Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Special issue on open collaboration and wiki research
Dan Bolser
'crowd source' a paper ;-)
Dan.
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From: Andrea Forte <andrea...@gmail.com>
Date: 8 November 2011 15:34
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Special issue on open collaboration and wiki research
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
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Hi all, Cliff Lampe and I have been working with Barry Wellman to
create a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on Open
Collaboration and Wiki Research.
Here's the CfP!
- Andrea
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Special Issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research
American Behavioral Scientist
Editors: Andrea Forte, Cliff Lampe, Barry Wellman
In the past decade, the popularization of open collaboration tools
have led to innovation and disruption of established processes in
nearly every dimension of social life. Phenomena like transparency in
governance, citizen journalism, open source, open content production,
crowdsourcing and distributed innovation have captured the attention
of scholars from diverse fields. Although Wikipedia made it a
household term, in popular press, the term “wiki” has come to
represent a much broader range of ideas than an editable web page.
We invite paper submissions that examine diverse aspects of open
collaboration. By open collaboration we mean the development of novel
social structures supported by technologies including wikis and other
content management systems that allow people to share and build
content. The intent of this special issue is to showcase cutting edge
research on how open collaboration is organized and how systems that
support it are designed, implemented and used in a variety of task
contexts. We encourage submissions from diverse disciplines that study
social systems, culture and technology.
Suggestions for submission topics include but are not limited to:
* Social structure and organization of open collaborations
* Motivation and incentive to participate
* Technical features of systems that support collaboration
* The use of reputation and rating in open collaboration systems
* The impact of open collaboration on
- education and learning
- scientific collaboration
- journalism
- government
- business
- knowledge management
American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) is a monthly, peer-reviewed
journal that provides in-depth perspectives on contemporary topics
throughout the social and behavioral sciences. Each issue offers
comprehensive analysis of a single topic, examining
inter-disciplinary, important, and diverse arenas.
Abstracts Due: Dec 15, 2011
Invitations to Submit: Jan 5
Papers Due: Mar 31
Notification: May 1
****Please email abstract submissions to afo...@drexel.edu, subject: ABS
Wiki Research***
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Marco Li
Let's create a wiki page to write collaboratively.
Marco
On Nov 9, 7:07 am, Dan Bolser <dan.bol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like they didn't consider 'open science'. Perhaps we could
> 'crowd source' a paper ;-)
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> From: Andrea Forte <andrea.fo...@gmail.com>
> Date: 8 November 2011 15:34
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Special issue on open collaboration and wiki research
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
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Dan Bolser
> Concur, how do we start?
I think the way to start is to recruit or interview people with
experience of the 'social' aspects of their respective BioWikis.
i.e. Working with undergraduates (GoNuts / EcoliWiki), hosting open
content competitions (BiO.CC / Proteopedia), linking contribution to
publication (TFe, MetaDatabase), other aspects of 'social engineering'
...
> Let's create a wiki page to write collaboratively.
Agree. Where? Somewhere here(?):
http://bioinformatics.org/wiki/BioWiki
Could be good to start writing out interview questions and/or trying
to recruit replies or contributions? (Do we have time?)
I'm still a bit fuzzy about the required scope of a paper for this
special issue, so it could be good to define it.
Just some (more or less random) ideas...
DISCLAIMER... I don't have much time to contribute to this directly!
> Marco
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Robert Hoffmann
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> Agree. Where? Somewhere here(?):
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> http://bioinformatics.org/wiki/BioWiki
If you plan to write this collaboratively, the authorship tracking technology in WikiGenes might come in handy.
See for an example the GWAS collaboration with Nature Genetics at
http://www.wikigenes.org/e/pub/e/85.html
- Robert
Paolo Romano
more on the motivation, aims and methods of this "crowd-sourced" manuscript.
From the announcement, I see:
The intent of this special issue is to showcase
.. (omissis).. how systems that support it (i.e. OPEN COLLABORATION)
are designed, implemented and used in a variety of task contexts.
Moreover, topics include:
* The impact of open collaboration on
- education and learning
- scientific collaboration
- knowledge management
So, it seems to me that the most obvious scope of
a possible submission from this group is to show
how (some) biological wikis are designed,
implemented and used for education and learning, scientfic
collaboration and knowledge management.
What do you think?
Ciao. Paolo
Paolo Romano (paolo....@istge.it)
Bioinformatics
IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - IST National Cancer Research Institute
http://www.nettab.org/
NETTAB Workshops. Stay tuned!
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Dan Bolser
>>> Let's create a wiki page to write collaboratively.
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>> Agree. Where? Somewhere here(?):
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>> http://bioinformatics.org/wiki/BioWiki
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> If you plan to write this collaboratively, the authorship tracking technology in WikiGenes might come in handy.
That would be great! Can you set us up a space to work / invite the
list to join?
The main tension I see between using MediaWiki and Google docs to work
on this kind of project is that:
1) People don't know how to use the MW history (it's too confusing for
beginners).
2) The wiki's comment system is unfit for purpose.
3) Google docs don't have labelled edits, making the history hard to
browse (relative to the wiki, once you know what you are doing).
4) Google docs has great threaded, in-line commenting, which is a big plus.
I'd really like to have a go on the WikiGenes system to see how it compares.
Cheers,
Dan.
Robert Hoffmann
> list to join?
I've created a draft article (anyone could do this actually):
http://www.wikigenes.org/e/pub/e/179.html
Everybody is invited to edit the article. Dan can also change the access rights for the article if necessary.
Just use your Google account (or similar) to register.
Best wishes,
Robert
Marco Li
Marco Li
It is time to draft and send the questionaires..
Marco
Dan Bolser
Looks like you need to take the lead if you're still interested.
Cheers,
Dan.
Marco Li
Dan Bolser
Surveys were just one idea... What should be done first? How much time
is left? Anyone else interested?