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Max Klein on Wikidata, “botpedia” and gender classification
Max Klein defines himself on his blog as a ‘Mathematician-Programmer, Wikimedia-Enthusiast, Burner-Yogi’ who believes in ‘liberty through wikis and logic’. I interviewed him a few weeks ago when he was in the UK for Wikimania…
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Code and the (Semantic) City
Mark Graham and I have just returned from Maynooth in Ireland where we participated in a really great workshop called Code and the City organised by Rob Kitchin and his team at the Programmable…
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Infoboxes and cleanup tags: Artifacts of Wikipedia newsmaking
My article about Wikipedia infoboxes and cleanup tags and their role in the development of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution article has just been published in the journal, ‘Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism‘ (a pre-print…
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Diary of an internet geography project #4
Reblogged from ‘Connectivity, Inclusivity and Inequality‘ Continuing with our series of blog posts exposing the workings behind a multidisciplinary big data project, we talk this week about the process of moving between small data and big data…
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Wikipedia and breaking news: The promise of a global media platform and the threat of the filter bubble
I gave this talk at Wikimania in London yesterday. In the first years of Wikipedia’s existence, many of us said that, as an example of citizen journalism and journalism by the people, Wikipedia would…
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Big Data and Small: Collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists
This article first appeared in Big Data and Society journal published by Sage and is licensed by the author under a Creative Commons Attribution license. [PDF] Abstract In the past three years, Heather Ford—an ethnographer…
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Full disclosure: Diary of an internet geography project #3
Reblogged from ‘Connectivity, Inclusivity and Inequality‘ In this series of blog posts, we are documenting the process by which a group of computer and social scientists are working together on a project to understand the geography of Wikipedia citations.…
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Full disclosure: Diary of an internet geography project #2
Reblogged from ‘Connectivity, Inclusivity and Inequality‘ In this series of blog posts, Heather Ford documents the process by which a group of computer and social scientists are working together in a project to understand the…
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Full disclosure: Diary of an internet geography project #1
Reblogged from ‘Connectivity, Inclusivity and Inequality‘ OII research fellow, Mark Graham and DPhil student, Heather Ford (both part of the CII group) are working with a group of computer scientists including Brent Hecht, Dave Musicant and Shilad Sen to understand how far Wikipedia has come…
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