Greetings! You might have already seen an announcement for Wikimania (the Wikipedia and Wikimedia's community annual conference). It will be hosted in Stockholm this year on August 14-18. This year the conference is broken down into a series of tracks called "spaces." Along with Leila Zia from the Wikimedia Foundation, I'm helping running a space focused on research. We're interested in talks about research (or about how to do research) on Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, and open collaboration more broadly. I've pasted in a call for proposals for the Research Space below. The conference is a great way to connect both with other researchers and with the Wikipedia and Wikimedia communities of contributors and leaders. Please submit a proposal! Regards, Mako Call for Sessions Proposals about Research @ Wikimania 2019 =========================================================== Wikimania: The Conference of the Wikipedia and Wikimedia Community Stockholm, Sweden | August 14-18, 2019 Submission Deadline: June 1, 2019 Research Space website: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Research General Conference website: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/ About the Conference & Research Space ------------------------------------- Wikimania is the annual conference of the Wikimedia community. In 2019, Wikimedia is being managed as a series of largely independent "spaces" (similar to tracks). This call for papers is only for the Research Space. The Research Space will host talks that showcase research of interest to the broader Wikimedia community as well as tutorials focused on helping people do research in Wikipedia. We are particularly interested in submissions that aim to: - Present actionable research projects by people conducting research on Wikimedia projects and in adjacent spaces (either completed or in-progress); - Provide tutorials to help Wikimedians and researchers learn to use a series of useful tools for collecting and analyzing data from Wikimedia projects; - Provide a space to discuss issues related to doing research in Wikimedia projects. Proposing a Session ------------------- The research space is actively encouraging submissions for three types of sessions: - Presentations of Research - Tutorials - Research Lightning Talks We encourage submissions from researchers studying Wikimedia projects, researchers studying adjacent projects (e.g., peer production projects like OSM, etc), Wikimedia community members, and members of the WMF research team. We are particularly interested in work that touches on issues related to the UNDP SDGs (e.g., quality education, reduced inequalities, industry innovation and infrastructure). Wikimania is a community conference. We will not be publishing a proceedings. We welcome presentation of either completed or in-progress work. The research space welcomes submissions on any topic related to Wikimedia research. Examples of topics we would welcome include: - Participation in Wikimedia communities - Group Dynamics and Organization in Wikipedia and related projects - Readership/Engagement on Wikipedia and related projects - Technical Infrastructure and Design in Wikimedia projects - Evaluating Content of Wikimedia projects - Knowledge Diffusion, Outreach, and work that seeks to generalize beyond Wikimedia projects We also welcome submissions on these or other topics in "adjacent spaces" including free culture, free software, open hardware, open knowledge, and so on. Submissions are due on June 1, 2019. Conference Organization and Questions ----------------------------------------------------- The Research Space leaders are: - Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) — makohill@uw.edu - Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation) — leila@wikimedia.org All questions about submissions should be emailed to the space leaders or a message can be asked publicly on the public Research Space discussion page which is available at the link above. -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto