Research:Events

This page lists events (mostly research conferences) relevant to Wikimedia-related research.

Notes:

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• All events organized by the Wikimedia Foundation commit to the Friendly Space Policy.
• To learn more about events organized and attended by the Wikimedia Foundation Research Team, please visit https://research.wikimedia.org/events.html.

Wiki Workshop is an annual forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects. It is co-organized by the WMF Research Team and members of the Wikimedia Research Community. In previous years, the workshop was co-located with other conferences and since 2021 it's taken place online.

• Wiki Workshop 2024: Online
• Wiki Workshop 2023: Online
• Wiki Workshop 2022: Online as part of The Web Conference 2022
• Wiki Workshop 2021: Online as part of The Web Conference 2021
• Wiki Workshop 2020: Taipei, Taiwan
• Wiki Workshop 2019: San Francisco, California as part of The Web Conference 2019
• Wiki Workshop 2018: Lyon, France as part of The Web Conference 2018
• Wiki Workshop 2017: Perth, Australia as part of WWW 2017.
• Wiki Workshop 2016: Held at WWW 2016 (Montreal, Canada) and ICWSM 2016 (Cologne, Germany).
• Workshop at ICWSM 2015

The following conferences are not primarily focused on Wikimedia Research but are often attended by Wikimedia Researchers and present content relevant to Wikimedia Research. If you're familiar with a conference, add a short description about it:

• CHI: Academic conference. "The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human–computer interaction and is one of the top ranked conferences in computer science."
• CSCW: Academic conference. "CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners, CSCW explores the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities."^[1]
• GROUP: "The ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) has been a premier venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Socio-Technical Studies. The conference integrates work in social science, computer science, engineering, design, values, and other diverse topics related to group work, broadly conceptualized."
• HICSS: academic conference covering a wide range of topics; mostly driven by information systems research.
• ICWSM: "The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media."
• KDD: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference has been one of the fastest-growing conferences since 2012. Its primary focus is on data sciences and massive data-set machine learning. The conference has a very strong industry presence, possibly due to the nature of the work and publications in the conference.
• OpenSym: The academic counterpart to Wikimania: more academics, fewer practitioners. More niche, accessible and wiki-specific than larger conferences.
• Wikimania: The annual conference of the Wikimedia movement. Mostly attended by practitioners, but there are also a few researchers. A great opportunity to interact with the users we often study.
• The Web Conference (a.k.a. WWW, formerly International World Wide Web Conference): WWW is one of the long-standing conferences on the subject of the web. The primary audience of the conference are computer scientists though this is gradually changing as new fields such as digital health are introduced to the conference. The conference primarily acts as an interface between different areas of research on and related to the Web.
• WSDM:
• AoIR: The Association of Internet Researchers hosts a yearly conference for interdisciplinary Internet researchers. Mostly academics, not wiki-specific, but many topics here may be of relevance to wiki researchers. Also has a guide on ethical online research.

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Not to be confused with CPOV

• Wikipedia Research Initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India)[2]
• Conference in Amsterdam, March 26-27, 2010
• Conference in Bangalore, January 12-13, 2010

• Wikimania 2007 August, 2007
• Proceedings of Wikimania 2006 August, 2006
• Proceedings of Wikimania 2005 August, 2005

• 1st Workshops on Mathematical Wikis (MathWikis); August, 2011

• 5th Workshop: Linking Data and People; May, 2010
• 4th Workshop: The Semantic Wiki Wiki Web; June, 2009
• 3rd Workshop: The Wiki Way of Semantics; June, 2008

• 1st Workshop (SePublica), May 2011

• August 2012 (open access to complete proceedings)
• October 2011 (open access to complete proceedings)
• July 2010 (open access to complete proceedings)
• October 2009 (open access to complete proceedings)
• September 2008
• October, 2007
• August, 2006
  • Workshop on Wikipedia Research, WikiSym 2006
• October, 2005

• Wikipedia Academy 2007 August, 2007
• Wikipedia Academy 2006 June, 2006

• Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, July 2013. Mathematical wikis have always been a topic of interest here, particularly in the DML (Digital Mathematical Libraries), MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management), and Systems & Projects tracks.
• ACM Hypertext 2007 September, 2007

• The monthly Wikimedia Research Showcase features research done at the Wikimedia Foundation, and occasionally guest presenters
• Volunteer Supporters Network/Conferences
• List of events and List of conferences on WikiPapers
• WikiCFP: A wiki tracking call for papers in science and technology fields

List of conferences by discipline, on Wikipedia:

• List of computer science conferences
• List of communications-related conferences