[Wiki-research-l] publication: Surveying Wikipedians: a dataset of users and contributors’ practices on Wikipedia in 8 languages

2023-12-05 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hi all,

this email to announce the publication as open data of the dataset of 
the answers collected in June - July on 8 languages of wikipedia.
Feel free to use it and to ask (enque...@marsouin.org) if some things 
are not clear enough to use it (or simply if you have ideas to share!)


https://hal.science/hal-04279803

The research is presented here: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveying_readers_and_contributors_to_Wikipedia



The dataset focuses on Wikipedia users and contains information about 
demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents and 
their activity on Wikipedia. The data was collected using a 
questionnaire available online between June and July 2023. The link to 
the questionnaire was distributed via a banner published in 8 languages 
on the Wikipedia page. Filling out the questionnaire was voluntary and 
not incentivised in any way.
The survey includes 200 questions about: what people were doing on 
Wikipedia before clicking the link to the questionnaire; how they use 
Wikipedia as readers (“professional” and “personal” uses); their opinion 
on the quality, the thematic coverage, the importance of the 
encyclopaedia; the making of Wikipedia (how they think it is made, if 
they have ever contributed and how); their social, sport, artistic and 
cultural activities, both online and offline; their socio-economic 
characteristics including political beliefs, and trust propensities.


More than 200 000 people opened the questionnaire, 100 332 started to 
answer, and constitute our dataset, and 10 576 finished it. Among other 
themes identified by future researchers, the dataset can be useful for 
advancing the research regarding the features of readers vs contributors 
of online commons, the relationship between trust, information, sources, 
and the use made of this information.

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[Wiki-research-l] International survey of wikedia users (and sometimes contributors)

2023-05-12 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Dear all,

after a very engaging WikiWorkshop, I wanted to share withyou the fact 
that we (group of researchers, from Europe, mainly, with the help of 
members of the cummunity) are about to launch a survey of the 
users/contributors of wikipedia.


The research is managed by my research center marsouin.org @ 
imt-atlantique.fr which is detailed here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveying_readers_and_contributors_to_Wikipedia
(other languages will follow soon, we still need some help for some 
languages if you have some time)


After a false start due to a miscalculation of the resources needed to 
handle the flow of answers (my mistake), the questionnaire should be 
aired soon, first in French, Turk, Spanish... Then in others, I let you 
consult the list ;-)


Of course the anonymous data will be available to anyone interested by 
them Probably in September, to let us take the time to collect and 
clean them


I'll keep you posted, but do not hesitate, in the meantime to ask 
questions if any


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[Wiki-research-l] opensym 2020 call for paper - 25-27 August 2020| Madrid, Spain

2020-02-25 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Dear all,

OpenSym's call for papers is online!

https://opensym.org/os2020/call-for-papers/


"OpenSym 2020 invites submissions for a range of tracks, including 
completed research papers, posters, and Doctoral Consortium research 
proposals. New this year are the New Ideas and Emerging Research (NIER) 
track, and a Journal-First track. Also new this year is a Journal 
Article Collection in the Journal of Internet and Software Applications, 
to which the best papers in the conference are invited. Papers accepted 
in the full research paper and NIER tracks will be included in the 
conference proceedings published by the ACM. Submissions to the other 
tracks will be included in a non-archival companion proceedings."


NJ
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia research on "productivity"

2018-10-02 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hello,

this definition is quite problematic, actually, as productivity in 
economics, is essentially a measure of efficiency (see: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity).
What you are referring to here is more a measure of the efficient (new) 
outputs, for instance, so a measure of the production.
A measure of productivity would be a measure of new text (number of 
characters, for instance) *over* the number of edits needed to do so.


This said, measuring exactly what the inputs and the outputs are is a 
complex question, we tried to address with K. Crowston and F. Ortega here:

https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2013/4892/00/4892d197-abs.html

NJ

Le 02/10/2018 à 05:51, Alex Yarovoy a écrit :

I'm working on a research paper and one of the reviewers has commented that
"There is even a Wikipedia measure called productivity, which is
essentially the amount of text produced over time less the reverted text"

Anybody familiar with that metric of "productivity"?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Ofer
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[Wiki-research-l] OpenSym 2018 | August 22-24, 2018 | Paris, France | General Call for Papers | Deadline March 15, 2018

2018-03-02 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Dear all,

Just a reminder there are less than 2 weeks left to submit your paper to 
OpenSym 2018 (March, 15).

Conference Website and call for papers: http://opensym.org

You'll find at the same address the Doctoral Symposium and the 
Industrial and Community track calls.


Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
(accepted rate in 2017 for the regular research track: 45%)

Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on 
subjects related to open collaboration including:

- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research


Looking forward to seeing your paper's presentation in Paris

Nicolas Jullien, general chair of OpenSym 2018


About the Conference


OpenSym is the only conference that brings together the different 
strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create 
synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer 
science, information science, social science, humanities, and everyone 
interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing 
our society.
This year’s conference will be held in Paris, France on August 22-24, 
2018.  A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 21, 2018.
OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the 
conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like 
all prior editions.



Submission Information and Instructions
---
Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on 
subjects related to open collaboration including:

- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research
Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2018 will be organized as a one track 
conference in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of this 
conference and to encourage discussion.
Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is March 
15th 2018. Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or 
original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or 
in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, 
and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed to meet rigorous 
academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for 
relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation.
All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted 
papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution 
of a paper relative to its length. Papers should report research 
thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A typical length of a 
“long research paper” is 10 pages (formerly the maximum length limit and 
the limit on OpenSym tracks), but may be shorter if the contribution can 
be described and supported in fewer pages—shorter, more focused papers 
(called “short research papers” previously) are encouraged and will be 
reviewed like any other paper. While we will review papers longer than 
10 pages, the contribution must warrant the extra length. Reviewers will 
be instructed to reject papers whose length is incommensurate with the 
size of their contribution. Papers should be formatted in ACM SIGCHI 
paper format. Reviewing is not double-blind so manuscripts do not need 
to be anonymized.
Posters: As in previous years, OpenSym will also be hosting a poster 
session at the conference. To propose a poster, authors should submit an 
extended abstract (not more than 4 pages) describing the content of the 
poster which will be published in a non-archival companion proceedings 
to the conference. Posters should use the ACM SIGCHI templates for 
extended abstracts. An example of a poster abstract can be found here. 
Reviewing is not double-blind so abstracts do not need to be anonymized.
Paper Proceedings: OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and 
ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM 
digital library like all prior editions. OpenSym seeks to accommodate 
the needs of the different research disciplines it draws on including 
disciplines with archival conference proceedings and disciplines where 
authors usually present at conferences and publish later. Authors, whose 
submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference 
have a choice of:
having their paper become part of the official proceedings, archived in 
the ACM Digital Library,
having their paper published in the conference website only

Re: [Wiki-research-l] OpenSym 2018 | August 22-24, 2018 | Paris, France | General Call for Papers | Deadline March 15, 2018

2018-01-18 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hello,

our plan is that they will, we are committed to that, but also that the 
papers are accessible before the presentation.

Olivier and Georg, in cc, are already working on that aspect.

My philosophy is that the goal of the presentations (and of being in 
Paris) must be to interact better, to build on the research presented, 
in a world to have time to co-construct the next steps.


But, of course, if you guys reading cannot be in Paris with us (August 
22-24), we will make our best to provide you with the tools to be 
connected with the conference


Nicolas

Le 17/01/2018 à 21:59, Aaron Halfaker a écrit :

Hi Nicolas!

Thanks for sending the CFP.  Any chance that the talks will be 
live-streamed this year?  :)


On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Nicolas Jullien 
<nicolas.jull...@telecom-bretagne.eu 
<mailto:nicolas.jull...@telecom-bretagne.eu>> wrote:



Dear all,

it's my pleasure to inform you that the call for paper for OpenSym
2018 is available.
Conference Website and call for papers: http://opensym.org

Papers are due by March 15, 23h59 (any time on Earth).
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018>
(accepted rate in 2017: 45%)

Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on
subjects related to open collaboration including:
- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research


Looking forward to seeing your paper's presentation in Paris

    Nicolas Jullien, general chair of OpenSym 2018

About the Conference


OpenSym is the only conference that brings together the different
strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to
create synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from
computer science, information science, social science, humanities,
and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how
it is changing our society.
This year’s conference will be held in Paris, France on August
22-24, 2018.  A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 21, 2018.
OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and
the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital
library like all prior editions.


Submission Information and Instructions
---
Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on
subjects related to open collaboration including:
- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research
Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2018 will be organized as a one track
conference in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of
this conference and to encourage discussion.
Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is March
15th 2018. Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or
original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical,
and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of novel
concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed
to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Papers will be
reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity
of presentation.
All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018>
Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted
papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the
contribution of a paper relative to its length. Papers should report
research thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A typical
length of a “long research paper” is 10 pages (formerly the maximum
length limit and the limit on OpenSym tracks), but may be shorter if
the contribution can be described and supported in fewer
pages—shorter, more focused papers (called “short research papers”
previously) are encouraged and will be reviewed like any other
paper. While we will review papers longer than 10 pages, the
contribution must warrant the extra length. Reviewers will be
instructed to reject papers whose length is incommensurate with the
size of their contribution. Papers should be formatted in ACM SIGCHI
paper format. Reviewing is not double-blind so manuscripts do not
need to be anonymized.
Posters: As in previous

[Wiki-research-l] OpenSym 2018 | August 22-24, 2018 | Paris, France | General Call for Papers | Deadline March 15, 2018

2018-01-17 Thread Nicolas Jullien 


Dear all,

it's my pleasure to inform you that the call for paper for OpenSym 2018 
is available.

Conference Website and call for papers: http://opensym.org

Papers are due by March 15, 23h59 (any time on Earth).
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
(accepted rate in 2017: 45%)

Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on 
subjects related to open collaboration including:

- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research


Looking forward to seeing your paper's presentation in Paris

Nicolas Jullien, general chair of OpenSym 2018

About the Conference


OpenSym is the only conference that brings together the different 
strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create 
synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer 
science, information science, social science, humanities, and everyone 
interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing 
our society.
This year’s conference will be held in Paris, France on August 22-24, 
2018.  A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 21, 2018.
OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the 
conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like 
all prior editions.



Submission Information and Instructions
---
Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on 
subjects related to open collaboration including:

- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research
Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2018 will be organized as a one track 
conference in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of this 
conference and to encourage discussion.
Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is March 
15th 2018. Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or 
original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or 
in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, 
and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed to meet rigorous 
academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for 
relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation.
All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted 
papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution 
of a paper relative to its length. Papers should report research 
thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A typical length of a 
“long research paper” is 10 pages (formerly the maximum length limit and 
the limit on OpenSym tracks), but may be shorter if the contribution can 
be described and supported in fewer pages—shorter, more focused papers 
(called “short research papers” previously) are encouraged and will be 
reviewed like any other paper. While we will review papers longer than 
10 pages, the contribution must warrant the extra length. Reviewers will 
be instructed to reject papers whose length is incommensurate with the 
size of their contribution. Papers should be formatted in ACM SIGCHI 
paper format. Reviewing is not double-blind so manuscripts do not need 
to be anonymized.
Posters: As in previous years, OpenSym will also be hosting a poster 
session at the conference. To propose a poster, authors should submit an 
extended abstract (not more than 4 pages) describing the content of the 
poster which will be published in a non-archival companion proceedings 
to the conference. Posters should use the ACM SIGCHI templates for 
extended abstracts. An example of a poster abstract can be found here. 
Reviewing is not double-blind so abstracts do not need to be anonymized.
Paper Proceedings: OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and 
ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM 
digital library like all prior editions. OpenSym seeks to accommodate 
the needs of the different research disciplines it draws on including 
disciplines with archival conference proceedings and disciplines where 
authors usually present at conferences and publish later. Authors, whose 
submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference 
have a choice of:
having their paper become part of the official proceedings, archived in 
the ACM Digital Library,
having their paper published in the conference website only, with no 
transfer of copyright from the authors,
having no publication record at all but only

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Sharing Wiki related research data

2016-04-22 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hello all,

there is this initiative regarding the repository and description of the 
data base you may want to consider:

http://www.datafactories.org/
And I think Flossmole may be interested too, even if their primary 
target was FLOSS data, http://flossmole.org/


NJ

Le 21/04/2016 18:15, Jonathan Morgan a écrit :

Many WMF researchers use https://figshare.com

Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Robert Jäschke > wrote:

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Dear Moritz,

On 21.04.2016 16 :32, Physikerwelt wrote:
> is there a central data repository, we want to use to share
> research data. We put our data in the release of the GitHub
> repository~[1], but that might not be optimal.

What about http://zenodo.org/?


Best regards,
Robert

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Upcoming research newsletter (September 2015): new papers open for review

2015-09-28 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hello,

I gave only a quick look, but nothing I am comfortable reviewing, sorry

NJ

Le 26/09/2015 13:48, mass...@ymail.com a écrit :

Hi everybody,

We’re preparing for the September 2015 research newsletter and looking
for contributors. Please take a look at:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201509 and add your name next to any
paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is
Wednesday September 30 UTC. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph
reviews are most welcome.

Highlights from this month:

  *
Editorial Bias in Crowd-Sourced Political Information
  *
Disease identification and concept mapping using Wikipedia
  *
Recognizing Biographical Sections in Wikipedia
  *
The Descent of Pluto: Interactive dynamics, specialization and
reciprocity of roles in a Wikipedia debate
  *
How will your workload look like in 6 years? Analyzing Wikimedia's
workload
  *
Gender imbalance and Wikipedia
  *
“A Spousal Relation Begins with a Deletion of engage and Ends with
an Addition of divorce": Learning State Changing Verbs from
Wikipedia Revision History
  *
How much is Wikipedia Lagging Behind News?
  *
Measuring the Effectiveness of Wikipedia Articles: How Does Open
Content Succeed?
  *
Wikipedia entries on fiction and non-propositional knowledge
representation

  *
Students' use of Wikipedia as an academic resource — Patterns of use
and perceptions of usefulness

If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in
touch off-list.

Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter


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[Wiki-research-l] New Extended OpenSym 2015 Research Paper Submission Deadline April 13th, 2015

2015-03-30 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Wikipedia Research Track at OpenSym 2015!
Wikis and Open Collaboration Track at OpenSym 2015!

We have extended the research paper submission deadline to *April 13th, 
2015* AoE (Monday night) to give authors more time to finish their paper 
submissions.


http://www.opensym.org/os2015/call-for-papers/wikis-and-open-collaboration-research-track/

http://www.opensym.org/os2015/call-for-papers/wikipedia-research-track/

We would appreciate an abstract submission by the old deadline, March 
29th, 2015. Abstract submission is not required but should help us plan 
the review process. Please submit through


https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2015

Those who will attend OpenSym 2015 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Club

http://www.presidio.gov/venues/Pages/Golden-Gate-Club.aspx

will not only experience a great research program and community events, 
but also get to listen to and engage with keynote speakers


- Peter Norvig of Google,
- Richard Gabriel of IBM,
- Robert Glushko of UC Berkeley, and
- Tony Wasserman of CMU (Silicon Valley).

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] research on who creates new articles on English Wikipedia?

2014-11-25 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hello,

to complete what Aaron said, a research I did showed that the creation 
of new article by a newcomer is a very good predictor that this person 
will become a regular contributor or more (on French data, but I would 
be surprised if it was not the case for the English Wikipedia).


Nicolas

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1980806

Le 25/11/2014 16:22, Aaron Halfaker a écrit :

Hi Heather,

I did a bunch of background work on this specifically for a large set of
wikis.  See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation.

Specifically, check this out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation#How_many_articles_are_created_by_newcomers.3F

TL;DR: In Enwiki, almost 10% of NS 0 pages are created by newcomers
within 24 hours of registering an account.  The majority of articles
(83.6%) are still created by editors with more than a month of tenure.

-Aaron

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Heather Ford heather.f...@oii.ox.ac.uk
mailto:heather.f...@oii.ox.ac.uk wrote:

Hi there,

I'm thinking there must be research about whether it is new or
experienced editors who are creating new articles on English
Wikipedia but I can't seem to find anything.

Anyone know of anything like this?

Many thanks!

Best,
Heather.

Heather Ford
Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Doctoral Programme
EthnographyMatters http://ethnographymatters.net/ | Oxford Digital
Ethnography Group http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia focus of research (was Research discussion: Visions for Wikipedia)

2014-10-28 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hello,

to follow up on that troll, I invite you to (re-)discover the work by 
Marwell and Oliver

The Critical Mass in Collective Action (1993)
http://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Critical_Mass_in_Collective_Action.html?id=14nA7_k05NsCredir_esc=y

which points that fact that after some times, project are mature and 
need less people to participate. Maybe Wikipedia has entered in 
adulthood (which is, sometime, boring)


Nicolas

Le 28/10/2014 16:14, Pierre-Carl Langlais a écrit :

Hi everyone,

I cannot resist the temptation to troll a bit on this thread:
*we need 10K or even 100K new active editors: would it not result in
even higher levels of bureaucracy?  Internet technologies have certainly
allowed to keeps large community running with fuzzy rules. Yet, I'm not
so sure it has completely relieved us of bureaucracy: there's probably
still a maximal ratio of participants/fuzziness. With about 30,000
active contributors during the past month, the English Wikipedia is by
far one of the largest autonomous web community. By experience (I do not
have any statistics at hand, sorry), I know that smaller communities
like the Italian Wikipedia, Wikidata or OpenStreetMap (all around
2,000-5,000 contributors) manage to avoid the same level of bureaucracy
sophistication. A lot of agreements can be done on a case per case
basis, while with 10 times more contributors regular rules become
necessary to avoid repeating the same discussions constantly. If you
want to keep a community of 130,000 users consistent, I guess you would
have to set up some kind of kafkaïan nightmare that would make the
current english wikipedia looks like a libertarian paradise…
*English Wikipedia is suffering from a lack of adaptive flexibility. I
would rather point a lack of communication between the community and the
WMF. I have made some wiki archeology to document my last paper
http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=NEG_021_0021 on Wikipedia
politics, and what strikes me in the 2001-2007 period is the high level
of interaction between programmers and contributors. A lot of important
features (like footnotes) were first suggested by users who do not have
any kind of programming knowledge. We clearly need to reestablish this
link (perhaps launching a wishlist would be a first step…).
*Is Wikipedia decline an exception? It seems to me that all communities
tends to attain a maxima, after which they slowly regress and stagnate.
The growth of OpenStreetMap has for instance slowed down
http://scoms.hypotheses.org/241 after 2012. This is not because these
communities cease to be cool (a case could be made that OpenStreetMap is
way cooler than Wikipedia), but mainly, because having free time (in
addition of motivation and ability to contribute on the web) is still a
rare resource. Beginning a demanding job, having a child: all these
current events of life strongly limits the level of implication within
the population that would likely participate. Free time would certainly
not account of the whole gender gap, but is still a bigger issue for
women than for men: in a society that has not completely given up
patriarchal cultural schemes, women are still required to do a lot of
home-related tasks. On the French Wikipedia, we have long focused on
enhancing contribution from the inside (through a very active project
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Aide_et_accueil to greet
newcomers) with little results (at most, we have only slowed down an
inevitable decline). Apparently, the most efficient (but hardest) way to
enhance participation would be to make some global change on society
(reforming evaluation rules for researchers, reducing working time,
creating a basic income, you name it…).

That's all, folks

PCL

Le 28/10/14 14:27, Aaron Halfaker a écrit :

Hey folks,

I'm breaking this thread of discussion out since it's not really
relevant to the thread it appeared in.

Personally, I'm not studying Wikipedia.  I'm studying the nature of
socio-technical communities with Wikipedia as an interesting case
study. Wikidata might be an interesting case study for something, but
personally, I'm mostly interested in how mature communities/systems
work  break down.  When it reaches maturity, I hope that Wikidata
will benefit from what I have learned.

-Aaron


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com mailto:gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:

Hoi,
I  agree when it is the only thing I said.

Yes, I asked you personally and Toby ... and Erik (both of them
and several times) and I always hear good idea, should be easy,
we ill look into it and we get back to you. But as I said, your
reply is relevant when it is the only thing I said and it is not.
Thanks,
 GerardM

On 28 October 2014 13:43, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfa...@gmail.com
mailto:aaron.halfa...@gmail.com wrote:

Gerard.  Did you file the feature request?  If not, you are
ranting at the wrong mailing list.

[Wiki-research-l] PhD grant to study what a good team and a good management is in online communities

2014-07-30 Thread Nicolas Jullien 

Hello,

the iSchool, Telecom Bretagne (France) has a 3 years grant for a student 
willing to do a PhD in France (it is the duration of PhD studies in 
France). The grant is ~€1200 per month, which is quite comfortable for 
Brest, with possibilities to teach (in English or in French) for 
€300/month more.


The research can be done in English.
Skill in management theory and in computing are expected.
A master degree is compulsory.

The subject is available here: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8IfgmZdkcDKcVNWdFB3MzJxbnc/edit?usp=sharing


People interested can apply, sending a résumé before September, 2
They will be contacted after this date for further discussion if needed.

Feel free to diffuse this announce.

Thanks in advance,

Nicolas Jullien

Here is a summary of the subject:

Communities aiming at producing a certain kind of knowledge, or 
“epistemic communities”, and doing so online, are viewed as central in 
the generation of new, innovative knowledge, because the organizations 
increasingly rely on virtual teams to produce knowledge, but also 
because of the ”open-innovation” relationships they create with those 
online communities. Echoing the research on (virtual) team, two points 
are particularly studied : the composition of the teams and the 
management (leadership) of these communities, but those points are not 
jointly studied and are poorly related to the existing literature on 
virtual team and leadership in management.
New data extraction and analysis capacities, notably those developed by 
a previous project and multidisciplinary research teams make it possible 
to go beyond the actual studies, jointly studying the impact of the 
structure and of the leadership of the virtual groups on their 
performance. This, in order to provide 1) the managers of the virtual 
communities with metrics and tools (dashboards) to evaluate and monitor 
the efficiency of those communities, but also 2) the Institute (and the 
companies) with a better understanding of the new skills the employees 
may develop to work in those teams. The case study will be Wikipedia.


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