Wikimedia panel/workshop at upcoming conference - RCom-l

27 Jan 2011

All,

during the first RCom meeting we decided we would seek ways to highlight strategic
research challenges at some major social computing conference.

John suggested we could organise "a panel at which some members of this committee
might give a presentation on their views on high-value research contributions to
Wikipedia". Others proposed a competition/data challenge to bootstrap research
relevant to the strategic objectives of the Wikimedia community [1].

I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that two upcoming conferences, SocialCom [2]
and WebScience [3], currently accept workshop proposals. KDD [4] is also soliciting
workshop proposals but the deadline is very close (1 Feb). Calls for workshops at other
major conferences this summer (HT, ICWSM, CHI, CSCW) are already closed. If we wish to
organise a Wikimedia research session, the two conferences above would make great venues.
I am not yet considering venues such as WikiSym, CollaborateCom, GROUP or CPOV that will
take place later in Fall 2011, but these are obvious options as well.

Is anyone among us already planning to attend any of the above conferences?
Does anybody want to help draft some ideas for a possible workshop proposal?

Dario

[1] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_Priorities
[2] http://www.iisocialcom.org
[3] http://www.websci11.org
[4] http://www.kdd.org/kdd2011