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janetw_suiching

Open Data developments in Asia | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog - 1 views

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    This blog about Open Data Developments in Asia analyses the recent state of Open Data adopted in Asia and highlights some of the 11 Asian countries participants that attended the Open Knowledge Conference in Geneva in 2012. Of the 11 countries that attended the conference, the author of the post focuses on the East Asian and Pacific countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar and discusses their state and role in Openness. The author does a good job at providing statistics of the different countries in terms of the Worldbank Knowledge Economy Index (KEI), which analyzes the economic rankings of countries. The author then compares economic rank to that of openness, stating that countries low on the economic rank contribute little to no open data within their own countries or externally to other countries. Next, the author talks about the overall internet penetration in Asia as being only 27.5 percent and in that statistic, there is still a wide gap between North and South East Asia in terms of internet use and information distribution and acquisition from citizens and others. Moreover, the author continues to compare how many social, economical, political and cultural influence information distribution, contribution and acquisition in Asia countries. Openness is growing in the more developed Asian countries, but openness is limited, or even nonexistent, in developing (authoritative) countries. After reading this article, I've had a greater understanding of the current state of Open Data in Asia an the influences that contribute to enabling Openness. What I expected from the blog post or something that would've made the post even better could be some examples or projects of Openness or Open Data in Asia.
xiomy23

The Wikipedia gender gap. Innovation from scarcity. - 0 views

shared by xiomy23 on 03 Nov 14 - No Cached
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    From Spark on CBC Radio http://cbc.ca/spark/ -- Eszter Hargittai, Veronica Simmonds and Terry Costantino on the Wikipedia gender gap. Gautham Ramdurai and Navi Radjou on jugaad and scarcity innovation. Mat Honan on digital design for the developing world.
petrae77

Closing Wikipedia's Gender Gap - Reluctantly - 2 views

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    Feminism's dullest mission.
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    It is true, there is still a big gap between what men and women do, specially at home. Most of the work at home such as buying meals, cleaning, ironing, etc... are done by women, even if they have a full time job.
raulcd70

Tutorial como crear una cuenta en Wikipedia y un articulo (En HD) - 0 views

shared by raulcd70 on 03 Nov 14 - No Cached
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    ¿Quieres salir en la Wikipedia y no sabes como? Aquí te enseño. Cualquier duda, déjame un comentario.
anonymous

10 Articles Banned From Wikipedia - 1 views

shared by anonymous on 31 Oct 14 - No Cached
Elke Lackner liked it
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    Kind of short and not a lot of information, but makes you think and possibly want to dig deeper into what articles are objected to on Wikipedia.
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    Heavy metal music, weed, and radio stations have all been deleted from Wikipedia. Watch the clip to find out what the authorities have tried to stop you learning about.
Ad Huikeshoven

Emotions under Discussion: Gender, Status and Communication in Online Collaboration - 6 views

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    Emotional expression and linguistic style in online collaboration differ substantially depending on the contributors' gender and status, and on the communication network. This should be taken into account when analyzing collaborative success, and may prove insightful to communities facing gender gap and stagnation in contributor acquisition and participation levels.
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    Hi Ad, thank you for sharing this. My postdoc research was focused on communication challenges participants face online. It was only in the 90s that people believed that online communication supports a "democratic" style of communication, where people are not being distracted by physical appearance, social class, cultural background or gender. S.C. Herring and others conclusively refuted claims of gender anonymity and equality in online communication and published a lot about this topic (if you are interested). What I found particularly interesting to me in your resource is that we all about collaboration (schools, universities, companies, etc.), but we never take into account that participant's gender and/or status impact his/her willingness and ability to contribute.
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    Thank you for sharing this interesting resource. I think that it is fascinating that this research focuses not only on discrepancies between the proportion of male and female contributors on Wikipedia, but also on differences in the actual communication and relationship styles based on the gender of contributors. I also thought that it was really interesting that the researchers found that while site administrators tended to be neutral, the editors were more emotional and relationship-oriented. I think that this comes from Wikipedia's mandate to remain neutral and objective. However, would argue that with this type of collaboration tool, there cannot be true "neutrality." Even if administrators attempt to maintain objective, impersonal tones, site content will inevitably be influenced by various socio-cultural biases.
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    lubajong and taylor_cole thank you for your comments. From my part I will add a critical evaluation of this resource as well. The talk pages of Wikipedia provide a rich source for researchers to study communication patterns. On Wikipedia talk pages they have found signals for status differences between groups of participants, notably between admins and ordinary contributors. Those findings support in general the theories of the researchers about status differences and communication style differences between managers and employees in firms. They have also found differences in communication style bases on gender, which also support their general theories about gender (which is a social construct). What I - as a Wikipedian insider - finds missing in the article is the selection bias. Wikipedia admins aren't appointed by Jimmy Wales or some other body. Admins are community selected. The exact process differs per language version. On the English Wikipedia admin selection is by a community consensus process. Future admins are selected who show the preferred communication style of admins by other contributors including existing admins. For me, the patterns in communication style do not explain the gender gap on Wikipedia. There is a gender gap in many language versions of Wikipedia, but not in all. The Armenian language version of Wikipedia is a notable exception, showing a gender balance in the conbtributor base. An explanation of that exemption requires further research. What taylor_cole notes about neutrality and bias is a valid point. People volunteer to write for Wikipedia, and volunteer in topic choice. My guess is that in general people will opt to write about something they like, care about, know about. A lack of diversity in contributors will naturally reflect in lack of diversity of topics. For example nerdy males will write about things male nerds like. In general females tend to be interested in other topics than nerdy males. A lack of topics covered in Wikipe
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    Levels of participation influences emotional expression and phrasing? has the function of sex and status of the taxpayer. 4 strands to study and find a result! Interesting!
christofhar

Open Access India | Advocating Open Access in India - 0 views

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    ADVOCACY FOR OPEN ACCESS IN INDIA
Suneil Revarr

active opensource community - 1 views

http://twiki.org/

#module8 mooc open access knowledge

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Suneil Revarr

Why open access ? - 1 views

http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access

open access knowledge mooc #module8

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Suneil Revarr

Open Resource - 1 views

https://twitter.com/OKFN

open access knowledge open mooc #module8 #resource

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Suneil Revarr

We & Open access - 1 views

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/

open access knowledge mooc #module8

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Suneil Revarr

Open Resource - 1 views

http://knowledge.allianz.com/

open access knowledge open module8 mooc #resource

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Suneil Revarr

open educational resource - 1 views

https://schoolforge.net/

Module8 open access knowledge mooc

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Suneil Revarr

open source - 1 views

http://in.okfn.org/

open access knowledge open #module8 #resources mooc

started by Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Jannicke Røgler

lokalhistoriewiki.no - 1 views

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    NLI is responsible for the websites lokalhistorie.no, lokalhistoriewiki.no and toll.lokalhistorie.no. NLI also publishes sources, handbooks, overviews of literature and sources, questioners, as well as other aids for local historians. In cooperation with the National Federation of Local History Associations (Landslaget for lokalhistorie), NLI publishes the magazine Lokalhistorisk magasin. NLI also organises seminars and conferences related to local history topics.
natalyefremova

War of edits - 1 views

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    Due to the difficult political situation around the online encyclopedia Wikipedia developed this information war.
Jannicke Røgler

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 0 views

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    Welcome to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in our Archives (every entry contains a link to its complete archival history, identifying the fixed edition the reader should cite). The Table of Contents lists entries that are published or assigned. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
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    I like this encyclopedia, I already have used it to do my homework, it has very structured information, and is like consult a great book of phylosophy and very specialized!
Ignoramus OKMOOC

Recent changes to wikipedia visualized - 2 views

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    you really get the feel of the dynmics: Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note. Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots. You may see announcements for new users as they join the site, punctuated by a string swell. You can welcome him or her by clicking the blue banner and adding a note on their talk page.
ibudule

BBC News - Armenia: Citizens urged to write Wikipedia entry each - 2 views

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    An interesting story about an initiative how to contribute to the development of Wikipedia content for a small country in its language.
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