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The newly founded Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin is teaming up with Wikimedia Germany and the Freie Universität Berlin to organize a conference on Wikipedia and and other relevant developments in free knowledge:

Wikipedia Academy 2012 – Research and Free Knowledge
Berlin
June 29 – July 1, 2012

Deadline CfP: March 31 (http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process
http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page

The conference aims especially at researchers with a backgrounds in social sciences and humanities. The focus is on the following topics:

Wikipedia Global

• Relations and Differences between different Wikipedia language versions
• Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies
• Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons

Sharing Cultures and Practices

• Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based peer production
• Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production
• Wiki theory and wiki practices

Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia

• Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia
• Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open collaborative settings
• Using information visualization as information instrument to users and contributors

Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge

• Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access to free knowledge
• Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination in Wikipedia
• The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other collaborative forms of knowledge production

Wikipedia Analytics

• Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool
• Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of “Big Data”
• Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles

More info:

http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page
http://wir.okfn.org/2012/01/20/call-for-papers-wikipedia-academy-2012-research-and-free-knowledge/