Call for Workshop Papers
Workshop on Wikipedia, a Social Pedia: Research Challenges and
Opportunities
May 26, Oxford, England
co-located with the 9th International Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media (ICWSM 2015)
http://snap.stanford.edu/wiki-icwsm15/
Deadline for papers: Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 23:59 AoE
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, a main source of
knowledge for a large fraction of Internet users, and, in the light of its
collaborative nature, an inherently social medium. Therefore, and since not
only all content but also many activity logs are available to the
public, Wikipedia has become an important object of study for researchers
across many subfields of the computational and social sciences, such as
social-network analysis, social psychology, education, anthropology,
political science, human-computer interaction, cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, linguistics, and natural-language processing.
This workshop is a venue for all researchers exploring social aspects
of Wikipedia. The workshop will feature high-profile speakers from academia
and the Wikimedia Foundation and aims to create a forum where participants
can connect both among each other and with researchers at the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborative content creation
- Consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
- Content consumption on Wikipedia
- Participation in discussions and their dynamics
- Collaborative task management
- Evolution of hierarchies
- Wikipedia as a sensor for real-world events, culture, etc.
- Demographics of Wikipedia readers and editors
- Engagement and incentivization of editors
We invite the submission of regular research papers (6–8 pages) as well as
position papers (2–4 pages). Authors whose papers are accepted to the
workshop will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session.
Submission instructions
Regular and position papers should be formatted according
to AAAI formatting guidelines (
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Please submit papers
using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikiicwsm2015
Review and the archival of papers
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on or before Tuesday,
March 31, 2015.
The accepted papers will be published on the workshop webpage (unless the
authors object), and authors whose papers are accepted will have the
opportunity to participate in a poster session.
Organizing committee
Robert West, Stanford University
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
*Call for Workshop Papers*
*Workshop on Wikipedia, a Social Pedia: Research Challenges and
Opportunities*
May 26, Oxford, England
co-located with the 9th International Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media (ICWSM 2015)
http://snap.stanford.edu/wiki-icwsm15/
Deadline for papers: Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 23:59 AoE
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, a main source of
knowledge for a large fraction of Internet users, and, in the light of its
collaborative nature, an inherently social medium. Therefore, and since not
only all content but also many activity logs are available to the
public, Wikipedia has become an important object of study for researchers
across many subfields of the computational and social sciences, such as
social-network analysis, social psychology, education, anthropology,
political science, human-computer interaction, cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, linguistics, and natural-language processing.
This workshop is a venue for all researchers exploring social aspects
of Wikipedia. The workshop will feature high-profile speakers from academia
and the Wikimedia Foundation and aims to create a forum where participants
can connect both among each other and with researchers at the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborative content creation
- Consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
- Content consumption on Wikipedia
- Participation in discussions and their dynamics
- Collaborative task management
- Evolution of hierarchies
- Wikipedia as a sensor for real-world events, culture, etc.
- Demographics of Wikipedia readers and editors
- Engagement and incentivization of editors
We invite the submission of regular research papers (6–8 pages) as well as
position papers (2–4 pages). Authors whose papers are accepted to the
workshop will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session.
*Submission instructions*
Regular and position papers should be formatted according
to AAAI formatting guidelines (
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Please submit papers
using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikiicwsm2015
*Review and the archival of papers*
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on or before Tuesday,
March 31, 2015.
The accepted papers will be published on the workshop webpage (unless the
authors object), and authors whose papers are accepted will have the
opportunity to participate in a poster session.
*Organizing committee*
Robert West, Stanford University
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation