How should Wikimedia activities evolve to help communities grow and flourish? - How should our technology and culture evolve to help new populations to come online, participate and become community members? *Recommended topics. *While proposals related to all aspects of community growth and newcomer experience are welcome, organizing team is particularly interested in proposals related to: - Research on recruitment, activation and retention. - Technological approaches - On- and off-wiki engagement strategies - Supporting diversity and cross-cultural newcomer experiences - Lessons learned from beyond Wikimedia, and - The future of newcomers and editing If you are interested in seeing presentations around additional topics, but do not plan to submit a proposal, you can suggest additional topics here <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Community_Growth#Topics_suggested…>. *Types of session.* We prefer sessions that are participatory, interactive, promote conversations, and give a voice to parts of our movement that are heard less often. We welcome the following session formats: - Roundtable discussion - Panel discussion - Lightning talk - Working session - Teaching session - Conference presentation *Poster submissions.* Posters are also a good way to introduce a topic, or show some results of an action. Please consider submitting one <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Poster_session>! More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available on the proposal page <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Community_Growth>. Sincerely, Jonathan Morgan On behalf of the Community Growth leadership team -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>

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Propose a session about Research for Wikimania 2019!
by Benj. Mako Hill 10 May '19

10 May '19

Greetings You might have already seen an announcement for Wikimania (the Wikipedia and Wikimedia's community annual conference). It will be hosted in Stockholm this year on August 14-18. This year the conference is broken down into a series of tracks called "spaces." Along with Leila Zia from WMF, I'm helping running a space focused on research. We're interested in talks about research (or about how to do research) on Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, and open collaboration more broadly. I've attached a call for proposals for the Research Space below. The conference is a great way to connect both with other researchers and with the Wikipedia and Wikimedia communities of contributors and leaders. Submit a proposal! Regards, Mako Call for Sessions Proposals about Research @ Wikimania 2019 =========================================================== Wikimania: The Conference of the Wikipedia and Wikimedia Community Stockholm, Sweden | August 14-18, 2019 Submission Deadline: June 1, 2019 Research Space website: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Research General Conference website: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/ About the Conference & Research Space ------------------------------------- Wikimania is the annual conference of the Wikimedia community. In 2019, Wikimedia is being managed as a series of largely independent "spaces" (similar to tracks). This call for papers is only for the Research Space. The Research Space will host talks that showcase research of interest to the broader Wikimedia community as well as tutorials focused on helping people do research in Wikipedia. We are particularly interested in submissions that aim to: - Present actionable research projects by people conducting research on Wikimedia projects and in adjacent spaces (either completed or in-progress); - Provide tutorials to help Wikimedians and researchers learn to use a series of useful tools for collecting and analyzing data from Wikimedia projects; - Provide a space to discuss issues related to doing research in Wikimedia projects. Proposing a Session ------------------- The research space is actively encouraging submissions for three types of sessions: - Presentations of Research - Tutorials - Research Lightning Talks We encourage submissions from researchers studying Wikimedia projects, researchers studying adjacent projects (e.g., peer production projects like OSM, etc), Wikimedia community members, and members of the WMF research team. We are particularly interested in work that touches on issues related to the UNDP SDGs (e.g., quality education, reduced inequalities, industry innovation and infrastructure). Wikimania is a community conference. We will not be publishing a proceedings. We welcome presentation of either completed or in-progress work. The research space welcomes submissions on any topic related to Wikimedia research. Examples of topics we would welcome include: - Participation in Wikimedia communities - Group Dynamics and Organization in Wikipedia and related projects - Readership/Engagement on Wikipedia and related projects - Technical Infrastructure and Design in Wikimedia projects - Evaluating Content of Wikimedia projects - Knowledge Diffusion, Outreach, and work that seeks to generalize beyond Wikimedia projects We also welcome submissions on these or other topics in "adjacent spaces" including free culture, free software, open hardware, open knowledge, and so on. Submissions are due on June 1, 2019. Conference Organization and Questions ----------------------------------------------------- The Research Space leaders are: - Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) — makohill(a)uw.edu - Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation) — leila(a)wikimedia.org All questions about submissions should be emailed to space leader or a message can be asked publicly on the public Research Space discussion page which is available at the link above. -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto

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CICM 2019: Joint Call for Workshop Papers (OpenMath, LML, GVMM, FVPS), Doctoral Programme Submissions & Participation
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 09 May '19

09 May '19

Joint Call for Workshops Papers (OpenMath, LML, GVMM, FVPS) Doctoral Programme Submissions Participation 12th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2019 - July 8-12, 2019 CIIRC, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.cicm-conference.org/2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. In addition to the main tracks, CICM 2019 will host the Exploring the Mizar Library tutorial and 4 workshops: Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians (FMM), Formal Verification of Physical Systems (FVPS), Large Mathematical Libraries (LML), 30th OpenMath Workshop. This is a call for submissions and participation to the - 30th OpenMath Workshop - Large Mathematics Libraries Workshop (LML 2019) - 4th workshop on Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians (FVMM 2019) - 2nd Workshop on Formal Verification of Physical Systems (FVPS 2019) - CICM doctoral programm track More details about workshops and the doctoral programm are available from their webpages on the CICM website https://www.cicm-conference.org/2019 * Submissions Deadlines * - OpenMath 2019 continuous until July 1, 2019 - LML 2019 May 13, 2019 - FVMM 2019 May 13, 2019 - FVPS 2019 May 24, 2019 - CICM doctoral programm track May 15, 2019 * Registration * Registration to CICM 2019 and the workshops is open at the CICM website or directly at https://www.cicm-conference.org/2019/cicm.php?event=&menu=registration

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Content similarity between two Wikipedia articles
by Haifeng Zhang 07 May '19

07 May '19

Dear folks, Is there a way to compute content similarity between two Wikipedia articles? For example, I can think of representing each article as a vector of likelihoods over possible topics. But, I wonder there are other work people have already explored in the past. Thanks, Haifeng

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CfP AMAR 2019: 1st International Workshop on Approaches for Making Data Interoperable (AMAR 2019)
by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee 03 May '19

03 May '19

Call For Papers 1st International Workshop on Approaches for Making Data Interoperable (AMAR 2019) https://events.tib.eu/amar2019/ co-located with SEMANTiCS 2019 September 09 – 12, 2019 Karlsruhe, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Overview ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Recently, there has been a rapid growth in the amount of data available on the Web. Data is produced by different communities working in a wide range of domains, using several techniques. This way a large volume of data in different formats and languages is generated. Accessibility of such heterogeneous and multilingual data becomes an obstacle for reuse due to the incompatibility of data formats and the language gap. This incompatibility of data formats impedes the accessibility of data sources to the right community. For instance, most of open domain question answering systems are developed to be effective when data is represented in RDF. They can not operate with data in the very common CSV files or presented in unstructured formats. Usually, the data they draw from is in English rendering them unable to answer questions e.g. in Spanish. On the other hand, NLP applications in Spanish cannot make use of a knowledge graph in English. Different communities have different requirements in terms of data representation and modeling. It is crucial to make the data interoperable to make it accessible for a variety of applications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We invite paper submissions from two communities: (i) data consumers and (ii) data providers. This includes practitioners, such as data scientists, that have experience in fitting the data available to their use case; Semantic Web researchers, that have been investigating data reuse from heterogeneous data in tools; researchers in the field of data linking and translation; and other researchers working on the general field of data integration. We invite submissions from the following communities: - Data Integration - Multilingual Data - Data Linking - Ontology and Knowledge Engineering We welcome original contributions about all topics related to data interoperability, including but not limited to: - Approaches to convert data between formats, languages, and schema - Best practices for processing heterogeneous data - Translation of different language data - Cross-lingual applications - Recommendations for language modeling in linked data - Labeling of data with natural language information - Datasets for different communities’ data needs - Tools reusing different data formats - Converting datasets between different formats - Applications in different domains, e.g., Life Sciences, Scholarly, Industry 4.0, Humanities ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Author Instructions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission this workshop will be via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amar2019). The papers should follow the Springer LNCS format, and be submitted in PDF on or before July 9, 2019 (midnight Hawaii time). We accept papers of the following formats: - Full research papers (8 - 12 pages) - Short research papers (3 - 5 pages) - Position papers (6 - 8 pages) - Resource papers (8 - 12 pages, including the publication of the dataset) - In-Use papers (6 - 8 pages) Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings. We target the creation of a special issue including the best papers of the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission: July 9, 2019 Notification: July 30, 2019 Workshop: September 9, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Organizers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, University of Southampton, UK & TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany Kemele M. Endris, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and L3S Research Centre University of Hannover, Germany Maria-Esther Vidal, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and and L3S Research Centre University of Hannover, Germany Please contact us, if you have any questions. -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton

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Analysis into active user stats
by RhinosF1 Wikipedia 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi all, As you maybe aware, Over the last 3 weeks, I've been looking into the accuracy of active user statistics on English Wikipedia. I haven't had a chance to upload the final results to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RhinosF1/activeuser but I have completed the gathering of statistics and have attached a .pdf of the results to this email. I've found it interesting how there is a sudden drop in the number of active users although I half expected this and intended to find it although I want to look deeper. I'd like too see whether this is down to blocks or just not continuing and asses whether time requirements or edit requirements have bigger impact. I look forward to any feedback and help in the research. The plan for the next stages are as follows: 1. About 10-14 days for people getting this email to respond. 2. Run the new list of queries for about 2-3 week to gather some data to show 3. Show the data to enwiki users and ask for feedback / help collecting data 4. Present results in 2-3 months time. 5. Gather wide feedback on results 6. Maybe take action to improve it if we can see what action needs doing As you will see most of the data is from around 9pm UTC so in future stages I would appreciate data collection from a larger range of times. Thanks in advance, RhinosF1

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Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
by 80hnhtv4agou＠bk.ru 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Is in Chicago this week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Unmanned_Vehicle_Systems_Inte… This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article needs additional citations for verification . ( April 2012 ) This article contains content that is written like an advertisement . ( April 2012 ) and it is FREE @; https://xponential.mylibralounge.com/regeng/xponential2019/attendee/en/Regi… "Co-located Event ONLY"

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Ways thru which articles could attract editors
by Haifeng Zhang 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Dear folks, I wonder what are those mechanisms/events (in Wikipedia or WikiProjects) which may attract editors to improve article quality. One example is Today's articles for improvement. Within WikipProjects, GA/FA nominations seem useful too. Thanks, Haifeng Zhang

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