[okfn-discuss] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Call for Papers - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge

Fri Jan 20 09:42:37 UTC 2012

Yes would like to get involved. Its open to india?

On 20/01/2012, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> just wanted to bring this event to your attention. If any of you would
> like to be involved with the organization, please get in touch.
> Otherwise, you are warmly invited to submit a paper.
>
> Thanks and cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Angelika Adam <angelika.adam at wikimedia.de>
> Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:29 PM
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Call for Papers - Wikipedia Academy 2012:
> Research and Free Knowledge
> To: wiki-research-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> (Apologies for cross-postings)
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge.
> June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany
>
> Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page
> Submit your papers here:
> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012
>
> The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a
> platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to
> connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in
> particular and on free knowledge in general.
>
> The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
> in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for
> Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will
> take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open
> to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats,
> ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper
> presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster
> presentations and a science fair. We particularly invite young
> doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit
> extended abstracts.
>
> For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of
> extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia
> and free knowledge.
>
> == Dates ==
>
> * Submission of extended abstracts: March 31, 2012
> * Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2012
> * Submission of full papers: June 1, 2012
> * Event: June 29 - July 1, 2012
>
> == Topics of interest ==
>
> Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details
> will be available soon on the conference website:
>
> http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process
>
> === Wikipedia Analytics ===
>
> * Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool
> * Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of "Big Data"
> * Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles
>
> === Wikipedia Global ===
>
> * Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias
> * Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies
> * Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons
>
> === Sharing Cultures and Practices ===
>
> * Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based
> peer production
> * Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative
> peer production
> * Wiki theory and wiki practices
>
> === Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia ===
>
> * Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia
> * Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open
> collaborative settings
> * Using information visualization as information instrument to users
> and contributors
>
> === Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge ===
>
> * Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access
> to free knowledge
> * Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination
> in Wikipedia
> * The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other
> collaborative forms of knowledge production
>
> == Submission Guidelines ==
>
> Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer
> review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a
> case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one
> author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a
> full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the
> organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online
> proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In
> addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a
> Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, unless the authors
> explicitly state in their submission that they wish to opt out of this
> licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order
> to promote open access to scholarly work, although decisions to opt
> out will be respected and will not influence the review process in any
> way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from
> the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to
> publish at least the extended abstract online.
>
> Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open
> Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at:
>
> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012
> Note: You will need an easychair account to submit. You can create one
> on the spot if you don't already have one.
>
>
>
>
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