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144 \title{Presentation Title}
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146 \author[Benj. Mako Hill]{\textbf{Benjamin Mako Hill}\\ makohill@uw.edu}
148 \institute[UW/Harvard]{\textbf{University of Washington}\\
149 Department of Communication\\
150 \emph{Assistant Professor}\\
152 \textbf{Harvard University}\\
153 Berkman Center for Internet and Society\\
154 \emph{Resident Fellow}}
156 \date{December 2, 1980}
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169 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
170 \section{Introduction}
171 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
173 %% SLIDE: Title Slide
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187 \selectfont {\bf \color{makopurple4} The State of Wikimedia\\
188 Research: 2014-2015} \par}
193 \fontsize{2.0em}{2.1em}
194 \selectfont {\bf \color{black} Benjamin Mako Hill\\
197 Wikimania 2015, Mexico City\\
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208 \note{I've been doing this for many years. I started in 2008 and
209 have done this almost every single year since.
211 This began as an excuse for me to make sure I was up to date on
216 %% SLIDE: Anecdote from Wikimania 2008
217 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
218 \renewcommand{\quotetxt}{``This talk will try to [provide] a quick
219 tour – a literature review in the scholarly parlance – of the last
220 year's academic landscape around Wikimedia and its projects geared
221 at non-academic editors and readers. It will try to categorize,
222 distill, and describe, from a birds eye view, the academic landscape
223 as it is shaping up around
225 \hfill – \e{From my Wikimania 2008 Submission}}
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238 \note<1>{Back in Wikimania 2008, I set out to run a session at
239 Wikimania that would provide a comprehensive literature review of
240 articles in Wikipedia published in the last year.
246 Then, about two weeks before Wikimania, I did the scholar search
247 so I could build the literature.}
249 \note<2->{I tried to import the whole list into Zotero and managed
250 to get banned for abusing the Google Scholar because they thought
251 that no human being could realistically consume the amount of
252 material published on Wikipedia that year.
254 So anyway, I had a 45 minute talk so it worked out to 3.45 seconds
257 And believe it or not, this year is even bigger.
259 And my talk is even shorter.}
263 %% SLIDE: Citations Per Year
264 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
267 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/citations_by_year.pdf}
271 {\smaller \emph{Number of citation, per year, with the term
272 “wikipedia” in the title.\\
273 (Source: Google scholar results. Accessed: 2013-08-06)}}
275 \note{Academics have written \e{a lot} of papers about
276 Wikipedia. There are more than 500 papers published about
277 Wikipedia each year and although we've reached and moved past a
278 peak it seems, it's not slowing by much.}
286 \item \e{2968} Wikipedia-related publications in the Scopus database
289 \item \e{160} recent publications reviewed or mentioned in the 12 issues
290 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter August 2013-July 2014.
295 %% SLIDE: My Scope Conditions
296 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
299 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/multiple_issues.png}
302 In selecting papers for this session, the goal is always to choose
303 examples of work that:
307 \item Represent \e{important themes} from Wikipedia in the last year.
308 \item Research that is likely to be of \e{interest} to Wikimedians.
309 \item Research by people who are \e{not at Wikimania}.
312 \note{This is my disclaimer slide...
314 Within these goals, the selections are \e{incomplete}, and \e{wrong}.}
317 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
318 \section{Paper Summaries}
319 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
321 % \subsection{Event Prediction}
324 % \centertext{6em}{Event Prediction}
328 % This was the year that studies of readership of Wikipedia really
329 % blossomed. People figured out how to use the view data. Much of
330 % what they used it for was prediction.}
335 % \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction}
337 % \larger \larger McIver, David J., and John
338 % S. Brownstein. ``\e{Wikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of
339 % Influenza-Like Illness in the United States in Near Real-Time}.''
340 % PLoS Comput Biol 10, no. 4 (April 17, 2014):
341 % e1003581. \href{http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581}{doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581}.
347 % \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction: Motivation}
351 % \item \e{Google Flu Trends} uses search engine queries to try to
352 % predict influenza epidemics more quickly than traditional methods.
353 % \item ..but it has been criticized as being biased (e.g., by media coverage).
354 % \item WP is freely available and viewership data is free, unlike
355 % Google which is proprietary.
359 % \note{2009 H1N1 Swine Flu broke GFT.}
364 % \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction: Methods}
367 % \larger \larger \larger
368 % \item Measure traffic to flu related articles on Wikipedia
369 % \item Compare to the ``gold standard'' data from the Center for
370 % Disease Control (CDC)
376 % \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction: Results}
379 % \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/flu.png}
381 % \note{\begin{itemize}
384 % \item Wikipedia better than Google at predicting peak flu weeks.
385 % \item Wikipedia better at predicting relative influenza rates.
391 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
393 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
395 %% SLIDE: Other Resources
396 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
397 \begin{frame}{More Resources}
401 \item \e{Wikimedia Research Newsletter} [[:meta:Research:Newsletter]]
402 \item \e{WikiSym} (Later this month in Berlin!)
403 \item \e{WikiPapers Repository} [http://wikipapers.referata.com]
408 \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{figures/Wikimedia_Research_Newsletter_Logo.png}
412 \note{Those are my six exemplary studies from the past year.
414 There has been just tons and tons of work in this area. Trying to
415 talk about this in 20 minutes strikes me as increasingly crazy
416 every year I try to do it.
418 The most important source, now going for a couple years, is the
419 Wikimedia Research Newsletter which is published monthly in the (English)
420 Signpost and syndicated on the Wikimedia Research.
422 But there are other resources as well. And I encourage you to get
427 \subsection{Meta-Analyses}
431 \frametitle{Meta-Analyses}
438 \href{https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978618/}{``The sum of
439 all human knowledge'': a systematic review of scholarly research
440 on the content of Wikipedia}.
442 \item Bar-Ilan and Aharony,
443 \href{http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2615569.2615643}{Twelve
444 years of Wikipedia research}.
446 \item Taraborelli. \href{https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/August\#Keynote\_on\_applicable\_Wikipedia\_research}{Keynote
447 on Wikipedia Research}. OpenSym 2013. Hong Kong.
449 \item Benkler, Shaw, and Hill,
450 \href{http://mako.cc/academic/benkler\_shaw\_hill-peer\_production\_ci.pdf}{Peer
451 Production: A Modality of Collective Intelligence}.