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New page: Peter Turney peter.turney@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca [June 10, 2013] The [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ACL Wiki] opened to the public on October 18th, 2006. The mandate of th...

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The [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ACL Wiki] opened to the public on October 18th, 2006. The mandate of the wiki is ''to facilitate the sharing of information on all aspects of Computational Linguistics.'' The ACL Wiki includes pointers to corpora, software, journals, conferences, workshops, blogs, researcher home pages, state-of-the-art system comparisons, employment opportunities, course descriptions, and many other resources for computational linguists.

The following table summarizes the growth of the wiki. The number of page views has increased each year. The number of edits is decreasing as the content of the wiki is stabilizing. Wikipedia has [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growth experienced similar slowing] in its growth. Current [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics statistics] are available online on the Wiki.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1"
|- align="center"
! Year
! Cumulative page views
! Yearly page views
! Daily page views
! Cumulative edits
! Yearly edits
! Daily edits
! Number of long pages
! New long pages
|- align="center"
| 2013
| 4,180,000
| 1,180,000
| 3,233
| 10,456
| 706
| 2
| 363
| 17
|- align="center"
| 2012
| 3,000,000
| 1,070,000
| 2,932
| 9,750
| 750
| 2
| 346
| 21
|- align="center"
| 2011
| 1,930,000
| 700,000
| 1,918
| 9,000
| 1,000
| 3
| 325
| 32
|- align="center"
| 2010
| 1,230,000
| 480,000
| 1,315
| 8,000
| 2,000
| 5
| 293
| 26
|- align="center"
| 2009
| 750,000
| 400,000
| 1,095
| 6,000
| 2,000
| 5
| 267
| 32
|- align="center"
| 2008
| 350,000
| 250,000
| 685
| 4,000
| 2,000
| 5
| 235
| 135
|- align="center"
| 2007
| 100,000
| 100,000
| 275
| 2,000
| 2,000
| 5
| 100
| 100
|-
|}

The wiki hosts three Community Portals:

* [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Natural_Language_Generation_Portal Natural Language Generation Portal]
* [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SemEval_Portal SemEval Portal]
* [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Textual_Entailment_Portal Textual Entailment Portal]

The portals contain a wealth of useful information for researchers in these communities. Community Portals are an excellent tool for supporting a community of researchers who share a common interest in a specific problem.

Fighting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_spam#Wiki_spam wiki spam] is an ongoing effort. We were previously using the following spam fighting tools:

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior Bad Behavior]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ConfirmEdit] with [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualMathCaptcha VisualMathCaptcha]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist Title Blacklist]

These automated tools worked for some time, until spammers found ways around them. We have now switched to a manual tool, which is currently working very well:

* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount ConfirmAccount]

All members of ACL are strongly encouraged to contribute to the ACL Wiki. Whatever subfield of Computational Linguistics you work in, this is your opportunity to raise the profile of research in your area. The time you invest in the ACL Wiki will have high returns for the community.

==Past Reports on the ACL Wiki==

* [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2011Q3_Reports:_ACL_Wiki 2012]
* [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2011Q3_Reports:_ACL_Wiki 2011]
* [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2010Q3_Reports:_ACL_Wiki 2010]
* [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2009Q3_Reports:_ACL_Wiki 2009]
* [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2008Q3_Reports:_Wiki 2008]
* [http://www.aclweb.org/archive/reports/acl2007-reports/ACL_Wiki_2007.txt 2007]

2013Q3 Reports: ACL Wiki - Revision history

PeterTurney: New page: Peter Turney peter.turney@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca [June 10, 2013] The [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ACL Wiki] opened to the public on October 18th, 2006. The mandate of th...