| Who integrates the networks of knowledge in Wikipedia? | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 1 | |
| Iassen Halatchliyski; Johannes Moskaliuk; Joachim Kimmerle; Ulrike Cress | |||
| In the study presented in this article we investigated two related knowledge
domains, physiology and pharmacology, from the German version of Wikipedia.
Applying the theory of knowledge building to this community, we studied the
authors of integrative knowledge.
Network analysis indices of betweenness and closeness centrality were calculated for the network of relevant articles. We compared the work of authors who wrote exclusively in one domain with that of authors who contributed to both domains. The position of double-domain authors for a knowledge building wiki community is outstanding. They are not only responsible for the integration of knowledge from a different background, but also for the composition of the single-knowledge domains. Predominantly they write articles which are integrative and central in the context of such domains. Keywords: expertise, knowledge building, knowledge integration, social network
analysis | |||
| What did they do?: deriving high-level edit histories in Wikis | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 2 | |
| Peter Kin-Fong Fong; Robert P. Biuk-Aghai | |||
| Wikis have become a popular online collaboration platform. Their open nature
can, and indeed does, lead to a large number of editors of their articles, who
create a large number of revisions. These editors make various types of edits
on an article, from minor ones such as spelling correction and text formatting,
to major revisions such as new content introduction, whole article
re-structuring, etc. Given the enormous number of revisions, it is difficult to
identify the type of contributions made in these revisions through human
observation alone. Moreover, different types of edits imply different edit
significance. A revision that introduces new content is arguably more
significant than a revision making a few spelling corrections. By taking edit
types into account, better measurements of edit significance can be produced.
This paper proposes a method for categorizing and presenting edits in an
intuitive way and with a flexible measure of significance of each individual
editor's contributions. Keywords: Wiki, edit categorization, edit significance, revision history, text
differencing | |||
| Deep hypertext with embedded revision control implemented in regular expressions | | BIBA | Full-Text | 3 | |
| Victor Grishchenko | |||
| While text versioning was definitely a part of the original hypertext concept [21, 36, 44], it is rarely considered in this context today. Still, we know that revision control underlies the most exciting social co-authoring projects of the today's Internet, namely the Wikipedia and the Linux kernel. With an intention to adapt the advanced revision control technologies and practices to the conditions of the Web, the paper reconsiders some obsolete assumptions and develops a new versioned text format perfectly processable with standard regular expressions (PCRE [6]). The resulting deep hypertext model allows instant access to past/concurrent versions, authorship, changes; enables deep links to reference changing parts of a changing text. Effectively, it allows distributed and real-time revision control on the Web, implementing the vision of co-evolution and mutation exchange among multiple competing versions of the same text. | |||
| Semantic search on heterogeneous Wiki systems | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 4 | |
| Fabrizio Orlandi; Alexandre Passant | |||
| This paper describes a system to enable semantic search across heterogeneous
wikis in an unified way using Semantic Web technologies. In particular, we
discuss (i) how we designed a common model for representing social and
structural wiki features and (ii) how we extracted semantic data from wikis
using Mediawiki and Dokuwiki. On this basis, we show how we built and efficient
application with a simple user-interface enabling semantic searching and
browsing capabilities on the top of different interlinked wikis. Keywords: Dokuwiki, MediaWiki, SIOC, linked data, semantic search, semantic web,
social semantic web, wikis | |||
| Wikis at work: success factors and challenges for sustainability of enterprise Wikis | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 5 | |
| Jonathan Grudin; Erika Shehan Poole | |||
| We examined wiki use in a range of enterprise settings. We found many
thriving wikis, but they were a minority of the thousands for which we obtained
data. Even an actively used wiki can disappoint some important stakeholders.
Careful stakeholder analysis and education may be crucial to successful wiki
deployment. We identify a range of success factors, sources of wiki
abandonment, and approaches to addressing the challenges. Some of our
observations may extend to other social media. Keywords: Wiki, adoption, organization behavior | |||
| Model-aware Wiki analysis tools: the case of HistoryFlow | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 6 | |
| Oscar Díaz; Gorka Puente | |||
| Wikis are becoming mainstream. Studies confirm how wikis are finding their
way into organizations. This paper focuses on requirements for analysis tools
for corporate wikis. Corporate wikis differ from their grow-up counterparts
such as Wikipedia. First, they tend to be much smaller. Second, they require
analysis to be customized for their own domains. So far, most analysis tools
focus on large wikis where handling efficiently large bulks of data is
paramount. This tends to make analysis tools access directly the wiki database.
This binds the tool to the wiki engine, hence, jeopardizing customizability and
interoperability. However, corporate wikis are not so big while customizability
is a desirable feature. This change in requirements advocates for analysis
tools to be decoupled from the underlying wiki engines. Our approach argues for
characterizing analysis tools in terms of their abstract analysis model (e.g. a
graph model, a contributor model). How this analysis model is then map into
wiki-implementation terms is left to the wiki administrator. The administrator,
as the domain expert, can better assess which is the right terms/granularity to
conduct the analysis. This accounts for suitability and interoperability gains.
The approach is borne out for HistoryFlow, an IBM tool for visualizing evolving
wiki pages and the interactions of multiple wiki authors. Keywords: MDE, Wiki, analysis tools, collaboration, information visualization,
interoperability, model-driven, visualization, web 2.0 | |||
| ThinkFree: using a visual Wiki for IT knowledge management in a tertiary institution | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 7 | |
| Christian Hirsch; John Hosking; John Grundy; Tim Chaffe | |||
| We describe ThinkFree, an industrial Visual Wiki application which provides
a way for end users to better explore knowledge of IT Enterprise Architecture
assets that is held within a large enterprise wiki. The application was
motivated by the difficulty users were facing navigating and understanding
enterprise architecture information in a large corporate wiki. ThinkFree
provides a graph based interactive visualization of IT assets which are
described using the Freebase semantic wiki. It is used to visualize
relationships between those assets and navigate between them. We describe the
motivation for the development of ThinkFree, its design and implementation. Our
experiences in corporate rollout of the application are discussed, together
with the strengths of weaknesses of the approach we have taken and lessons
learned from ThinkFree's development and deployment. Keywords: knowledge management, visual wiki, visualization | |||
| Openness as an asset: a classification system for online communities based on actor-network theory | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 8 | |
| Annalisa Pelizza | |||
| There exists a lack of consensus among scholars about the definition and
categorization of technology-mediated communities. If these divergences hamper
the possibility to devise a unique definition of online communities, some
principia divisionis can nonetheless be found, in order to handle
heterogeneity.
Drawing upon case studies selected from Ars Electronica's Digital Communities competition, this paper analyses the limits of the categorization variables traditionally used to classify online communities, and proposes a new classification system made of two variables measuring the "openness" of the community. The first variable enacts Actor-Network Theory's distinction between mediators and intermediaries, while the second considers the degree of openness of the regimes of access and visibility enabled by groupware architectures. On-field evaluation of this classification system shows three advantages: since it is based on the abstract criterion "openness", it does not arbitrarily reduce the richness of the techno-social world, but rather allows researchers to cluster few types of online community. In addition, it is of some merit in tracking innovation in techno-social assemblages. Keywords: ANT, classification variables, groupware architecture, innovation,
membership, open online communities, textual account | |||
| The Austrian way of Wiki(pedia)!: development of a structured Wiki-based encyclopedia within a local Austrian context | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 9 | |
| Christoph Trattner; Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi; Denis Helic; Helmut Leitner | |||
| Although the success of online encyclopedias such as Wiki-pedia is
indisputable, researchers have questioned usefulness of Wikipedia in
educational settings. Problems such as copy&paste syndrome, unchecked
quality, or fragmentation of knowledge have been recognized as serious
drawbacks for a wide spread application of Wikipedia in universities or high
schools. In this paper we present a Wiki-based encyclopedia called
Austria-Forum that aims to combine openness and collaboration aspects of
Wikipedia with approaches to build a structured, quality inspected, and
context-sensitive online encyclopedia. To ensure tractability of the publishing
process the system focuses on providing information within a local Austrian
context. It is our experience that such an approach represents a first step of
a proper application of online encyclopedias in educational settings. Keywords: Austria-forum, Wiki, context-aware Wiki, local Wiki, structured Wiki | |||
| '[B]ut this is blog maths and we're free to make up conventions as we go along': Polymath1 and the modalities of 'massively collaborative mathematics' | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 10 | |
| Michael J. Barany | |||
| In February, 2009, an international group comprising mathematicians ranging
from amateurs to elite professionals converged on the WordPress blog of
Cambridge mathematician Timothy Gowers in order to attempt to prove a
mathematical theorem -- a project Gowers called Polymath1. Their results
surprised even the project's most optimistic participants. In six weeks, the
group had managed to combinatorially prove the density Hales-Jewett theorem,
yielding in the process a host of new mathematical insights.
This paper explores how the mathematicians of Polymath1 worked within and adapted the WordPress blog environment to their uses. I examine from a qualitative sociological perspective how procedural and technical questions interacted in a mathematics research setting as the project moved from its nebulous beginnings toward completion. The paper thus indirectly considers the ways in which such meta-mathematical questions are inscribed in research environments, and opens up several methodological questions for the sociology of mathematics and the Internet. Between the mathematical and meta-mathematical negotiations of the Polymath1 project, there emerges a rich virtual site for the study of collaboration in mathematics and related disciplines. Keywords: Polymath1, blogs, mathematics, online collaboration | |||
| A Wiki-based collective intelligence approach to formulate a body of knowledge (BOK) for a new discipline | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 11 | |
| Yoshifumi Masunaga; Yoshiyuki Shoji; Kazunari Ito | |||
| This paper describes a wiki-based collective intelligence approach to
provide a system environment that enables users to formulate a body of
knowledge (BOK) for a new discipline, such as social informatics. When the
targeted discipline is mature, for example, computer science, its BOK can be
straightforwardly formulated by a task force using a top-down approach.
However, in the case of a new discipline, it is presumed that nobody has a
comprehensive understanding of it; therefore, the formulation of BOK in such a
field can be carried out using a bottom-up approach. In other words, a
collective intelligence approach supporting such work seems promising. This
paper proposes the BOK+ which is a novel BOK formulation principle for new
disciplines. To realize this principle, the BOK Constructor is designed and
prototyped where Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is used to provide its basic
functions. The BOK Constructor consists of a BOK Editor, SMW, Uploader, and BOK
Miner. Most of the fundamental functions of the BOK Constructor, with the
exception of the BOK Miner, were implemented. We validated that the BOK
Constructor serves its intended purpose. Keywords: BOK constructor, Semantic MediaWiki (SMW), Wiki, body of knowledge (BOK),
collective intelligence, discipline | |||
| What cognition does for Wikis | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 12 | |
| Rut Jesus | |||
| Theoretical frameworks need to be developed to account for the phenomenon of
Wikipedia and writing in Wikis. In this paper, a cognitive framework divides
processes into the categories of Cognition for Planning and Cognition for
Improvising. This distinction is applied to Wikipedia to understand the many
small and the few big edits by which Wikipedia's articles grow. The paper
relates the distinction to Lessig' Read-Only and Read-Write, to Benkler's
modularity and granularity of contributions and to Turkle and Papert's
bricoleurs and planners. It argues that Wikipedia thrives because it harnesses
a Cognition for Improvising surplus oriented by kindness and trust towards
distant others and proposes that Cognition for Improvising is a determinant
mode for the success of Wikis and Wikipedia. The theoretical framework can be a
starting point for a cognitive discussion of wikis, peer-produced commons and
new patterns of collaboration. Keywords: Wikipedia, Wikis, cognition for improvising, cognition for planning,
cognitive surplus, collaboration, theoretical development | |||
| Project management in the Wikipedia community | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 13 | |
| Hang Ung; Jean-Michel Dalle | |||
| A feature of online communities and notably Wikipedia is the increasing use
of managerial techniques to coordinate the efforts of volunteers. In this short
paper, we explore the influence of the organization of Wikipedia in so-called
projects. We examine the project-based coordination activity and find bursts of
activity, which appear to be related to individual leadership. Using time
series, we show that coordination activity is positively correlated with
contributions on articles. Finally, we bring evidence that this positive
correlation is relying on two types of coordination: group coordination, with
project leadership and articles editors strongly coinciding, and directed
coordination, with differentiated online roles. Keywords: Wikipedia, leadership, online communities, project-based organizations | |||
| A taxonomy of Wiki genres in enterprise settings | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 14 | |
| Erika Shehan Poole; Jonathan Grudin | |||
| A growing body of work examines enterprise wikis. In this paper, we argue
that "enterprise wiki" is a blanket term describing three different genres of
wiki: single contributor wikis, group or team wikis, and internal-use
encyclopedias emulating Wikipedia. Based on the results of a study of wiki
usage in a multinational software company, we provide a taxonomy of enterprise
wiki genres. We discuss emerging challenges specific to company-wide
encyclopedias for which platforms such as Wikipedia provide surprisingly little
guidance. These challenges include platform and content management decisions,
territoriality, establishment of contribution norms, dispute resolution, and
employee turnover. Keywords: enterprise wiki, pedia, taxonomy, wiki, workplace | |||
| Toward sensitive information redaction in a collaborative, multilevel security environment | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 15 | |
| Peter Gehres; Nathan Singleton; George Louthan; John Hale | |||
| Wikis have proven to be an invaluable tool for collaboration. The most
prominent is, of course, Wikipedia. Its open nature is not suitable for all
environments; in corporate, government, and research environments it is often
necessary to control access to some or all of the information due to
confidentially, privacy, or security concerns. This paper proposes a method by
which information classified at multiple sensitivity levels can be securely
stored and made accessible via the wiki only to authenticated and authorized
users. The model allows for each page to be viewed at appropriate levels of
classification transparently included or excluded based on the user's access
level. Keywords: collaboration, multilevel security, redaction | |||
| A fielded wiki for personality genetics | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 16 | |
| Finn Årup Nielsen | |||
| I describe a fielded wiki, where a Web form interface allows the entry,
analysis and visualization of results from scientific papers in the personality
genetics domain. Papers in this domain typically report the mean and standard
deviation of multiple personality trait scores from statistics on human
subjects grouped based on genotype. The wiki organizes the basic data in a
single table with fixed columns, each row recording statistical values with
respect to a specific personality trait reported in a specific paper with a
specific genotype group. From this basic data hard-coded meta-analysis can
compute individual and combined effect sizes. The meta-analytic results are
displayed in on-the-fly computed hyperlinked graphs and tables. Revision
control on the basic data tracks changes and data may be exported to
comma-separated files or in a MediaWiki template format. Keywords: Wikis, bioinformatics, meta-analysis, neuroinformatics, structured data,
tables | |||
| Quality check with DokuWiki for instant user feedback | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 17 | |
| Andreas Gohr; Detlef Hüttemann; Daniel Faust; Frank Fuchs-Kittowski | |||
| The present work describes a DokuWiki based solution to automatically
analyze the structural quality of wiki pages by gathering and evaluating
predefined metrics. By providing immediate quality feedback, users are educated
and the overall quality of the wiki is increased. Keywords: DokuWiki, quality checks, structural quality, user guidance | |||
| Spatio-temporal analysis of Wikipedia metadata and the STiki anti-vandalism tool | | BIBA | Full-Text | 18 | |
| Andrew G. West; Sampath Kannan; Insup Lee | |||
| The bulk of Wikipedia anti-vandalism tools require natural language
processing over the article or diff text. However, our prior work demonstrated
the feasibility of using spatio-temporal properties to locate malicious edits.
STiki is a real-time, on-Wikipedia tool leveraging this technique.
The associated poster reviews STiki's methodology and performance. We find competing anti-vandalism tools inhibit maximal performance. However, the tool proves particularly adept at mitigating long-term embedded vandalism. Further, its robust and language-independent nature make it well-suited for use in less-patrolled Wiki installations. | |||
| A method for category similarity calculation in Wikis | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 19 | |
| Cheong-Iao Pang; Robert P. Biuk-Aghai | |||
| Wikis, such as Wikipedia, allow their authors to assign categories to
articles in order to better organize related content. This paper presents a
method to calculate similarities between categories, illustrated by a
calculation for the top-level categories in the Simple English version of
Wikipedia. Keywords: Wiki, category similarity | |||
| Zawilinski: a library for studying grammar in Wiktionary | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 20 | |
| Zachary Kurmas | |||
| We present Zawilinski, a Java library that supports the extraction and
analysis of grammatical data in Wiktionary. Zawilinski can efficiently (1)
filter Wiktionary for content pertaining to a specified language, and (2)
extract a word's inflections from its Wiktionary entry. We have thus far used
Zawilinski to (1) measure the correctness of the inflections for a subset of
the Polish words in the English Wiktionary and to (2) show that this
grammatical data is very stable. (Only 131 out of 4748 Polish words have had
their inflection data corrected.) We also explain Zawilinski's key features and
discuss how it can be used to simplify the development of additional
grammar-based analyses. Keywords: MediaWiki, Wiktionary, inflection, language, parse, wiki | |||
| Search on enterprise Wiki | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 21 | |
| Natalya Angapova | |||
| In this poster, I share the results we have got while working on a better
and easier search on our enterprise Wiki. Keywords: Wikis, corporate, enterprise wikis, search | |||
| Chatting in the Wiki: synchronous-asynchronous integration | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 22 | |
| Robert P. Biuk-Aghai; Keng Hong Lei | |||
| Wikis have become popular platforms for collaborative writing. The
traditional production mode has been remote asynchronous and supported by wiki
systems geared toward both asynchronous writing and asynchronous communication.
However, many people have come to rely on synchronous communication in their
daily work. This paper first discusses aspects of synchronous and asynchronous
activity and communication and then proposes an integration of synchronous
communication facilities in wikis. A prototype system developed by the authors
is briefly presented. Keywords: asynchronous, communication, instant messaging, synchronous, wiki | |||
| Collaborative modeling with semantic MediaWiki | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 23 | |
| Frank Dengler; Hans-Jörg Happel | |||
| Modeling is an important aspect of information system development, allowing
for abstract descriptions of systems and processes. Therefore, models are often
characterized as communication artifacts between different stakeholders in a
development process. However, modeling as such has turned out to be a
specialist activity, requiring skills in arcane modeling languages and complex
tools.
In this paper, we suggest and present an approach for collaborative, Wiki-based modeling of process models and UML (class-)diagrams. While other web-based "lightweight" modeling tools are available, our approach consequently follows the Wiki-paradigm and allows us to semantically process the modeled information building upon Semantic MediaWiki. Keywords: UML, modeling, process models, semantic Wikis | |||
| Wikipedia and the two-faced professoriate | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 24 | |
| Patricia L. Dooley | |||
| A primary responsibility of university teachers is to guide their students
in the process of using only the most accurate research resources in their
completion of assignments. Thus, it is not surprising to hear that faculty
routinely coach their students to use Wikipedia carefully. Even more pronounced
anti-Wikipedia backlashes have developed on some campuses, leading faculty to
forbid their students to use the popular on-line compendium of information.
Within this context, but directing the spotlight away from students, this pilot
study uses survey and content analysis research methods to explore how faculty
at U.S. universities and colleges regard Wikipedia's credibility as an
information source, as well as how they use Wikipedia in their academic work.
The results of the survey reveal that while none of the university faculty who
completed it regard Wikipedia as an extremely credible source of information,
more than half stated it has moderate to high credibility, and many use it in
both their teaching and research. The results of the content analysis component
of the study demonstrates that academic researchers from across the disciplines
are citing Wikipedia as a source of scholarly information in their
peer-reviewed research reports. Although the study's research findings are not
generalizable, they are surprising considering the professoriate's oft-stated
lack of trust in Wikipedia. Keywords: Wikipedia, credibility, higher education, usage | |||
| Encouraging language students to contribute inflection data to Wiktionary | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 25 | |
| Zachary Kurmas | |||
| We propose building a computer program to simplify access to the inflection
(i.e., "word ending") data in Wiktionary. This program will make it easier to
both (1) look up a word's inflections and, more importantly, (2) edit incorrect
inflections. We expect that such a program will encourage foreign language
students to both use Wiktionary as a resource and contribute inflection and
other grammar data to Wiktionary. We believe that the resulting additional
activity will make Wiktionary a better resource for students -- especially
students of those languages for which there are no cheap, comprehensive
inflection resources -- and provide data that will be beneficial to the wiki
research community. Keywords: Wiktionary, inflection, language, wiki | |||
| "What i know is...": establishing credibility on Wikipedia talk pages | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 26 | |
| Meghan Oxley; Jonathan T. Morgan; Mark Zachry; Brian Hutchinson | |||
| This poster presents a new theoretical framework and research method for
studying the relationship between specific types of authority claims and the
attempts of contributors to establish credibility in online, collaborative
environments. We describe a content analysis method for coding authority claims
based on linguistic and rhetorical cues in naturally occurring, text-based
discourse. We present results from a preliminary analysis of a sample of
Wikipedia talk page discussions focused on recent news events. This method
provides a novel framework for capturing and understanding these
persuasion-oriented behaviors, and shows potential as a tool for online
communication research, including automated text analysis using trained natural
language processing systems. Keywords: computer-mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work,
sociotechnical systems, wikis | |||
| Learning about team collaboration from Wikipedia edit history | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 27 | |
| Adam Wierzbicki; Piotr Turek; Radoslaw Nielek | |||
| This work presents an evaluation method of teams of authors in Wikipedia
based on social network analysis. We have created an implicit social network
based on the edit history of articles. This network consists of four
dimensions: trust, distrust, acquaintance and knowledge. Trust and distrust are
based on content modifications (copying and deleting respectively);
acquaintance is based on the amount of discussion on articles' talk pages
between a given pair of authors and knowledge is based on the categories in
which an author typically contributes. As authors edit the Wikipedia, the
social network grows and changes to take into account their collaboration
patterns, creating a succinct summary of entire edit history. Keywords: Wikipedia, collaboration, social networks | |||
| Reviewing and challenging socio-political approaches in the analysis of open collaboration and collective action online | | BIBA | Full-Text | 28 | |
| Mayo Fuster Morell; Benjamin Mako Hill | |||
| Empirical research on open collaboration and collective action online has begun in earnest only recently. Different research approaches have emerged over the last decades that aim at explaining the socio-political base of open collaboration. The panel focuses on several key issues and challenges facing sociopolitical approaches in the analysis of open collaboration and collective action online, will attempt to map the main theoretical and methodological research trends, and finally, challenges the limitations and traps of current approaches while reflecting on the suitable ways to fruitfully analyses open collaboration. | |||
| Teaching with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia foundation wikis | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 29 | |
| Piotr Konieczny | |||
| Wikipedia and other wikis operated by the Wikimedia Foundation are finding
increasing applications in teaching and learning. This workshop will
demonstrate how teachers from academia and beyond can use those wikis in their
courses. Wikipedia can be used for various assignments: for example, students
can be asked to reference an unreferenced article or create a completely new
one. Students can also work on creating a free textbook on Wikibooks, learn
about journalism on Wikinews or engage in variety of media-related projects on
Commons. In doing so, students will see that writing an article and related
assignments are not a 'tedious assignment' but activities that millions do 'for
fun'. They will also gain a deeper understanding of what Wikipedia is, and how
(un)reliable it can be. They and the course leaders are assisted by a lively,
real world community. Last, but not least, their work will also benefit -- and
be improved upon -- by the entire world.
The workshop will focus on English Wikipedia, the most popular WMF wiki with regards to where the teaching assignments are taking place, but will also discuss the educational opportunities on other WMF wikis, such as Wikibooks. An overview of the Wikipedia School and University Project will be presented. There will be a discussion of Wikipedia policies related to teaching assignments, and a presentation of tools developed to make teaching with Wikipedia easier. The participants will see what kind of assignments can be done on Wikipedia (from learning simple wiki editing skills, through the assignments designed to teach students about proper referencing and sources reliability, to writing paper assignments with the goal of developing Good and Featured Articles), and how they can be implemented most easily and efficiently, avoiding common pitfalls and dealing with common problems (such as how to avoid having your students' articles deleted minutes after creation). Finally, the participants will be given an opportunity to create a draft syllabus for a future course they may want to teach on a WMF wiki (bringing your laptops for that part is highly recommended). Keywords: Wikipedia, teaching, wikis | |||
| Engaging with open education | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 30 | |
| Panagiota Alevizou; Andrea Forte | |||
| This panel will address key issues and provide empirically-grounded insights
on learning about, with, and through open educational resources (OER). Open
educational resources are educational materials that are freely shared by those
who seek to learn and those who seek to teach. OERs are viewed by many as a
revolutionary idea that could create more accessible, equitable education on a
global scale; yet, the benefits and challenges of OER adoption in practice are
not yet understood. Many OER initiatives are pursuing a vision of education as
a 'public good', and international policy agendas on education are shifting
from the idea of simply providing access to content, towards the notion of
creating 'Open Participatory Learning Ecosystems'; these efforts have outpaced
our understanding of how educational systems behave when they become more open.
Open education requires further empirical investigation. Each of the
individuals on this panel brings expertise that speaks not only to
understanding the potential value of OER, but also to understanding barriers
and challenges of OER adoption. Speakers will cover issues on:
* Advocacy, policy & development of OER
* Social interfaces and the design of participation
* Mentoring and peer learning in Open Education environments
* Popular perceptions about OER, and attitudes towards sharing and creating OER
content Keywords: OER, OER policies, collaborative communities, knowledge building, open
education, peer learning, social learning | |||
| WikiPics: multilingual image search based on Wiki-mining | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 31 | |
| Daniel Kinzler | |||
| This demonstration introduces WikiPics, a language-independent image search
engine for Wikimedia Commons. Based on the multilingual thesaurus provided by
WikiWord, WikiPics allows users to search and navigate Wikimedia Commons in
their preferred language, even though images on Commons are annotated in
English nearly exclusively. Keywords: Wikipedia, dictionary, multilingual, navigation, search, thesaurus,
translation | |||
| STiki: an anti-vandalism tool for Wikipedia using spatio-temporal analysis of revision metadata | | BIBA | Full-Text | 32 | |
| Andrew G. West; Sampath Kannan; Insup Lee | |||
| STiki is an anti-vandalism tool for Wikipedia. Unlike similar tools, STiki
does not rely on natural language processing (NLP) over the article or diff
text to locate vandalism. Instead, STiki leverages spatio-temporal properties
of revision metadata. The feasibility of utilizing such properties was
demonstrated in our prior work, which found they perform comparably to
NLP-efforts while being more efficient, robust to evasion, and language
independent.
STiki is a real-time, on-Wikipedia implementation based on these properties. It consists of, (1) a server-side processing engine that examines revisions, scoring the likelihood each is vandalism, and, (2) a client-side GUI that presents likely vandalism to end-users for definitive classification (and if necessary, reversion on Wikipedia). Our demonstration will provide an introduction to spatio-temporal properties, demonstrate the STiki software, and discuss alternative research uses for the open-source code. | |||
| GravPad | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 33 | |
| Joseph Corneli | |||
| GravPad is the next major step in the evolution of the EtherPad, a real-time
collaborative editor that was first developed at AppJet, Inc.
(http://appjet.com/) and recently open-sourced when AppJet was acquired by
Google. EtherPad's developer community, headed up by Egil Möller and John
McLear, has made a plugin engine and added standard wiki features to the editor
(http://github.com/ether/pad). My GravPad demonstration will show a hacked
EtherPad running in a "sidewiki" format -- the basis of a platform for live web
annotation and content discovery. Keywords: Wikis, annotation, content discovery | |||
| Woogle4MediaWiki: from searchers to contributors | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 34 | |
| Hans-Jörg Happel | |||
| This demo presents Woogle4MediaWiki, an extension for MediaWiki, which
improves its core search functionality and introduces Wiki-style collaboration
about information needs (each search query may have its own Wiki page) and
result lists. Furthermore, aggregate statistics from the search logs are shown
in pop-up windows attached to "red links" to guide users contributing new
information. Keywords: Wikis, knowledge sharing, social search | |||
| Wikisym doctoral symposium: introduction and summary of contributions | | BIBA | Full-Text | 35 | |
| Kevin Crowston | |||
| The WikiSym 2010 Doctoral Symposium was held immediately after WikiSym and offered invited Ph.D. students an unparalleled opportunity to present their ongoing work on wikis and open collaboration research. Students received supportive feedback from their peers and a panel of faculty mentors, to help them envision new, added-value contributions to their current research. The symposium also offered a perfect environment for the exchange of information, methodologies, practical experiences and advice that may help Ph.D. students on their way, unleashing potential interactions and opportunities for collaboration. | |||