[Apologies for cross-posting.]

Hi all,

The 5th annual Wiki Workshop [1] will take place in Lyon on April 24, 2018 and as part of The Web Conference 2018 (a.k.a. WWW2018) [2]. Please find the call for papers at the end of this email. A lot of you on this list do research and development in Wikidata and it would be great to receive your submissions to the workshop. You have the option of going with proceedings or no-proceedings when submitting, please check the corresponding dates in the call for paper.

Best,
Leila, on behalf of the organizers [3]


[1] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/
[2] https://www2018.thewebconf.org/
[3] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#organization


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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation



Wiki Workshop 2018

Held at The Web Conference 2018 (a.k.a. WWW 2018) in Lyon, France, on April 24, 2018

Workshop webpage:
http://wikiworkshop.org/2018
 

KEY DATES

If authors want paper to appear in proceedings:

  • Submission deadline: January 28, 2018
  • Author feedback: February 14, 2018
  • Camera-ready version due: March 4, 2018

If authors do not want paper to appear in proceedings:

  • Submission deadline: March 11, 2018
  • Author feedback: March 25, 2018

Please see workshop webpage for formatting and submission instructions.
 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, a main source of knowledge for a large fraction of Internet users, and one of the very few projects that make not only their content but also many activity logs available to the public. Furthermore, other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, have been created to share other types of knowledge with the world for free. For a variety of reasons (quality and quantity of content, reach in many languages, process of content production, availability of data, etc.) such projects have become important objects of study for researchers across many subfields of the computational and social sciences, such as social network analysis, artificial intelligence, linguistics, natural language processing, social psychology, education, anthropology, political science, human–computer interaction, and cognitive science.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. With members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team on the organizing committee and with the experience of successful workshops in 2015, 2016, and 2017, we aim to continue facilitating a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the organization that coordinates Wikimedia projects and the researchers interested in studying them.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

  • new technologies and initiatives to grow content, quality, diversity, and participation across Wikimedia projects
  • use of bots, algorithms, and crowdsourcing strategies to curate, source, or verify content and structured data
  • bias in content and gaps of knowledge
  • diversity of Wikimedia editors and users
  • detection of low-quality, promotional, or fake content, as well as fake accounts (e.g., sock puppets)
  • questions related to community health (e.g., sentiment analysis, harassment detection)
  • understanding editor motivations, engagement models, and incentives
  • Wikimedia consumer motivations and their needs: readers, researchers, tool/API developers
  • innovative uses of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for AI and NLP applications
  • consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
  • participation in discussions and their dynamics
  • dynamics of content reuse across projects and the impact of policies and community norms on reuse
  • privacy
  • collaborative content creation (unstructured, semi-structured, or structured)
  • innovative uses of Wikimedia projects' content and consumption patterns as sensors for real-world events, culture, etc.
  • open-source research code, datasets, and tools to support research on Wikimedia contents and communities

Papers should be 1 to 8 pages long and will be published on the workshop webpage and optionally (depending on the authors' choice) in the workshop proceedings. Authors whose papers are accepted to the workshop will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session.

We explicitly encourage the submission of preliminary work in the form of extended abstracts (1 or 2 pages).
 

ORGANIZATION

Robert West, EPFL
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
 

CONTACT

Please direct your questions to wikiworkshop@googlegroups.com