Wikimedia Research/WikiWorkshop

Program Committee

PC Member Invite template

The email we send to potential PC members.

Subject: Invitation to [*ACRONYM*] Program Committee 

Dear [*FIRST-NAME*] [*LAST-NAME*],

We are co-organizing the 10th edition of Wiki Workshop to be held as a standalone virtual event on May 11, 2023.

Given your extensive experience in the field, and your amazing contribution to previous years’ program and/or our research community, we would like to ask you to help us with reviewing up to 6 extended abstracts (max 2 pages) for the workshop. All submissions are non-archival, and can be ongoing, completed, or already published works.

The tentative submission deadlines are:
Submission deadline: March 23, 2023
**Reviews due:  April 13, 2023**

It would be great to have you on board! We would appreciate if you could accept or decline the invitation via easychair using the link above by March 15. If you are unable to serve, please let us know, and if you could suggest 1-2 candidates that might be willing to serve in the PC, we would love to invite them!

Please also do consider submitting your own research work to the Wiki Workshop, and help us spread the word about the event!

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Wiki Workshop 2023 PC chairs:
Martin Gerlach (Wikimedia Foundation) and Francesca Tripodi (UNC-Chapel Hill)

 

Reminder email

The email we send to PC members who are delayed in responding to the previous email. We do this from the easychair portal.

Subject: reminder: respond to Invitation to [*ACRONYM*] Program Committee

Dear [*FIRST-NAME*] [*LAST-NAME*],

We sent you an invitation last week to join the Program Committee for Wiki Workshop 2023 to help us review submissions for the workshop (at most 6 extended abstracts each up to 2 pages).

We would kindly ask you to respond on easychair to accept or decline the invitation (see the link above). It would be great to have you onboard.

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Wiki Workshop 2023 PC chairs:
Martin Gerlach (Wikimedia Foundation) and Francesca Tripodi (UNC-Chapel Hill)

 

Announcements

Call for papers template

The following email was used in the past for announcing Wiki Workshop and its CfP on wiki-research-l.

Subject: Wiki Workshop [YEAR] Announcement and Call for Papers

Hi everyone,

We invite contributions to the 10th edition (!) of Wiki Workshop, which will take place virtually on May 11, 2023 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). 

Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year, aimed at bringing together researchers who study all aspects of Wikimedia projects (including, but not limited to, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and Wiktionary) as well as Wikimedia developers, affiliate organizations, and volunteer editors. Co-organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team and members of the Wikimedia research community, the workshop facilitates a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the organizations that serve Wikimedia projects and the researchers actively studying them.

New this year: Building on the successful experiences of organizing Wiki Workshop in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 and based on feedback from authors and participants over the years, we are introducing a few updates to the research track of the workshop for 2023:

This 10th edition will take place as a standalone event (rather than in co-location with a conference, as in previous years).

We have changed the format of submissions and will only accept 2-page extended abstracts (following the successful IC2S2 model).

Submissions are non-archival, so we welcome ongoing, completed, and already published work.

We are excited to share that the authors of Wiki Workshop 2023 will have the opportunity to receive feedback, improve their work, and submit the extended version of their research paper to a special issue of the ACM Transactions on the Web, which will have a dedicated open call for papers later in 2023.     


Topics include, but are not limited to:

new technologies and initiatives to grow content, quality, equity, diversity, and participation across Wikimedia projects 

use of bots, algorithms, and crowdsourcing strategies to curate, source, or verify content and structured data

bias in content and gaps of knowledge on Wikimedia projects

relation between Wikimedia projects and the broader (open) knowledge ecosystem

exploration of what constitutes a source and how/if the incorporation of other kinds of sources are possible (e.g., oral histories, video)

detection of low-quality, promotional, or fake content (misinformation or disinformation), as well as fake accounts (e.g., sock puppets)

questions related to community health (e.g., sentiment analysis, harassment detection, tools that could increase harmony)

motivations, engagement models, incentives, and needs of editors, readers, and/or developers of Wikimedia projects

innovative uses of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for AI and NLP applications and vice versa

consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues

dynamics of content reuse across projects and the impact of policies and community norms on reuse

privacy, security, and trust

collaborative content creation

innovative uses of Wikimedia projects' content and consumption patterns as sensors for real-world events, culture, etc.

open-source research code, datasets, and tools to support research on Wikimedia contents and communities

connections between Wikimedia projects and the Semantic Web 

strategies for how to incorporate Wikimedia projects into media literacy interventions

Submission instructions
This year’s Wiki Workshop solicits extended abstracts (PDF format, maximum 2 pages, including references). Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit will be automatically rejected. Authors may include 1 additional page with figures and/or tables (including captions) only.  Initial submissions require names and affiliations of authors, 5 keywords, a title, abstract, and a main text outlining the contribution, methods, findings, and impact of the work, whichever is relevant.

Submissions will be non-archival and as a result may have already been published, under review, or ongoing research.  All submissions will be reviewed by multiple members of the Wiki Workshop Program Committee. The names of the authors will be revealed to the reviewers, whereas reviewers will remain anonymous to authors.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their research in a pre-recorded oral presentation with dedicated time for live Q&A on May 11, 2023. Accepted abstracts may be shared on the website prior to the event.

The template for formatting the submission as well as the submission link to easychair will be made available by February 23 on https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/.

Announcing the workshop internally in WMF

The template used in 2023 is below:

Hi all,

The 10th edition of Wiki Workshop [1], our largest Wikimedia research event of the year, will take place virtually on May 11th, 2023 starting at 12:00 UTC until 18:30 UTC or so.

You can register at https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/wikiworkshop2023/ .

Who can participate in the workshop?
Everyone is welcome to submit a registration request.
We give priority to staff who conduct research (broadly defined) on the Wikimedia projects,  who work with Wikimedia researchers, or are interested in connecting with the Wikimedia research community because of specific initiatives or projects they are working on.
Every year, we have some staff who join us who are just interested to learn more from the content of the workshop and connect with other amazing Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates.
You can check out the 2022's schedule to get a sense of how this year's event may look like as well: https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/#schedule .

Do feel free to share the registration information with folks outside of WMF who may be interested.

If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out.

Best,
Leila, on behalf of Wiki Workshop 2023 organizers [2]

[1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/
[2] https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/#organization

Handling Reviews

Paper assignment email

The email we send to PC members when assigning the papers to review, this is done from easychair's portal.

Thank you for agreeing to review for Wiki Workshop 2023! 
No more than 6 submissions have been assigned to you for review (see below). Your reviews are due by **April 13**, and your assigned submissions are listed below. You can find some guidelines about the review process below.

Through the Research track of Wiki Workshop we aim to create a space for Wikimedia researchers to share their research and learnings with others and engage in conversations that help improve their work or elevate our understanding of the Wikimedia projects through the scientific lens. Your review will play a key role in helping us achieve this goal.
Please use your review to help the authors improve their work. We ask you to reject only very low-quality, flawed, or ethically concerning submissions. 

Through Wiki Workshop, we're building a community. :) Consider your review as a feedback to a peer who you care about and want to see their work improved. Be constructive and kind in your writing. For a reference on the topic, check out https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/on-civility-in-reviewing

We would also like to ask you to review the submissions assigned to you for conflict of interest (COI). If you think there could be a COI please reach out to us as soon as possible. COI can arise from different factors such as actively working on the same project (including but not limited to this submission), family relationship, close personal relationship, graduate advisor/advisee relationship, deep personal animosity, etc.

We thank you in advance for your service, and we are very grateful for your contribution to the success of this workshop!

Wiki Workshop 2023 PC chairs:
Martin Gerlach (Wikimedia Foundation) and Francesca Tripodi (UNC-Chapel Hill)

 

Amendment to the above email, to clarify the scope of the Wiki Workshop

This is something we send if we see the need of clarify the nature of the assessment we need from reviewers

Subject: Reviewing for the Wiki Workshop [YEAR]

Dear PC Members of the Wiki Workshop, 

Thank you once again for agreeing to review the submissions to our workshop! 

This is just a quick note to clarify the nature of the assesment we expect from reviewers. 

We really want the workshop to be a venue for researchers to gather, pitch and explore new ideas, even if preliminary, about their work on Wiki spaces. We are very open to work-in-progress papers, and we are happy to accept brave new idea or position-like papers. That is why we would like to keep a pretty high acceptance rate, and reject only very low-quality or flawed works. 

Please keep this in mind when reviewing the papers. Looking forward to receiving your reviews - which, reminder, are due [DEADLINE] from now ;) 

Many thanks, 

Miriam on behalf of the Wiki Workshop organizers