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Room:Gilboa Date: 5.8.2011, 14:30
Anti-Vandalism Research: The Year in Re...
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Room:Gilboa Date: 5.8.2011, 14:30
Anti-Vandalism Research: The Year in Review Andrew G. West The prior year has seen much anti-vandalism research, both in academic and practical (on-Wikipedia) settings. This presentation will survey that progress, including the live demonstration of software tools, and discussion of alternative uses for anti-vandalism scores (e.g., the Wikipedia 1.0 project and "smarter watchlists"). http://wikimania2...
Autonomous Detection of Collaborative Link Spam Andrew G. West Recent research suggests Wikipedia is vulnerable against a wellmotivated form of attack: external link spam. This presentation describes a machine-learning classifier for spam revisions built atop: (1) Wikipedia metadata, (2) Landing site analysis, and (3) Third-party data, including the Alexa web-crawler. http://wikimania2...
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Room: Rapport Date: 5.8.2011, 09:00
Wikipedia And/Or: Prophecy Fulfilled, ...
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Room: Rapport Date: 5.8.2011, 09:00
Wikipedia And/Or: Prophecy Fulfilled, Happy Accident, Informational Apocalypse? Dr. Joseph Reagle
In light of Wikipedia's 10th year anniversary, Dr. Reagle will ask three different historical questions about Wikipedia. First, is Wikipedia an amazing novelty or the fulfillment of a centuriesold pursuit? Second, despite its founding mythology, wasn't Wikipedia, in fact, just an accident? Finally, is Wikipedia a beneficent undertaking or a harbinger of doom?
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Room: Arbel Date: 5.8.2011, 16:30
Barriers and opportunities for expert p...
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Room: Arbel Date: 5.8.2011, 16:30
Barriers and opportunities for expert participation in Wikipedia: Results from a survey Dario Taraborelli, Daniel Mietchen, Panagiota Alevizou There has been so far only anecdotal evidence on what keeps experts from contributing to Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Research Committee ran a survey on expert participation between February and April 2011 with over 3K respondents to try and turn anecdotes about expert participation into data. The aim of this talk is to present the results of the survey and tackle questions such as: the different perception of participation in Wikipedia across academic fields; the effects of expertise, gender, discipline, wiki literacy on participation; the gap between shared attitudes and individual drivers of participation; the relation between participation in Wikipedia and attitudes towards open access and open science. http://wikimania2...
31:05 - Student clubs: How to maintain student contributors Cheryl Moy One of the main goals of the Wikimedia Foundation is to increase the number of contributors worldwide in order for entries to be exhaustive and representative of expert consensus. There are many successful projects involving schools and universities that encourage and train students to be Wikipedia editors; however the biggest challenge is not only gaining contributors but to have editors continue to contribute and contribute consistently. This talk will present the success of the inaugural year of the Michigan Wikipedians, a student club at the University of Michigan centered on editing Wikipedia. We will discuss how the group functions, the activities of the student group, offer suggestions for maintaining editors and solicit ideas, present our future plans and answer questions on how you can start your own club on campuses. http://wikimania2...
55:33 - Wikiversity: Article creation in the composition classroom Lynn Marie Hamilton College students benefit from writing for Wikipedia as part of their first-year writing program. Wikipedia gives students a real audience, rewards for, and feedback on their writing that goes far beyond the classroom. http://wikimania2...
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Room: Gilboa Date: 4.8.2011, 15:30
Wikimedia Mobile Panel The panel partici...
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Room: Gilboa Date: 4.8.2011, 15:30
Wikimedia Mobile Panel The panel participants include all of the members at the Wikimedia Foundation that are currently working to better the Wikipedia mobile experience and increase the reach and accessibility of our mobile properties. The purpose of this presentation is to engage with the community around the different approaches we are taking to accomplish this. Including but not limited to: User experience research; Surveys, statistics, and other usage data; Technical Infrastructure; current and future development work; partnerships with providers; etc.
WMF Mobile Research The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) developed a five year strategic plan which includes the development of the Wikipedia mobile applications and properties as well as a geographic focus on India, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Egypt and other Arabic speaking countries. This talk will present the methodology, results, and findings of our qualitative studies in India, Brazil, and the United States, as well as an overview of the results of a quantitative survey conducted through 10 language projects.
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Room: Gilboa Date: 4.8.2011, 14:00
How the Wikimedia Foundation is Studyin...
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Room: Gilboa Date: 4.8.2011, 14:00
How the Wikimedia Foundation is Studying Editing Trends: 2010--2011 Howie Fung, Diederik Van Liere, Barry Newstead, Steven Walling This talk is a combined version of the Editor Survey overview and the Editor Trends Study and Other WMF Research talk. Together they will give an overview of the research at the Wikimedia Foundation oriented towards the editing community. http://wikimania2...
59:00 - Global distribution of our community and readers Erik Zachte Wikimedia's mission to embrace the whole world is far from complete, both in terms of reach and of participation. New Wikistats functionality aims to improve our understanding of global activity patterns in a decidely visual way. A new web tool will provide an interactive animation (using new html5 technology) plus maps (bubble and heat maps) which visualize edits per Wikipedia language, distributed over time and place. http://wikimania2...
1:17:30 - Editor Satisfaction Survey Manuel Merz The Wikipedia Editor Satisfaction Survey 2011 gives a detailed view of the German and English Wikipedia editors' satisfaction and commitment. Data will be broken down according to a variety of aspects, including user maturity, user activities, and social role within the Wikipedia movement. This differentiated view will allow Wikimedia to strategize about ways to effectively support active users in their different roles within Wikipedia (e.g. support of new users and prevention of contributor burnout) and to further professionalize its communication campaigns. http://wikimania2...
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