News
- April 21, 2020: Workshop took place -- thank you to all of you who participated. (Papers, Slides)
- April 21, 2020: Wiki Workshop day! If you have registered through the Web Conference or Wiki Workshop, check your email for instructions to join.
- Apr. 16, 2020: Register for Wiki Workshop 2020 here.
- Feb. 11, 2020: Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) confirmed as invited speaker.
- Jan. 30, 2020: Misha Teplitskiy (University of Michigan) confirmed as invited speaker.
- Jan. 30, 2020: Kristina Lerman (USC ISI) confirmed as invited speaker.
- Jan. 30, 2020: Mark Graham (Internet Archive) confirmed as invited speaker.
- Dec. 4, 2019: Workshop date announced: Tuesday, 21 April 2020.
- Nov. 15, 2019: Wiki Workshop 2020 webpage online.
Schedule
| 5:00 - 5:20 | Welcome and icebreaking |
| 5:20 -6:05 | Keynote: Jess Wade (Imperial College London). (Video, Slides) |
| 6:05 - 6:15 | Break |
| 6:15 - 7:00 | A conversation with Mark Graham (Internet Archive), moderated by Bob West (EPFL). (Video) |
| 7:00 - 7:05 | Break |
| 7:13 - 8:00 | A panel conversation with Benjamin Mako Hill (U of Washington), Misha Teplitskiy (U of Michigan), Kristina Lerman (USC), Jérôme Hergueux (CNRS). (Video) |
| 8:00 - 8:10 | Break |
| 8:10 - 9:15 | Featured & lightning talks (Video, Slides) |
| 9:15 - 9:20 | Wrap up |
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Poster session |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | The social event |
Invited speakers
Jess Wade (Imperial College London)
Bio
Jessica Wade BEM is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London. Her research investigates polymer-based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Her public engagement involves work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) as well as championing women in physics and tackling gender bias on Wikipedia. As of May 2020, Jess has written more than 1000 biographies of women scientists on English Wikipedia.Mark Graham (Internet Archive)
Bio
Mark Graham has created and managed innovative online products and services since 1984. As Director of the Wayback Machine he is responsible for capturing, preserving and helping people discover and use, more than 1 billion new web captures each week. Previously, Mark was Senior Vice President with NBC News, Senior Vice President of Technology with iVillage, and a co-founder of Rojo Networks. In the early days of the net he managed technology and business development at The WELL and also helped bring the pre-web Internet to millions of people by running AOL's Gopher project as part of their Internet Center. He managed technology for the pioneering US-Soviet Sovam Teleport email service and co-founded and managed PeaceNet, IGC.org, and APC.org. Mark's early training and experience with computer-mediated communications was acquired while he served in the US Air Force, spending more than 3 years working at the Air Force Data Services Center at the Pentagon.Jérôme Hergueux (CNRS)
Bio
Jerome is an Assistant Research Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), a Research Affiliate at the Center for Law and Economics at ETH Zurich, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Jerome is a behavioral economist operating at the boundaries between psychology, economics and computational social science. In his research, he couples experimental methods with the analysis of big data to uncover how psychological and cognitive traits shape our behavior over the Internet, with a particular focus on online cooperation, peer production and decision making. Jerome's most recent research leverages field data from several Internet-based environments, such as online poker, open source software development platforms, and Wikipedia. His current interests relate to the study of how people deal with their decision making biases, as well as the determinants and consequences of communication style and leadership in virtual teamwork.Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
Bio
Benjamin Mako Hill is an Assistant Professor in the University of Washington Department of Communication, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the departments of Human-Centered Design and Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, and Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the eScience Institute, and the "Design Use Build" (DUB) group that supports research on on human computer interaction. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. Mako studies collective action in online communities and seeks to understand why some attempts at collaborative production — like Wikipedia and Linux — build large volunteer communities while the vast majority never attract even a second contributor. His research is deeply interdisciplinary, consists primarily of "big data" quantitative analyses, and lies at the intersection of communication, human-computer interaction, and sociology. Mako received his PhD from MIT.Kristina Lerman (USC ISI)
Bio
Kristina Lerman is a Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and holds a joint appointment as a Research Associate Professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Computer Science Department. Her research focuses on applying network- and machine learning-based methods to problems in social computing.Misha Teplitskiy (University of Michigan)
Bio
Misha Teplitskiy is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan. His research is at the intersection of Science of Science + Sociology of Organizations + Computational Social Science. He studies how social and organizational factors affect scientific discovery. He is especially interested in evaluation practices in science, and whether they promote or stifle innovation. My approach relies primarily on field experiments -- interventions in scientific competitions and other settings -- and applying computational tools to large-scale observational data. Previously, he was a postdoc at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH). He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago, where he was a member of KnowledgeLab.Accepted papers
Key dates
Workshop date: Tuesday, 21 April 2020
If authors want paper to appear in proceedings:
- Submission deadline: 17 January 2020
- Author feedback: 3 February 2020
- Camera-ready version due: 17 February 2020
If authors do not want paper to appear in proceedings:
- Submission deadline: 21 February 2020
- Author feedback: 6 March 2020
Call for contributions
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, a main source of knowledge for a large fraction of Internet users, and one of the very few projects that make not only their content but also many activity logs available to the public. Furthermore, other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, have been created to share other types of knowledge with the world for free. For a variety of reasons (quality and quantity of content, reach in many languages, process of content production, availability of data, etc.) such projects have become important objects of study for researchers across many subfields of the computational and social sciences, such as social network analysis, artificial intelligence, linguistics, natural language processing, social psychology, education, anthropology, political science, human–computer interaction, and cognitive science.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. With members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team on the organizing committee and with the experience of successful workshops in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, we aim to continue facilitating a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the organization that coordinates Wikimedia projects and the researchers interested in studying them.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- new technologies and initiatives to grow content, quality, diversity, and participation across Wikimedia projects
- use of bots, algorithms, and crowdsourcing strategies to curate, source, or verify content and structured data
- bias in content and gaps of knowledge
- diversity of Wikimedia editors and users
- detection of low-quality, promotional, or fake content, as well as fake accounts (e.g., sock puppets)
- questions related to community health (e.g., sentiment analysis, harassment detection)
- understanding editor motivations, engagement models, and incentives
- Wikimedia consumer motivations and their needs: readers, researchers, tool/API developers
- innovative uses of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for AI and NLP applications
- consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
- participation in discussions and their dynamics
- dynamics of content reuse across projects and the impact of policies and community norms on reuse
- privacy
- collaborative content creation (unstructured, semi-structured, or structured)
- innovative uses of Wikimedia projects' content and consumption patterns as sensors for real-world events, culture, etc.
- open-source research code, datasets, and tools to support research on Wikimedia contents and communities
Papers should be 1 to 8 pages long and will be published on the workshop webpage and optionally (depending on the authors' choice) in the workshop proceedings. The review process will be single-blind (as opposed to double-blind), i.e., authors should include their names and affiliations in their submissions. Authors whose papers are accepted to the workshop will have the opportunity to participate in a poster session.
We explicitly encourage the submission of preliminary work in the form of extended abstracts (1 or 2 pages).
Submission instructions
Papers should be 1 to 8 pages long. We explicitly encourage the submission of preliminary work in the form of extended abstracts (1 or 2 pages). No need to anonymize your submissions.
For submission dates, see above.
- Format: ACM SIG conference proceedings template (use sample-sigconf.pdf as the template)
- Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikiworkshop2020
Program committee
- Pushkal Agarwal, King's College London
- Giovanni Colavizza, University of Amsterdam
- Martin Gerlach, Wikimedia Foundation
- Kristina Gligorić, EPFL
- Isaac Johnson, Wikimedia Foundation
- Markus Krötzsch, University of Dresden
- Florian Lemmerich, RWTH Aachen University
- Jonathan Morgan, Wikimedia Foundation
- Maxime Peyrard, EPFL
- Tiziano Piccardi, EPFL
- Diego Saez-Trumper, Wikimedia Foundation
- Morten Warncke-Wang, Wikimedia Foundation
- Ramtin Yazdanian, EPFL
- Amy Zhang, MIT
Previous editions
- @ WWW 2019 (San Francisco, USA)
- @ WWW 2018 (Lyon, France)
- @ WWW 2017 (Perth, Australia)
- @ WWW 2016 (Montreal, Canada) and ICWSM 2016 (Cologne, Germany)
- @ ICWSM 2015 (Oxford, UK)
Organization
Miriam Redi
Miriam is a Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. Formerly, she worked as a Research Scientist at Yahoo! Labs in Barcelona and Nokia Bell Labs in Cambridge. She received her PhD from EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis. She conducts research in social multimedia computing, working on fair, interpretable, multimodal machine learning solutions to improve knowledge equity.
Leila Zia
Leila is a senior research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation. Her current research interests are on understanding Wikipedia's readers, quantifying and addressing the gaps of knowledge in Wikipedia and Wikidata, and understanding and improving diversity in Wikipedia. She holds a PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University.
Robert West
Bob is an assistant professor of Computer Science at EPFL, where he heads the Data Science Lab. His research aims to understand, predict, and enhance human behavior in social and information networks by developing techniques in data science, data mining, network analysis, machine learning, and natural language processing. He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.
Contact
Please direct your questions to wikiworkshopgooglegroupscom.