Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does anyone have access to this research..?
Excellent. Thanks, Daniel! :) On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote: Try http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/24741/1/AIBAR_EDULEARN2013preprint_WIKI4HE.pdf . d. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Shani shani.e...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellow wiki-researchers, I've started working on a research for a seminar paper (which will probably evolve to an M.A. dissertation) on Wikipedia in Higher Education as part of my MA in Technology in Learning program at the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University. The research will focus on a elective course on Wikipedia for Med students, which I've developed and run at TAU. I was wondering if any of you have access to this research -- Aibar, E., Lerga, M., Lladós, J., Meseguer, A., Minguillón, J. (2014). Wikipedia in Higher Education: an Empirical Study RUSC VOL. 11 No 2 Special Issue| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of New England| Barcelona. Other than an abstract, I wasn't able to find it online (nor is it available through the university library) and I would really appreciate a copy (word, PDF, whatever you can get your hands on). Any help getting this article would be much appreciated, as well as any directions to other relevant existing researches on the topic. Cheers, Shani. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 116, Issue 16
Hey Ed, As said, I'm looking specifically at that content which has made its way into Wikidata. Thanks, though :) On 9 April 2015 at 03:42, Ed H. Chi c...@acm.org wrote: Oliver, Here is one paper on mapping topic coverage in Wikipedia from 2009: Kittur, A., Chi, E. H., and Suh, B. 2009. What's in Wikipedia?: Mapping Topics and Conflict using Socially Annotated Category Structure. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 1509-1512. ACM Link (24% acceptance rate) --Ed (on my tablet) On Apr 8, 2015 05:01, wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wiki-research-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Gender-specific page titles (Flöck) 2. Re: Research on Wikidata's content coverage (Flöck) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 11:09:00 + From: Flöck, Fabian fabian.flo...@gesis.org To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender-specific page titles Message-ID: 7ecba035-f388-4f89-9b65-a7c1c956a...@gesis.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Interesting, thanks Mark! - Fabian On 07.04.2015, at 16:38, Mark J.Nelson m...@anadrome.orgmailto:m...@anadrome.org wrote: Flöck, Fabian fabian.flo...@gesis.orgmailto:fabian.flo...@gesis.org writes: Does anyone know about a study that looks at how often for example articles about a profession use the male instead of the female form as the name (female form doesn't exist or is just a redirect)? It would probably not be a so much of an issue for English, but rather Spanish, German, Russian etc. Concrete example: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor exists in German, but https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professorin is just a redirect. One thing to be careful of in such a study (though I would also like to see it!) is tha the politics and preferences in this area vary widely across languages, and sometimes within a language, so a purely data-driven study has to be careful about its assumptions and generalizations. Below a long-ish discussion of Greek that you may skip if not interested (it ended up longer-winded than I had expected): For example in Greek it is very profession-specific whether the trend is towards using a slashed form of both genders, or towards convergence on a single form that applies to both genders (sometimes with atypical morphology). Sometimes it depends on the specific word form and historical usage. In fields that historically had both men and women, both forms are very well established and tend to persist, e.g. a male teacher is a δάσκαλος and a female one is a δασκάλα. But in fields that were typically so male-dominated that only the masculine version has been in common use, there's disagreement over whether it's more progressive to revive a feminine form, or to generalize the masculine form to cover both genders. For example a female president would universally be called by the historically masculine form πρόεδρος, but with a feminine article (i.e. πρόεδρος can now be either a masculine or feminine noun, depending on context, even though it's morphologically irregular as a feminine noun). There is in Byzantine Greek a feminine analog, προέδρισσα (referring to a different position), but it isn't used today outside humorous contexts (roughly where you might use Presidentess in English). The same applies for a number of other more common professions, but for some it's more disputed which form should be used (for President there isn't any usage variance). In short it's complex, so I hope any data set is careful about what it's counting as data, and why. :) -Mark -- Mark J. Nelson Anadrome Research http://www.anadrome.org ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l Cheers, Fabian -- Fabian Flöck Research Associate Computational Social Science department @GESIS Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-208 fabian.flo...@gesis.orgmailto:fabian.flo...@gesis.org www.gesis.org www.facebook.com/gesis.org -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
[Wiki-research-l] IdeaLab Grant Call for Feedback and Participants
Hi Everyone, I wanted to share two projects currently under consideration for IdeaLab funding and which may be of direct interest to the Wiki research community. Note, one purpose of the consciousness-raising repository is to create a collection of stories for use by researchers studying marginalized identities on Wikipedia. If you are interested or know someone who is interested, let me know. If you have feedback for these projects, please submit them to their discussion pages. Thanks! *Consciousness-Raising Repository Call for Working Group Participants* *Purpose*: We're recruiting a group of diverse Wikipedians to help put together a repository of stories from users experiencing marginalization on Wikipedia. The purpose of the repository is to serve as a database of knowledge about the forms marginalization can take for researchers studying marginalized identities and as an outlet for users experiencing marginalization. *Requirements*: Experience working with marginalization and marginalized groups. Interest in the Wiki-community. Willing to attend an hour-long biweekly meeting. *For more information*: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_Consciousness_Raising_Repository *Wiki Controversy Monitoring Engine Call for Developers* *Purpose*: The controversy monitoring engine maintains a real-time rating of the controversiality of Wikipedia articles by listening to the live stream of edits from Wikipedia. We need someone who is interested in building the web interface and interactive visualizations around these controversies to enable administrators to monitor, investigate, and, if need be, intervene to deescalate controversies. The goal is to create a site like stats.wikimedia.org. *Requirements*: Knowledge of web development, web-based visualization, and\or data analysis using Wikipedia's API or WikiData. *For More Information*: see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Controversy_Monitoring_Engine -- Jason Radford Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University *Connect*: LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford, Twitter http://www.twitter.com/jsradford, University of Chicago http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/ *Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science http://www.volunteerscience.com* ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does anyone have access to this research..?
Try http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/24741/1/AIBAR_EDULEARN2013preprint_WIKI4HE.pdf . d. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Shani shani.e...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellow wiki-researchers, I've started working on a research for a seminar paper (which will probably evolve to an M.A. dissertation) on Wikipedia in Higher Education as part of my MA in Technology in Learning program at the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University. The research will focus on a elective course on Wikipedia for Med students, which I've developed and run at TAU. I was wondering if any of you have access to this research -- Aibar, E., Lerga, M., Lladós, J., Meseguer, A., Minguillón, J. (2014). Wikipedia in Higher Education: an Empirical Study RUSC VOL. 11 No 2 Special Issue| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of New England| Barcelona. Other than an abstract, I wasn't able to find it online (nor is it available through the university library) and I would really appreciate a copy (word, PDF, whatever you can get your hands on). Any help getting this article would be much appreciated, as well as any directions to other relevant existing researches on the topic. Cheers, Shani. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 116, Issue 16
Oliver, Here is one paper on mapping topic coverage in Wikipedia from 2009: Kittur, A., Chi, E. H., and Suh, B. 2009. What's in Wikipedia?: Mapping Topics and Conflict using Socially Annotated Category Structure http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/papers/2009-CHI2009/p1509.pdf. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 1509-1512. ACM Link http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518930 (24% acceptance rate) --Ed (on my tablet) On Apr 8, 2015 05:01, wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wiki-research-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Gender-specific page titles (Flöck) 2. Re: Research on Wikidata's content coverage (Flöck) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 11:09:00 + From: Flöck, Fabian fabian.flo...@gesis.org To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender-specific page titles Message-ID: 7ecba035-f388-4f89-9b65-a7c1c956a...@gesis.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Interesting, thanks Mark! - Fabian On 07.04.2015, at 16:38, Mark J.Nelson m...@anadrome.orgmailto: m...@anadrome.org wrote: Flöck, Fabian fabian.flo...@gesis.orgmailto:fabian.flo...@gesis.org writes: Does anyone know about a study that looks at how often for example articles about a profession use the male instead of the female form as the name (female form doesn't exist or is just a redirect)? It would probably not be a so much of an issue for English, but rather Spanish, German, Russian etc. Concrete example: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor exists in German, but https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professorin is just a redirect. One thing to be careful of in such a study (though I would also like to see it!) is tha the politics and preferences in this area vary widely across languages, and sometimes within a language, so a purely data-driven study has to be careful about its assumptions and generalizations. Below a long-ish discussion of Greek that you may skip if not interested (it ended up longer-winded than I had expected): For example in Greek it is very profession-specific whether the trend is towards using a slashed form of both genders, or towards convergence on a single form that applies to both genders (sometimes with atypical morphology). Sometimes it depends on the specific word form and historical usage. In fields that historically had both men and women, both forms are very well established and tend to persist, e.g. a male teacher is a δάσκαλος and a female one is a δασκάλα. But in fields that were typically so male-dominated that only the masculine version has been in common use, there's disagreement over whether it's more progressive to revive a feminine form, or to generalize the masculine form to cover both genders. For example a female president would universally be called by the historically masculine form πρόεδρος, but with a feminine article (i.e. πρόεδρος can now be either a masculine or feminine noun, depending on context, even though it's morphologically irregular as a feminine noun). There is in Byzantine Greek a feminine analog, προέδρισσα (referring to a different position), but it isn't used today outside humorous contexts (roughly where you might use Presidentess in English). The same applies for a number of other more common professions, but for some it's more disputed which form should be used (for President there isn't any usage variance). In short it's complex, so I hope any data set is careful about what it's counting as data, and why. :) -Mark -- Mark J. Nelson Anadrome Research http://www.anadrome.org ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l Cheers, Fabian -- Fabian Flöck Research Associate Computational Social Science department @GESIS Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-208 fabian.flo...@gesis.orgmailto:fabian.flo...@gesis.org www.gesis.org www.facebook.com/gesis.org -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:
[Wiki-research-l] Does anyone have access to this research..?
Hello fellow wiki-researchers, I've started working on a research for a seminar paper (which will probably evolve to an M.A. dissertation) on Wikipedia in Higher Education as part of my MA in Technology in Learning program at the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University. The research will focus on a elective course on Wikipedia for Med students, which I've developed and run at TAU. *I was wondering if any of you have access to this research -- * Aibar, E., Lerga, M., Lladós, J., Meseguer, A., Minguillón, J. (2014). Wikipedia in Higher Education: an Empirical Study RUSC VOL. 11 No 2 Special Issue| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of New England| Barcelona. Other than an abstract, I wasn't able to find it online (nor is it available through the university library) and I would really appreciate a copy (word, PDF, whatever you can get your hands on). Any help getting this article would be much appreciated, as well as any directions to other relevant existing researches on the topic. Cheers, Shani. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
