[Wiki-research-l] Best practices for researchers soliciting off-wiki interviews

Hi wiki-research-l folks, Can the list point me in the right direction about how researchers should solicit off-wiki interviews? I'm seeking to interview editors of English Wikipedia who have provided information about scientific and technical topics. I'm struggling to find up-to-date documentatio

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Job: Data Specialist for Visual Arts and Women’s History at Smithsonian Institution

A job that involves working with Wikidata/Wikimedia data, as Data Specialist, on behalf of the he Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI). More below. -- Forwarded message - From: Code4Lib Jobs Date: Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 3:45 PM Subjec

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Bibliography of wiki related works

Ziko, Note that there is research ABOUT Wikipedia - as well as research USING Wikipedia (e.g. as a data source). And there is quite a lot - so it's a massive undertaking to keep up with the literature. IIRC, the authors of several reviews on Wikipedia organized that work on a wiki - e.g. Wikipedi

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reliability in the era of alternative facts and information warfare

Thanks, Pine. Here's her ICWSM preprint "Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter": http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Narratives_ICWSM17-CameraReady.pdf via https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/84825412

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Women scientists in Antarctica: Well-designed expert engagement

If you've thought about bringing researchers (perhaps from one of your other research areas?) on-wiki, you might enjoy this special report from the Signpost about a Wikibomb organized with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/ 20

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community policing, New Page Patrol, Articles for Creation, and editor retention

Pine, I don't know if Jane answered this -- but I think that would be a great idea. There's been a little research work in improving newbie interactions (and NPP/AFC/etc) but there needs to be a lot more. -Jodi On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Pine W wrote: > Jane, what would you think about t

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Adding or submitting one's research project about Wikipedia to Wikipedia's Research project page

If you want to do research about Wikipedia, you should certainly describe your work on the Research pages of Meta. There are no negative implications -- and it does provide a quick way to link to a summary of your work. For instance, my dissertation work at NUIG is described here: https://meta.wi

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Extracting PMIDs

PubMedCentral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Ahh. What are pmcs? > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Maximilian Klein > wrote: > >> Out of interest, my regex was >> >> pmc\s*\=\s*(.*?)[\|\}] >> >> and then also >> >> pm

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Dbworld] Abstracts for book on emerging human-machine technologies

Maybe relevant for folks on the list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Thompson Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:40 PM Subject: [Dbworld] Abstracts for book on emerging human-machine technologies To: dbwo...@cs.wisc.edu *Call For Chapters* *Emerging Human-Machine Technologies*

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Joining derp?

So does that mean that it's on the agenda for whichever group approves use of the WMF logo? On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Indeed. Jonathan, Dario and I have been in contact with Tim Hwang and the > other DERP organizers for months. We're a big fan of the project and

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] "Changing Orders of Knowledge. Encyclopaedias in Transition". Thematic section/special issue of Culture Unbound.

More general work on encyclopedias, in case it's of interest... -- Forwarded message -- From: Jutta Haider Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:37 AM Subject: [Air-L] "Changing Orders of Knowledge. Encyclopaedias in Transition". Thematic section/special issue of Culture Unbound. To: Air-L

Re: [Wiki-research-l] this month's research newsletter

Stuart -- You make good points ('render unto academia what is academia's). But I still think further personalization and even clearer attribution would have gone a long way... 'it is disappointing that the main purpose appears to be completing a thesis, with little thought to actually improving Wi

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Studies in Featured Articles.

Also in English (and one of my favorites): Stein, Klaus, and Claudia Hess. "Does it matter who contributes: a study on Featured Articles in the German Wikipedia." *Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia*. ACM, 2007. Thus it appears that their German version might meet

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia monthly research showcase: Feb 26, 11.30 PT

Dario, Are the streams recorded? Sounds interesting! -Jodi On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Dario Taraborelli < dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly > showcase of the > W

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Job: Wikipedia Affiliate at George Mason University

Of possible interest -- most useful for someone needing library access. "Wikipedia Affiliate" is an unpaid, offsite, year-long position. Its aim? "significantly improving the accuracy and reliability at least 25 Wikipedia articles on historical topics, preferably articles within a particular hist

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Some data from the Italian Wikipedia deletion process

Thanks, Nemo -- this [1] is really interesting info. Particularly, the demographics could be compared to Geiger & Ford "Participation in Wikipedia's Article Deletion Processes" WikiSym 2011: http://www.stuartgeiger.com/papers/article-deletion-wikisym-geiger-ford.pdf A few things I needed to figure

Re: [Wiki-research-l] What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia?

in 2013 to date is 127K. (data from the > RecentChanges feed) > > > > HTH > Dario > > > On May 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote: > > What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia? > > This is to frame my dissertation research --

[Wiki-research-l] What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia?

What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia? This is to frame my dissertation research -- I haven't found "edits per day" in the stats I've looked at [1][2]. -Jodi [1] http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/ [2] http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php PS: Ther

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings

For those doing participatory HCI research, this may be relevant. First deadline July 31st is an indication of interest. Details below. -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: John Vines Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:48 AM Subject: [Air-L] CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on par

Re: [Wiki-research-l] case study with statistics: libraries & archives should share on Wikipedia

Your concerns are well-placed, Laura -- bit I think that points out the need for local information templates within Wikipedia, that can get readers to relevant non-Web info. See for instance: http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/ -Jodi On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] Mixed methods Internet research

Any examples of mixed methods research for Christine (cc'd)? -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: Christine Hine Date: Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:50 AM Subject: [Air-L] Mixed methods Internet research To: ai...@listserv.aoir.org I'm currently writing a review article on mixed methods

[Wiki-research-l] a multilingual ontology mapping from Wikipedia to WordNet Fwd: [SIGLEX] Release of BabelNet 1.1

See more info below about BabelNet -- which maps from Wikipedia to WordNet (an English lexicon) to make a multilingual ontology. -Jodi > Original Message > Subject: [SIGLEX] Release of BabelNet 1.1 > Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:16:14 -0500 > From: Roberto Navigli > > >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Publishing Open Access... Only.

There are numerous open access publications. A partial directory is provided by DOAJ - the Directory of Open Access Journals: http://doaj.org/ In many fields (particularly health/life sciences) publishing open access is the established norm. -Jodi On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Jane Darnell w

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] CFP> Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration

Haven't seen this call here yet... Apologies if it's a duplication! -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: Noriko Hara Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:16 PM Subject: [Air-L] CFP> Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration To: ai...@aoir.org *Call

[Wiki-research-l] Table of Contents of journal special issue "using Wikipedia" for AI/NLP Fwd: [Dbworld] Artificial Intelligence Journal Special Issue on "AI, Wikipedia & Semi-Structured Resources" on

Table of Contents of a special issue on "AI, Wikipedia & Semi-Structured Resources" -- may be of interest. This is of the "using Wikipedia" type -- but perhaps also worth mentioning in the research newsletter if there's space. The intro "Collaboratively built semi-structured content and Artificial

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] AMCIS 2013 CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Aspects of Crowdsourced Content Production and Knowledge Repositories

Of possible interest... -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: Noriko Hara Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM Subject: [Air-L] AMCIS 2013 CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Aspects of Crowdsourced Content Production and Knowledge Repositories To: ai...@aoir.org 19th Americas Conference

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [sigCR] CFP: Classification and Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge - The Hague, 24-25 October 2013

Wikipedia is particularly mentioned in this call, for use in classification and visualization research. Possibly of interest. -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: Aida Slavic Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM Subject: [sigCR] CFP: Classification and Visualization: Interfaces to Kno

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] CFP Theme section: Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition

Maybe of interest... -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: Jutta Haider Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:19 PM Subject: [Air-L] CFP Theme section: Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition To: ai...@listserv.aoir.org CALL FOR PAPERS Theme section: Changing orders o

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal? - Conference vs. journal publication

gt; >> I think it basically is a different publication model. You probably could >> have two track (one for final, the other for working papers) so as to >> address the disciplines which rely on journals as final outlets. >> >> Best, >> Dj >> 20 lis 2012 20:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal? - Conference vs. journal publication

t > verbatim in a journal submission is quite real. These differences possibly > may result in WikiSym, as a conference and only in some disciplines, being > less popular than it deserves. > > best, > > dariusz > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:59 PM, J

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal? - Conference vs. journal publication

Hi Dariusz, This is interesting, because if we can articulate problems in the copyright notice, we may be able to fix them. Currently, for WikiSym, the ACM Publications copyright form for proceedings is used: *http://www.acm.org/publications/CopyReleaseProc-9-12.pdf* This includes: * The right to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal?

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Ward Cunningham wrote: > I wonder if a better place to innovate might be in the conduct of > research, rather than the reporting, review and publication of research? > +1* Regarding the existing conversation, if we want a journal, we need to ask what the purpose

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

+1 -Jodi On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > Getting an article to a GA and FA is more a measure of how well > somebody knows the Wikipedia rules and system and is able to jump > through them. Only very active editors will even know that there is > such a thing as a GA or

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

GA is not necessarily like other articles. Among other things, more knowledge of process and more task-focused collaboration are probably typical (any evidence of that?). For the German WP, there is solid research on FA, concluding that "We explore on the German Wikipedia whether only the mere num

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research areas

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:59 AM, emijrp wrote: > I will add gender and culture, thanks. > > I'd consider separating those. Is culture "culture and language"? > In either case, the list seems to be based around a number of pretty >> detailed concepts, it it based on keywords? If so, you'll have

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] CALL FOR PAPERS: Collaborative Organizations and Social Media (COSM)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Dhiraj Murthy Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:00 PM Subject: [Air-L] CALL FOR PAPERS: Collaborative Organizations and Social Media (COSM) To: "ai...@listserv.aoir.org" CALL FOR PAPERS ***

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

+1 In particular -- there are options going towards new publication processes, and options suited to current incentives. We might want to have initiatives in BOTH directions, but we might first want to cluster and see Anybody have time to organize the ideas so far on meta? -Jodi On Mon, Se

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

p://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ -Jodi > -- > Piotr Konieczny > > > On 9/14/2012 11:33 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote: > > Getting First Monday indexed in ISI would be a good step. > > I have helped start an open access journal before [1] so I'd be happy to > give adv

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

://arxiv.org/help/support/faq#7E On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote: > >> Getting First Monday indexed in ISI would be a good step. > > > Yes. > >> >> I have helped start an open access j

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

Getting First Monday indexed in ISI would be a good step. I have helped start an open access journal before [1] so I'd be happy to give advice. But generally, I don't think that we need more journals. Rather, let's make open access the journals that we have. This has been done in some communities

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] AAG 2012 CFP: Tools and Tales of Social and Spatial Network Analysis

This looks like an interesting venue for wiki-related research with a geo slant. -Jodi (via AOIR) -- Forwarded message -- From: Joe Eckert Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:52 PM Subject: [Air-L] AAG 2012 CFP: Tools and Tales of Social and Spatial Network Analysis To: ai...@listserv.a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New tool to help find topics for editing

Hi Dave, Thanks for this -- I was about to tweet about it ("wikiFeed finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on an editor's preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds" might be a good summary). But your website doesn't give any information that would be understandable to someb

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia's response to 2012 Aurora shooting

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:44 AM, FT2 wrote: > Commenting as an experienced editor who has routinely worked on "breaking > news" articles in English Wikipedia,my main experience is that with other > experienced editors, the article and its history implicitly provide most of > the collaboration nee

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Google releases dataset linking strings and concepts

Thanks, emjirp! Great news! Quoting from [2] for context before you clickthrough: "The data set contains triples, each consisting of (i) *text*, a short, raw natural language string; (ii) *url*, a related concept, represented by an English Wikipedia article's canonical location

[Wiki-research-l] Bernie Hogan seeks part-time Wikipedia researcher

Bernie Hogan is soliciting for a part-time Wikipedia researcher, via his blog: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hogan/2012/05/job-opening-for-part-time-researcher-on-wikipedia/ == Job opening for part time researcher on Wikipedia We are looking for a part time researcher for our wikipedia project.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

Hi Dario & all, Thanks for that! RCom review is still confusing to me (and I assume to many). I'm not sure how new researchers find out about the need for it (or even about the meta documentation procedures). I think more information/publicity about this could help. One possible and partial appro

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Dbpedia-discussion] [ANN] wiktionary.dbpedia.org online - Linked Data, SPARQL and Dumps

I was interested to hear that wiktionary now has a Linked Data mirror (like dbpedia). See below. -Jodi > > Original Message > Subject: [Dbpedia-discussion] [ANN] wiktionary.dbpedia.org online - > Linked Data, SPARQL and Dumps > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:22:06 +0100 > From:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Workshop call for participation: WikiLit: Collecting the Wiki and Wikipedia Literature at WikiSym 2011

I'm looking forward to hearing a report of the workshop, once somebody gets a chance! -Jodi 2011/10/3 Finn Årup Nielsen > Dear Reid and Phoebe, > > I suppose that this Workshop is going on today. > > On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 17:42 +0200, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > On 8/31/11 8:53 PM, Daniel Mietch

Re: [Wiki-research-l] List of papers: 2596.

Thanks, emijrp! If you get BibTeX for these along the way (or some other output format), I'd love to import the citations into AcaWiki. -Jodi On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Joe Corneli wrote: > Nice! > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:40 PM, emijrp wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I just want to share w

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

The trending articles are really nice, Ed! It would be nice to add tooltips for the bot/person/(whatever the red things are) icons; those icon-based filters are a nice addition! -Jodi On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Ed Summers wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a quick heads up to let you know I added

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

It would be really interesting to have these visualizations for other projects (e.g. wikisource, wikiquote, ...). -Jodi On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Jyothis E wrote: > Ed, > > Can we plan for a few filter options for name spaces, time zones, IP edits > vs non IP edits, for IP edits, may be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Historical Wikipedia edits on excel files

Great work, Lior! I don't have any immediate need for these, but I do want them to be stewarded by the community. Please do find a place to deposit them (an institutional repository, Google Docs, the Internet Archive, ...). We will definitely want to make use of them in the future! -Jodi On Mon,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Can I interview you about the deletion process on EN-WP?

; > [4] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Projects/Motivation_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia,_a_Collective_Work > Best, > Dario > On May 11, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Jodi Schneider wrote: > > Hello (and please pardon the crossposting), > > I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Digital

[Wiki-research-l] Can I interview you about the deletion process on EN-WP?

mins who close discussions), with people who spend little time commenting in deletion discussions, as well as those who do. Would you be willing to talk with me? Let me know the best times for you; you can reach me at jschnei...@pobox.com or with the info below. -Jodi Schneider WP:J

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Action plan for AcaWiki hosting change

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > On 4/26/11 4:45 PM, Jon Phillips wrote: >> >>> First, the current AcaWiki skin is not so good. For the reasons I've >>> mentioned earlier, I believe this negatively impacts our ability to grow the >>> community. >> >> Great, Fabricatorz is

[Wiki-research-l] best practices for recruiting study participants?

What are the recommended ways to recruit Wikipedians for a research study? My thoughts are: Specific recruitment (i.e. to particular populations/randomized samples): - email? - Talk page messages? Generic recruitment: - post to the Village Pump - post to the appropriate project mailing list(s)

[Wiki-research-l] [acawiki-general] Proposal: new hosting for AcaWiki

Resending since my reply bounced earlier... -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: Jodi Schneider Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: new hosting for AcaWiki To: Reid Priedhorsky Cc: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org, acawiki-gene

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Proposal: build a wiki literature review wiki-style

Hi Reid, I'm involved with AcaWiki, so I'll start answers to your questions here. Hopefully others will comment, too. On 23 Mar 2011, at 23:49, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > On 3/22/11 4:28 PM, Chitu Okoli wrote: >> >> Reid wrote: >>> >>> There also appear to be various options for Semantic Med

Re: [Wiki-research-l] edit counts for specific users

On 23 Mar 2011, at 20:46, Erik Zachte wrote: > In Wikimania Boston, 2006, visualization experts [1] Fernanda Viégas en > Martin Wattenberg presented a tool which could produce a tag cloud from a > person's edit history. Tag clouds were a novelty and very suitable for the > matter at hand. You cou

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia literature review - conference articles

Hi Chitu, On 14 Mar 2011, at 18:25, Chitu Okoli wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We sent a separate e-mail introducing our systematic literature review on > Wikipedia-related peer-reviewed academic studies published in English. As we > mentioned, we have identified over 2,100 peer-reviewed studies. T

[Wiki-research-l] Wikimania 2011 registration and scholarship application to begin on January 1st!

The Wikimania call for papers and scholarship application call is out. Happy New Year, all! -Jodi -- Forwarded message -- From: Harel Cain Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:01 AM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2011 registration and scholarship application to begin on January 1st! T

Re: [Wiki-research-l] ProveIt - Wikipedia references made easy

Zotero can push from BibTeX to {{Cite}} -- you might be able to extract something from there. -Jodi On 2 Dec 2010, at 21:45, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On Thursday, December 02, 2010, Kurt Luther wrote: >> Thanks so much for considering it! > > Nifty, I'm so glad to see work like this moving forwar

Re: [Wiki-research-l] my ph. d. -- still formulating a research question

Hi Joe, These are interesting questions, but I think that it will be hard to comprehensively address ALL of them simultaneously. I think the WHO question is foundational. For instance: (0) How is the current 'teacher' role modified in delivering low-cost high-quality math education via the Inte

Re: [Wiki-research-l] top hosts in external links

On 25 Aug 2010, at 22:13, Ed Summers wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Edward Betts wrote: >> That would be this: >> >> http://edwardbetts.com/findlink >> >> Enter the title of an article and it will find other articles that could >> link to it. >> >> For an example see this: >> >> h

[Wiki-research-l] top hosts in external links

Ed Summers has done some nice analysis of the top hosts referenced in article space, based on SQL dumps: http://inkdroid.org/journal/2010/08/25/top-hosts-referenced-in-wikipedia-part-2/ People with more in-depth knowledge might make something of this -- for instance the importance of bots in ext

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

On 24 Jul 2010, at 23:01, Jakob wrote: > ...to attract more then a little fraction of the declining > number of Wikipedia authors we need a clear mission and usable > software for this task - I seen neither the one nor the other. I think focusing on Wikimedia's citation needs is the most prom

[Wiki-research-l] Moving forward

While looking through strategy wiki I noticed this proposal: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published Perhaps it's worth putting up a proposal at strategy wiki, or modifying this one? See http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_proposals Als

Re: [Wiki-research-l] There is no silver identifier

On 22 Jul 2010, at 21:00, Jakob wrote: > Jodi Schneider wrote: > >> Interesting. I'd really like ID's to be not only comprehensible but >> also to have a fair chance of being directly inputtable by humans. > > Usual bibliographic catalogs do not provide a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] There is no silver identifier

On 22 Jul 2010, at 03:13, Jack Park wrote: > "citation signals" will always work until a rock band takes that name > and gets a page in Wikipedia. Try "game theory". Still directly inputable -- and takes me close to my intended destination (if I'm a human, paying attention): "This article is a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Generate Wikipedia citations on Open Library

On 22 Jul 2010, at 00:30, David Goodman wrote: > Why would anyone cite this particular edition? Either because it's the copy they have in their hand, or because they're talking about the material/cultural conditions surrounding it. (Significant differences from other editions, things special a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

On 21 Jul 2010, at 19:47, Brian J Mingus wrote: > Finn, > > I'm not a fan of including a portion of the the title for a couple of > reasons. First, it's not required to make the key unique. Second, it makes > the key longer than necessary. Third, the first word or words from a title > are not

Re: [Wiki-research-l] There is no silver identifier

On 21 Jul 2010, at 21:43, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > A compromise could be that the ID is the first author's name plus an > auto-incrememented ID per author. So for example, the first paper of > mine the system learns is priedhorsky1, the second priedhorsky2, etc. So > you get a system-generated

[Wiki-research-l] page numbers

doesn't already exist. > > Jeff > >> -Original Message- >> From: Tom Morris [mailto:tfmor...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:37 PM >> To: Young,Jeff (OR) >> Cc: Karen Coyle; Jodi Schneider; public-lld; Code for Libraries; Brian >>

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

On 21 Jul 2010, at 09:42, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> Kang+Hsu+Krajbich+2009+the+wick+in This seems best to me of what's proposed so far. > Both seem good, though i would suggest to form a convention to ignore any > leading "the" and "a", to a more distinctive 3 word suffix. While that's a good id

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

Hi Brian, On 20 Jul 2010, at 18:02, Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote: > > > Hi Brian and others, > > I also think that it would be interesting with some bibliographic support, > for two-way citation tracking and commenting on articles (for exa

[Wiki-research-l] "Mining Wikipedia public data" notes. Do we want to document research methods & tools?

We had a very useful collective notetaking effort during Felipe's Wikimania session on Mining Wikipedia public data. To have a second copy, I've dumped it the contents into the Talk page for that session: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Mining_Wikipedia_public_data There

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: modern foundations of scientific consensus

Hi Brian & all, This is the first I've heard of WikiPapers. If the software isn't released, is there someplace it's in use? In other words, how can I try it? (The closest I can find http://www.netblender.com/main/resources/wikipapers/ is clearly not you!) This "getting the metadata" functional

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: modern foundations of scientific consensus

iki/WikiTextrose > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite > > The "wikitextrose" proposal aims to gather data about these types of > sources, and links between them. > > The "wikicite" proposal aims to organize citable statements on other > wiki project

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: modern foundations of scientific consensus

Samuel, This is great! What's the idea for a WikiCite project? -Jodi On 20 Jun 2010, at 22:44, Samuel Klein wrote: > Some motivation for a proper WikiCite project. --sj > > > === Begin forwarded message == > "How citation distortions create unfounded authorit