Office Hours during RRR Week:
Prof. Burrell – Tue, Thu, 11-12:30 (during our class time)
- will NOT be holding office hours during my usual Tue 4-6pm time
Stuart Geiger – Tue – 1:30-3:30
Elisa Oreglia – by appointment
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Google’s Search Anthropologist
In case you missed it in SFGate a couple of weeks back. An article about Dan Russell who works for Google, trying to get a better understanding of user behavior in relation to Google’s search interfaces.
The Gender Gap and Wikipedia
Stuart has passed long these links to those of you who raised interest in this topic last Thursday:
A good introduction/overview to the problem with lots of links:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap
Two of the most recent research papers on the gender gap:
(both are by all-male research teams, as has been pointed out)
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038560
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038561
The Teahouse, a great new initiative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse
The Wikimedia foundation’s gender gap mailing list:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/
A much earlier effort to provide an off-Wikipedia space to discuss and
plan around the gender gap:
http://wikichix.org/wiki/WikiChix
Assignment 3, deadline extended
We have extended the deadline for assignment 3 from Tuesday to Thursday of next week.
Please have your assignment ready to turn in at the beginning of class on 4/12.
Wikipedia is Not
Link to the “What Wikipedia is Not” page Stuart mentioned in class.