2019:Research

Research Space

Welcome to the homepage for the Research Space at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm!

The Research Space is being coordinated by User:LZia (WMF) and User:Benjamin Mako Hill. You can contact them the talk page for the space or on their on Leila's or Mako's talk pages on this wiki.

Lightning talks are being coordinated by User:Miriam (WMF) and User:Tpt.

As a reminder, the call for submissions closes on June 9, 2019.

Short description

The Research Space will host talks that showcase research of interest to the broader Wikimedia community as well as tutorials focused on helping people do research in Wikipedia.

We are particularly interested in submissions that aim to:

1. Present actionable research projects by people conducting research on Wikimedia projects and in adjacent spaces (either completed or in-progress);
2. Provide tutorials to help Wikimedians and researchers learn to use a series of useful tools for collecting and analyzing data from Wikimedia projects;
3. Provide a space to discuss issues related to doing research in Wikimedia projects.

Details

Presentation instructions and guidelines (archived)

We are actively encouraging submissions for three types of sessions: Presentations of Research Tutorials Research Lightning Talks We encourage submissions from Wikimedia community members, researchers studying Wikimedia projects, researchers studying adjacent projects (e.g., peer production projects like OSM, etc), and members of the WMF research team. We are particularly interested in work that touches on issues related to the UNDP SDGs (e.g., quality education, reduced inequalities, industry innovation and infrastructure). Presentations of Research Presentations of Research will be traditional conference presentations in lecture format. We welcome proposals of presentations of either completed research projects and in-progress work. Because we would like to cover new ground, please do not submit proposals for work that has been presented at a previous Wikimania. We plan to have 2 forms of acceptance for submissions: Long Presentations (~45-min including Q&A) and Short Presentations (~20-min including Q&A). Although we'll ask everybody proposing a presentation to request either a long or short presentation, we may ask proposals of long sessions to present in a shorter slot. We expect to fill 1 full day of the the program with formal presentations of research. In addition to proposals submitted in response to the open call, we plan to invite submissions from researchers who do not typically attend Wikimania and who have not presented at Wikimania in the past. We will review all proposals for appropriateness, relatively quality, and relevance to the Wikimania audience. Tutorials We also invite submissions of tutorials that can help the community of editors, developers, researchers, event organizers, etc. to learn about tools and services available to do research and analysis on Wikimedia projects. Tutorials that have been offered at Wikimania in the past include: Tutorials on tools that help with evaluating programs SPARQL Introduction to Wikidata for researcher Quarry PAWS Research API services Proposals on these topics would be welcome. We also welcome topics on any number of other topics of interest to the community. We expect to run up to 6 ~60-90-minute tutorials. Lightning Talks We will invite public submission of lightning talks related to Wikimedia research. We hope to elicit lightning talks from both Wikimedia researchers and from community members. We hope to elicit talks on: Community-conducted research Ideas for things that Wikimedia researchers should be paying attention to Research conducted by Wikimedia researchers and WMF staff We expect to accept the large majority of lightning talk submissions. We also imagine that many authors of any non-accepted research presentation submissions will given an opportunity to present a lightning talk.

Background

There are a large number of resources for Wikimedia Research in the Wikimedia Research Portal. The Wikimedia Research Newsletter provides a monthly summary of examples of the types of research projects that we hope to highlight in Presentations of Research. The Wikimedia Research Showcase videos provide another source of examples.

Topics

Topics the proposers and the community wants (archived)

Topics proposer want The research space welcomes submissions on any topic related to Wikimedia research. Examples of topics we would welcome: Participation in Wikimedia communities Group Dynamics and Organization in Wikipedia and related projects Readership/Engagement on Wikipedia and related projects Technical Infrastructure and Design in Wikimedia projects Evaluating Content of Wikimedia projects Knowledge Diffusion, Outreach, and work that seeks to generalize beyond Wikimedia projects We also welcome submissions on these or other topics in "adjacent spaces" including free culture, free software, open hardware, open knowledge, and so on. Topics the community wants We're very open to new suggests that are within the area of "research!" Feel free to suggest something here or to just go ahead and propose something! Opening the floor for community to propose topics

Make a submission

EasyChair (archived)
The Research Space is handling submissions and review of submissions through a submission page on the website EasyChair. EasyChair is a website that many researchers and academics use for managing reviews of papers and talks for conferences. Anybody submitting to the Research Space will first need to create an account on the EasyChair website.

Program

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Program schedule

Day 1 – August 16
Timings	Curie (Aula Magna) on map
13:00 to 14:30	Discovering and Analyzing Wikimedia Images
15:00 to 16:30	Testing ideas for flourishing communities Imagining practical and ethical AB tests
Day 2 – August 17
Timings	Curie (Aula Magna) on map
9:30 to 9:50	Wikimedia Projects The Alphabet Book for Machines
9:50 to 10:15	Supporting deliberation and resolution on Wikipedia
10:15 to 10:35	All Talk? The effects of easier communication interfaces (than user talk pages) on collaborative production
10:35 to 11:00	Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians Rationales
11:30 to 11:50	Characterizing Reader Behavior on Wikipedia
11:50 to 12:15	Characterizing Wikipedia Citation Usage
12:15 to 12:35	Dwelling on Wikipedia Investigating time spent by global encyclopedia readers
12:35 to 13:00	Wikipedia graph mining dynamic structure of collective memory
14:00 to 14:25	Understanding content moderation on English Wikipedia
14:25 to 14:45	Sockpuppet detection in the English Wikipedia
14:45 to 15:10	Despite the ban: doing good work anonymously on Wikipedia
15:10 to 15:30	Wiki-Atlas: Rendering Wikipedia Content through Cartographic and Augmented Reality Mediums
16:00 to 16:25	Evidence of Dark Matter Assessing the Contribution of Subject-matter Experts to Wikipedia
16:25 to 16:45	Gender Equality in Wikipedia: What can we learn from Behavioral Economics
16:45 to 17:30	Lightning talks
Day 3 – August 18
Timings	Curie (Aula Magna) on map
9:30 to 9:50	How can Research Help in Reducing the Language Gap on Wikipedia
9:50 to 10:15	Crosslingual Embedding via Generalized Eigenvalue Decomposition
10:15 to 10:35	Improving Knowledge Base Construction from Robust Infobox Extraction
10:35 to 11:00	Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata
11:30 to 11:50	What can we learn from the Wikipedia Community when designing algorithmic systems?
11:50 to 12:15	Analyzing the evolution of wikis with WikiChron
12:15 to 12:35	Peer production of community science with personal data
12:35 to 13:00	How much are digital platforms based on open collaboration?
14:00 to 14:45	State of Wikimedia Research 2018-2019

Rooms map

Building location of room 13 - Curie (Aula Magna): https://goo.gl/maps/QTP6r76Xidne4Jh57

Other Notes

Because Wikimania is a non-archival conference, we welcome presentations of work that has been presented elsewhere. In particular, we welcome and encourage work presented at OpenSym (The International Symposium on Open Collaboration, formerly WikiSym) which will take place in Skövde, Sweden immediately after Wikimania on August 20-22. If you are presenting work at OpenSym, please consider submitting your work to the Wikimania Research track as well! Similarly, anybody interested in presenting research in the Wikimania Research track should consider submitting their research as a practitioner poster to OpenSym (the deadline is June 16th).

Discussion

Question about submitting a tutorial proposal

Hello Leila and Benjamin -

Thanks for putting together Research Space at Wikimania. I had a question about submitting a proposal for a tutorial. Your Wikimania Research page suggests that a tutorial could be from 60-90 minutes long, but the Easychair form asks for submissions only up to 45 minutes. Should we ignore the Easychair guidelines and just specify in our documents that we are requesting 90 minutes? Also, if you have any guidelines on what should be included in a submission for a tutorial, that would be helpful (but we can certainly wing it if that is not possible).

Thanks! --Juliakamin(cs) (talk) 14:00, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Greetings Juliakamin(cs)! Looks like you were the first one and found a bug. I've just tweaked things and I think made them more clear. Please go ahead and try again and let me know if it all goes well or if you run into any problems! Thanks for your patience! Benjamin Mako Hill (talk) 02:21, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi there, I've created an account on EasyChair but can't find the Wikimania call for papers. I'm probably missing something! Please can you help? Many thanks, Lucy LucyCrompton-Reid (WMUK) (talk) 15:53, 7 June 2019 (UTC)