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authorBenjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:46:05 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerBenjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:46:05 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
14 files changed:
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20150717-wikimania_research.tex [new file with mode: 0644]
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beamercolorthememako.sty [new file with mode: 0644]
beamerinnerthemefancy.sty [new file with mode: 0644]
beamerouterthemedecolines.sty [new file with mode: 0644]
beamerthemeTorino.sty [new file with mode: 0644]
figures/Wikimedia_Research_Newsletter_Logo.png [new file with mode: 0644]
figures/citations_by_year.pdf [new file with mode: 0644]
figures/cite_graph.R [new file with mode: 0644]
figures/google_scholar_result.png [new file with mode: 0644]
figures/multiple_issues.png [new file with mode: 0644]
figures/wikimedia_projects.png [new file with mode: 0644]
figures/wikipedia_citations.txt [new file with mode: 0644]

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+\usepackage{relsize}
+
+\usepackage{ucs}
+\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage{textcomp}
+
+% add tikz and a bunch of tikz foo
+\usepackage{tikz}
+\usetikzlibrary{shapes,shapes.misc,backgrounds,fit,positioning}
+\tikzstyle{every picture}+=[overlay,remember picture]
+
+% add functions to circle parts of slides (e.g., in tables)
+\newcommand\marktopleft[1]{\tikz \node (marker-#1-a) at (0,1.5ex) {};}
+\newcommand\markbottomright[1]{%
+  \tikz{\node (marker-#1-b) at (0,0) {};}
+  \tikz[dashed,inner sep=3pt]{\node[violet!75,ultra thick,draw,rounded rectangle,fit=(marker-#1-a.center) (marker-#1-b.center)] {};}}
+
+% DEPRECATED function to build a huge centered dropshadow
+\newcommand\dropshadow[3]{%
+  \node[black!30!white] at (#1+0.1,#2-0.1) {
+    \scalebox{2}{\Huge \textbf{#3}}
+  };
+  \node at (#1,#2) {
+    \scalebox{2}{\Huge \e{#3}}
+  };
+}
+
+% create an empty quotetxt so we can reuse it
+\newcommand{\quotetxt}{}
+
+% more flexible non-tikz alternative with no dropshadow 
+\newlength{\centertxtlen}
+\makeatletter
+\newcommand\centertext[2]{%
+  \setlength{\centertxtlen}{#1}%
+  \setlength{\centertxtlen}{0.48\centertxtlen}%
+  {\centering
+    \fontsize{#1}{2\centertxtlen}\selectfont
+    \e{#2}
+
+  }
+}
+
+
+% add function to stop numbering appendix slides
+\newcommand{\backupbegin}{
+   \newcounter{framenumberappendix}
+   \setcounter{framenumberappendix}{\value{framenumber}}
+}
+\newcommand{\backupend}{
+   \addtocounter{framenumberappendix}{-\value{framenumber}}
+   \addtocounter{framenumber}{\value{framenumberappendix}} 
+}
+
+% packages i use in essentially every document
+\usepackage{graphicx}
+\usepackage{url}
+% \usepackage{dcolumn}
+% \usepackage{booktabs}
+
+% replace footnotes with symbols instead of numbers
+\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
+\usepackage{perpage}
+\MakePerPage{footnote}
+
+%% BEAMER THEME STUFF
+\usetheme[pageofpages=/,% String used between the current page and the
+                         % total page count.
+          bullet=default,% Use circles instead of squares for bullets.
+          titleline=false,% Show a line below the frame title.
+          alternativetitlepage=true,% Use the fancy title page.
+          titlepagelogo=figures/logo.pdf,% Logo for the first page.
+          %watermark=watermark-polito,% Watermark used in every page.
+          watermarkheight=100px,% Height of the watermark.
+          watermarkheightmult=4,% The watermark image is 4 times bigger
+                                % than watermarkheight.
+          ]{Torino}
+
+\usecolortheme{mako}
+\useinnertheme{rectangles}
+%\setbeamertemplate{blocks}[rounded][]
+\setbeamercolor{block title}{bg=makopurple3, fg=White}
+
+\setbeamertemplate{items}[default] 
+\setbeamertemplate{blocks}[shadow=true] 
+
+\usepackage{tcolorbox}
+% These options will be applied to all `tcolorboxes`
+\tcbset{%
+    noparskip,
+    colback=makopurple5, %background color of the box
+    colframe=makopurple1, %color of frame and title background
+    coltext=black, %color of body text
+    coltitle=white, %color of title text 
+    arc=0em,
+    left=0.1em,
+    right=0.1em,
+    fonttitle=\bfseries,
+    alerted/.style={coltitle=red, 
+                     colframe=gray!40},
+    example/.style={coltitle=black, 
+                     colframe=green!20,             
+                     colback=green!5},
+    }
+
+
+%\useoutertheme{infolines}
+%\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}
+
+\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=Black, citecolor=Black, filecolor=makopurple1,
+    urlcolor=Plum, unicode=true}
+
+% create a boldface version of the header
+\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{series=\bfseries}
+\setbeamerfont{title}{series=\bfseries}
+
+% tweak the beamer font to make it a bit lists a bit smaller
+\setbeamerfont*{itemize/enumerate body}{size=\small}
+\setbeamerfont*{itemize/enumerate subbody}{size=\footnotesize}
+\setbeamerfont*{itemize/enumerate subsubbody}{size=\footnotesize}
+
+% indent the margins of the itemize lists a little bit
+\setlength{\leftmargin}{0pt}
+\setlength{\leftmargini}{0.7cm}
+\setlength{\leftmarginii}{0.7cm}
+
+% create a new \e{} command to make things purple and bold
+\newcommand{\e}[1]{\textcolor{makopurple1}{\textbf{#1}}}
+
+% remove the nagivation symbols
+\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
+
+\title{Presentation Title}
+% \subtitle{Presentation Subtitle}
+\author[Benj. Mako Hill]{\textbf{Benjamin Mako Hill}\\ makohill@uw.edu}
+
+\institute[UW/Harvard]{\textbf{University of Washington}\\
+  Department of Communication\\
+  \emph{Assistant Professor}\\
+  \hspace{1pt}\\
+  \textbf{Harvard University}\\
+  Berkman Center for Internet and Society\\
+  \emph{Resident Fellow}}
+
+\date{December 2, 1980}
+
+\newcommand{\credit}[1]{%
+  \tikz[overlay]{\node at (current page.south east)
+    [anchor=south east,yshift=1.1em,xshift=0.35em]
+    {\smaller \smaller {[}#1{]}};}}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+% remove some of the space in the itemize to make it quite compact
+\let\olditemize\itemize
+\renewcommand\itemize{\olditemize\itemsep-1pt}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Introduction}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%% SLIDE: Title Slide
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\begin{frame}[plain]
+
+  \begin{tikzpicture}
+    \node at (current page.center) [xshift=-3.5cm, yshift=0.5cm, opacity=0.4]
+      {\includegraphics[height=\paperheight]{figures/wikimedia_projects.png}};
+
+
+    \node at (current page.south east)
+    [anchor=south east,text width=1.8\paperwidth,align=right,color=black]
+    {
+      {\spaceskip 0.3em%
+        \fontsize{2.5em}{2.5em}
+        \selectfont {\bf \color{makopurple4} The State of Wikimedia\\
+          Research: 2013-2014} \par}
+
+      \vspace{1em}
+
+      {\spaceskip 0.3em%
+        \fontsize{2.0em}{2.1em}
+        \selectfont {\bf \color{black} Benjamin Mako Hill\\
+          Tilman Bayer\\
+          Aaron Shaw\\
+          Wikimania 2015, Mexico City\\
+          July 17, 2015} \par}
+
+    };
+  \end{tikzpicture}
+  
+  \input{vc}
+
+  \tikz[overlay,shift=(current page.south west)]{\node [xshift=5.6em,yshift=0.5em]{\colorbox{makopurple1}{\color{white} \tt \smaller \smaller \smaller revision:\ \VCRevision\  (\VCDateTEX)}};}
+
+  \note{I've been doing this for many years. I started in 2008 and
+    have done this almost every single year since.
+
+    This began as an excuse for me to make sure I was up to date on
+    Wikimedia Research.}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+%% SLIDE: Anecdote from Wikimania 2008
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\renewcommand{\quotetxt}{``This talk will try to [provide] a quick
+  tour – a literature review in the scholarly parlance – of the last
+  year's academic landscape around Wikimedia and its projects geared
+  at non-academic editors and readers. It will try to categorize,
+  distill, and describe, from a birds eye view, the academic landscape
+  as it is shaping up around
+  our project.''\\
+  \hfill – \e{From my Wikimania 2008 Submission}}
+
+\begin{frame}
+
+  {\smaller \quotetxt}
+
+  \pause
+  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/google_scholar_result.png}
+
+  \pause
+  \tikz{\draw (current page.center) [xshift=-2.1cm, yshift=0.9cm, color=red]
+    ellipse (1.5cm and 0.5cm);}
+
+  \note<1>{Back in Wikimania 2008, I set out to run a session at
+    Wikimania that would provide a comprehensive literature review of
+    articles in Wikipedia published in the last year.
+
+    \begin{quote}
+      \quotetxt
+    \end{quote}
+
+    Then, about two weeks before Wikimania, I did the scholar search
+    so I could build the literature.}
+
+  \note<2->{I tried to import the whole list into Zotero and managed
+    to get banned for abusing the Google Scholar because they thought
+    that no human being could realistically consume the amount of
+    material published on Wikipedia that year.
+
+    So anyway, I had a 45 minute talk so it worked out to 3.45 seconds
+    to per paper...
+
+    And believe it or not, this year is even bigger.
+    And my talk is even shorter.}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+%% SLIDE: Citations Per Year
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\begin{frame}
+
+  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/citations_by_year.pdf}
+
+  \centering
+
+  {\smaller \emph{Number of citation, per year, with the term
+      “wikipedia” in the title.\\
+      (Source: Google scholar results. Accessed: 2013-08-06)}}
+
+  \note{Academics have written \e{a lot} of papers about
+    Wikipedia. There are more than 500 papers published about
+    Wikipedia each year and although we've reached and moved past a
+    peak it seems, it's not slowing by much.}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \larger \larger
+  \item \e{2968} Wikipedia-related publications in the Scopus database
+    as of November 2013
+
+  \item \e{160} recent publications reviewed or mentioned in the 12 issues
+    of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter August 2013-July 2014.
+  \end{itemize}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+%% SLIDE: My Scope Conditions
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\begin{frame}
+
+  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/multiple_issues.png}
+
+  \larger \larger
+  In selecting papers for this session, the goal is always to choose
+  examples of work that:
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \larger \larger
+  \item Represent \e{important themes} from Wikipedia in the last year.
+  \item Research that is likely to be of \e{interest} to Wikimedians.
+  \item Research by people who are \e{not at Wikimania}.
+  \end{itemize}
+
+  \note{This is my disclaimer slide...
+
+  Within these goals, the selections are \e{incomplete}, and \e{wrong}.}
+\end{frame}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Paper Summaries}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+% \subsection{Event Prediction}
+
+% \begin{frame}
+%   \centertext{6em}{Event Prediction}
+
+%   \note{Mako
+
+%     This was the year that studies of readership of Wikipedia really
+%     blossomed. People figured out how to use the view data. Much of
+%     what they used it for was prediction.}
+% \end{frame}
+
+% \begin{frame}
+  
+%   \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction}
+
+%   \larger \larger McIver, David J., and John
+%   S. Brownstein. ``\e{Wikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of
+%     Influenza-Like Illness in the United States in Near Real-Time}.''
+%   PLoS Comput Biol 10, no. 4 (April 17, 2014):
+%   e1003581. \href{http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581}{doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581}.
+
+% \end{frame}
+
+% \begin{frame}
+
+%   \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction: Motivation}
+
+%   \begin{itemize}
+%     \larger \larger
+%   \item \e{Google Flu Trends} uses search engine queries to try to
+%     predict influenza epidemics more quickly than traditional methods.
+%   \item ..but it has been criticized as being biased (e.g., by media coverage).
+%   \item WP is freely available and viewership data is free, unlike
+%     Google which is proprietary.
+
+%   \end{itemize}
+
+%   \note{2009 H1N1 Swine Flu broke GFT.}
+% \end{frame}
+
+% \begin{frame}
+
+%   \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction: Methods}
+
+%   \begin{itemize}
+%   \larger \larger \larger
+%   \item Measure traffic to flu related articles on Wikipedia
+%   \item Compare to the ``gold standard'' data from the Center for
+%     Disease Control (CDC)
+%   \end{itemize}
+
+% \end{frame}
+
+% \begin{frame}
+%   \frametitle{Wikipedia Viewership and Flu Prediction: Results}
+
+%   \centering
+%   \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/flu.png}
+
+% \note{\begin{itemize}
+%   \larger \larger
+
+%   \item Wikipedia better than Google at predicting peak flu weeks.
+%   \item Wikipedia better at predicting relative influenza rates.
+%   \end{itemize}}
+
+% \end{frame}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Conclusion}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%% SLIDE: Other Resources
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\begin{frame}{More Resources}
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \larger \larger
+  \item \e{Wikimedia Research Newsletter} [[:meta:Research:Newsletter]]
+  \item \e{WikiSym} (Later this month in Berlin!)
+  \item \e{WikiPapers Repository} [http://wikipapers.referata.com]
+  \item \e{Much More}
+  \end{itemize}
+
+  {\centering 
+    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{figures/Wikimedia_Research_Newsletter_Logo.png}
+
+  }
+
+  \note{Those are my six exemplary studies from the past year. 
+
+    There has been just tons and tons of work in this area. Trying to
+    talk about this in 20 minutes strikes me as increasingly crazy
+    every year I try to do it.
+
+    The most important source, now going for a couple years, is the
+    Wikimedia Research Newsletter which is published monthly in the (English)
+    Signpost and syndicated on the Wikimedia Research.
+
+    But there are other resources as well. And I encourage you to get
+    involved.}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+\subsection{Meta-Analyses}
+
+\begin{frame}
+
+  \frametitle{Meta-Analyses}
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+
+    \larger \larger
+
+  \item Okoli et al.,
+    \href{https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978618/}{``The sum of
+      all human knowledge'': a systematic review of scholarly research
+      on the content of Wikipedia}.
+
+  \item Bar-Ilan and Aharony,
+    \href{http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2615569.2615643}{Twelve
+      years of Wikipedia research}.
+    
+  \item Taraborelli. \href{https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/August\#Keynote\_on\_applicable\_Wikipedia\_research}{Keynote
+      on Wikipedia Research}. OpenSym 2013. Hong Kong.
+
+  \item Benkler, Shaw, and Hill,
+    \href{http://mako.cc/academic/benkler\_shaw\_hill-peer\_production\_ci.pdf}{Peer
+      Production: A Modality of Collective Intelligence}.
+
+  \end{itemize}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+\end{document}
+
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+all: notes.config vc $(patsubst %.tex,%.pdf,$(wildcard *.tex)) 
+pdf: all
+
+%.pdf: %.tex 
+       rubber -fd $<
+       qpdf --qdf --object-streams=disable $@ - | sponge $@
+       sed -e 's|/PageLabels|/BageLapels|g' < $@ |sponge $@
+       qpdf $@ - | sponge $@
+
+# by default, we produce combined notes/slides output
+notes.config:
+       echo '\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}' > notes.config
+
+# rules for generating notesonly
+notesonly-config:
+       echo '\setbeameroption{show only notes}' > notes.config
+notesonly: notesonly-config pdf
+
+# rules for generating slides only
+slides-config:
+       echo '' > notes.config
+slides: slides-config pdf
+
+viewpdf: all
+       evince *.pdf
+
+pdfpc: notes.config pdf
+       pdfpc -n right *pdf
+
+spell:
+       aspell -c -t --tex-check-comments -b text.tex
+
+vc:
+       vc-git
+
+clean: 
+       rubber -d --clean *.tex
+       rm -f *.tmp
+       rm -f vc
+       rm -f notes.config
+       rm -f *.pdfpc
+
+.PHONY: clean all notesonly-config notesonly slides-config slides viewpdf pdfpc spell
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+\setbeamercolor*{palette secondary}{fg=white,bg=makopurple3}
+\setbeamercolor*{palette tertiary}{fg=white,bg=makopurple1}
+\setbeamercolor*{palette quaternary}{fg=white,bg=makopurple1}
+
+\setbeamercolor*{titlelike}{bg=makopurple1}
+\setbeamercolor*{frametitle}{bg=white,fg=white}
+\setbeamercolor*{part title}{bg=black,fg=black}
+\setbeamercolor*{item}{fg=makopurple3}
+
+\setbeamercolor*{separation line}{}
+\setbeamercolor*{fine separation line}{}
+
+\mode
+<all>
diff --git a/beamerinnerthemefancy.sty b/beamerinnerthemefancy.sty
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--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+% Copyright 2007 by Marco Barisione
+%
+% This file may be distributed and/or modified
+%
+% 1. under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or
+% 2. under the GNU Public License.
+
+\mode<presentation>
+
+% Use alternative title page style.
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{alternativetitlepage}[true]{\def\beamer@fancy@alternativetitlepage{#1}}
+
+% Logo to use in the alternative title page.
+\def\beamer@fancy@titlepagelogo{}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{titlepagelogo}{\def\beamer@fancy@titlepagelogo{#1}}
+
+% Bullet shape.
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{bullet}{\def\beamer@fancy@bullet{#1}}
+
+\ExecuteOptionsBeamer{alternativetitlepage=false,bullet=square}
+\ProcessOptionsBeamer
+
+% Colors.
+\setbeamercolor*{lineup}{parent=palette primary}
+\setbeamercolor*{linemid}{parent=palette secondary}
+\setbeamercolor*{linebottom}{parent=palette tertiary}
+\setbeamercolor*{title page header}{parent=palette quaternary}
+
+% Lengths.
+\newlength{\beamer@fancy@lineup}
+\setlength{\beamer@fancy@lineup}{.025\paperheight}
+\newlength{\beamer@fancy@linemid}
+\setlength{\beamer@fancy@linemid}{.015\paperheight}
+\newlength{\beamer@fancy@linebottom}
+\setlength{\beamer@fancy@linebottom}{.01\paperheight}
+
+% Margins.
+\newlength{\beamer@fancy@normalmargin}
+\setlength{\beamer@fancy@normalmargin}{.06\paperwidth}
+\setbeamersize{text margin left=\beamer@fancy@normalmargin}
+\setbeamersize{text margin right=\beamer@fancy@normalmargin}
+\setlength\leftmargini{.6\beamer@fancy@normalmargin}
+\setlength\leftmarginii{.6\beamer@fancy@normalmargin}
+\setlength\leftmarginiii{.6\beamer@fancy@normalmargin}
+
+% Normal title page.
+\defbeamertemplate*{title page normal}{fancy theme}[1][]
+{
+  \vbox{}
+  \vfill
+  \begin{centering}
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,sep=8pt,center,#1]{title page header}
+      \usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par%
+      \ifx\insertsubtitle\@empty%
+      \else%
+        \vskip0.25em%
+        {\usebeamerfont{subtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par}%
+      \fi%     
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    \vskip1em\par
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{author}
+      \usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor
+    \end{beamercolorbox}
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{institute}
+      \usebeamerfont{institute}\insertinstitute
+    \end{beamercolorbox}
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{date}
+      \usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate
+    \end{beamercolorbox}\vskip0.5em
+    {\usebeamercolor[fg]{titlegraphic}\inserttitlegraphic\par}
+  \end{centering}
+  \vfill
+}
+
+% Alternative title page, you should use this in a frame with the [plain]
+% option.
+\defbeamertemplate*{title page alternative}{fancy theme}[1][]
+{
+  {\parskip0pt\offinterlineskip%
+  \hbox{\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hbox{\vbox{%
+  \@tempdima=\textwidth\textwidth=\paperwidth\hsize=\textwidth\def\\{,}\vbox{}\vskip-1.5ex%
+    % Title.
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=.4\paperheight,center,#1]{title page header}
+      \usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par%
+      \ifx\insertsubtitle\@empty%
+      \else%
+        \vskip0.25em%
+        {\usebeamerfont{subtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par}%
+      \fi%     
+      \vspace{.125\paperheight}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    \vbox{}\vskip-\beamer@fancy@lineup%
+    \vbox{}\vskip-\beamer@fancy@linemid%
+    % First line.
+    \hbox{%
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.2\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@fancy@lineup,dp=0pt]{}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.8\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@fancy@lineup,dp=0pt]{lineup}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    }%
+    \vbox{}\vskip0ex%
+    % Second line.
+    \hbox{%
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.1\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@fancy@linemid,dp=0pt]{}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.9\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@fancy@linemid,dp=0pt]{linemid}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    }%
+    % Third line.
+    \hbox{%
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.5\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@fancy@linebottom,dp=0pt]{}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.5\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@fancy@linebottom,dp=0pt]{linebottom}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+    }%
+    \vskip0pt%
+  }}%
+  \hskip-\Gm@rmargin%
+  }}\hfil%
+  %
+  \begin{columns}
+      \ifx\beamer@fancy@titlepagelogo\@empty%
+          \column{\textwidth}
+      \else
+          \column{.5\textwidth}
+              % Logo.
+              \begin{centering}
+                  \vbox{}\vspace{-2em}\vfill
+                  \includegraphics[height=.4\paperheight]{\beamer@fancy@titlepagelogo}
+                  \vfill
+              \end{centering}
+          \column{.5\textwidth}
+       \fi
+          % Authors, institute and date
+          \vskip1em\par
+          \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{author}
+            \usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor
+          \end{beamercolorbox}
+          \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{institute}
+            \usebeamerfont{institute}\insertinstitute
+          \end{beamercolorbox}
+          \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{date}
+            \usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate
+          \end{beamercolorbox}\vskip0.5em
+          {\usebeamercolor[fg]{titlegraphic}\inserttitlegraphic\par}
+  \end{columns}
+}
+
+\defbeamertemplate*{title page}{fancy}[1][]
+{
+  \def\beamer@fancy@truetext{true}%
+  \ifx\beamer@fancy@alternativetitlepage\beamer@fancy@truetext%
+    \usebeamertemplate{title page alternative}%
+  \else%
+    \usebeamertemplate{title page normal}%
+  \fi%
+}
+
+% Items.
+\defbeamertemplate{itemize item}{squarealt}%
+{\tiny\raise.5ex\hbox{\donotcoloroutermaths$\blacksquare$}}
+\defbeamertemplate{itemize subitem}{squarealt}%
+{\tiny\raise.4ex\hbox{\donotcoloroutermaths$\square$}}
+\defbeamertemplate{itemize subsubitem}{squarealt}%
+{\tiny\raise.3ex\hbox{\donotcoloroutermaths$\blacksquare$}}
+
+\defbeamertemplate{itemize item}{circlealt}%
+{\small\raise.2ex\hbox{\donotcoloroutermaths$\bullet$}}
+\defbeamertemplate{itemize subitem}{circlealt}%
+{\small\raise.1ex\hbox{\donotcoloroutermaths$\circ$}}
+\defbeamertemplate{itemize subsubitem}{circlealt}%
+{\scriptsize\raise.1ex\hbox{\donotcoloroutermaths$\bullet$}}
+
+\def\circletext{circle}
+\ifx\beamer@fancy@bullet\circletext
+  \setbeamertemplate{items}[circlealt]
+\else
+  \setbeamertemplate{items}[squarealt]
+\fi
+
+\mode<all>
+
diff --git a/beamerouterthemedecolines.sty b/beamerouterthemedecolines.sty
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--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+% Copyright 2007 by Marco Barisione
+%
+% This file may be distributed and/or modified
+%
+% 1. under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or
+% 2. under the GNU Public License.
+
+\mode<presentation>
+
+% String used between the current page and the total page count.
+\def\beamer@decolines@pageofpages{/}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{pageofpages}{\def\beamer@decolines@pageofpages{#1}}
+
+% Show a line below the frame title.
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{titleline}[true]{\def\beamer@decolines@titleline{#1}}
+
+% Image used for the watermark.
+\def\beamer@decolines@watermarkorig{}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{watermark}{\def\beamer@decolines@watermarkorig{#1}}
+
+% Height of the watermark.
+\def\beamer@decolines@watermarkheight{100px}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{watermarkheight}{\def\beamer@decolines@watermarkheight{#1}}
+
+% The original image height is watermarkheightmult * watermarkheight.
+\def\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightmult{1}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{watermarkheightmult}{\def\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightmult{#1}}
+
+\ExecuteOptionsBeamer{titleline=false}
+\ProcessOptionsBeamer
+
+% Enable/disable the watermark.
+\def\watermarkon{%
+  \def\beamer@decolines@watermark{\beamer@decolines@watermarkorig}%
+}
+\def\watermarkoff{\def\beamer@decolines@watermark{}}
+
+% Initially enable the watermark.
+\watermarkon
+
+% Colors.
+\setbeamercolor*{lineup}{parent=palette primary}
+\setbeamercolor*{linemid}{parent=palette secondary}
+\setbeamercolor*{linebottom}{parent=palette tertiary}
+\setbeamercolor*{page header}{parent=titlelike}
+
+% Lengths
+\newlength{\headerheight}
+\setlength{\headerheight}{.045\paperheight}
+\newlength{\beamer@decolines@lineup}
+\setlength{\beamer@decolines@lineup}{.018\paperheight}
+\newlength{\beamer@decolines@linemid}
+\setlength{\beamer@decolines@linemid}{.015\paperheight}
+\newlength{\beamer@decolines@linebottom}
+\setlength{\beamer@decolines@linebottom}{.01\paperheight}
+
+% The height of the watermark part below the 3 bottom lines.
+\newlength{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom}
+\addtolength{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom}{\beamer@decolines@lineup}
+\addtolength{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom}{\beamer@decolines@linemid}
+\addtolength{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom}{\beamer@decolines@linebottom}
+
+% The height of the watermark part over the 3 bottom lines before shrinking.
+\newlength{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightupperorig}
+\setlength{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightupperorig}{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheight}
+\addtolength{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightupperorig}{-\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom}
+\multiply\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightupperorig by \beamer@decolines@watermarkheightmult
+
+% Footer.
+\defbeamertemplate*{footline}{decolines theme}
+{
+  \leavevmode%
+  % First line.
+  \hbox{%
+  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.2\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@decolines@lineup,dp=1.5pt]{}%
+  \end{beamercolorbox}%
+  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.8\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@decolines@lineup,dp=1.5pt,right]{lineup}%
+    \usebeamerfont{palette primary}\insertframenumber{} \beamer@decolines@pageofpages{} \inserttotalframenumber%
+  \end{beamercolorbox}%
+  } %
+  % Second line.
+  \hbox{%
+  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@decolines@linemid,dp=0pt]{linemid}%
+  \end{beamercolorbox}%
+  } %
+  % Third line.
+  \hbox{%
+  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.1\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@decolines@linebottom,dp=0pt]{}%
+  \end{beamercolorbox}%
+  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.9\paperwidth,ht=\beamer@decolines@linebottom,dp=0pt]{linebottom}%
+  \end{beamercolorbox}%
+  }%
+  % This seems to fix some alignment problems with the watermark. It has to be
+  % always applied if you do not want to see the footer moving up and down when
+  % moving from a page with watermark to a page without or vice versa.
+  \vskip-.5px%
+  % Watermark.
+  \if\beamer@decolines@watermark\@empty\else%
+    \vskip-\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom%
+    \llap{\includegraphics[height=\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom,clip=true,%
+      trim=0pt 0pt 0pt \beamer@decolines@watermarkheightupperorig]{\beamer@decolines@watermark}\hskip-\paperwidth}%
+  \fi%
+}
+
+\defbeamertemplate*{headline}{decolines theme}{}
+%
+%{
+%  \leavevmode%
+%  \hbox{%
+%  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=\headerheight,dp=0pt]{page header}%
+%  \end{beamercolorbox}%
+%  } %
+%  \vskip0pt%
+%}
+
+\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{decolines theme}[1][left]
+{
+  \ifbeamercolorempty[bg]{frametitle}{}{\nointerlineskip}%
+  \@tempdima=\textwidth%
+  \advance\@tempdima by\beamer@leftmargin%
+  \advance\@tempdima by\beamer@rightmargin%
+  \vbox{}\vskip-.5\beamer@leftmargin%
+  \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=.5\beamer@leftmargin,#1,wd=\the\@tempdima]{page header}
+    \usebeamerfont{frametitle}\usebeamercolor[bg]{framesubtitle}%
+    \vbox{}\vskip0ex%
+    \if@tempswa\else\csname beamer@fte#1\endcsname\fi%
+    \strut\insertframetitle\strut\par%
+    {%
+      \ifx\insertframesubtitle\@empty%
+      \else%
+      {\usebeamerfont{framesubtitle}\usebeamercolor[bg]{framesubtitle}\insertframesubtitle\strut\par}%
+      \fi
+    }%
+    \vskip-1ex%
+    \if@tempswa\else\vskip-\beamer@leftmargin\fi
+  \end{beamercolorbox}%
+  \def\beamer@decolines@truetext{true}%
+  \ifx\beamer@decolines@titleline\beamer@decolines@truetext%
+    \vskip-.5\beamer@leftmargin%
+    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\textwidth,ht=.1ex,dp=0ex]{linemid}%
+    \end{beamercolorbox}%
+  \fi
+}
+
+% Frame title continuations, default
+\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle continuation}{decolines theme}{(\insertcontinuationcount)}
+
+\defbeamertemplate*{sidebar right}{decolines theme}
+{
+  \vskip.1\beamer@leftmargin%
+  \llap{\insertlogo\hskip.5\beamer@leftmargin}%
+  \vfill%
+  \if\beamer@decolines@watermark\@empty\else%
+  \llap{\includegraphics[height=\beamer@decolines@watermarkheight]{\beamer@decolines@watermark}}%
+  \vskip-\beamer@decolines@watermarkheightbottom%
+  \fi
+}
+
+\mode
+<all>
diff --git a/beamerthemeTorino.sty b/beamerthemeTorino.sty
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--- /dev/null
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+% Copyright 2007 by Marco Barisione
+%
+% This file may be distributed and/or modified
+%
+% 1. under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or
+% 2. under the GNU Public License.
+
+\mode<presentation>
+
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{alternativetitlepage}[true]{\PassOptionsToPackage{alternativetitlepage=#1}{beamerinnerthemefancy}}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{titlepagelogo}{\PassOptionsToPackage{titlepagelogo=#1}{beamerinnerthemefancy}}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{bullet}{\PassOptionsToPackage{bullet=#1}{beamerinnerthemefancy}}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{pageofpages}{\PassOptionsToPackage{pageofpages=#1}{beamerouterthemedecolines}}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{titleline}[true]{\PassOptionsToPackage{titleline=#1}{beamerouterthemedecolines}}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{watermark}{\PassOptionsToPackage{watermark=#1}{beamerouterthemedecolines}}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{watermarkheight}{\PassOptionsToPackage{watermarkheight=#1}{beamerouterthemedecolines}}
+\DeclareOptionBeamer{watermarkheightmult}{\PassOptionsToPackage{watermarkheightmult=#1}{beamerouterthemedecolines}}
+
+\ProcessOptionsBeamer
+
+\useinnertheme{fancy}
+\useoutertheme{decolines}
+\usecolortheme{mako}
+
+\mode
+<all>
diff --git a/figures/Wikimedia_Research_Newsletter_Logo.png b/figures/Wikimedia_Research_Newsletter_Logo.png
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diff --git a/figures/citations_by_year.pdf b/figures/citations_by_year.pdf
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diff --git a/figures/cite_graph.R b/figures/cite_graph.R
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+# the last line is projected based on citations to the end of october
+# (almost certainly conservative)
+library(ggplot2)
+
+d <- read.csv("wikipedia_citations.txt",header=F)
+colnames(d) <- c("year", "citations")
+
+d <- d[1:(nrow(d)-1),]
+
+# print the total number of citations
+sum(d$citations)
+
+# generate and print a graph
+# p <- qplot(year, citations, data=d) +
+#  geom_line(colour="blue") + geom_point(colour="blue")
+
+p <- ggplot(data=d) + aes(x=factor(year), y=citations) + geom_bar(stat="identity", fill=I("darkblue"))
+p <- p + scale_x_discrete("Year") + scale_y_continuous("Number of Papers")
+
+pdf("citations_by_year.pdf", width=7.5, height=5.3)
+print(p)
+dev.off()
+
diff --git a/figures/google_scholar_result.png b/figures/google_scholar_result.png
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diff --git a/figures/wikimedia_projects.png b/figures/wikimedia_projects.png
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diff --git a/figures/wikipedia_citations.txt b/figures/wikipedia_citations.txt
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index 0000000..ee9d75a
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+2001,21
+2002,10
+2003,11
+2004,54
+2005,229
+2006,389
+2007,610
+2008,692
+2009,781
+2010,844
+2011,782
+2012,803
+2013,707
+2014,581
+2015,239

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