Links | Wikipedia, Critical Point of View

Interesting tools related to Wikipedia

Posted: May 11, 2010 at 3:02 pm | By: julianabrunello | Tags: links, research, tools

http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html
Visualization from anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
Lists anonymous Wikipedia edits from organizations. You can type in the organization you want to research about and it shows you the results.

http://www.wikimindmap.org/
Easy way of making a mind map based on Wikipedia connections.

http://www.wikirage.com/
Wikirage tracks the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits over various periods of time.

http://stats.grok.se/
Just enter a Wikipedia article title and press go for the statistics on how much the page has been viewed.

http://dbpedia.org/About
DBpedia extracts structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
A website with all deleted articles from Wikipedia.

http://wikidashboard.parc.com/doc/faq.html
A summary graph on top of a Wikipedia page shows the weekly edit pattern of the article.

http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/
View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files

http://similpedia.org/
Enter either a URL of the format: http://www.example.com or copy and paste a paragraph of text of at least 100 words to find similar content.

Links #5 – Amsterdam Conference Videos

Posted: April 20, 2010 at 2:19 pm | By: julianabrunello | Tags: 5, conference, CPoV, links, videos

These are the links to the videos of all the talks for the CPoV Conference in Amsterdam - Enjoy! SESSION 1
Ramón Reichert (AT) Rethinking Wikipedia: Power, Knowledge and the Technologies of the Self
Jeanette Hofmann (DE) Wikipedia between Emancipation and Self-Regulation
Mathieu O’Neil (AU) The Critique of Law in Free Online Projects
Gérard Wormser (FR) The Knowledge Bar
SESSION 2
Joseph Reagle (USA) Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Anxiety
Charles van den Heuvel (NL) Authoritative Annotations, Encyclopedia Universalis Mundaneum, Wikipedia and the Stanford Encycloped
Dan O’Sullivan (UK) An Encyclopedia for the Times: Thoughts on Wikipedia from a His- torical Perspective
Alan Shapiro (USA/DE) Gustave Flaubert Laughs at Wikipedia
Discussion session 2 Encyclopedia Histories: 13.30 – 15.30. Friday, March 26
Moderaror: Nathaniel Tkacz
Speakers: Joseph Reagle, Charles van den Heuvel, Dan O'Sullivan, Alan Shapiro
SESSION 3
Hendrik-Jan Grievink (NL) Wiki Loves Art
Scott Kildall (USA) Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Act
Patrick Lichty (USA) Social Media, Cultural Scaffolds, and Molecular Hegemonies. Musings on Anarchic Media, WIKIs, and De-territorialized Art
Discussion session 3 Wiki Art: 15.45 – 17.30. Friday, March 26
Moderator: Rachel Somers Miles
Speakers: Hendrik-Jan Grievink, Scott Kildall, Patrick Lichty
SESSION 4
Felipe Ortega (ES) New Trends in the Evolution of Wikipedia
Stuart Geiger (USA) Bot Politics: The Domination, Subversion, and Negotiation of Code in Wikipedia
Hans Varghese Mathews (IN) Clustering the Contributors to a Wikipedia Page
Esther Weltevrede (NL) and Erik Borra (BE/NL) Controversy Analysis with Wikipedia
Discussion session 4 Wiki Analytics: 10.00 – 12.30. Saturday, March 27
Moderator: NIshant Shah
Speakers: Felipe Ortega, Stuart Geiger, Hans Varghese Mathews, Esther Weltevrede & Erik Borra
SESSION 5
Lawrence Liang (IN) Wikipedia and the authority of knowledge
Teemu Mikkonen (FI) Kosovo War on Wikipedia, Tracing the Conflict and Concensus on the Wikipedia Talk pages
Andrew Famiglietti (USA) Negotiating the Neutral Point of View: Politics and the Moral Economy of Wikipedia
Florian Cramer (DE/NL) The German WikiWars and the limits of objectivism
Discussion session 5 Designing Debate: 13.30 – 15.30. Saturday, March 27
Moderator: Caroline Nevejan
Speakers: Lawrence Liang, Teemu Mikkonen, Andrew Famiglietti, Florian Cramer
SESSION 6
Mayo Fuster Morell (IT) Wikimedia Governance: The Role of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Form and Geopolitics of its Internationalization
Athina Karatzogianni (UK) Wikipedia’s Impact on the Global Power-Knowledge Hierarchies
Maja van der Velden (NL/NO) When Knowledges Meet: Database Design and the Performance of Knowledge
Amit Basole (IN) Knowledge Satyagraha: Towards a People’s Knowledge Movement
Discussion session 6 Global Issues and Outlooks: 15.45 – 17.30. Saturday, March 27
Moderator: Johanna Niesyto
Speakers: Mayo Fuster Morell, Athina Karatzogianni, Maja van der Velden, Amit Basole