Thanks so much for your input on the WikiSym CFP! This is the latest draft of
the topics section with the addition of 3 extra topics related to gender,
education and institutionalisation suggested by members of this list. Remember
that these are just ways of inspiring people to think of things to write about
or to see their own work represented here. It isn't meant to be comprehensive.
Any paper related to Wikipedia research will be reviewed in this track (with
broader topics related to open collaboration, open data etc reviewed in other
WikiSym + OpenSym topics):
'Topics of interest to the Wikipedia research track include, but are not
limited to:
• 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 gender dimensions of Wikipedia editing? How are issues
around power, knowledge and representation drawn into focus by gender,
geography and other gaps in Wikipedia editing?
• What skills/competencies/connections/world views are required to
become an empowered member of the Wikimedia community? What would a Wikipedia
literate person look like? How might they obtain those
skills/competencies/connections/world views?
• What is the effect of outreach initiatives involving the growing
institutionalisation of Wikipedia activities? As galleries, libraries, archives
and museums hire Wikipedians-in-residence to digitize, showcase and/or
represent their collections, is Wikipedia able to fill some its key knowledge
gaps? Or are there unintended effects of this institutionalization of knowledge?
• 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?'
Best,
Heather.
On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Dirk Riehle wrote:
> 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
>>
>> «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·»
>> «·´¨*·¸¸« 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]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> [[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Heather
>> Ford [[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>]
>> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 11:32 PM
>> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
>> Cc: Mark Graham
>> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] advice on Wikipedia topics for WikiSym 2013
>>
>> 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
>>
>> «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·»
>> «·´¨*·¸¸« 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]
>>
>> <mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> [[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Heather
>> Ford [[email protected] <mailto:[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
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