From joseph.2011 at reagle.org  Mon Jun  6 15:59:42 2011
From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:59:42 -0400
Subject: <CPOV> CPOV Reader
Message-ID: <201106060959.42776.joseph.2011@reagle.org>


Just wanted to say that I received a print copy of the CPOV [reader] and it looks great! Congratulations and thanks to Geert and Nate, Morgan and Juliana, and everyone else who contributed to it. I'm looking forward to working through it this summer :-) .

[reader]: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/reader/

-- 
Regards,         
Joseph Reagle                    http://reagle.org/joseph/
(Perhaps using speech recognition, sorry for any speakos.)



From nathanieltkacz at gmail.com  Tue Jun  7 01:45:21 2011
From: nathanieltkacz at gmail.com (nathaniel tkacz)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:45:21 +1000
Subject: <CPOV> CPOV Reader
In-Reply-To: <201106060959.42776.joseph.2011@reagle.org>
References: <201106060959.42776.joseph.2011@reagle.org>
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=o=qHPD8BNij8wDPp8zQmnZ-Pnrw@mail.gmail.com>

thanks for the kind words joseph. maybe as people start to make there way
through the reader, we can gain some more discussion momentum on this list.

as i noted, roughly next month i'll be writing about NPOV and other
policies, as well as bots. i might push some of my ideas onto the list.

best


Nate Tkacz

School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne

Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__

Research Page: http://nathanieltkacz.net

Current project: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/


On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011 at reagle.org>wrote:

>
> Just wanted to say that I received a print copy of the CPOV [reader] and it
> looks great! Congratulations and thanks to Geert and Nate, Morgan and
> Juliana, and everyone else who contributed to it. I'm looking forward to
> working through it this summer :-) .
>
> [reader]: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/reader/
>
> --
> Regards,
> Joseph Reagle                    http://reagle.org/joseph/
> (Perhaps using speech recognition, sorry for any speakos.)
>
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Jun 10 15:05:51 2011
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:05:51 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Srebrenica and the Dutch Wikipedia
References: <5A721713-1A12-453C-A639-D4AD7E706E0A@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <E624F9C7-2960-40DC-ACB3-1F386937B3A7@xs4all.nl>

>> http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2011/06/03/srebrenica-and-the-dutch-wikipedia/

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ekaterina Yudin <ekaterina.yudin at gmail.com>
> Date: 10 June 2011 12:32:40 PM
> To: Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: <mom> Srebrenica and the Dutch Wikipedia
>
> Hello Geert--
>
> Perhaps this would interest you and the CPOV reader that you  
> produce: earlier this year, for the digital methods final paper, two  
> classmates and I wrote [what turned out to be a good] research paper  
> on investigating a controversy within Wikipedia. I wanted to send it  
> your way in case you weren't aware of it, and if there is a  
> possibility to do something further with it (paper attached to this  
> email). We also produced a youtube video which was a multimedia  
> presentation of our findings. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51DhybfgXk0
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ekaterina
>




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From mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au  Mon Jun 13 20:10:56 2011
From: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au (Mathieu ONeil)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:10:56 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Inaugural issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production
In-Reply-To: <E624F9C7-2960-40DC-ACB3-1F386937B3A7@xs4all.nl>
References: <5A721713-1A12-453C-A639-D4AD7E706E0A@gmail.com>
	<E624F9C7-2960-40DC-ACB3-1F386937B3A7@xs4all.nl>
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[apologies for multiple posts] 
 
CSPP: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? 
We are delighted to announce the release of the first issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) a new open access, online journal that focuses on the implications of peer production for social change. We understand peer production as a mode of commons-based and oriented production in which participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-selection of tasks. Notable examples are the collaborative development of Free Software projects and of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. For a general description of our aims please refer to: http://cspp.oekonux.org/ 
 
Innovative mechanisms such as discussion of journal policy on publicly archived lists, community vetting of proposals, signaling of published articles by referees, and publication of draft submissions and referee reports will enable Critical Studies in Peer Production to promote reviewer activity and widen the scope of publishable material, whilst also protecting the journal's research credentials. 
To find out more about our peer review process see: http://cspp.oekonux.org/journal/peer-review 
 
CSPP ISSUE 1: MASS PEER ACTIVISM 
The inaugural issue of CSPP begins the exploration of whether peer production constitutes an alternative to the social order. The Research section considers peer projects as a form of infra-politics or 'subactivism' which eschews traditional formats and mobilisations, with papers tracking the actions, justifications and legitimations of participants in two emblematic examples of commons-based and oriented peer production, Swedish file-sharing and Wikipedia.  
 
The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement  
Jonas Andersson 
The recent history of Swedish peer-to-peer-based file-sharing forms part of a wider shift in politics towards a late-modern collective ethic. Everyday file-sharers operate as ?occasional activists?, as pirate institutions not only speak for, but also run and build the networks. Such institutions cannot be explained by invoking market logics, online communitarianism, or political motivation alone. The cyberliberties activism animating these hubs is connected to the larger framework of balancing utilitarianism, nationalism, individual autonomy and collectivism in Sweden. 
http://cspp.oekonux.org/research/peer-activism/rs1.1-swedish-file-sharing 
 
The sociology of critique in Wikipedia 
Mathieu O'Neil 
Legitimate domination in commons-based peer production projects such as Wikipedia rests on two main principles: the extraordinary qualities of charismatic individuals and collectively-formulated norms and rules. Self-governed authority is in turn based on a critique of separated power in the realms of expertise and justice. It thereby constitutes a prefigurative response to widespread democratic aspirations in technologically advanced societies. What are the questions and issues raised by this critique? And how should we define "critique", anyway? 
http://cspp.oekonux.org/research/peer-activism/rs-1.2-sociology-of-critique 
 
Debate: ANT and power 
Johan Soderberg, Nathaniel Tkacz, Mathieu O'Neil  
Our Debate section aims to foster robust discussions where both parties fully recognise, understand and question each other's position. In this issue, we examine the most productive means of mapping and contesting power, particularly in anti-authoritarian projects.  Soderberg begins by elucidating the philosophical foundations on which ANT was built, declaring that many of the attractive features within ANT can be found elsewhere, in a more politically effective tradition, that of Marxism.  In response to Soderberg, Tkacz argues that the political insights afforded by ANT are not reducible to the Marxist tradition, and that ANT is especially well suited to describe how force flows through peer-production projects - projects which already perform their own critique of Capital.  In reply  to Tkacz, O'Neil writes that ANT and Foucault's networked conception of power does not account for how domination is reproduced over time or for people's inner sense of justice, preventing ANT from constituting a credible alternative. 
http://cspp.oekonux.org/debate/ant-power 
 
Conference reports: Critical Point of View, 3rd Free Culture Research Conference 
Johana Niesyto & Nathaniel Tkacz, Leonhard Dobusch & Michelle Thorne 
Too often academic conferences end up only as another notch on a publication list; not enough time is spent assessing, and documenting, what has been learnt in theoretical and organisational terms. Were goals met? What could have been done differently? In our Report section Nyesito & Tkacz and Dobusch & Thorne, the organisers of two conferences which took place in 2010 - Critical Point of View and the 3rd Free Culture Research Conference ? offer self-reflective appraisals of the discursive and political impact of conference organisation. 
http://cspp.oekonux.org/reports 
  
 
 
 
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Jun 13 20:39:12 2011
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:39:12 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Knowledge,
	not the way you knew it: studying the impact of Wikipedia on the
	reception of knowledge
References: <526068.69350.qm@web28603.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <F4C3D28D-F927-4D87-A760-41E5E5E29859@xs4all.nl>

> From: elektra pavlaki <elektrapav at yahoo.gr>
> Date: 13 June 2011 5:03:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Wikimania conference& questions
>
>
> This is the new blog post:
> http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2011/06/13/knowledge-not-the-way-you-knew-it-studying-the-impact-of-wikipedia-on-the-reception-of-knowledge/
>
> Best,
>
> Elektra
>
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From mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au  Tue Jun 14 10:30:38 2011
From: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au (Mathieu ONeil)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:30:38 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> CFP: Expanding the frontiers of hacking
In-Reply-To: <F4C3D28D-F927-4D87-A760-41E5E5E29859@xs4all.nl>
References: <526068.69350.qm@web28603.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
	<F4C3D28D-F927-4D87-A760-41E5E5E29859@xs4all.nl>
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(apologies for cross-posts)

Expanding the frontiers of hacking
Bio-punks, open hardware, and hackerspaces
A special issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production
Edited by: Johan Soderberg and Alessandro Delfanti

Call: 500-word abstract
Both theoretical and empirical contributions accepted

During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with software development. This is now changing as new walks of life are being explored with a hacker mindset, thus bringing back to memory the origin of hacking in hardware development. Now as then, the hacker is characterised by an active approach to technology, undaunted by hierarchies and established knowledge, and finally a commitment to sharing information freely. In this special issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production, we will investigate how these ideas and practices are spreading. Two cases which have caught much attention in recent years are open hardware development and garage biology. The creation of hacker/maker-spaces in many cities around the world has provided an infrastructure facilitating this development. We are looking for both empirical and theoretical contributions which critically engage with this new phenomenon. Every kind of activity which relates to hacking is potentially of interest. Some theoretical questions which might be discussed in the light of this development include, but are not restricted to, the politics of hacking, the role of lay expertise, how the line between the community and markets is negotiated, how development projects are managed, and the legal implications of these practices. We welcome contributions from all the social sciences, including science & technology studies, design and art-practices, anthropology, legal studies, etc.

Interested authors should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words by July 10, 2011. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 31. All papers will be subject to peer review before being published.

Abstracts should be sent to delfanti at sissa.it.

Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) is a new open access, online journal that focuses on the implications of peer production for social change. http://cspp.oekonux.org/


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From Johanna.Niesyto at uni-siegen.de  Tue Jun 14 13:26:33 2011
From: Johanna.Niesyto at uni-siegen.de (Niesyto, Johanna)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:26:33 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Something I've written about the development of the
	NPOV	principle on en-wp
In-Reply-To: <201105261320.58540.joseph.2011@reagle.org>
References: <4DDCA566.4020504@bezeqint.net>
	<201105251309.32071.joseph.2011@reagle.org>
	<4DDD7849.1040002@bezeqint.net>,
	<201105261320.58540.joseph.2011@reagle.org>
Message-ID: <4109080A6B8F554E9C8EFDCA3DE7500F0239EAE0151A@MAIL40.uni-siegen.de>


i have followed your discussion as i have been analyzing in the past weeks the very first discussion pages about npov in the en and de-versions. 

some of your different interpretations are all found in the users' interpretations already -- npov is said to be for instance an ingredient to collaboration in terms of a principle ensuring collobaoration and NPOV is seen as 'framework for a process' and/or 'community consensus'. on the other hand users see it as a state (not a process) or a "governing ontological distinction" as one ip has phrased it. in both versions these interpretations of npov as somehwo fixed in the sense of linked to certain epistemological assumptions are marginalized by labeling them as off-topic: other users point e.g. to wikinfo or declare the contribution as trolling... ideas about 'truth' are also transported in different frames, truth is very strong refered to in argumenations that discuss the scientifc/epistemological roots of the principle whereas 'truth' is not refered to by those in favor of ex-negativo explanations for a npov-principle that is ambigious enough to 'run' the wikipedia project. in all, the discussion is not so much about 'wiki vs pedia' as both positions refer to the design and technical possibilities of wikipedia.



Universit?t Siegen
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________________________________________
Von: cpov-bounces at listcultures.org [cpov-bounces at listcultures.org] im Auftrag von Joseph Reagle [joseph.2011 at reagle.org]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2011 19:20
An: Dror Kamir
Cc: cpov at listcultures.org
Betreff: Re: <CPOV> Something I've written about the development of the NPOV    principle on en-wp

On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Dror Kamir wrote:
> I'm going to read it of course (as I said, I still have a lot of work to
> do with this "thesis" I am going to present), but just to clarify
> something - I wasn't thinking too much about the rationality issue, in
> fact. What bothered me more is the undermining of the "meta-principle"
> that NPOV is a desired byproduct of collaborative work (to be more
> exact, collaborative work is the meta-principle which caters to the
> three basic principles of WP, NPOV included) and the transition of NPOV
> from being independent, even dominating principle to its subduing to the
> "verifiability" principle (which is not exactly verifiability rule imho).

I am not sure I agree with his characterization, as I have been arguing the opposite quite some time myself. That is, neutrality is best not used to describe the product of collaboration, but a necessary ingredient to collaboration. Rather than describing the encyclopedia, it describes the approach Wikipedians should take with one another relative to knowledge claims.

> The latter shift is dramatic, first of all because it puts WP under the
> somewhat post-modernistic approach that there is no truth but rather
> people's talks about truth. When I went to "Wikimania 2006" in Boston I
> had a strong feeling that WP rejected this notion and tried to return to
> the modernist "search the truth" approach.

Coincidentally/interestingly, it was at Wikimania 2006 that I first made this argument [1,2].

[1]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2005/06/neutrality.html
[2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/Talks/2006/0806-wikipedia-neutral.html

That said, I wouldn't characterize Wikipedia's epistemology as necessarily post-modern -- where the real problem is they use the "truths" where "perspectives" would do -- since Wales and Sanger are both rooted in an objectivist philosophical worldview. As I quote Wales and the book:

[[
Surely you will agree that there are _more_ or _less_ accurate, objective, fair, [un]biased ways of putting things. We should simply strive to eliminate all the problems that we can, and remain constantly open to sensible revisions. Will this be perfect? Of course not. But it is all we can do \*and\* it is the least we can do.... if you are trying to say that someone, somewhere will always accuse us of bias, I'm sure you're right. But we should nonetheless try our best to be objective. It doesn't strike me as particularly difficult. We will want to present a broad consensus of mainstream thought.... This does mean that sometimes we will be wrong! All the top scholars in some field will say X, but 50 years from now, we will know more, and X will seem a quaint and old-fashioned opinion. O.k., fine. But still, X is a respectable and valid opinion today, as it is formed in careful consideration of all the available evidence with the greatest care possible. That's the best we can
 do. And, as I say, that's also the least we can do. \acite{Wales2000b}
]]

> Indeed the changes in the pseudo-"verifiability" rule gave people with
> knowledge of academic norms and access to (Western universities-based)
> academic libraries a huge advantage. Perhaps this another explanation
> why issues related to Africa (for example) became even harder to write
> about, as Heather Ford and Mark Graham showed in their articles.

I do think that verifiability and no original research privilege people with Internet access -- not necessarily academics since many high-quality online sources are accessible yet even high-quality but print-only sources are not liked as much since they cannot be easily verified. I think it can also lead to problems outside of the Western/online cultural context. A couple of years ago someone was telling me how much difficulty they were having in writing articles about free software in China because -- since there was nothing for them to cite in Chinese really -- their work was construed as original research.

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From abasole at gmail.com  Thu Jun 23 18:48:34 2011
From: abasole at gmail.com (Amit Basole)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:48:34 -0400
Subject: <CPOV> Lokavidya Jan Andolan (People's Knowledge Movement) First
 International Conference, 12-14 Nov. 2011, Vanarasi, India
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=rNa6ahQRajzJZ-XW4XvG1Rr+-4A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Folks
People on CPOV may be interested in this conference (see call for
participation below) being organized by Vidya Ashram (www.vidyaashram.org)
in Varanasi, India this coming November. The call is also available in
Spanish, Italian, German and French (all the versions are available on
http://lokavidyajanandolan.blogspot.com/). This is a political rather than
academic conference, so several representatives from people's movements are
expected to attend. But we are also hoping for some attendance from
interested and sympathetic international academics and scholars. Those
interested in learning more can contact me at abasole at gmail.com.

Thanks
Amit



 CALL FOR PARTICPATION

*LOKAVIDYA JAN ANDOLAN *

*(PEOPLE?S KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENT)*

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 12-14 NOVEMBER, 2011, VARANASI, INDIA
Vidya Ashram (www.vidyaashram.org) invites you to participate in the First
International Conference of the *Lokavidya Jan Andolan* to be held on 12-14
November, 2011, in Vidya Ashram, Sarnath, Varanasi, India. We will also be
holding an online preparatory dialog from 1st July to 31st August. We invite
you to participate in this dialog as well. Please visit
http://lokavidyajanandolan.blogspot.com or write to vidyaashram at gmail.com for
latest information.

*SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE KNOWLEDGE STANDPOINT*

* *

In India displacement of people from their land, their houses and their work
has emerged as the single largest concern of the social movements. Movements
of peasants against forced acquisition of land and for remunerative prices ,
movements of  *adivasis* (indigenous people) and local communities for local
control of natural resources and against ecological and environmental
destruction, movements of slum dwellers for civic and social facilities, and
the movements of hawkers and artisans against systematic demolition of the
local markets and inroads  by the corporations and the global market, have
all converged to become a single movement against displacement and eviction,
though managed and organized separately. Those trying to organize these
people are struggling to find pathways to confront the ruling dispensation.



All these people, the displaced, the communities they belong to, have never
gone to college and live by the knowledge they posses, called *lokavidya*,
which they have acquired from elders, from peers, in the community, at the
site of work, through experiments and by their own genius. Displacement
alters the conditions of their life in such a way that *lokavidya *is no
more able to serve their life needs and thus turns them into sources of
cheap labour.  It is this severance of *lokavidya* from their lives, which
needs to be fought at all costs. In fact *lokavidya*, that is people?s
knowledge, skills, ways of thinking, values, methods of organization,
aesthetic and ethical sensibilities, in short, their *world of knowledge as
a part of their own world*, is the main source of their strength.* Lokavidya
* is also what is common to this multitude, which is at the receiving end.
It is important to understand that the emancipatory pathways today traverse
through the world of knowledge. The *Lokavidya* standpoint is the people?s
standpoint in the Age of Information.

*
*

*LOKAVIDYA**-KNOWLEDGE CLAIM*

Peasants and indigenous people the world over are in a new mood of
assertion. Expressing, articulating and representing in ways that are their
own, these people are staking a claim to their inalienable right to live by
their own knowledge, values and belief systems and acquire knowledge that
they deem fit for them. Asia, Africa, South America, everywhere a new kind
of turmoil is in the making, promising to produce a new unity of the
oppressed and the dispossessed, this time based on what is common in their
understanding of the world around them, in their relationship with nature,
namely based on *lokavidya*.



This means that peasants and *adivasis*, artisans and women, pavement
retailers and workers need to stake a claim for *lokavidya*. *This is not a
claim for survival, this is a claim to build a new world.* They need to
claim that a radical challenge to capital and commercialization of knowledge
can be posed only by *lokavidya*. They need to also claim that only *
lokavidya* provides the knowledge bases for a society based on truth, on
social and economic equality. We need to understand that until these claims
are staked we shall remain prisoners of our preconceived notions of radical
social change, without effect. Such a *lokavidya*-knowledge claim can give
birth to a new imagination, new thought in the realms of economics, society,
politics and culture. The process of giving shape to such claims is the
process of *Lokavidya Jan Andolan.*



*LOKAVIDYA JAN ANDOLAN  **(LJA)*

The global economic and ecological crises have exposed the thought and
institutions that have enriched a few by making the majority starve and by
bringing nature to the brink of destruction. Lokavidya Jan Andolan is a
knowledge movement of this majority, that is of those people, who have been
dubbed as the ignorant masses by the science establishments, the
universities and  the modern state. The idea that there is a sea of
knowledge outside the university is not alien to most people in the world.
Knowledge is widely spread in society and the idea that knowledge is widely
spread, has a very wide spread too. That is, people know and they know that
they know. And yet neither these people nor the knowledge they possess have
dignity in society. Their knowledge has no economic returns, so people are
poor. It has no respect in the public domain, so people are culturally
marginal. It has no clear relation with peoples? organizations, therefore
people are politically irrelevant. There is a need for a political movement,
a space where people can mobilize on the basis of their knowledge. This
movement is the *Lokavidya Jan Andolan.*
The conference is an attempt to bring together the organizers of the
movements of peasants and artisans, indigenous peoples and small
trades-people, women and youth on a knowledge platform, which is a platform
of their knowledge, lokavidya. It is from this platform that the claim can
be staked that it is in lokavidya that the solution lies.

*KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENTS WORLDWIDE*

* *

The world is witnessing a new kind of movement, a people?s knowledge
movement with entirely new political imaginations. The ideas of lokavidya in
India, Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia, Rights of Nature in Ecuador, Food
Sovereignty by the International Peasants Movement Via Campesina, and
Cognitive Capitalism and the idea of Knowledge Liberation in Europe and
America are indications of a churning hitherto unknown to political debates.
There is an insistence in all these that people are knowledgeable and that
their knowledge and beliefs are not inferior in any way to knowledge doled
out in the name of science. There is an understanding that the damage done
to people and nature over the past centuries, which is multiplied manifold
in this digital era of the New Empire, is correctable only by those who have
not been fully subsumed into the systems of modern knowledge.
Lokavidya Jan Andolan argues that these and all such struggles worldwide
constitute a new fraternity of struggles, building a worldwide knowledge
movement of the people, a movement of people?s knowledge, a movement of
knowledge in society. THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LOKAVIDYA JAN
ANDOLAN VENUE: Vidya Ashram, Sarnath, Varanasi, India DATES: November 12-14,
2011 SESSIONS: The first two days of the conference will have three thematic
sessions, namely ?      The idea of  *lokavidya *and people?s knowledge
movement, ?       The struggles that underline and make space for such an
idea and ?       The strategy and organization of the Lokavidya Jan Andolan The
third day will be devoted to the role and place of language, art, media and
philosophy in the *Lokavidya Jan Andolan. *Those not working with the idea
of *lokavidya* will also get ample time to articulate their views on the
idea and practice of a people?s knowledge movement. Participants are
expected to make their own arrangements for travel to Varanasi. Vidya Ashram
will take care of local lodging and boarding. You can also contact the
following people for more information. Sunil Sahasrabudhey
Varanasi            *budhey at gmail.com* <budhey at gmail.com>
+91-9839275124 B. Krishnarajulu            Hyderabad
kkbandi at gmail.com            +91-9866139091 Amit Basole
Boston                        abasole at gmail.com            +1-6176867437 We
look forward to seeing you in Varanasi. Vidya Ashram Sarnath, Varanasi,
India www.vidyaashram.org




-- 
Amit Basole
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.people.umass.edu/abasole/
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:36:26 -0700
Subject: <CPOV> Workshop: Wikipedia & Research - Open Knowledge Conference:
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Workshop: Wikipedia & Research: The innovative character of Wikipedia research and the new challenges (and opportunities) associated with it

Workshop at the Open Knowledge Conference: June 30th, at 14:00 in Workshop, Kalkscheune, Johannisstr. 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany 

Further information: http://okcon.org/2011/programme/wikipedia-research-the-innovative-character-of-wikipedia-research-and-the-new-challenges-and-opportunities-associated-with-it
Contact: mayo.fuster(at)eui.eu

In 2011, Wikipedia celebrated its tenth anniversary as one of the world?s ten most visited websites and as one of the more active communities on the web. Particularly since 2005, there has been an increasing interest within the scientific community in researching Wikipedia. A recent review of Wikipedia literature resulted in 2,100 peer-reviewed articles and 38 doctoral theses related to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia). Quantitative analysis of large data sets and on the English version of Wikipedia was the predominant approach in early empirical research on Wikipedia.,The focus was then expanded to conducting research on other language versions, covering a larger variety of issues, such as socio-political questions, and also adopting qualitative methods. In conjunction, the research on Wikipedia constituted a substantial body of research in itself which allowed researchers (and communities) to better and critically understand Wikimedia projects functioning from a plurality of perspectives, and to advance our knowledge on issues that go beyond Wikipedia itself. Research in a sense (and under certain conditions) is becoming a way of contributing to the Wikimedia movement. Furthermore, the community of (more or less committed) researchers on Wikipedia is growing, together with the willingness to collaborate, the synergy between research initiatives of various kinds, and the willingness to continue innovating (in what is already constituting one of the leading node of methodological innovation); a Wikimedia research ?informational common? is growing, as it also increases the promotion of research from the Wikimedia Foundation (such as with the creation of the Research Committee) and Wikimedia chapters (such as the performance of surveys by Amical Viquipedia or the German Wikimedia participation in the Render project).

But new problems have also emerged, such as information overload, the lack of coordination between the various research efforts, and tensions between community members and certain researchers? needs (for example on the question of subject recruitment, or on the publication policy of researchers and the need to maintain their positions in academia). In sum, Wikipedia research has increased substantially, and in the process has become an important area for experimentation and research innovation, but also faces new challenges associated with progression.

The workshop will focus on addressing the stage of Wikipedia research and in general common ? based peer production (less focused on the content than on the methodologies and research process itself) and the innovations, problems and new insights regarding (action) research on common-based peer production. The workshop is organized in collaboration between the Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation, German Wikimedia and Amical Viquipedia (Catalan Wikimedia). It will consist of a set of brief presentations (including Mayo Fuster Morell member Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation and Amical Viquipedia, Daniel Mietchen members Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation, Mathias Schindler from Wikimedia German and the Render project, and Mako Benjamin Hill Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board, among others) and ?networking? discussions towards action.

Bio presenters:

Mayo Fuster Morell is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Govern and Public Policies (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and visiting scholar at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Open University of Catalonia). She has been appointed Berkman Center of Internet & Society fellow for the academic year 2011-2012. She collaborates in research projects on Wikimedia/pedia with Science Po and Barcelona Media. She is member of the research committee of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Association Amical Viquipedia (User: Lilaroja). She is promotor of the international forum of collaborative communities for the building of digital commons. She was co-founder of the International Forum on Free Culture and organized its first two editions (2009 & 2010). Additionally, she promoted the Networked Politics collaborative research and developed techno-political tools within the frame of the World Social Forum. She did her PhD thesis at the European University Institute on ?The governance of online creation communities: Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons?. She co-wrote the books Rethinking Political Organisation in an Age of Movements and Networks (2007), Activist Research and Social Movements (in Spanish, 2005), and Guide for Social Transformation of Catalonia (in Catalan, 2003).

Daniel Mietchen (User:Mietchen) is a biophysicist by training and currently a postdoc in brain morphometry at the University of Jena, Germany. He has a general interest in integrating collaborative activities in wikis and similar environments with scholarly workflows in the framework of open science, particularly with original research, encyclopaedic knowledge, open access publishing, reputation systems and scientific networking as well as teaching and outreach. His home wikis are Citizendium and OpenWetWare, and he also contributes to a number of other wiki communities, including several Wikimedia wikis, Encyclopedia of Earth, Scholarpedia and WikiEducator.

Mathias Schindler co-founded Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. He is member of the Communication Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation and project manager in the German chapter. After studying in Frankfurt/Main, Germany he worked at the German National Library at the office for authority files. He was co-organizer of the Social Web and Knowledge Management Workshop SWKM 2008 in Beijing, China, co-located with the WWW conference. He was on the organization committee for the WikiMania conference in 2005, 2007 and 2009. His research interests include Wikipedia-style massive collaboration and bibliographic metadata.

Benjamin Mako Hill (born December 2, 1980) is a Debian hacker, intellectual property researcher, activist and author. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the author of two best-selling technical books on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible (ISBN 978-0-7645-7644-7) and The Official Ubuntu Book (ISBN 978-0-13-243594-9). He currently serves as a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors.[2] Hill has a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab and is currently a Senior Researcher at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he studies free software communities and business models. He is also a Fellow at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media where he coordinates the development of software for civic organizing, and works as an advisor and contractor for the One Laptop per Child project. He is a speaker for the GNU Project,[3] and serves on the board of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day).


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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info

Ph.D European University Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley.
Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation

http://www.onlinecreation.info
E-mail: mayo.fuster at eui.eu
Skype: mayoneti
Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748



               
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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info

Ph.D European University Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley.
Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation 

http://www.onlinecreation.info
E-mail: mayo.fuster at eui.eu
Skype: mayoneti
Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748