Hi all,
The deadline for ICWSM Wikipedia workshop is extended by a week to
2015-03-31, 23:59 AoE. If you have ongoing Wikipedia research that you'd
like to get feedback from others about, get the word out about it, or to
find collaborators for, this will be a nice venue for you to present your
work as an extended abstract or a paper.
More details at the end of this email and feel free to ping me if you
have questions about it.
Best,
Leila
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*Call for Workshop Papers and Extended Abstracts*
*Workshop on Wikipedia, a Social Pedia: Research Challenges and
Opportunities*
May 26, Oxford, England
co-located with the 9th International Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media (ICWSM 2015)
http://snap.stanford.edu/wiki-icwsm15/
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 23:59 AoE
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, a main source of
knowledge for a large fraction of Internet users, and, in the light of its
collaborative nature, an inherently social medium. Therefore, and since not
only all content but also many activity logs are available to the
public, Wikipedia has become an important object of study for researchers
across many subfields of the computational and social sciences, such as
social-network analysis, social psychology, education, anthropology,
political science, human-computer interaction, cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, linguistics, and natural-language processing.
This workshop is a venue for all researchers exploring social aspects
of Wikipedia. The workshop will feature high-profile speakers from academia
and the Wikimedia Foundation and aims to create a forum where participants
can connect both among each other and with researchers at the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborative content creation
- Consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
- Content consumption on Wikipedia
- Participation in discussions and their dynamics
- Collaborative task management
- Evolution of hierarchies
- Wikipedia as a sensor for real-world events, culture, etc.
- Demographics of Wikipedia readers and editors
- Engagement and incentivization of editors
- ...
Papers should be 2 to 8 pages long. Authors whose papers are accepted to
the workshop will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session.
We especially encourage the submission of preliminary work in the form of
extended abstracts.
*Submission instructions*
Papers should be formatted according to AAAI formatting guidelines (
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Please submit papers
using EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikiicwsm2015
*Review and the archival of papers*
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on or before Sat, April
4, 2015.
Accepted papers will be published on the workshop webpage and in a AAAI
technical report. (The tech report is non-archival, so the authors are free
to submit their work to other venues after the workshop; inclusion in the
tech report is optional.)
Also, authors whose papers are accepted will have the opportunity to
participate in a poster session.
*Organizing committee*
Robert West, Stanford University
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation