7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

WikiSym 2011

Mountain View, California
October 3-5, 2011


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National Science Foundation


Microsoft

Creative Commons

CosmoCode GmbH

Accepted Papers

In alphabetical order by first author, full schedule coming soon!

Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing
J. Antin, R. Yee, C. Cheshire and O. Nov

The Success of Corporate Wiki Systems: An End User Perspective
Z. Bhatti, S. Baile, H. Yasin

Scaffolding For Organizational Wikis
O. Diaz, G. Puente

Design and Implementation of the Sweble Parser: Unlocking the Structure within Wikipedia
H. Dohrn and D. Riehle

Collective memory building in Wikipedia: the case of North African revolutions
M. Ferron, P. Massa

Don't bite the Newbies: How Reverts Affect the Quantity and Quality of Wikipedia Work
A. Halfaker, A. Kittur and J. Riedl

NICE: Social translucence through UI intervention
A. Halfaker, B. Song, D. A. Stuart, A. Kittur and J. Riedl

Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: A High-Performing, Feature–Rich Model and its Reduction Through Lasso
S. Javanmardi, D. W. McDonald and C. V. Lopes

Hot off the Wiki: Dynamics, Practices, and Structures in Wikipedia’s Coverage of the Tōhoku Catastrophes
B. Keegan, D. Gergle, N. Contractor

WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance
S.K. Lam, A. Uduwage, Z. Dong, S. Sen, D.R. Musicant, L. Terveen and J. Riedl

Mentoring in Wikipedia: A Clash of Cultures
D. Musicant, Y. Ren, J. Johnson and J. Riedl

Online and Offline Interactions in Online Communities
W. Mccully, C. Lampe, A. Sreenivasan, A. Velasquez and C. Sarkar

Finding Patterns in Behavioral Observations by Automatically Labeling Forms of Wikiwork in Barnstars
D. McDonald, S. Javanmardi and M. Zachry

“How should I go from to without getting killed?”: Motivation and Benefits in Open Collaboration
K. Panciera, M. Masli and L. Terveen

Wikipedia World Map: Method and Application of Map-like Wiki Visualization
C. Pang, R. Biuk-Aghai

Wiki Grows Up: Arbitrary Data Models, Access Control, and Beyond
R. Priedhorsky and L. Terveen

Quality is a Verb: The operationalization of data quality in a citizen science community
S.A. Sheppard, L. Terveen

Don’t leave me alone: effectiveness of a framed wiki-based learning activity
N. Tselios and Panagiota A.

ICKEwiki: Requirements and Concepts for an Enterprise Wiki for SMEs
S. Voigt, F. Fuchs-Kittowski, D. Huettemann, M. Klafft, A. Gohr

Autonomous Link Spam Detection in Purely Collaborative Environments
A. West, A. Agrawal, P. Baker, B. Exline and I. Lee

What Wikipedia Deletes: Characterizing Dangerous Collaborative Content
A. West and I. Lee

A Meta-reflective Wiki for Collaborative Design
L. Zhu, I. Vaghi and B. R. Barricelli


Accepted Posters and Demos

In alphabetical order by first author, full schedule coming soon!

Wikipedia Category Visualization Using Radial Layout
Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, Felix Hon Hou Cheang

Collaborative Video Editing for Wikipedia
Michael Dale

Wiki Refactoring: an Assisted Approach Based on Ballots
Oscar Diaz, Gorka Puente, Cristóbal Arellano

Visualizing Author Contribution Statistics in Wikis Using an Edit Significance Metric
Peter Kin-Fong Fong, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai

The Center for Open Learning and Teaching
Pete Forsyth

“G1: Patent nonsense”: Participation and Outcomes in Wikipedia's Article Deletion Processes
R.Stuart Geiger, Heather Ford

Wiki Architectures as Social Translucence Enablers
Stephanie Gokhman, David Mcdonald, Mark Zachry

Failures of Social Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Andreea Gorbatai

TWiki a collaboration tool for the Large Hadron Collider
Peter Jones, Nils Hoimyr

A Scourge to the Pillar of Neutrality: A WikiProject Fighting Systemic Bias
Randall Livingstone

Places on the Map and in the Cloud: Representations of Locality and Geography in Wikipedia
Randall Livingstone

Manypedia: Comparing Language Points of View of Wikipedia Communities
Paolo Massa, Federico Scrinzi

Wiki4EAM: Using Hybrid Wikis for Enterprise Architecture Management
Florian Matthes, Christian Neubert

Feedback Mechanisms and their Impact on Motivation to Contribute to Wikis in Higher Education
Athanasios Mazarakis, Clemens Van Dinther

CoSyne: a Framework for Multilingual Content Synchronization of Wikis
Christof Monz, Vivi Nastase, Matteo Negri, Angela Fahrni, Yashar Mehdad, Michael Strube

Incentivizing the ASL-STEM Forum
Kyle Rector, Richard Ladner, Michelle Shepardson

Wiki as Business Application Platform: The MES Showcase
Christoph Sauer

Wikiotics: The Interactive Language Instruction Wiki
Ian Sullivan, James Garrison, Matthew Curinga

PukiWiki-Java Connector, a Simple API for Saving Data of Java Programs on a Wiki
Takashi Yamanoue, Kentaro Oda, Koichi Shimozono