[CITASA] Wikipedia Research Track CFP (WikiSym + OpenSym 2013)
WikiSym 2013: Wikipedia Research Track Call for Papers
http://www.wikisym.org/2012/12/14/wikisym-2013-wikipedia-research-track-call-for-papers/
WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration
August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China
About the Conference
The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
(WikiSym + OpenSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration
research, including wiki and social media, Wikipedia, open source,
open access, open data and open government research. WikiSym is in its
9th year and will be complemented by OpenSym, a new conference on open
collaboration research and an adjunct to the successful WikiSym
conference series.
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 will be held jointly in Hong Kong, China on
August 5-7, 2013.
The joint conference will contain peer-reviewed research tracks on:
• Wikis, social media, and open collaboration research (WikiSym 2013)
• Wikipedia research (WikiSym 2013)
• Open source research (OpenSym 2013)
• Open access, open data, and open government research (OpenSym 2013)
You are looking at the call for papers for the Wikipedia research
track. For the other call for papers, please see
http://www.wikisym.org/email
In addition, the conference will provide open space (“unconference
meetings”), experience reports, tutorials, workshops, panels, demos as
well as a Doctoral Symposium. For community track information as well
as the Doctoral Symposium please see http://www.wikisym.org/email
The open space track is a key ingredient of the event that
distinguishes WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 from other conferences. It is an
integral part of the program that makes it easy to talk to other
researchers and stretch your imagination and conversations beyond the
limits of your own subdiscipline, exposing you to the full breadth of
open collaboration research. The open space track is entirely
participant-organized, is open for everyone, and requires no
submission or review. For more information please see
http://www.wikisym.org/openspace/
Finally, the conference will feature exciting invited speakers and a
social program in Hong Kong, one of the most interesting cities on
this planet. For more please see http://www.wikisym.org/email
Submissions Sought
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 gendered dimensions of Wikipedia editing? How
are issues around power, knowledge and representation drawn into focus
by gender, geography and other gaps and imbalances in Wikipedia
editing?
• What skills/competencies/connections/world views are
required to become an empowered member of the Wikimedia community?
What does a Wikipedia literate person look like? How are those
skills/competencies/connections/world views obtained and enacted?
• Does Wikipedia enact an open source of authoritative
knowledge that impacts learning in formal and informal settings? For
instance, how do students employ Wikipedia as a covert/overt source in
their papers or as a generative site for problem formulation? Or how
is Wikipedia being used as a serendipitous experience of knowledge
acquisition? What methods can be employed to understand these varied
utilizations?
• 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?
The following types of submissions are invited:
• Long research papers (5 to 10 pages)
• Short research papers (1 to 4 pages)
• Research posters (1 to 2 pages)
• Research presentations (1 to 10 pages)
Submissions for experience reports (long and short), tutorials,
workshops, panels, non-research posters, and demos are also sought but
are handled through the community track, please see
http://www.wikisym.org/email
Submissions to WikiSym + OpenSym’s Doctoral Symposium are also sought
but are handled through a separate website, please see
http://www.wikisym.org/email
Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of
substantive new theoretical or empirical work about Wikipedia.
Research papers will be reviewed by the Wikipedia research track
program committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication.
Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation
and clarity of presentation. They should be written in English. At
least one author of accepted papers is required to attend the
conference in order to present the paper.
Research presentations present integrative reviews or original reports
of substantive new theoretical or empirical work about Wikipedia. This
is a new format is specifically aimed at the requirements of social
science researchers enabling those researchers to use WikiSym as a
pre-publication venue before journal publication. Only the abstracts
of these papers will be published as part of the proceedings thus
leaving open the opportunity for journal publication at a later date.
Research papers will be reviewed by the Wikipedia research track
program committee to meet rigorous academic standards. Papers will be
reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of
presentation. They should be written in English. At least one author
is required to attend the conference in order to present the paper.
Research poster presentations enable researchers to present
late-breaking research results, significant research work in progress,
or research work that is best communicated in conversation. WikiSym +
OpenSym’s lively poster sessions let conference attendees exchange
ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in
detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic.
Successful applicants will display their posters, up to 1x2m in size,
at a special session during the event.
WikiSym + OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different
research disciplines it draws on.
Submission Logistics
For a submission, please use the the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
All submissions are due:
• Date: March 17, 2012 (notification: May 17, 2013)
• Submission site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikisym2013 (choose
‘Wikipedia Track’)
As long as it is March 17 (or April 14) somewhere on Earth, the system
will accept your submission.
Committee
Heather Ford - Co-Chair
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Home page URL: http://hblog.org
Mark Graham - Co-Chair
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Home page URL: http://www.zerogeography.net/
Megan Finn
Affiliation: Microsoft Research, New England
Home page URL: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/megfin/
Stuart Geiger
Affiliation: UC-Berkeley School of Information
Home page URL: http://www.stuartgeiger.com
Brent Hecht
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Minnesota
Home page URL: http://www.brenthecht.com
Brian Keegan
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Home page URL: www.brianckeegan.com
Wen Lin
Affiliation: Newcastle University
Home page URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/wen.lin
Felipe Ortega
Affiliation: Researcher, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research,
University Rey Juan Carlos.
Home page URL: http://felipeortega.net
Dan Perkel
Affiliation: IDEO
Home page URL: http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/
Joseph Reagle
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Home page URL: http://reagle.org/joseph/
Jodi Schneider
Affiliation: DERI, NUI Galway
Home page URL: http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html
Shilad Sen
Affiliation: Macalester College
Home page URL: http://www.shilad.com
Monica Stephens
Affiliation: Humboldt State University
Home page URL: https://sites.google.com/a/email.arizona.edu/stephens/
Dario Taraborelli
Affiliation: Wikimedia Foundation
Home page URL: http://nitens.org/taraborelli
Robert West
Affiliation: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Home page URL: http://ai.stanford.edu/~west1/
Matthew W. Wilson
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
Home page URL: http://matthew-w-wilson.com
Taha Yasseri
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Home page URL: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/
Matthew Zook
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Home page URL: http://zook.info
Dr. Mark Graham
Research Fellow
Director of Research
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
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