Wikis are big in education, so I'm sure educational topics are welcome. There
are plenty of educators.
The open collaboration track (wikis in general, not Wikipedia) may be more
suitable. Alternatively, for non-reserach work, the community track.
Cheers,
Dirk
On 26.11.2012 05:05, Juliana Bastos Marques wrote:
Is there any interest on adding a topic related to Education? Sorry for
insisting on this, but I'd really like to know whether I should focus my
efforts on this group or start from the ground - in terms of congresses and
journals - in another one.
Juliana.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Fuster, Mayo <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Great! Thank you Heather.
You did not make reference in your reply to it so it is difficult to know
if you consider it, but I still think adding gender question into the call
for papers would be a good idea.
Thank you again. Cheers! Mayo
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Thank you, Mayo :)
I think one of the problems with WikiSym - especially the research tracks
- is that it is (mostly) an academic conference and so is almost entirely
dependent on the academic pool (+ funding challenges etc) for
participants. That said, we're co-located with Wikimania this year which
means that hopefully we can draw from a larger group of practitioners and
researchers.
I'll definitely reach out to the WikiWomen's Collective and hopefully with
enough time to plan ahead, we'll be able to engage more women in next
year's event!
Thanks again for your suggestions.
Best,
Heather.
On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Fuster, Mayo wrote:
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
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Ph.D European University Institute
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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.
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