Category Archives: WikiSym 2011

Session Preview: Wiki Tools and Interfaces

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, … Continue reading

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Session Preview: Designing for Open Collaboration

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 … Continue reading

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Session Preview: Collaboration in Diverse Contexts

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 … Continue reading

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Session Preview: Understanding Wikipedia

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, … Continue reading

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Panel Preview: Apples to Oranges?

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 … Continue reading

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WikiSym is seeking student volunteers

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). … Continue reading

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WikiSym 2011 Workshops Preview

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, … Continue reading

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WikiSym 2011 social media analysis by EventBurn

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 … Continue reading

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WikiViz 2011: Data Visualization Challenge

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 … Continue reading

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Deadline extended for posters and demos

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 … Continue reading

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