[Air-L] Wikimedia Award paper submission: deadline extension

Tue Jul 31 07:12:06 PDT 2012

(apologies for cross-posting)

The deadline for Wikimedia Award paper submission is extended to the 7th of
August

If you consider a paper has been particularly important in the field of
free knowledge/Wikipedia studies please submit it now! http://goo.gl/FYvFb

We already have 22 submitted papers:

   -
      - 1.2 Wikipedia: A Key Tool for Global Public Health
Promotion<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Wikipedia:_A_Key_Tool_for_Global_Public_Health_Promotion>
      - 1.3 Semantic
Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Semantic_Wikipedia>
      - 1.4 DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open
Data<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#DBpedia:_A_Nucleus_for_a_Web_of_Open_Data>
      - 1.5 Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable
Sources?<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Wikipedia_as_Participatory_Journalism:_Reliable_Sources.3F>
      - 1.6 Governance in Social Media: A case study of the Wikipedia
      promotion
process<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Governance_in_Social_Media:_A_case_study_of_the_Wikipedia_promotion_process>
      - 1.7 He says, she says: conflict and coordination in
Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#He_says.2C_she_says:_conflict_and_coordination_in_Wikipedia>
      - 1.8 Creating, destroying, and restoring value in
Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Creating.2C_destroying.2C_and_restoring_value_in_Wikipedia>
      - 1.9 Readers are not free-riders: Reading as a form of participation
      on Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Readers_are_not_free-riders:_Reading_as_a_form_of_participation_on_Wikipedia>
      - 1.10 Foucault at wiki: First steps towards a conceptual framework for
      the analysis of wiki
discourses<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Foucault.40wiki:_First_steps_towards_a_conceptual_framework_for_the_analysis_of_wiki_discourses>
      - 1.11 Community, consensus, coercion, control: CS*W or how policy
      mediates mass
participation<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Community.2C_consensus.2C_coercion.2C_control:_CS.2AW_or_how_policy_mediates_mass_participation>
      - 1.12 Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: The nature
      and roles of policies and rules in
Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Don.27t_look_now.2C_but_we.27ve_created_a_bureaucracy:_The_nature_and_roles_of_policies_and_rules_in_Wikipedia>
      - 1.13 Talk Before You Type: Coordination in
Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Talk_Before_You_Type:_Coordination_in_Wikipedia>
      - 1.14 Us vs. Them: Understanding Social Dynamics in Wikipedia with
      Revert Graph
Visualizations<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Us_vs._Them:_Understanding_Social_Dynamics_in_Wikipedia_with_Revert_Graph_Visualizations>
      - 1.15 Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia-based explicit
      semantic analysis<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Computing_semantic_relatedness_using_Wikipedia-based_explicit_semantic_analysis>
      - 1.16 Measuring
wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Measuring_wikipedia>
      - 1.17 Large-scale named entity disambiguation based on
Wikipedia data<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Large-scale_named_entity_disambiguation_based_on_Wikipedia_data>
      - 1.18 A Content-Driven Reputation System for the
Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#A_Content-Driven_Reputation_System_for_the_Wikipedia>
      - 1.19 Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through
      coordination<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Harnessing_the_wisdom_of_crowds_in_wikipedia:_quality_through_coordination>
      - 1.20 Viable wikis: struggle for life in the
wikisphere<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Viable_wikis:_struggle_for_life_in_the_wikisphere>
      - 1.21 Can history be open source? Wikipedia and the future of the
      past<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Can_history_be_open_source.3F_Wikipedia_and_the_future_of_the_past>
      - 1.22 Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and
      Wiktionary<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Extracting_Lexical_Semantic_Knowledge_from_Wikipedia_and_Wiktionary>
      - 1.23 Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a
      collaborative online
encyclopedia.<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission#Becoming_Wikipedian:_transformation_of_participation_in_a_collaborative_online_encyclopedia.>

2012/7/25 Rémi Bachelet <remi.bachelet at ec-lille.fr>

> (apologies for cross-posting)
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Wikimédia France, a non-profit organization supporting Wikimedia projects
> in France, is launching an international research prize to reward the most
> influential research work on Wikimedia projects and free knowledge projects
> in general.
>
> What is quite new about this award is that everyone can participate:
>
>    1. by ranking nominated papers to elect the winner (ranking is shared
>    with the award jury).
>    2. by submitting important articles in this field of research for the
>    Award.
>
> Regarding the latter, we are now in the process of proposing papers and
> we'd appreciate if some of you can lend a hand. If you consider a paper
> has been particularly important in the field of free knowledge/Wikipedia
> studies and must be taken into account, do not hesitate to submit it now!
>
> Please use this form:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/papers_submission.
> Deadline for paper suggestion is August 1st.
>
>
> After that, the next phase is shortlisting nominated papers. The Wikimedia
> Award Jury will study all proposed papers to submit 5 papers to the final
> vote in September. The announcement of the winner is planned in November.
>
> Please find all details here:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award
>
>
> If you have any questions, please use the project talk page:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award
>
> Thanks!
>