[open-visualisation] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] WikiViz 2011: Visualizing the impact of Wikipedia - call for participation

[Jonathan Gray]

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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli at wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:16 AM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] WikiViz 2011: Visualizing the impact of
Wikipedia - call for participation
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
<wiki-research-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


We are proud to announce the second data challenge co-organized this
summer by the Wikimedia Foundation.
WikiSym and the Wikimedia Foundation are jointly launching WikiViz
2011 – a call for data/information visualization experts,
computational journalists, data artists and data scientists to create
the most insightful visualization of Wikipedia’s impact. The goal of
the competition is to use open datasets to help improve our
understanding of how Wikipedia is affecting the world beyond the scope
of its own community.
The award:
The WikiViz 2011 Awarding Ceremony will take place on October 4, at
the WikiSym 2011 venue, the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley campus
(Mountain View, California). The ceremony will be introduced by a
keynote by Jeff Heer (Stanford University), on the impact of emerging
visualization techniques to understand open collaboration today. Three
finalist teams (1 winner, 2 runners-up) will be invited to present
their work at WikiSym 2011. Travel expenses and registration fees will
be covered for a delegate per team. The works from these three teams
will be showcased at the WikiSym 2011 exhibit, presented during the
WikiViz awards ceremony and featured by our Knowledge and Media
Partners: El Mundo.es, the largest digital newspaper in Spanish by
readership worldwide, as well as four among the leading outlets and
organizations in data visualization: FlowingData, Information
Aesthetics, Visualizing.org and Periscopic). Unidad Editorial will
also run a dedicated “Public's choice” track among the top 10
submissions received. The winner will be featured on the digital
edition of El Mundo.
The jury:
The finalists will be selected by a jury composed by world-class
experts in data visualization and social computing
• Moritz Stefaner, Well Formed Data
• Kim Rees, Periscopic)
• Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven and Information Aesthetics
• Erik Zachte, Wikimedia Foundation
• Gregorio Convertino, Xerox PARC and WikiSym
The official announcement:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/05/wikiviz-2011-visualizing-the-impact-of-wikipedia/
The call for participation:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/wikiviz:cfp
Contacts, news and updates:
For any questions, comments or interest in supporting or collaborating
with this challenge, please contact the co-organizers at: wikiviz2011
[at] easychair [dot] org
• Felipe Ortega, WikiSym
• Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation

You can also follow us on Twitter: @WikiViz (tag your tweets with #wikiviz11)

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