The technical session Wiki Tools and Interfaces will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: A High-Performing, Feature-Rich Model and its Reduction Through Lasso Sara Javanmardi, David W. McDonald, Cristina V. Lopes User generated content (UGC) constitutes a significant fraction of the Web. However, [...]

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The technical session Designing for Open Collaboration will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. A Meta-reflective Wiki for Collaborative Design Lu Zhu, Ivan Vaghi, Barbara Rita Barricelli This paper presents MikiWiki, a meta-reflective wiki developed to prototype key aspects of the Hive-Mind Space model. MikiWiki is aimed [...]

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The technical session Collaboration in Diverse Contexts will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Quality is a Verb: The Operationalization of Data Quality in a Citizen Science Community S. Andrew Sheppard, Loren Terveen Citizen science is becoming more valuable as a potential source of environmental data. Involving [...]

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The technical session Understanding Wikipedia will feature four presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, Anuradha Uduwage, Zhenhua Dong, Shilad Sen, David R. Musicant, Loren Terveen, John Riedl Wikipedia has rapidly become an invaluable destination for mil- lions of [...]

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On Wednesday right before lunch, we have a great panel: Apples to Oranges? Comparing across studies of open collaboration/peer production Panelists: Judd Antin, Ed H. Chi, James Howison, Sharoda Paul, Aaron Shaw, Jude Yew This panel seeks to begin a discussion of how we can meaningfully compare and contrast between the diverse instances of open [...]

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We are searching for enthusiastic students (undergraduate, graduate or PhD level) who want to help us running WikiSym 2011. We are celebrating our 7th edition on October 3-5, 2011 at the Microsoft Research Campus in Silicon Valley (Mountain View, California). The only mandatory requirement is that you must have had student status for the past [...]

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Over the next 26 days, we’ll be publishing a series of posts that highlight the awesome content that forms the WikiSym 2011 program. We’ll include titles, authors, and in some cases abstracts. Today’s installment: workshops! There will be three workshops, all on Monday, October 3. An important thing to note about WikiSym workshops is that [...]

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We are pleased to announce social media analysis for WikiSym 2011 by EventBurn, a Minneapolis-based startup. To see a live summary of what folks have to say about WikiSym on Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr, browse to: http://www.eventburn.com/wikisym2011 This dashboard will be available from immediately until a few weeks after the conference. (And, of course, only [...]

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Data visualization is an emerging field of interest in many areas such as journalism, consulting or research. The abundance of digital information, and specially open and publicly available datasets, is boosting inspiration of InfoViz practitioners and enthusiast to surprise us with creative and beautiful visualizations. In WikiSym, we have been planning the best way to [...]

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You asked, we listened. Again, we have received many requests for extra time to complete submissions. Thus, please note that the deadline for posters and demos has been extended to Friday, May 20. As usual, this deadline is considered as Apia time (that is, as long as it is May 20 somewhere on Earth, you [...]

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