[AISWorld] Call for Papers: WikiSym 2013, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

[Dirk Riehle]

WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration

August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China

http://wikisym.org/wsos2013/

ACM In-cooperation with SIGWEB and SIGSOFT. Archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Research paper submission deadline: March 17, 2013.

The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Open Collaboration (WikiSym + 
OpenSym 2013) is the premier conference on open collaboration research, 
including wikis and social media, Wikipedia, free, libre, and open source 
software, open access, open data and open government research. WikiSym is in 
its 9th year and will be complemented by OpenSym, a new conference on open 
collaboration research and an adjunct to the successful WikiSym conference 
series. WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 is the first conference to bring together the 
different strands of open collaboration research, seeking to create synergies 
and inspire new research between computer scientists, social scientists, legal 
scholars, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how 
it is changing the world. Read more about the conference at 
http://wikisym.org/2013.



CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 1: OPEN COLLABORATION (WIKIS, SOCIAL MEDIA, ETC.) 
RESEARCH TRACK

Defined as "collaboration that is egalitarian (everyone can join, no 
principled or artificial barriers to participation exist), meritocratic 
(decisions and status are merit-based rather than imposed) and self-organizing 
(processes adapt to people rather than people adapt to pre-defined 
processes)", we are seeking research submissions that best exemplify this 
definition of open collaboration.

We are looking for research papers that represent new and innovative research 
on wikis, social media and other applications that best exemplify open 
collaboration. We seek submissions that will bring together the different 
strands of open collaboration research, create synergies and inspire new 
research between computer scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and 
everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing 
the world. Some of the topics that would be appropriate for submission to the 
"open collaboration" track are:

* Innovative development and/or implementation of wiki applications
* Building open systems and tools
* Social and cultural aspects of open collaboration
* Open collaboration beyond text: images, video, sound, etc.
* Communities and workgroups
* Open knowledge and information production

Uses and impact of wikis and other open resources, tools, and practices in 
fields and application areas, for example:

* Open source software development and use
* Education and Open Educational Resources
* E-government, open government, and public policy
* Law/Intellectual Property (including Creative Commons)
* Journalism (including participatory journalism)
* Art and Entertainment (including collaborative and audience-involved art)
* Science (including collaboratories)
* Publishing (including open access and open review models)
* Business (including open and collaborative management styles)



CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2: WIKIPEDIA RESEARCH TRACK

Topics of interest to the Wikipedia research track include, but are not 
limited to:

* What do particular articles or groups or articles tell us about the norms, 
governance and architecture of Wikipedia and its impact on media, politics and 
the social sphere? How is information on Wikipedia being shaped by the 
materiality of Wikipedia infrastructure?
* What is the impact of all/some of Wikipedia’s 211 language editions having 
on achieving the project’s goal to represent the “sum of all human knowledge”? 
Do smaller language editions follow the same development path as larger 
language editions? Can different representations in different languages tell 
us anything about cultural, national or regional differences?
* What are the gendered dimensions of Wikipedia editing? How are issues around 
power, knowledge and representation drawn into focus by gender, geography and 
other gaps and imbalances in Wikipedia editing?
* What skills/competencies/connections/world views are required to become an 
empowered member of the Wikimedia community? What does a Wikipedia literate 
person look like? How are those skills/competencies/connections/world views 
obtained and enacted?
* Does Wikipedia enact an open source of authoritative knowledge that impacts 
learning in formal and informal settings? For instance, how do students employ 
Wikipedia as a covert/overt source in their papers or as a generative site for 
problem formulation? Or how is Wikipedia being used as a serendipitous 
experience of knowledge acquisition? What methods can be employed to 
understand these varied utilizations?
* What is the effect of outreach initiatives involving the growing 
institutionalisation of Wikipedia activities? As galleries, libraries, 
archives and museums hire Wikipedians-in-residence to digitize, showcase 
and/or represent their collections, is Wikipedia able to fill some its key 
knowledge gaps? Or are there unintended effects of this institutionalization 
of knowledge?
* What are the methodological challenges to studying Wikipedia? How are 
researchers engaging with innovative methodologies to solve some of these 
problems? How are other researchers using traditional or well-established 
methods to study Wikipedia?
* How are wiki projects other than Wikipedia evolving? What are the benefits 
to studying other wiki projects and can comparisons and generalisations be 
made from our observations of these systems?
* How does information contained in Wikipedia shape our understanding of 
broader social, economic, and political practices and processes? What 
theoretical frameworks in social, economic, legal and other relevant 
theoretical traditions can be applied to enrich the academic discourse on 
Wikipedia?



SUBMISSION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS

The following types of submissions are invited:

* Long research papers (5 to 10 pages)
* Short research papers (1 to 4 pages)
* Research posters (1 to 2 pages)
* Research presentations (1 to 10 pages)

Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive 
new theoretical or empirical work. Research papers will be reviewed by the 
research track program committee to meet rigorous academic standards of 
publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, 
innovation and clarity of presentation. They must be written in English. At 
least one author of accepted papers is required to attend the conference in 
order to present the paper.

Research presentations present integrative reviews or original reports of 
substantive new theoretical or empirical work. This is a new format is 
specifically aimed at the requirements of social science researchers enabling 
those researchers to use WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 (WS+OS) as a pre-publication 
venue before journal publication. Only the abstracts of these papers will be 
published as part of the proceedings thus leaving open the opportunity for 
journal publication at a later date. Research presentations will be reviewed 
by the research track program committee to meet rigorous academic standards 
just like research papers.

Research posters enable researchers to present late-breaking research results, 
significant research work in progress, or research work that is best 
communicated in conversation. WS+OS's lively poster sessions let conference 
attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss 
their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic. 
Successful applicants will display their posters, up to 1x2m in size, at a 
special session during the event.

Submissions for experience reports (long and short), tutorials, workshops, 
panels, non-research posters, and demos are also sought but are handled 
through the community track, please see 
http://wikisym.org/submitting/community. Submissions to WS+OS's Doctoral 
Symposium are also sought but are handled separately, please see 
http://wikisym.org/submitting/docsym.

Submissions should follow the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. For advice 
and templates, please see 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. All papers must 
conform at time of submission to the formatting instructions and must not 
exceed the page limits, including all text, references, appendices and 
figures. All submissions must in PDF format.

All papers and posters should be submitted electronically through EasyChair 
using the following URL: 
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=wikisym2013.



SUBMISSION AND NOTIFICATION DEADLINES

* Submission: March 17, 2013
* Notification to authors: May 17, 2013
* Camera-ready: June 2, 2013

As long as it is March 17 somewhere on earth, your submission will be accepted.



RESEARCH TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE 1

Jude Yew, National University of Singapore (chair of research track)

Program committee members to-be-announced.



RESEARCH TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Heather Ford - Co-Chair
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Home page URL: http://hblog.org

Mark Graham - Co-Chair
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Home page URL: http://www.zerogeography.net/

Megan Finn
Affiliation: Microsoft Research, New England
Home page URL: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/megfin/

Stuart Geiger
Affiliation: UC-Berkeley School of Information
Home page URL: http://www.stuartgeiger.com

Brent Hecht
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of 
Minnesota
Home page URL: http://www.brenthecht.com

Brian Keegan
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Home page URL: http://www.brianckeegan.com

Wen Lin
Affiliation: Newcastle University
Home page URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/wen.lin

Felipe Ortega
Affiliation: Researcher, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, 
University Rey Juan Carlos.
Home page URL: http://felipeortega.net

Dan Perkel
Affiliation: IDEO
Home page URL: http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/

Joseph Reagle
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Home page URL: http://reagle.org/joseph/

Jodi Schneider
Affiliation: DERI, NUI Galway
Home page URL: http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html

Shilad Sen
Affiliation: Macalester College
Home page URL: http://www.shilad.com

Monica Stephens
Affiliation: Humboldt State University
Home page URL: https://sites.google.com/a/email.arizona.edu/stephens/

Dario Taraborelli
Affiliation: Wikimedia Foundation
Home page URL: http://nitens.org/taraborelli

Robert West
Affiliation: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Home page URL: http://ai.stanford.edu/~west1/

Matthew W. Wilson
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
Home page URL: http://matthew-w-wilson.com

Taha Yasseri
Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Home page URL: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/

Matthew Zook
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Home page URL: http://zook.info

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