Okay, so the best way to find out something is to ask someone. But what's the best way to ask so that you get an answer to the question that you meant to ask and not to the question they thought that you asked? Join Kathryn Brockmeier, Nebraska Library Commission Research Analyst, for some tips and techniques for getting the information you need.
http://www.scotthale.net/pubs/?websci2014
This article analyzes one month of edits to Wikipedia in order to examine the role of users editing multiple language editions (referred to as multilingual users). Such multilingual users may serve an important function in diffusing information across different language editions of the encyclopedia, and prior work has suggested this could reduce the level of self-focus bias in each edition. This study finds multilingual users are much more active than their single-edition (monolingual) counterparts. They are found in all language editions, but smaller-sized editions with fewer users have a higher percentage of multilingual users than larger-sized editions. About a quarter of multilingual users always edit the same articles in multiple languages, while just over 40% of multilingual users edit different articles in different languages. When non-English users do edit a second language edition, that edition is most frequently English. Nonetheless, several regional and linguistic cross-editing patterns are also present.
Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support Your Userslisbk
Slides for a talk on "Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support Your Users" to be given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis at the CILIP Wales 2014 conference in Cardiff on 15 May 2014.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/cilip-wales-2014-editing-wikipedia/
and
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/top-wikipedia-tips-for-librarians/
Peer Learning via Dialogue with a Pattern Language ((COINs17)Takashi Iba
Takashi Iba. "Peer Learning via Dialogue with a Pattern Language", in the 7th International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs17), Detroit, USA, Sep., 2017
In this presentation, we study the way of peer learning via dialogue that uses a pattern language. Pattern languages is a collection of patterns to describe design knowledge that exists in particular areas of a profession. For the past seven years, we have been holding workshops for dialogue with a pattern language in order to realise peer learning. In this paper, we introduce the dialogue workshop using the Learning Patterns, a pattern language for creative learning, and analyse the data of our survey. The results of 710 valid responses show that 92.4% of participants learned something new about the way of learning, when they read the book of the Learning Patterns; 91.5% reflected that the dialogue was important to learn the ways of learning; 95.7% of participants considered this activity of listening to others significant for various reasons; 90.3 % thought the pattern language was helpful for sharing their experience with peers; 88.3 % were able to imagine how they can actually take actions of the patterns they chose; and 96.5% of participants thought reading the pattern language and participating in the dialogue workshop was enjoyable.
Okay, so the best way to find out something is to ask someone. But what's the best way to ask so that you get an answer to the question that you meant to ask and not to the question they thought that you asked? Join Kathryn Brockmeier, Nebraska Library Commission Research Analyst, for some tips and techniques for getting the information you need.
http://www.scotthale.net/pubs/?websci2014
This article analyzes one month of edits to Wikipedia in order to examine the role of users editing multiple language editions (referred to as multilingual users). Such multilingual users may serve an important function in diffusing information across different language editions of the encyclopedia, and prior work has suggested this could reduce the level of self-focus bias in each edition. This study finds multilingual users are much more active than their single-edition (monolingual) counterparts. They are found in all language editions, but smaller-sized editions with fewer users have a higher percentage of multilingual users than larger-sized editions. About a quarter of multilingual users always edit the same articles in multiple languages, while just over 40% of multilingual users edit different articles in different languages. When non-English users do edit a second language edition, that edition is most frequently English. Nonetheless, several regional and linguistic cross-editing patterns are also present.
Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support Your Userslisbk
Slides for a talk on "Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support Your Users" to be given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis at the CILIP Wales 2014 conference in Cardiff on 15 May 2014.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/cilip-wales-2014-editing-wikipedia/
and
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/top-wikipedia-tips-for-librarians/
Peer Learning via Dialogue with a Pattern Language ((COINs17)Takashi Iba
Takashi Iba. "Peer Learning via Dialogue with a Pattern Language", in the 7th International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs17), Detroit, USA, Sep., 2017
In this presentation, we study the way of peer learning via dialogue that uses a pattern language. Pattern languages is a collection of patterns to describe design knowledge that exists in particular areas of a profession. For the past seven years, we have been holding workshops for dialogue with a pattern language in order to realise peer learning. In this paper, we introduce the dialogue workshop using the Learning Patterns, a pattern language for creative learning, and analyse the data of our survey. The results of 710 valid responses show that 92.4% of participants learned something new about the way of learning, when they read the book of the Learning Patterns; 91.5% reflected that the dialogue was important to learn the ways of learning; 95.7% of participants considered this activity of listening to others significant for various reasons; 90.3 % thought the pattern language was helpful for sharing their experience with peers; 88.3 % were able to imagine how they can actually take actions of the patterns they chose; and 96.5% of participants thought reading the pattern language and participating in the dialogue workshop was enjoyable.
Wikipedia, the encylopedia that anyone can edit, “can never work in theory, only in practice.” Accounting for one in every 200 page views on the Internet, it has become a part of our everyday lives. Wikipedia is changing the way we think about the economics of the web, the potential and the pitfalls of engaging the masses, and the role of professional information architects in a world in which content arrives from literally every direction.
In this session, we’ll explore the nuts-and-bolts of how the Wikipedia project works. Who writes Wikipedia, and why? How does the English Wikipedia maintain quality, consistent tagging, and coherent organization across over two million articles? What happens when contributors disagree? We will take a tour behind the scenes at Wikipedia to learn what happens when users are encouraged to - as they say on Wikipedia… “be bold.”
Wikipedia for GLAMS_by_jentzsch_&_ockerbloomTracy Jentzsch
Presentation for Small Museum Association 2014 Conference, #SMA_14, on Wikipedia for GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums). By Tracy Jentzsch of the University of Delaware's Museum Studies Program and Mary Mark Okerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
"Submissions/Wikimedia in Japan: Acculturation and Outreach", presented originally at Wikimania2010, Gdansk, 2010-07-11. An outline of Wikimedia movement in Japan, and Japanese net culture, how Japan has accepted Wikimedia movement and recent attempt of Wikimedia outreach.
IGeLU2009: Patrons’ Collective Intelligence and Communities of Practice: let ...Filipe Bento
University of Aveiro, Documentation Services (Library) presentation for IGeLU2009 Conference (http://igelu2009.org/about/programme/)
In a contemporary society where web 2.0 services are steadily growing in number both for functionalities offered and of users adopting them, it is important to examine which of these services are the core ones that should be offered by Libraries’ online services and how these affect Patrons’ routines. With PRIMO, Ex Libris brings to the resource discovery and delivery scenario some basic web 2.0 and social networking components that users, native consumers in most cases, expect to have as inherent functionalities. But are Libraries ready to be 2.0? The resulting folksonomy from social tagging does bring valuable benefits to the search and retrieval process and the communities of Patrons? Are there some caveats that we should be aware of? In this presentation, the authors look at these social tools and analyze their potential for promoting patrons’ collective intelligence and empowerment, applying it to Communities of Practice’s creation, identification and expansion, not overlooking some possible drawbacks that need to be tackled.
Look at the cave art Hall of the Bulls, and the wall painting, Ti .docxsmile790243
Look at the cave art Hall of the Bulls, and the wall painting, Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hun and compare the two paintings on EACH of the following four points:
Note: As you write your report, let me hear YOUR voice.
Include your:
thoughts
reactions
feelings
questions
Don't just write a "cold", formal report that I can read in a textbook.
Let me know how YOU are relating to the material.
1 What does each painting tell us about the artist who drew it?
2 What does it tell us about the values and interests of the artist and his or her culture?
3 What do you think motivated each artist to paint the paintings?
4 Compare the two in terms of form and content. (Refer back to the introduction to the text for information on commonalities of visual arts.)
5 Find a minimum of three (3) resources on the Internet that will help you answer the above four questions. Be sure to copy the title page and URL of each web site you found. Be sure your links are ACTIVE. Briefly describe EACH resource and tell what information it added to your report.
· Completing your assignment:
· After you have completed your preparations, write a report being sure to answer each of the four questions asked above.
· At the end of your report include a minimum of 3 resources that you found on the Internet about these paintings. Be sure to cite the resources correctly by giving the title of each web page as well as the URL's. Don't forget to describe what each resource was about.
· And LAST BUT NOT LEAST, include a good paragraph in which you describe what you learned by doing this assignment.
· Be sure to spell and grammar check your paper before submitting it.
· Just as a guideline this report should be at least 500 words long, or the equivalent of a one-page, single-spaced typed document. Pratise using MLA format!
Writing Self-Assessment
Making good use of the writing process enables us to accomplish two things:
1. Extend our thinking
2. Communicate and share our ideas with readers
The goal of this exercise is that in evaluating your writing process you further develop your skills as a thoughtful reader of your own writing and thus identify areas on which to focus attention as you write and revise in the future.
First, to help you evaluate your success regarding the overall writing process, please read over the following list and consider your effectiveness in these areas. Please then rate yourself on a scale from 1 – 10, with 1 representing an item in which you struggled and 10 meaning you had no problems at all in this area. (4 points)
Developing a project:
____ Understanding the assignment
____ Discovering or refining a topic
____ Constructing a thesis
____ Researching the topic
____ Synthesizing and integrating research
____ Developing ideas
____ Supporting ideas
____ Organizing ideas
____ Clarifying ideas
Mechanical/grammatical points of writing:
____ Transitions (between paragraphs or sentences)
____ Sentence structure (run-on’s, comma splices, fragments, etc ...
Psychological processes underlying Wikipedia representations of natural and m...Bruno Kessler Foundation
Paper presented at Wikisym 2012: Collective memories are precious resources for the society, because they help strengthening emotional bonding between community members, maintaining groups cohesion, and directing future behavior. Studying how people form their collective memories of emotional upheavals is important in order to better understand people's reactions and the consequences on their psychological health. Previous research investigated the effects of single traumatizing events, but few of them tried to compare different types of traumatic events like natural and man-made disasters. In this paper, interpreting Wikipedia as a collective memory place, we compare articles about natural and human-made disasters employing automated natural language techniques, in order to highlight the different psychological processes underlying users' sensemaking activities.
Wikipedia, the encylopedia that anyone can edit, “can never work in theory, only in practice.” Accounting for one in every 200 page views on the Internet, it has become a part of our everyday lives. Wikipedia is changing the way we think about the economics of the web, the potential and the pitfalls of engaging the masses, and the role of professional information architects in a world in which content arrives from literally every direction.
In this session, we’ll explore the nuts-and-bolts of how the Wikipedia project works. Who writes Wikipedia, and why? How does the English Wikipedia maintain quality, consistent tagging, and coherent organization across over two million articles? What happens when contributors disagree? We will take a tour behind the scenes at Wikipedia to learn what happens when users are encouraged to - as they say on Wikipedia… “be bold.”
Wikipedia for GLAMS_by_jentzsch_&_ockerbloomTracy Jentzsch
Presentation for Small Museum Association 2014 Conference, #SMA_14, on Wikipedia for GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums). By Tracy Jentzsch of the University of Delaware's Museum Studies Program and Mary Mark Okerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
"Submissions/Wikimedia in Japan: Acculturation and Outreach", presented originally at Wikimania2010, Gdansk, 2010-07-11. An outline of Wikimedia movement in Japan, and Japanese net culture, how Japan has accepted Wikimedia movement and recent attempt of Wikimedia outreach.
IGeLU2009: Patrons’ Collective Intelligence and Communities of Practice: let ...Filipe Bento
University of Aveiro, Documentation Services (Library) presentation for IGeLU2009 Conference (http://igelu2009.org/about/programme/)
In a contemporary society where web 2.0 services are steadily growing in number both for functionalities offered and of users adopting them, it is important to examine which of these services are the core ones that should be offered by Libraries’ online services and how these affect Patrons’ routines. With PRIMO, Ex Libris brings to the resource discovery and delivery scenario some basic web 2.0 and social networking components that users, native consumers in most cases, expect to have as inherent functionalities. But are Libraries ready to be 2.0? The resulting folksonomy from social tagging does bring valuable benefits to the search and retrieval process and the communities of Patrons? Are there some caveats that we should be aware of? In this presentation, the authors look at these social tools and analyze their potential for promoting patrons’ collective intelligence and empowerment, applying it to Communities of Practice’s creation, identification and expansion, not overlooking some possible drawbacks that need to be tackled.
Look at the cave art Hall of the Bulls, and the wall painting, Ti .docxsmile790243
Look at the cave art Hall of the Bulls, and the wall painting, Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hun and compare the two paintings on EACH of the following four points:
Note: As you write your report, let me hear YOUR voice.
Include your:
thoughts
reactions
feelings
questions
Don't just write a "cold", formal report that I can read in a textbook.
Let me know how YOU are relating to the material.
1 What does each painting tell us about the artist who drew it?
2 What does it tell us about the values and interests of the artist and his or her culture?
3 What do you think motivated each artist to paint the paintings?
4 Compare the two in terms of form and content. (Refer back to the introduction to the text for information on commonalities of visual arts.)
5 Find a minimum of three (3) resources on the Internet that will help you answer the above four questions. Be sure to copy the title page and URL of each web site you found. Be sure your links are ACTIVE. Briefly describe EACH resource and tell what information it added to your report.
· Completing your assignment:
· After you have completed your preparations, write a report being sure to answer each of the four questions asked above.
· At the end of your report include a minimum of 3 resources that you found on the Internet about these paintings. Be sure to cite the resources correctly by giving the title of each web page as well as the URL's. Don't forget to describe what each resource was about.
· And LAST BUT NOT LEAST, include a good paragraph in which you describe what you learned by doing this assignment.
· Be sure to spell and grammar check your paper before submitting it.
· Just as a guideline this report should be at least 500 words long, or the equivalent of a one-page, single-spaced typed document. Pratise using MLA format!
Writing Self-Assessment
Making good use of the writing process enables us to accomplish two things:
1. Extend our thinking
2. Communicate and share our ideas with readers
The goal of this exercise is that in evaluating your writing process you further develop your skills as a thoughtful reader of your own writing and thus identify areas on which to focus attention as you write and revise in the future.
First, to help you evaluate your success regarding the overall writing process, please read over the following list and consider your effectiveness in these areas. Please then rate yourself on a scale from 1 – 10, with 1 representing an item in which you struggled and 10 meaning you had no problems at all in this area. (4 points)
Developing a project:
____ Understanding the assignment
____ Discovering or refining a topic
____ Constructing a thesis
____ Researching the topic
____ Synthesizing and integrating research
____ Developing ideas
____ Supporting ideas
____ Organizing ideas
____ Clarifying ideas
Mechanical/grammatical points of writing:
____ Transitions (between paragraphs or sentences)
____ Sentence structure (run-on’s, comma splices, fragments, etc ...
Psychological processes underlying Wikipedia representations of natural and m...Bruno Kessler Foundation
Paper presented at Wikisym 2012: Collective memories are precious resources for the society, because they help strengthening emotional bonding between community members, maintaining groups cohesion, and directing future behavior. Studying how people form their collective memories of emotional upheavals is important in order to better understand people's reactions and the consequences on their psychological health. Previous research investigated the effects of single traumatizing events, but few of them tried to compare different types of traumatic events like natural and man-made disasters. In this paper, interpreting Wikipedia as a collective memory place, we compare articles about natural and human-made disasters employing automated natural language techniques, in order to highlight the different psychological processes underlying users' sensemaking activities.
Kane, G. (2009). It’s a Network,Not an Encyclopedia: A Social Network Perspective on Wikipedia Collaboration. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.
The Internet is full of Web Services, everyday more and more. Some services offer API (application programming interface) that developers use to build new applications (mash-ups). One of the most known and used technology for the machine-to-machine communication is SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) but in the last years we can use another paradigm, ReST (Representational State Transfer). How does it work?
This is the presentation to the LiveMemories partners of our joint work on the case study and proposed first showcase for the project. The case study is directed to the San Bartolameo Students Residence and district (south of Trento, Italy), and it is being carried on in collaboration with Opera Universitaria, Portobeseno, Studiare a Trento, and Cooperativa Mercurio.
1. Friday seminar 8/20/2010 Presenter: AstaZelenkauskaite Analyzing the Creative Editing Behavior of Wikipedia EditorsThrough Dynamic Social Network AnalysisTakashi Ibaad, Keiichi Nemotobd, Bernd Petersc, Peter A. GloordProcedia ‐ Social and Behavioral Sciences (2009)
2. Different patterns of behavior gives important insights about the cultural norms of online creators “coolfarmers”, the prolific authors starting and building newarticlesof high quality “egoboosters”, people who use Wikipedia mostly to showcase themselves Editing patterns dynamic social network analysis
3. small number of contributors who make most of the edits Figure 1. Log‐log plot of frequency of edits against numbers of users (left graph: x‐axis: user rank, y‐axis: # of edits, right graph: x‐axis: # of edits, y‐axis: probability of the # of edits) (Japanese Wikipedia) A tiny minority of named users making between 10,000 and 100,000 edits, and a similarly small number of anonymous users making between 5,000 and 10,000 edits, while the overwhelming majority of users (100,000 named and 1,000,000 IP users) only makes 1 to 5 edits, with 40% of all IP users making just one edit. Assumptions of Wiki contribution
4. 2580 featured articles of the English Featured articles are considered to be the best articles in Wikipedia, voted for by Wikipedia's editors Corpus
5. Editing characteristics of the different featured articles, ranging from the article about Australia with 4000 different editors, with each doing on average less than ten edits, to the article about Damien (South Park), an article about an episode in a television series, being written mostly by a few editors with an average of sixty edits per editor. Results
6. Social network analysis tool Wikipedia CollaboAnalyzer tool developed by Iba et al. (Iba & Itoh 2009) to parse the collaboration network.
7. Mozart in Italy Different ways to edit Few authors write in few different editing steps Structure fits the topic of the article that is highly specialized Small pool of subject matter experts One editor does majority of edits
12. What communication and coordination mechanisms are these swarms of editors using to produce top-rated articles? Assumption: For each article there are a few outstanding editors, who succeed in coordinating the editing process to produce a featured article. Research Question
14. Reading the discussion pages of these four Wikipedians, we found that the top two (mav, peregrine_fisher) are mostly conciliatory in nature, while the bottom two are quite provocative at times. Mavand peregrine_fisher have a positive conversation pattern, where they and a few others are at any given point in time engaged in a constructive dialogue. Specific users over time: Coolfarmers
16. Out of the slightly less than 400,000 people pages in the category “living people”, close to 80,000 have fewer than three back links, i.e. are candidates for egobooster pages. Three types of egoboosters the snake, wheel, and star. Egoboosters
18. egoboosterstake no measures to hide their identity, choosing their real name as username to create an article about themselves. In the cases where we encountered this behavior, the networks were of the single-threaded “snake” type, which means that either the egobooster started the article, and then let others do subsequent editing, or continued editing using pseudonyms or changing IP addresses for all further edits. Egoboosters
19. Leaving egoboosters unpunished degrades the quality of Wikipedia, thus also doing a huge disservice to the tireless and immensely valuable work of the coolfarmers. Debunking the egoboosters takes a lot of moral authority, and who better to apply that moral authority by removing and/or reprimanding egoboostersthan the coolfarmers. Finding suitable and hard-to-spam metrics for identifying the most valuable contributors to Wikipedia has direct practical applicability beyond finding the egobooster, by e.g. proposing alternate ranking systems for the quality of articles based on the quality of contributors. Conclusions