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New research project with Wikimedia Deutschland
Today we have announced at Libresoft, the research group in which I work at University Rey Juan Carlos, a new research project sponsored by Wikimedia Deutschland, the German chapter of the Wikimedia...
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These days, I’ve been thinking again about the problems related with mining social network info. I’m still astonished at Facebook decision of suing Peter Warden because he gathered a massive collection...
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WikiSym 2010 summary
Finally, I had some time to write about the experiences in WikiSym and Wikimania 2010. Let’s start with the first one. WikiSym 2010 has been special in many aspects. The Symposium and Program...
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Wikimania 2010 recap
OK, now it’s time for Wikimania 2010 summary. I’ve been thinking a lot on the best way to concentrate my thoughts in a short way. I think the best one is this: whenever I attend a conference/meeting,...
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Oracle is missing the Summer sun
The Illumos announcement, aired last August 3, may be the soap of this Summer. But it can also be the starting point of a story that will leave a memorable footprint in open source software. And that...
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Seamless support for open content
Over the past 4 years, I’ve been an avid consumer of open content, mainly images and text licensed under CC-BY-SA (my favourite license ever). 90% of times, I collect it to prepare slides and other...
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OpenRespect.org: social guidelines for open communities
Support OpenRespect.orgSome time ago, I read a paragraph on the book “Producing Open Source Software“, by Karl Fogel, explaining the need to write down conventions and agreements that have become...
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Wikipedia is not a place for promotion
Last week, one of the most popular questions asked by journalists, bloggers and other people reflecting on the 10 years of Wikipedia was: what are the main challenges for Wikipedia over the next 10...
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New book: The Digital Potlatch
The Wikipedia Editor Survey 2011, published last April, emphasized the importance of explicit acknowledgement and recognition of effort among Wikipedia editors as an instrumental factor to sustaing...
View ArticleA multi-stage method for content classification and opinion mining
Last week, we had a new journal paper published. It presents a methodology to improve the acccuracy of opinion mining and content classification of textual data retrieved from the web: C. Alfaro, J....
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