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WikiSym 2013: Wikipedia Research Track Call for Papers
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WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration
August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China
About the Conference
The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym
+ OpenSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration research, including
wiki and social media, Wikipedia, open source, open access, open data and open
government research. WikiSym is in its 9th year and will be complemented by
OpenSym, a new conference on open collaboration research and an adjunct to the
successful WikiSym conference series.
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 will be held jointly in Hong Kong, China on August 5-7,
2013.
The joint conference will contain peer-reviewed research tracks on
• Wikis, social media, and open collaboration research (WikiSym 2013)
• Wikipedia research (WikiSym 2013)
• Open source research (OpenSym 2013)
• Open access, open data, and open government research (OpenSym 2013)
You are looking at the call for papers for the Wikipedia research track. For
the other call for papers, please see http://www.wikisym.org/email
In addition, the conference will provide open space (“unconference meetings”),
experience reports, tutorials, workshops, panels, demos as well as a Doctoral
Symposium. For community track information as well as the Doctoral Symposium
please see http://www.wikisym.org/email
The open space track is a key ingredient of the event that distinguishes
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 from other conferences. It is an integral part of the
program that makes it easy to talk to other researchers and stretch your
imagination and conversations beyond the limits of your own subdiscipline,
exposing you to the full breadth of open collaboration research. The open space
track is entirely participant-organized, is open for everyone, and requires no
submission or review. For more information please see
http://www.wikisym.org/openspace/
Finally, the conference will feature exciting invited speakers and a social
program in Hong Kong, one of the most interesting cities on this planet. For
more please see http://www.wikisym.org/email
Submissions Sought
Topics of interest to the Wikipedia research track include, but are not limited
to:
• What do particular articles or groups or articles tell us about the
norms, governance and architecture of Wikipedia and its impact on media,
politics and the social sphere? How is information on Wikipedia being shaped by
the materiality of Wikipedia infrastructure?
• What is the impact of all/some of Wikipedia’s 211 language editions
having on achieving the project’s goal to represent the “sum of all human
knowledge”? Do smaller language editions follow the same development path as
larger language editions? Can different representations in different languages
tell us anything about cultural, national or regional differences?
• What are the gendered dimensions of Wikipedia editing? How are issues
around power, knowledge and representation drawn into focus by gender,
geography and other gaps and imbalances in Wikipedia editing?
• What skills/competencies/connections/world views are required to
become an empowered member of the Wikimedia community? What does a Wikipedia
literate person look like? How are those skills/competencies/connections/world
views obtained and enacted?
• Does Wikipedia enact an open source of authoritative knowledge that
impacts learning in formal and informal settings? For instance, how do students
employ Wikipedia as a covert/overt source in their papers or as a generative
site for problem formulation? Or how is Wikipedia being used as a serendipitous
experience of knowledge acquisition? What methods can be employed to understand
these varied utilizations?
• What is the effect of outreach initiatives involving the growing
institutionalisation of Wikipedia activities? As galleries, libraries, archives
and museums hire Wikipedians-in-residence to digitize, showcase and/or
represent their collections, is Wikipedia able to fill some its key knowledge
gaps? Or are there unintended effects of this institutionalization of knowledge?
• What are the methodological challenges to studying Wikipedia? How are
researchers engaging with innovative methodologies to solve some of these
problems? How are other researchers using traditional or well-established
methods to study Wikipedia?
• How are wiki projects other than Wikipedia evolving? What are the
benefits to studying other wiki projects and can comparisons and
generalisations be made from our observations of these systems?
• How does information contained in Wikipedia shape our understanding
of broader social, economic, and political practices and processes? What
theoretical frameworks in social, economic, legal and other relevant
theoretical traditions can be applied to enrich the academic discourse on
Wikipedia?
The following types of submissions are invited:
• Long research papers (5 to 10 pages)
• Short research papers (1 to 4 pages)
• Research posters (1 to 2 pages)
• Research presentations (1 to 10 pages)
Submissions for experience reports (long and short), tutorials, workshops,
panels, non-research posters, and demos are also sought but are handled through
the community track, please see http://www.wikisym.org/email
Submissions to WikiSym + OpenSym’s Doctoral Symposium are also sought but are
handled through a separate website, please see http://www.wikisym.org/email
Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive
new theoretical or empirical work about Wikipedia. Research papers will be
reviewed by the Wikipedia research track program committee to meet rigorous
academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance,
conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation. They should be
written in English. At least one author of accepted papers is required to
attend the conference in order to present the paper.
Research presentations present integrative reviews or original reports of
substantive new theoretical or empirical work about Wikipedia. This is a new
format is specifically aimed at the requirements of social science researchers
enabling those researchers to use WikiSym as a pre-publication venue before
journal publication. Only the abstracts of these papers will be published as
part of the proceedings thus leaving open the opportunity for journal
publication at a later date. Research papers will be reviewed by the Wikipedia
research track program committee to meet rigorous academic standards. Papers
will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of
presentation. They should be written in English. At least one author is
required to attend the conference in order to present the paper.
Research poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking
research results, significant research work in progress, or research work that
is best communicated in conversation. WikiSym + OpenSym’s lively poster
sessions let conference attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and
let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply
interested in the topic. Successful applicants will display their posters, up
to 1x2m in size, at a special session during the event.
WikiSym + OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different research
disciplines it draws on.
Submission Logistics
For a submission, please use the the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
All submissions are due:
• Date: March 17, 2012 (notification: May 17, 2013)
• Submission site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikisym2013 (choose ‘Wikipedia
Track’)
As long as it is March 17 (or April 14) somewhere on Earth, the system will
accept your submission.
Committee
Heather Ford - Co-Chair
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Home page URL: http://hblog.org
Mark Graham - Co-Chair
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Home page URL: http://www.zerogeography.net/
Megan Finn
Affiliation: Microsoft Research, New England
Home page URL: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/megfin/
Stuart Geiger
Affiliation: UC-Berkeley School of Information
Home page URL: http://www.stuartgeiger.com
Brent Hecht
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of
Minnesota
Home page URL: http://www.brenthecht.com
Brian Keegan
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Home page URL: www.brianckeegan.com
Wen Lin
Affiliation: Newcastle University
Home page URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/wen.lin
Felipe Ortega
Affiliation: Researcher, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research,
University Rey Juan Carlos.
Home page URL: http://felipeortega.net
Dan Perkel
Affiliation: IDEO
Home page URL: http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/
Joseph Reagle
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Home page URL: http://reagle.org/joseph/
Jodi Schneider
Affiliation: DERI, NUI Galway
Home page URL: http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html
Monica Stephens
Affiliation: Humboldt State University
Home page URL: https://sites.google.com/a/email.arizona.edu/stephens/
Dario Taraborelli
Affiliation: Wikimedia Foundation
Home page URL: http://nitens.org/taraborelli
Robert West
Affiliation: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Home page URL: http://ai.stanford.edu/~west1/
Matthew W. Wilson
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
Home page URL: http://matthew-w-wilson.com
Taha Yasseri
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Home page URL: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/
Matthew Zook
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Home page URL: zook.info
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Heather Ford
Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Programme
www.ethnographymatters.net
@hfordsa on Twitter
http://hblog.org
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