Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research
policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a
policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to
participate in studies.
At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying
group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much
the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots.
The policy proposal can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research
The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal
is being described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia
community, we would like additional input about the proposal,
and would welcome additional help improving it.
Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
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Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
Hi all,
The registration for Wiki Workshop 2022 [1] is now open. The event is
virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC and as part of The Web
Conference 2022 [2]. The plenary parts of the event will be recorded
and shared publicly afterwards.
Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year (so
far;) that the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation co-organizes
with our Research Fellow, Bob West (EPFL). This year, Srijan Kumar
(Georgia Tech) joined the organizing team as well.:) The event brings
together scholars and researchers from across the world who are
interested in or are actively engaged with research and development on
the Wikimedia projects.
While the details of the schedule are to be finalized and posted in
the coming week, we expect to generally follow the format of 2021 [3].
This year we received research submissions from more than 20 countries
and have accepted 27 research papers whose authors will present the
work as part of the workshop (If you are an author of an accepted
paper: congrats!:) . Our keynote speaker is Larry Lessig [4] and we
will have a panel to reflect on the decade anniversary of SOPA/PIPA,
moderated by Erik Moeller (Freedom of the Press). And of course, all
the music, games, etc. will remain. :)
If you are interested in participating in the live event, please
indicate your interest by filling out [5]. Anyone is encouraged to
register: you don't have to be a researcher. In the registration form,
please explain why attending the live event will support you in your
work on the Wikimedia projects and beyond.
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Best,
Leila
[1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/
[2] https://www2022.thewebconf.org/
[3] https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/#schedule
[4] https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig
[5] (privacy statement for the Google form survey [6])
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctlkUv8FasB2Nc4RvThnxAbjPzUwmnxB2…
[6] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Wiki_Workshop_Registration_Priv…
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
As part of some discussions with Jim Maddock (see his recent thread
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…>),
I started a meta page to catalog some of the many natural experiments
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_experiment> that impact the
Wikimedia projects. I've seeded it with some examples (censorship,
Wikipedia Zero, lockdowns, Public Domain Day, new data centers, etc.) but
am certain that there are many more out there. If folks on this list know
of other examples, please edit the page below boldly or respond on thread
and I'll migrate examples onto the page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Natural_experiments
Best,
Isaac
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Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation
Hi All,
The WOW2022 conference, themed Diversity, Diasporas and Digitality: The Worlds of Wikimedia™ and beyond, will be hosted by University of Sydney on November 16- 18, 2022. See website<https://www.wow2022.net/>.
Call for papers
The first two decades of the 21st century have brought war, a global pandemic, climate changes and the widespread erosion of culture, as recognised by the United Nations which declared 2022-2032 to be the International Decade of Indigenous Languages<https://en.unesco.org/idil2022-2032>. This conference seeks to investigate the variety of ways that digital media is (or isn’t) meeting these challenges. We invite participants to consider how communities that have been displaced, marginalised or otherwise disadvantaged, may best be served by online platforms and open knowledge movements. We seek submissions that address open knowledge, global diversity, inclusivity and cultural dynamism from a range of perspectives, including digital communication, indigenous knowledge, health communication and Internet studies. We particularly encourage submissions that explore knowledge activism, such as the Wikimedia movement; open platforms, such as Wikipedia; as well as digital methods across different disciplines and fields of knowledge.
Topics could address:
* Internet activism
* Digital diasporas
* Open knowledge
* Indigenous storytelling
* Covid online
* Gender parity
* Cultural resilience
* Decolonizing the Internet
* Digital tools and methods for online diversity and abilities
* Orality and Literacy
* Innovative Case Studies and projects
Please submit abstracts up to 250 words via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/cfp/WOW2022> by June 20, 2022. Acceptance of papers by July 11.
For questions please contact Associate Professor Frances Di Lauro<mailto:frances.dilauro@sydney.edu.au>, Department of Writing Studies, and Dr Bunty Avieson<mailto:bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au>, Department of Media and Communications.
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Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours Tuesday, 2022-05-03. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1651593600>.
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 are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer
research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
-
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,
Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[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
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
** Apologies for cross-posting **
The NEtwoRks Data and Society group (NERDS) at the IT University of
Copenhagen (ITU) has three PhD/Postdoc positions open on a project on
collective coordination for social good funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.
We welcome applications from researchers and students in the areas of
Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing and Network
Science.
The project PI is Luca Aiello, Associate Professor at ITU (
http://www.lajello.com/)
Any help in spreading the word would be greatly appreciated.
Find details and application links at:
http://www.lajello.com/positions.html
Deadline for applications: May 20th, 2022
Thank you!
-Luca
Luca Aiello
Associate Professor in Computer Science
NEtwoRks Data and Society group (NERDS)
IT University of Copenhagen
www.lajello.com
*** Apologies from cross postings ***
Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
15th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2022 -
September 19-23, 2022
Tbilisi, Georgia (hybrid event)
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2022
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The CICM conference brings together the many separate communities that
have developed theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical
applications.
CICM will be held as a hybrid event (in person and online) and will
provide associated events with appropriate infrastructure for
supporting both kinds of participants.
CICM covers
* all aspects of mathematics such as formalization, computation,
deduction, mathematical databases, and mathematical documents,
* all kinds of tool support such as theorem provers, computer algebra
systems, knowledge management tools, and user interfaces
* the whole spectrum from theoretical foundations to practical tools
and from challenge problems to case studies.
Workshops typically feature presentations of ongoing research that is
not ready yet for formal publication, and tutorials present extended
demos of a particular software.
However, the CICM organizers strongly encourage a broad interpretation
of these concepts and welcome proposals for any kind of event that
benefits the CICM community.
A proposal should include the following information:
* title of the event
* names and affiliations of the organizers
* brief description of the event (e.g., 1-2 paragraphs)
* proposed workshop duration (typically half a day up to two days)
* style (online-only, in person-only, hybrid)
* previous instances of the event (if any)
* preferred or excluded dates within the CICM dates (if any)
CICM will take care of publishing and distributing informal
proceedings of the workshop/tutorial events (if the respective
organizers so with) via open access online proceedings with
CEUR-WS.org.
Important Dates
===============
Proposals should be submitted by July 8, 2022.
Earlier submissions are strongly encouraged, and notifications of
acceptance will be issued on a rolling basis.
All proposals should be submitted via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2022
More details on the conference are available from
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2022
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18th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 12 - 16, 2022
https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/
====
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2022 EU welcomes papers
on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics
of the conference. SEMANTiCS 2022 especially invites contributions that
target the intersection between computational semantics and neighboring
research areas such as machine learning, language technologies, sensor
technologies, distributed ledgers and beyond.
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere unless as preprint. 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, technical merits,
and effectiveness at solving real problems.
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2022 EU will be made available open access and
planned to be published with IOS Press.
= Topics of Interest =
* 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
* IoT and Stream Processing
* 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
= Important Dates =
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2022 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem22#
= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long
papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages (including references)
and short papers of 6 pages (including references).
* Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are
available here: https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions
* Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement.
* All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem22#
* Submissions must be in English.
* Submissions are not anonymous.
* Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press.
* At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference and present the paper.
* The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the
time of submission, are under review or have already been published in
or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members. The reviewing
process is single-blind. Papers submitted to this track will be
evaluated according to the following criteria:
* Appropriateness
* Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
* Impact of results
* Soundness of the evaluation
* Proper comparison to related work
* Clarity and quality of writing
* Reproducibility of results and resources
Check out additional submission opportunities at Semantics conference:
https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
We are looking forward to your contribution!
*** Apologies for cross postings ***
[Abstract Submission: May 9, 2022 / Doctoral programme: July 15, 2022]
Second Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme
15th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2022 -
September 19-23, 2022
Tbilisi, Georgia (hybrid event)
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2022
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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 2022 Invited Speakers:
* Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University)
* Deyan Ginev (FAU Erlangen-N��rnberg and NIST)
* S��bastien Gou��zel (IRMAR, Universit�� de Rennes 1)
CICM 2022 Programme committee:
see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2022/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
CICM 2022 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 LNAI:
* 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: May 9.
- Full paper deadline: May 13
- Reviews sent to authors: June 19
- Rebuttals due: June 23
- Notification of acceptance: July 4
- Camera-ready copies due: July 18
- Conference: September 19-23, 2022
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
- Submission deadline: July 15
- Notification of acceptance: July 29
All submissions should be made via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2022
As in previous years, the CICM 2022 proceedings will be published in
the LNAI subseries of Springer LNCS.
For the LNCS style files, see:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…