Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation for Wikimedia Education Office Hours, January 2021

2021-01-20 Thread Sailesh Patnaik 
Hello everyone,

This is a gentle reminder, join us today at 12 UTC (in around 4 hours) for
the education office hours. Looking forward to seeing you then.
Here is the meeting link:
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/93269706662?pwd=b1NxdGdiaHNLSm5sQXNoQVpJZm1XUT09

Best!
Sailesh

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:52 PM Sailesh Patnaik 
wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Join us for the January edition of the education office hours on 21st at
> 12:00 PM UTC ! The office
> hours are a dedicated time and an online space to have conversations and
> discussions related to Wikimedia and education activities, listen and
> learn from each other's projects and experiences.
>
> You can find more details and the agenda of the meeting here:
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/January_21_2021
> .
>
>
> Looking forward to seeing you then, Please let me know if you have any
> questions.
>
> Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation?
> Request for a slot for consultation for your education work ( 
> ttps://outreach.wikimedia.
> org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space
>  ) by
> filling this google form ( http://bit.ly/EduOfficeSpace )
>
> Dhanyabaad!
> --
> *Sailesh Patnaik*
> Wikimedia Foundation | Program Associate, Education
> User:SPatnaik (WMF)
>


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Program Associate, Education

Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] January 20, 2021: Macro-level organizational analysis of peer production communities

2021-01-20 Thread Martin Gerlach 
Just a reminder, that this will be starting in about 24 minutes.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:01 PM Martin Gerlach 
wrote:

> Hi all,
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 20,
> at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC.  In this month’s showcase, Aaron Shaw will
> present ongoing research illustrating the values and challenges of
> macro-level organizational analysis of peer production and social computing
> systems. Specifically, he will give an overview on different studies
> showing convergent trends of formalization in large Wikipedias; divergent
> editor engagement in small Wikipedias; and commensal patterns of ecological
> interdependence across communities.
>
> Youtube stream: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujd8S82YfmA
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
> can also watch our past research showcases here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>
>
>
> *Speaker*:
> Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University)
> *Title*: The importance of thinking big. Convergence, divergence, and
> interdependence among wikis and peer production communities
> *Abstract*: Designing and governing collaborative, peer production
> communities can benefit from large-scale, macro-level thinking that focuses
> on communities as the units of analysis. For example, understanding how and
> why seemingly comparable communities may follow convergent, divergent,
> and/or interdependent patterns of behavior can inform more parsimonious
> theoretical and empirical insights as well as more effective strategic
> action. This talk gives a sneak peak at research-in-progress by members of
> the Community Data Science Collective  to
> illustrate these points. In particular, I focus on studies of (1)
> convergent trends of formalization in several large Wikipedias; (2)
> divergent editor engagement among three small Wikipedias; and (3) commensal
> patterns of ecological interdependence across communities. Together, the
> studies underscore the value and challenges of macro-level organizational
> analysis of peer production and social computing systems.
>
>
> --
> Martin Gerlach
> Research Scientist
> Wikimedia Foundation
>


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Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
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