Hi All, If you haven't already seen these, I thought that they may be of real interest to the community:
http://abs.sagepub.com/content/current -This is a special issue in "American Behavioral Scientist" on "Open Collaboration and Wiki Research" http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=6495#comment-20485 -This is the latest post from the "Follow the Crowd" blog, and in general this blog is s great resource for emerging "crowd" research. Enjoy! Best, John ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 13 May, 2013 05:00:33 Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 93, Issue 11 Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning? (Manuel Palomo Duarte) 2. 2nd Call for Contributions: Collective Behaviors and Networks, satellite @ ECCS'13, (Barcelona, September 19, 2013) (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 18:02:58 +0200 From: Manuel Palomo Duarte <[email protected]> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning? Message-ID: <cagx6hvr-3dr9zx6vdgvyrkbt1_ej4wjzflqtrshpp23eua0...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Dear Pierre-Carl I've seen you reference my paper on AssessMediaWiki. Perhaps this other reference could be of your interest: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/225107564_Assessment_of_collaborative_learning_experiences_by_graphical_analysis_of_wiki_contributions It basically introduces a previous quantitative approach that is fully-operative. AssessMediaWiki tries to complement it. Best regards, 2013/4/27 Pierre-Carl Langlais <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I have already discussed this work on the mailing list two months ago. You > may now find the preprint on Wikipapers: > http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/File:Wikipedia_E-Learning_Model_Preprint.pdf > > The typo might be somehow hazardous; this is my first scholar publication > in English and I still need to adapt to some unfamiliar formal norms. > > The original data will be disclosed in a shortwhile, probably on Meta-Wiki. > > Pierre-Carl Langlais > > > ––––––––––––––––––––– > > Abstract : > > This chapter gives a global appraisal of wiki-based pedagogic projects. > The growing influence of Wikipedia on students’ research practices have > actually made these a promising area for educational research. > A compilation of data published by 30 previous academic case studies > reveals several recurrent features. Wikis are not so easily adopted: most > wiki learning programs begin by a slow initial phase, marked by a general > unwillingness to adapt to an unusual environment. Some sociological > factors, like age and, less clearly, gender may contribute to increase this > initial reluctance. > In spite of their uneasiness, wikis proved precious tools on one major > aspect: they give a vivid representation of scientific communities. > Students get acquainted with some valuable epistemic practices and norms, > such as collaborative work and critical thought. While not improving > significantly the memorization of information, wikis clearly enhance > research abilities. > This literature review can assist teachers in determining whether the use > of wiki fits their pedagogic aims. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Prof. Manuel Palomo Duarte, PhD Software Process Improvement and Formal Methods group (SPI&FM). Degree Coordinator for Computer Science. Department of Computer Science. Escuela Superior de Ingenieria. 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And I ask you to delete this mail, and not to resend, copy or distribute its content, as well as develop or execute any action based on the same. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/attachments/20130512/648066bd/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 13:09:05 -0400 From: Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <[email protected]> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <[email protected]> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] 2nd Call for Contributions: Collective Behaviors and Networks, satellite @ ECCS'13, (Barcelona, September 19, 2013) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed The deadline is May 17th! Giovanni ***** Apologies for multiple copies ***** You are cordially invited to submit a contribution to "Collective Behaviors and Networks", a one-day satellite event of the 2013 European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'13), to be held in Barcelona, September 19, 2013. Goal of this workshop is to provide a discussion venue about advances in the study of networks applied to the dynamics of social collective behaviors. Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics: - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis. - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media. - Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis. - Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics. - Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models. - Models of social capital, collective action, social movements. - Coevolution of network and behavior. More information on COVEnANT2013 can be found here: http://covenant2013.com More information on ECCS'13 can be found here: http://eccs13.eu Requirements Participants are invited to submit their contributions via the EasyChair system at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=covenant2013 Contributions must be at most 2 pages long, and must provide the following information: title, list of authors with affiliations, and abstract. Accepted format is PDF only. More information, about selection, registration, etc., can be found here: http://www.covenant2013.com/?page_id=25 Important Dates May 17, 2013 Abstract submission deadline June 19, 2013 Notification of acceptance September 19, 2013 Satellite meeting Data Challenge In order to encourage the development of predictive, data-driven models of collective phenomena, a link prediction competition will be held as part of the meeting. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the best contributions, which will be evaluated according to rigorous scientific criteria by the program committee of the event. 1st prize: US$800, 2nd prize: US$200. Further information (task, data set, dates) to be released soon. Keynote Speakers Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, US J. Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford, UK Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, US Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University, US Special Issue The best original contributions will be invited to submit an extended version for inclusion in a special issue of EPJ Data Science (Springer). Organizing Committee Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Indiana University, US Emilio Ferrara, Indiana University, US Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, US Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, US Program Committee Luca M. Aiello, Yahoo Research Barcelona, Spain Andrea Baronchelli, Northwestern University, US Pasquale De Meo, University of Messina, Italy Santo Fortunato, Aalto University, Finland Jacob Foster, University of Chicago, US Matteo Gagliolo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Bruno Gonçalves, Aix-Marseille Université, France Andrea Lancichinetti, Northwestern University, US Michael Mäs, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Tamás Nepusz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Orion Penner, IMT Lucca, Italy Nicola Perra, Northeastern University, US Filippo Radicchi, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain José J. Ramasco, IFISC, Spain Carlos Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Giancarlo Ruffo, University of Turin, Italy Daniel Villatoro, Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Spain -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Postdoctoral fellow Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University ✎ 910 E 10th St ∙ Bloomington ∙ IN 47408 ☞ http://cnets.indiana.edu/ ✉ [email protected] ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 93, Issue 11 *********************************************** -- John Prpic MBA PhD Student - SFU PMPerspectives Research Team TCOS Lab - Genome Canada _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
