Dear list members,
I am happy to share my new paper which was just published OA in the Journal of Computational Social Science: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-023-00225-8
In this paper, I describe a new dataset which covers (almost) all offline meetings within the German-language version of Wikipedia from its launch in 2001 to March 2020. The dataset is published on OSF: https://osf.io/eha4r/
I would be delighted to see other researchers make use of this dataset - be it for substantial research on the intricacies of Wikipedia (I'm always up for collaborations, too!) or as a neat example dataset for teaching (be it on networks, temporal developments, spatial plotting, or on how to combine and work with small and big data).
A thank you goes out to the Wikimedia Foundation for supporting me with a project grant, and to the editor and reviewers handling the publication (you might well be on this list as well :-))!
Best
Nicole
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, focused on *Rules on Wikipedia*, will be
live-streamed on Wednesday, September 20, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find
your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1695227400>.
YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/h89l9JWZBCU?feature=share
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtube.com/live/h89l9JWZBCU?feature%3…>.
As usual, you can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the
showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Variation and overlap in the peer production of community rules: the case
of five WikipediasBy *Sohyeon Hwang, Northwestern University*
In this talk, I present work analyzing the rules and rule-making on
Wikipedia. The governance of many online communities relies on rules
created by participants. However, work predominantly focuses on efforts
within a single community or on a platform as a whole. Here we investigate
the comparative and relational dimensions of online self-governance in a
set of similar communities by looking at the five largest language editions
of Wikipedia. Using exhaustive trace data spanning almost 20 years since
their founding, we examine patterns in rule-making and overlaps in rule
sets. Our findings show that language editions have similar trajectories of
rule-making activity, replicating and extending a rich body of work that
have focused on English-language Wikipedia alone. We also find that the
language editions have increasingly unique rule sets, even as editing
activity concentrates on rules shared between them. The results suggest
that self-governing communities aligned in key ways may share a common core
of rules and rule-making practices even as they develop and sustain
institutional variations.
Wikipedia Community Policies and Experiential Epistemology: Critical
Information Literacy, Social Justice, and Inclusive PracticesBy *Zachary J.
McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago*Drawing from a meta-analysis of
research on learning outcomes in Wikipedia-based education, this
presentation addresses Wikipedia community policies and practices through
the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education from the
Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL). Wikipedia-based
educational practices, which promote newcomers’ active engagement in the
encyclopedia, have been shown to support experiential learnings in critical
information literacy, communication and research outcomes, and social
justice. Exploring the connections between participation in Wikipedia and
transferable skills for information literacy in the context of the current
new media landscape, this presentation grapples with new questions for the
future of information literacies alongside the implications of large
language models (LLMs), systemic biases, and the representation and
inclusion of non-western and indigenous knowledge sources.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Shshowcase
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>
Best,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
I just want to pass information from my university.
Tidskrift för ABM (TABM) is an e-journal with the aim of publishing
research, reviews, travelogues and notes in the fields of Digital
Humanities, Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museum
and Cultural Heritage Studies. We encourage and support master and PhD
students to publish with us, as well as others in the field. The journal is
run by an editorial board based at the Department of ALM at Uppsala
University. The journal publishes at least one issue a year, in the middle
of December.
You can find more details here <https://journals.uu.se/tabm>.
Best,
Biyanto R.
(biyanto.com)
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surel ini pada akhir pekan atau hari libur.
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Hi,
Thirteen years after I wrote about the emergence of a Wikigeneration gap
between Wikipedia's admins and its editors, I have revisited the topic,
recalculated the gap and published a new signpost article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-15/Speci…
To I expect few people's surprise, the admin cadre is still overwhelmingly
drawn from editors who started editing in Wikipedia's exponential growth
phase (2001-2007), Half from 2003-2005.
WSC
Hello,
I am pleased to share that my small study exploring how/why people engage
with Wikipedia's health information has now been published in First Monday.
This work started in 2021 and is one of the first studies to intentionally
explore user experiences of Wikipedia as a health information resource.
There is much work to be done to learn more.
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12897
Denise Smith
Call for Participation
16th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2023 -
5-8 September 2023 Cambridge (United Kingdom)
(hybrid event)
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2023
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Registration
-------------
Please use the following registration page:
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=registration
Accommodation in Emmanuel College is available.
Accepted papers and Provisional Programme
-----------------------------------
The list of accepted papers is online:
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=accepted
A provisional programme is online:
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=program
Invited speakers
-----------------
* Frederic Blanqui (INRIA): "Progresses on proof systems
interoperability'',
* Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge): "How can we make
trustworthy AI?'',
* Lawrence C. Paulson (University of Cambridge): "Large-Scale Formal
Proof for the Working Mathematician - Lessons learnt from the
Alexandria Project'',
* Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University Linz): "Never trust your
solver: Certificates for SAT and QBF''.
About CICM
-----------
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.
The scope of CICM concerns 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 2023 Programme committee:
see https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
Workshops affiliated to CICM 2023:
----------------------------------
* 31th OpenMath Workshop, organized by James Davenport and Michael Kohlhase,
* 3rd Workshop on Natural Formal Mathematics (NatFoM 2023) organized
by Peter Koepke, Adrian De Lon and Dennis Mueller (also an EuroProofNet
workshop),
* 14th Workshop on Mathematical User Interaction (MathUI 2023), organized
by Abhishek Chugh and Andrea Kohlhase,
* 6th Workshop on Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians (FMM 2023),
organized by Karol Pak.
The EuroProofNet Workshop on Libraries of Formal Proofs and Natural
Mathematical Language, organized by Angeliki Koutsoukou Argyraki and
Claudio Sacerdoti Coen is co-located with CICM 2023.
Local information, travel and accommodation
-------------------------------------------
Please see
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=travel
For any queries about local issues please contact the conference chair
James Davenport <masjhd(a)bath.ac.uk>
Call for Participation
16th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2023 -
5-8 September 2023 Cambridge (United Kingdom)
(hybrid event)
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2023
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Registration
-------------
Please use the following registration page:
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=registration
Accommodation in Emmanuel College is available.
Accepted papers and Provisional Programme
-----------------------------------
The list of accepted papers is online:
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=accepted
A provisional programme is online:
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=program
Invited speakers
-----------------
* Frederic Blanqui (INRIA): "Progresses on proof systems
interoperability'',
* Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge): "How can we make
trustworthy AI?'',
* Lawrence C. Paulson (University of Cambridge): "Large-Scale Formal
Proof for the Working Mathematician - Lessons learnt from the
Alexandria Project'',
* Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University Linz): "Never trust your
solver: Certificates for SAT and QBF''.
About CICM
-----------
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.
The scope of CICM concerns 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 2023 Programme committee:
see https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
Workshops affiliated to CICM 2023:
----------------------------------
* 31th OpenMath Workshop, organized by James Davenport and Michael Kohlhase,
* 3rd Workshop on Natural Formal Mathematics (NatFoM 2023) organized
by Peter Koepke, Adrian De Lon and Dennis Mueller (also an EuroProofNet
workshop),
* 14th Workshop on Mathematical User Interaction (MathUI 2023), organized
by Abhishek Chugh and Andrea Kohlhase,
* 6th Workshop on Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians (FMM 2023),
organized by Karol Pak.
The EuroProofNet Workshop on Libraries of Formal Proofs and Natural
Mathematical Language, organized by Angeliki Koutsoukou Argyraki and
Claudio Sacerdoti Coen is co-located with CICM 2023.
Local information, travel and accommodation
-------------------------------------------
Please see
https://cicm-conference.org/2023/cicm.php?event=&menu=travel
For any queries about local issues please contact the conference chair
James Davenport <masjhd(a)bath.ac.uk>