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WikimediaIL uploaded a new video
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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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WikimediaIL uploaded a new video
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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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WikimediaIL uploaded a new video
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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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WikimediaIL uploaded a new video
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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.
http://wikimania2...
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WikimediaIL uploaded a new video
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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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