@ WWW 2016 (International World Wide Web Conference), Montreal, Canada, April 11 or 12, 2016 (exact date TBD)
@ ICWSM 2016 (International Conference on Web and Social Media), Cologne, Germany, May 17, 2016
Workshop webpage:
http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016
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 websites such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. With a member of the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team in the organizing committee and with the experience of a successful workshop in 2015, we aim to continue facilitating a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the organization that operates Wikimedia websites and the researchers interested in studying them.
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
uses of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for AI and NLP applications
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. 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).
@ WWW 2016:
If authors want paper to appear in proceedings:
Submission deadline: January 27, 2016
Author feedback: February 1, 2016
Camera-ready version due: February 8, 2016
If authors do not want paper to appear in proceedings:
Submission deadline: March 11, 2016
Author feedback: March 21, 2016
Workshop date: April 11 or 12, 2016 (exact date TBD)
@ ICWSM 2016:
If authors want paper to appear in proceedings:
Submission deadline: February 27, 2016
Author feedback: March 11, 2016
Camera-ready version due: March 17, 2016
If authors do not want paper to appear in proceedings:
Submission deadline: March 11, 2016
Author feedback: March 21, 2016
Workshop date: May 17, 2016
Please see workshop webpage for formatting and submission instructions.
Robert West, Stanford University
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
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