From sgeiger at gmail.com Mon Feb 1 22:47:00 2010 From: sgeiger at gmail.com (R.Stuart Geiger) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:47:00 -0500 Subject: [CPOV] CfP: 2010 International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) Message-ID: <1c63c14d1002011347ud82da76j7b15f9c2f6254f20@mail.gmail.com> This year, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (aka WikiSym) will be in Gda?sk, Poland on July 7-9th. The conference is less critical than CPOV, but research is welcome on all topics related to wikis, no matter what the theoretical, methodological, or axiological orientation. WikiSym also has a much broader scope than CPOV, extending to not only all wikis, but other sites of open collaboration as well. The conference will take place just a few days before Wikimania, the annual conference for Wikimedia Foundation projects, which will also be in Gda?sk. However, know that WikiSym has and will remain an independent academic conference with its own formal peer-review procedure. For more on the relationship between the two conferences, see http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSym_and_Wikimania If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. And please re-distribute this widely! Thanks, Stuart Geiger WikiSym '10 Publicity Co-Chair, Wikimedia Liason ====== CALL FOR PAPERS ====== W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0 The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration http://wikisym.org/ws2010/Call+for+Papers July 7-8-9 in Gda?sk, Poland. Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia Foundation projects, http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org). Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library. SUMMARY WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year, WikiSym aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities, collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis), and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples. Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds. As a result, WikiSym has established 3 complementary tracks to merge the contributions from such a diverse community: * Wiki track: Focused on research in wiki technology, wiki websites, wiki communities, and in general any kind of initiative pivoting around wiki software. * Industry track: This new track will focus on the specific needs of enterprises and private companies interested in sharing and promoting their experiences around wikis and open collaboration projects/products/initiatives. * Open collaboration track: This track is a dedicated venue for sharing research results and experiences in initiatives that may not be built specifically on wiki software, but share the "wiki way" of organization. These may include open collaborations, open communities, and open movements that allow the interchange of ideas and contributions from participants with a range of interests and motivations. Research manuscripts may be sent to any of these tracks. However, submitting the same manuscript to more than one track at the same time is not allowed. Therefore, please select the most appropriate track for the topic covered in your manuscript before submitting. IMPORTANT DATES * March 7th: Submission deadline for research papers. * March 21st: Submission deadline for Doctoral Symposium proposals, posters, demonstrations, workshops, panels, tutorials. * May 4th: Notification of acceptance for research papers. * May 11th: Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Symposium proposals, posters, workshops, tutorials, panels. * July 7-9: WikiSym 2010! Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis and open collaboration initiatives, WikiSym invites contributions in a wide range of fields. TOPICS OF INTEREST: WIKI TRACK * Wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis * Reputation systems and quality assurance processes * Scalability -- social and technical * Wiki technologies and implementations * Translation and multilingual wiki content * Educational applications * Wikis for non-textual media (images, video, audio) * Content dynamics and wiki evolution * Wiki archiving and versioning * Wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict * Wikis and the semantic web, knowledge management and tacit knowledge * Wikis for small audiences (departmental and family wikis) * Legal issues (copyright, licensing) * Visualization of wiki structure TOPICS OF INTEREST: INDUSTRY TRACK * Business opportunities around wikis and open collaboration * Best practices to adopt wikis and open collaboration in industry * Information disclosure: practices and experiences * Community building and support * Open publishing and open licensing in the industry * Wikis and open collaboration entrepreneurship * Coopetition: best practices * Interaction and synergies between industries and open communities * Open innovation: strategies and experiences for leaders/followers * Promotion, support and funding of open collaboration initiatives * Knowledge management TOPICS OF INTEREST OPEN COLLABORATION TRACK * Social software for collaboration and work group processes * Open online communities * Technologies for networked collaboration * Social interactions on the web * Open and citizen journalism * Social networks * Collaborative content creation * Distributed development of software * Cooperation for problem resolution * Information disclosure strategies * Open call working environments * Crowdsourcing and information synthesis * Collaborative multimedia collections * Distributed content categorization/tagging * Open publishing * Commons projects and repositories * Distributed selection of content RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, or in the development or deployment of novel systems. We encourage emphasizing lessons learned and providing a clear concise message to the audience about the relevance of the work. The paper must place your work in context within the field, citing related work and indicating clearly what aspects of the work are new. Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. They should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages (for full papers) or 4 pages (for short papers). Papers will be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference in order to present the paper. Accepted submissions will be published in the WikiSym proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Submitted papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The Doctoral Symposium is an interactive forum for doctoral students to receive present and discuss their doctoral work. Students who are at least one year away from dissertation completion are invited to submit to the Doctoral Symposium. Students beginning their research are especially invited to attend. To submit a proposal send a 2-3 page description of your dissertation research, including: * A description of your work * The goals---what contributions will your research generate? * The approach---what is being performed to achieve the goals? How will results be validated? Additionally, your adviser must send a brief statement of your dissertation progress to date and a statement of recommendation to the Doctoral Symposium chair. WORKSHOPS Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss and learn about topics that require extended engagement such as new systems, research methods, standards and formats. A workshop should require participants to engage with each other for at least half a day. For shorter sessions, please consider WikiSym's open space format. A workshop proposal should consist of approximately two pages describing what you intend to do and how your session will meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise abstract, proposed time frame (half-day, full-day) and one-paragraph biographies of all people relevant to the submission. Workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. Each workshop will be allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room. PANELS Panels provide an interactive forum for bringing together people with interesting points of view to discuss compelling wiki issues. Panels involve participation from both the panelists and audience members in a lively discussion. Proposals for panels should consist of approximately two pages describing what you intend to do and how your session will meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise abstract and one-paragraph biographies of all panelists. A panel submission will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. Each panel will be given a 90-minute time slot. POSTERS Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated in conversation. WikiSym'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. Poster proposals may describe original research, engineering, or experience reports. Submissions should consist of a two-page extended abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants will be invited to display a poster, 1x2m in size, at a special plenary session of the Symposium. DEMONSTRATIONS Wikis are intended to be used, and no format is better suited for demonstrating the utility of new wiki research and technology than showing and using it. If you would like to demonstrate new features or products, this is the place! Demonstrations give presenters an opportunity to show running systems and gather feedback. Demo submissions will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A submission should be one page in length, with a title and a short description of the demo. The description should include what you plan to demonstrate, what you hope to get out of demoing, and how the audience will benefit. A short note of any special technical requirements may be included. HOW TO SUBMIT Please submit your research papers in PDF format through our research paper submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikisym2010). For all other papers and proposals, please email the respective chair (see below). All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Submitted work in all categories should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Questions regarding submissions may be directed at the respective chair using the following email addresses: * Workshops: workshops at wikisym.org * Demonstrations/Tutorials: demos at wikisym.org * Posters: posters at wikisym.org * Doctoral Symposium: docsym at wikisym.org General questions should be directed at chair at wikisym.org. SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE * Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, USA; Symposium Chair * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Programme Chair * Dirk Riehle, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Treasurer * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Wiki Track Chair * Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Canada; Industry Track Chair * Giota Alevizou, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK; Open Collaboration Track Chair * Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Thailand; Posters Chair * Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard University, USA; Workshops Chair * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Wikimedia Liason * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Publicity Co-Chair (Academia-US) * Yoshifumi Masunaga, Aoyama Gakuin University; Publicity Co-Chair (Asia-Pacific) * Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Publicity Co-Chair (Africa) * Mayo Fuster Morell, European University Institute, Italy; Publicity Co-Chair (Open Collaboration) * Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org and Cunningham & Cunningham, USA; Honorary Member * James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Honorary Member * Ted Ernst, AboutUs.org, USA; Open Space Facilitator * Marc Laporte, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Canada; Webmaster PROGRAM COMMITTEE Please visit http://wikisym.org/ws2010 to obtain the most up-to-date list of reviewers and collaborators included in our Programme Committee. From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Feb 2 09:12:40 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:12:40 +0100 Subject: [CPOV] Welcome to the Critical Point of View mailinglist Message-ID: <6C7027E3-FFA7-45EF-B604-D97F17A13CE2@xs4all.nl> Dear all, welcome to this mailinglist on critical Wikipedia research! There is an announcement of the Amsterdam CPOV event in the next email. Work on this project started early 2009 when the editorial team emerged out of the global social cloud. I met Nate in Melbourne in December 2008 and knew of Johanna's work already for a while. Then I ran into Sunil and Nishant in De Balie, here in Amsterdam, and quickly agreed that should do an INC reader on the matter, prepared by two events. The concept was ready in June and work on the production of the two conferences, one in Bangalore, and one in Amsterdam, started soon after. First of all there was a call for papers for the Bangalore event. During the first event, on January 12-13 2010 in Bangalore, the editorial team decided to start its own mailinglist. So, here it is. Here in Amsterdam at the Institute of Network Cultures we are working with a small team on the Amsterdam event. Besides me and Sabine Niederer (who will be on leave soon) who are on the original editorial team, there is the manager Margreet Riphagen, the Brazilian-German research intern Juliana Brunello and the production intern Serena Westra. CPOV is about Wikipedia--and its not. That's the central phrase right now. Doing critical work in this field doesn't mean Wikipedia bashing. To me it is sign that Wikipedia is growing up. It is a luxury to have independent research networks that is not formally or informally attached to the big Wikimedia Mothership. Let's see where CPOV will take us! Greetings from a wet and cold, slippery Amsterdam, Geert From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Feb 2 09:26:56 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:26:56 +0100 Subject: [CPOV] 2nd COPV conference on Wikipedia research (Amsterdam, March 26/27) Message-ID: <97F9A86A-7226-4555-91F2-A8ECFEC46B53@xs4all.nl> Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative Date: 26-27 March 2010 Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India. Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov Discussion List: http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. The heated debates over its accuracy, anonymity, trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of Wikipedia and its user base. Apart from leaving its modern counterparts Britannica and Encarta in the dust, such scale and breadth places Wikipedia on par with such historical milestones as Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, the Ming Dynasty's Wen-hsien ta- ch' eng, and the key work of French Enlightenment, the Encyclop?die. The multilingual Wikipedia as digital collaborative and fluid knowledge production platform might be said to be the most visible and successful example of the migration of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) principles into mainstream culture. However, such celebration should contain critical insights, informed by the changing realities of the Internet at large and the Wikipedia project in particular. The CPOV Research Initiative was founded from the urge to stimulate critical Wikipedia research: quantitative and qualitative research that could benefit both the wide user-base and the active Wikipedia community itself. On top of this, Wikipedia offers critical insights into the contemporary status of knowledge, its organizing principles, function, and impact; its production styles, mechanisms for conflict resolution and power (re-)constitution. The overarching research agenda is at once a philosophical, epistemological and theoretical investigation of knowledge artifacts, cultural production and social relations, and an empirical investigation of the specific phenomenon of the Wikipedia. Conference Themes: Wiki Theory, Encyclopedia Histories, Wiki Art, Wikipedia Analytics, Designing Debate and Global Issues and Outlooks. Confirmed speakers: Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Andrew Famiglietti (UK), Stuart Geiger (USA), Hendrik-Jan Grievink (NL), Charles van den Heuvel (NL), Jeanette Hofmann (DE), Athina Karatzogianni (UK), Scott Kildall (USA), Patrick Lichty (USA), Hans Varghese Mathews (IN), Teemu Mikkonen (FI), Mayo Fuster Morell (IT), Mathieu O'Neil (AU), Felipe Ortega (ES), Dan O'Sullivan (UK), Joseph Reagle (USA), Ram?n Reichert (AU), Richard Rogers (USA/NL), Alan Shapiro (USA/DE), Maja van der Velden (NL/NO), G?rard Wormser (FR). Editorial team: Sabine Niederer and Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Nishant Shah and Sunil Abraham (Bangalore), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne). Project manager CPOV Amsterdam: Margreet Riphagen. Research intern: Juliana Brunello. Production intern: Serena Westra. The CPOV conference in Amsterdam will be the second conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative. The launch of the initiative took place in Bangalore India, with the conference WikiWars in January 2010. After the first two events, the CPOV organization will work on producing a reader, to be launched early 2011. For more information or submitting a reader contribution: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/reader/ . Buy your ticket online at: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/practical-info/tickets/ (with iDeal), or register by sending an email to: info (at) networkcultures.org. One day ticket: ?25, students and OBA members: ?12,50. Full conference pass (2 days): ?40, students and OBA members: ?25. More info: www.networkcultures.org/cpov. Contact: info (at) networkcultures.org, phone: +3120 5951866 From jfelipe at gsyc.es Tue Feb 2 12:02:43 2010 From: jfelipe at gsyc.es (Felipe Ortega) Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:02:43 +0100 Subject: [CPOV] 2nd COPV conference on Wikipedia research (Amsterdam, March 26/27) In-Reply-To: <97F9A86A-7226-4555-91F2-A8ECFEC46B53@xs4all.nl> References: <97F9A86A-7226-4555-91F2-A8ECFEC46B53@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <1265108563.2502.12.camel@bluestorm> Hi, Geert. Do you plan to create a web page with information and details about the conference? Right now, /cpov points to the CPOV blog, which is great. But it'd be also convenient to have a static page, for promoting the conference and making announcements. Best, Felipe. On mar, 2010-02-02 at 09:26 +0100, Geert Lovink wrote: > Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV > Wikipedia Research Initiative > > Date: 26-27 March 2010 > > Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central > station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam > > Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, in > cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, > India. > > Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov > > Discussion List: http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org > > Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of > dynamic knowledge. The heated debates over its accuracy, anonymity, > trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of > Wikipedia and its user base. Apart from leaving its modern > counterparts Britannica and Encarta in the dust, such scale and > breadth places Wikipedia on par with such historical milestones as > Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, the Ming Dynasty's Wen-hsien ta- > ch' eng, and the key work of French Enlightenment, the Encyclop?die. > The multilingual Wikipedia as digital collaborative and fluid > knowledge production platform might be said to be the most visible and > successful example of the migration of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source > Software) principles into mainstream culture. However, such > celebration should contain critical insights, informed by the changing > realities of the Internet at large and the Wikipedia project in > particular. > > The CPOV Research Initiative was founded from the urge to stimulate > critical Wikipedia research: quantitative and qualitative research > that could benefit both the wide user-base and the active Wikipedia > community itself. On top of this, Wikipedia offers critical insights > into the contemporary status of knowledge, its organizing principles, > function, and impact; its production styles, mechanisms for conflict > resolution and power (re-)constitution. The overarching research > agenda is at once a philosophical, epistemological and theoretical > investigation of knowledge artifacts, cultural production and social > relations, and an empirical investigation of the specific phenomenon > of the Wikipedia. > > Conference Themes: Wiki Theory, Encyclopedia Histories, Wiki Art, > Wikipedia Analytics, Designing Debate and Global Issues and Outlooks. > > Confirmed speakers: Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Andrew Famiglietti (UK), > Stuart Geiger (USA), Hendrik-Jan Grievink (NL), Charles van den Heuvel > (NL), Jeanette Hofmann (DE), Athina Karatzogianni (UK), Scott Kildall > (USA), Patrick Lichty (USA), Hans Varghese Mathews (IN), Teemu > Mikkonen (FI), Mayo Fuster Morell (IT), Mathieu O'Neil (AU), Felipe > Ortega (ES), Dan O'Sullivan (UK), Joseph Reagle (USA), Ram?n Reichert > (AU), Richard Rogers (USA/NL), Alan Shapiro (USA/DE), Maja van der > Velden (NL/NO), G?rard Wormser (FR). > > Editorial team: Sabine Niederer and Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Nishant > Shah and Sunil Abraham (Bangalore), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), > Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne). Project manager CPOV Amsterdam: Margreet > Riphagen. Research intern: Juliana Brunello. Production intern: Serena > Westra. > > The CPOV conference in Amsterdam will be the second conference of the > CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative. The launch of the initiative took > place in Bangalore India, with the conference WikiWars in January > 2010. After the first two events, the CPOV organization will work on > producing a reader, to be launched early 2011. For more information or > submitting a reader contribution: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/reader/ > . > > Buy your ticket online at: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/practical-info/tickets/ > (with iDeal), or register by sending an email to: info (at) > networkcultures.org. One day ticket: ?25, students and OBA members: > ?12,50. Full conference pass (2 days): ?40, students and OBA members: > ?25. > > More info: www.networkcultures.org/cpov. Contact: info (at) > networkcultures.org, phone: +3120 5951866 > > _______________________________________________ > Cpov_listcultures.org mailing list > Cpov_listcultures.org at p10.alfaservers.com > http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org -- Jos? Felipe Ortega Soto | Researcher & Project Manager Tel: (+34)-914 888 105 | Fax: (+34)-916 647 494 | GSyC/Libresoft - U. Rey Juan Carlos jfelipe _at_libresoft_dot_es | Edif. Departamental II - Office 106 http://libresoft.es/ | c/Tulip?n s/n 28933 M?stoles (Madrid) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From sabine at networkcultures.org Tue Feb 2 12:11:00 2010 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:11:00 +0100 Subject: [CPOV] 2nd COPV conference on Wikipedia research (Amsterdam, March 26/27) In-Reply-To: <1265108563.2502.12.camel@bluestorm> References: <97F9A86A-7226-4555-91F2-A8ECFEC46B53@xs4all.nl> <1265108563.2502.12.camel@bluestorm> Message-ID: Hi Felipe, thanks for your message to the list about the conference blog and information page. The Amsterdam conference page can be accessed from the CPOV page (under program). Here's a direct link: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/program/amsterdam-program/. Any suggestions for changes to the website or items for the blog are very welcome. You can mail us directly at info (at) networkcultures.org, or get in touch with the CPOV Amsterdam project manager Margreet Riphagen at margreet (at) networkcultures.org. We could for instance think about having a 'sticky post' on top of the blog (one that stays on top even though there's newer messages), which links to the Amsterdam program. Cheers, Sabine On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Felipe Ortega wrote: > Hi, Geert. > > Do you plan to create a web page with information and details about the > conference? > > Right now, /cpov points to the CPOV blog, which is great. But it'd be > also convenient to have a static page, for promoting the conference and > making announcements. > > Best, > Felipe. > > On mar, 2010-02-02 at 09:26 +0100, Geert Lovink wrote: >> Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV >> Wikipedia Research Initiative >> >> Date: 26-27 March 2010 >> >> Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central >> station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam >> >> Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, in >> cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, >> India. >> >> Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov >> >> Discussion List: http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org >> >> Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of >> dynamic knowledge. The heated debates over its accuracy, anonymity, >> trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of >> Wikipedia and its user base. Apart from leaving its modern >> counterparts Britannica and Encarta in the dust, such scale and >> breadth places Wikipedia on par with such historical milestones as >> Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, the Ming Dynasty's Wen-hsien ta- >> ch' eng, and the key work of French Enlightenment, the Encyclop?die. >> The multilingual Wikipedia as digital collaborative and fluid >> knowledge production platform might be said to be the most visible and >> successful example of the migration of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source >> Software) principles into mainstream culture. However, such >> celebration should contain critical insights, informed by the changing >> realities of the Internet at large and the Wikipedia project in >> particular. >> >> The CPOV Research Initiative was founded from the urge to stimulate >> critical Wikipedia research: quantitative and qualitative research >> that could benefit both the wide user-base and the active Wikipedia >> community itself. On top of this, Wikipedia offers critical insights >> into the contemporary status of knowledge, its organizing principles, >> function, and impact; its production styles, mechanisms for conflict >> resolution and power (re-)constitution. The overarching research >> agenda is at once a philosophical, epistemological and theoretical >> investigation of knowledge artifacts, cultural production and social >> relations, and an empirical investigation of the specific phenomenon >> of the Wikipedia. >> >> Conference Themes: Wiki Theory, Encyclopedia Histories, Wiki Art, >> Wikipedia Analytics, Designing Debate and Global Issues and Outlooks. >> >> Confirmed speakers: Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Andrew Famiglietti (UK), >> Stuart Geiger (USA), Hendrik-Jan Grievink (NL), Charles van den Heuvel >> (NL), Jeanette Hofmann (DE), Athina Karatzogianni (UK), Scott Kildall >> (USA), Patrick Lichty (USA), Hans Varghese Mathews (IN), Teemu >> Mikkonen (FI), Mayo Fuster Morell (IT), Mathieu O'Neil (AU), Felipe >> Ortega (ES), Dan O'Sullivan (UK), Joseph Reagle (USA), Ram?n Reichert >> (AU), Richard Rogers (USA/NL), Alan Shapiro (USA/DE), Maja van der >> Velden (NL/NO), G?rard Wormser (FR). >> >> Editorial team: Sabine Niederer and Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Nishant >> Shah and Sunil Abraham (Bangalore), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), >> Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne). Project manager CPOV Amsterdam: Margreet >> Riphagen. Research intern: Juliana Brunello. Production intern: Serena >> Westra. >> >> The CPOV conference in Amsterdam will be the second conference of the >> CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative. The launch of the initiative took >> place in Bangalore India, with the conference WikiWars in January >> 2010. After the first two events, the CPOV organization will work on >> producing a reader, to be launched early 2011. For more information or >> submitting a reader contribution: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/reader/ >> . >> >> Buy your ticket online at: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/practical-info/tickets/ >> (with iDeal), or register by sending an email to: info (at) >> networkcultures.org. One day ticket: ?25, students and OBA members: >> ?12,50. Full conference pass (2 days): ?40, students and OBA members: >> ?25. >> >> More info: www.networkcultures.org/cpov. Contact: info (at) >> networkcultures.org, phone: +3120 5951866 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cpov_listcultures.org mailing list >> Cpov_listcultures.org at p10.alfaservers.com >> http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org > > > -- > Jos? Felipe Ortega Soto | Researcher & Project Manager > Tel: (+34)-914 888 105 | > Fax: (+34)-916 647 494 | GSyC/Libresoft - U. Rey Juan Carlos > jfelipe _at_libresoft_dot_es | Edif. Departamental II - Office 106 > http://libresoft.es/ | c/Tulip?n s/n 28933 M?stoles (Madrid) > _______________________________________________ > Cpov_listcultures.org mailing list > Cpov_listcultures.org at p10.alfaservers.com > http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org From jawbrey at att.net Wed Feb 3 12:36:30 2010 From: jawbrey at att.net (Jon Awbrey) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:36:30 +0000 Subject: [CPOV] Welcome to the Critical Point of View mailinglist In-Reply-To: <6C7027E3-FFA7-45EF-B604-D97F17A13CE2@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <020320101136.25364.4B695FBE000BCF090000631422243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF970A9D0D990E06@att.net> Geert & All, Being still hopeful that there will arise places where critical reflective thinking about the impact of distributive information technology on society can take place, I welcome the appearance of this list. I hope it will be a place where broader perspectives on social-technical architectures can be maintained, points of view from which we can see a way through the mists of mystification to all that we hoped for in the future of communication, education, and inquiry. Jon Awbrey -- ? inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1 oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey ? -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Geert Lovink > > Dear all, > > welcome to this mailinglist on critical Wikipedia research! > > There is an announcement of the Amsterdam CPOV event in the next email. > > Work on this project started early 2009 when the editorial team > emerged out of the global social cloud. I met Nate in Melbourne in > December 2008 and knew of Johanna's work already for a while. Then I > ran into Sunil and Nishant in De Balie, here in Amsterdam, and quickly > agreed that should do an INC reader on the matter, prepared by two > events. The concept was ready in June and work on the production of > the two conferences, one in Bangalore, and one in Amsterdam, started > soon after. First of all there was a call for papers for the Bangalore > event. > > During the first event, on January 12-13 2010 in Bangalore, the > editorial team decided to start its own mailinglist. So, here it is. > > Here in Amsterdam at the Institute of Network Cultures we are working > with a small team on the Amsterdam event. Besides me and Sabine > Niederer (who will be on leave soon) who are on the original editorial > team, there is the manager Margreet Riphagen, the Brazilian-German > research intern Juliana Brunello and the production intern Serena > Westra. > > CPOV is about Wikipedia--and its not. That's the central phrase right > now. Doing critical work in this field doesn't mean Wikipedia bashing. > To me it is sign that Wikipedia is growing up. It is a luxury to have > independent research networks that is not formally or informally > attached to the big Wikimedia Mothership. > > Let's see where CPOV will take us! > > Greetings from a wet and cold, slippery Amsterdam, > > Geert > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cpov_listcultures.org mailing list > Cpov_listcultures.org at p10.alfaservers.com > http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org From geert at xs4all.nl Wed Feb 3 13:20:29 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:20:29 +0100 Subject: [CPOV] Welcome to the Critical Point of View mailinglist In-Reply-To: <020320101136.25364.4B695FBE000BCF090000631422243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF970A9D0D990E06@att.net> References: <020320101136.25364.4B695FBE000BCF090000631422243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF970A9D0D990E06@att.net> Message-ID: <72255903-0E1C-450B-A761-C2AE144BCC39@xs4all.nl> Thanks, Jon. I see you're active on MyWikiBiz. About MyWikiBiz: MyWikiBiz is a new directory where you can author your legacy on the Internet. We think you are notable, even if Wikipedia has rejected an article about you or your enterprise as being "non-notable". With MyWikiBiz, you create a beautiful, reader-friendly page that will get picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search engines. Wikipedia entry on MyWikiBiz: MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating Wikipedia articles for paying corporations, which hibernated when the owner of MyWikiBiz was banned from Wikipedia.[citation needed] As of January 2010[ref], the MyWikiBiz directory contained over 53,000 pages of content about corporations and individuals. The business is headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania.[1] The site was founded by Gregory Kohs, a market researcher.[2] Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the Harvard Law School?s Berkman Center for Internet & Society discussed the case of MyWikiBiz in his book The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It.[3] Kohs appeared on Attack of the Show! on January 25, 2007, and discussed MyWikiBiz.[4] Heise Online expressed a suspicion that while MyWikiBiz?s ?attempted corporate infiltration? of Wikipedia was discovered, MyWikiBiz was not an isolated case.[5] [edit]History and Wikipedia controversy over paid editing Gregory Kohs and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in Pennsylvania in July 2006, initially as a paid editing service, writing content for inclusion in Wikipedia and other community-edited sites.[6][7] The idea came from Wikipedia?s Reward Board, where interested parties would offer cash rewards or gifts to create or improve Wikipedia articles.[1] MyWikiBiz?s prices ranged between $49 and $99 for adding entries that conformed to Wikipedia's standards and policies.[1] No official Wikipedia policy prohibited paid-for contributions at the time.[8] Kohs argued that there were tens of thousands of clearly notable companies and nonprofit organizations unrepresented on Wikipedia.[9] Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales called the commercialized editing "antithetical" to Wikipedia?s mission and "absolutely unacceptable"[1] and blocked Kohs' account from editing Wikipedia.[3] However, in August 2006, Wales issued a "mutually beneficial" compromise[10] where he encouraged MyWikiBiz to author and post content on a GFDL-compliant section of MyWikiBiz.com, which could then be scraped by non-paid, independent editors into Wikipedia and other GFDL sites.[3] In October 2006 Wales again banned Kohs from Wikipedia, and cautioned any business from using its services, which, according to Kohs, caused MyWikiBiz to go into "hibernation". In late October 2006, Kohs formed a partnership to promote and market a wiki-based directory at Centiare.com,[1][11] but when the site's owner pulled the plug on the site, negotiated a transfer of its contents to MyWikiBiz.com [edit] On 3 Feb 2010, at 12:36 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote: > Geert & All, > > Being still hopeful that there will arise places where critical > reflective thinking about the impact of distributive information > technology on society can take place, I welcome the appearance of > this list. I hope it will be a place where broader perspectives on > social-technical architectures can be maintained, points of view > from which we can see a way through the mists of mystification to > all that we hoped for in the future of communication, education, and > inquiry. > > Jon Awbrey > > -- > > inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ > mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey > knol: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1 > oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Geert Lovink >> >> Dear all, >> >> welcome to this mailinglist on critical Wikipedia research! >> >> There is an announcement of the Amsterdam CPOV event in the next >> email. >> >> Work on this project started early 2009 when the editorial team >> emerged out of the global social cloud. I met Nate in Melbourne in >> December 2008 and knew of Johanna's work already for a while. Then I >> ran into Sunil and Nishant in De Balie, here in Amsterdam, and >> quickly >> agreed that should do an INC reader on the matter, prepared by two >> events. The concept was ready in June and work on the production of >> the two conferences, one in Bangalore, and one in Amsterdam, started >> soon after. First of all there was a call for papers for the >> Bangalore >> event. >> >> During the first event, on January 12-13 2010 in Bangalore, the >> editorial team decided to start its own mailinglist. So, here it is. >> >> Here in Amsterdam at the Institute of Network Cultures we are working >> with a small team on the Amsterdam event. Besides me and Sabine >> Niederer (who will be on leave soon) who are on the original >> editorial >> team, there is the manager Margreet Riphagen, the Brazilian-German >> research intern Juliana Brunello and the production intern Serena >> Westra. >> >> CPOV is about Wikipedia--and its not. That's the central phrase right >> now. Doing critical work in this field doesn't mean Wikipedia >> bashing. >> To me it is sign that Wikipedia is growing up. It is a luxury to have >> independent research networks that is not formally or informally >> attached to the big Wikimedia Mothership. >> >> Let's see where CPOV will take us! >> >> Greetings from a wet and cold, slippery Amsterdam, >> >> Geert >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cpov_listcultures.org mailing list >> Cpov_listcultures.org at p10.alfaservers.com >> http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cpov_listcultures.org mailing list > Cpov_listcultures.org at p10.alfaservers.com > http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org > From jawbrey at att.net Wed Feb 3 13:44:13 2010 From: jawbrey at att.net (Jon Awbrey) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:44:13 +0000 Subject: [CPOV] Welcome to the Critical Point of View mailinglist In-Reply-To: <72255903-0E1C-450B-A761-C2AE144BCC39@xs4all.nl> References: <020320101136.25364.4B695FBE000BCF090000631422243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF970A9D0D990E06@att.net> <72255903-0E1C-450B-A761-C2AE144BCC39@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <020320101244.18872.4B696F9D0002997C000049B822230682229B0A02D29B9B0EBF970A9D0D990E06@att.net> From: Geert Lovink > > Thanks, Jon. I see you're active on MyWikiBiz. Yes, I have been active on a wide range of wikioid sites, serving as a contributor and a "play-tester" on a number of developmental systems that existed ''ante wikipedium''. I participated also in Larry Sanger's Textop project and the early phases of his Citizendium site. These days, the bulk of my critical reflections on these media can be found at The Wikipedia Review, where I moderate the Meta*Discussion Forum. Cf. http://wikipediareview.com/ Cheers, Jon -- ? inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1 oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey From geert at xs4all.nl Sat Feb 6 11:11:12 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:11:12 +0100 Subject: [CPOV] Digital Humanities and the case for Critical Commons References: Message-ID: <4D7C011C-2295-4F91-9A6E-42F700A60E9D@xs4all.nl> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV--VHSw&feature=player_embedded