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:
- Present actionable research projects by people conducting research on Wikimedia projects and in adjacent spaces (either completed or in-progress);
- Provide tutorials to help Wikimedians and researchers learn to use a series of useful tools for collecting and analyzing data from Wikimedia projects;
- Provide a space to discuss issues related to doing research in Wikimedia projects.
Details
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We are actively encouraging submissions for three types of sessions:
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 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.
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:
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.
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:
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
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The research space welcomes submissions on any topic related to Wikimedia research. Examples of topics we would welcome:
We also welcome submissions on these or other topics in "adjacent spaces" including free culture, free software, open hardware, open knowledge, and so on.
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!
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Make a submission
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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
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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)