Hello! Thank you Heather for the note!. The call looks interesting to me, but I would suggest to add gender inclusion as a topic at the call for paper, as it is a central problem in Wikipedia.
Additionally, I would encourage the organizers of Wikisym 2013 to make an extra effort in order to assure engaging women in the conference. In 2012, the organizers of Wikisym were highly predominantly male: 89% of the Symposium Committee, 78% of the Program Committee, and 80% of the program of speakers were men (according to the data provided at http://www.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/view/Main/Schedule). While other technological related conference (such as OK Fest and Personal Democracy Forum) are able to engage a better gender balance (data provided here: http://wiki.digital-commons.net/Gender). In case it could he of help, this wiki collect best practices to engage women in technology related conferences and list of women experts: http://wiki.digital-commons.net/Gender The WikiWomen's Collaborative wiki might also be a useful resource: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative Thank you again. Have a nice day! Mayo «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» @Lilaroja «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Fellow. Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Researcher. Institute of Government and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ph.D European University Institute Website: http://www.onlinecreation.info ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Heather Ford [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 8:34 PM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Cc: Mark Graham Subject: [Wiki-research-l] advice on Wikipedia topics for WikiSym 2013 Mark Graham and I are co-chairs of the Wikipedia Track at next year's WikiSym conference (now with added OpenSym!) and we're preparing the call for papers to go out Friday week. There has been such great discussion on this list in the past about what is currently missing from Wikipedia research that I thought I'd send our draft to you in case there are items that you think we might add? Our current suggestions below: • 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 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? Also really looking forward to some great papers next year. We think that it's a really good thing that Wikipedia research has a separate track next year and we're hoping that it's going to really strengthen the quality of research. Looking forward to any suggestions you might have. Best, Heather. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Programme www.ethnographymatters.net @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
