Abstract: Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the worlds leading source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to study its content, communication and community dynamics from various perspectives. This article presents a protocol for conducting a systematic mapping (a broad-based literature review) of scholarly research on Wikipedia. The purpose of this review is to analyze particular trends in research and offer the basic groundwork for future studies. We identify what research has been conducted; what research questions have been asked, and which have been answered and which remain unanswered; and what theories and methodologies have been employed to study Wikipedia. This protocol follows the systematic literature review methodology to conduct a systematic mapping study. The review process is work in progress, and has thus far identified over 2,000 studies.
This working paper is a rough first draft combining three different working papers by the authors. In its current form, it mainly serves as a placeholder to provide a source for attribution for the website, which presents the papers analyzed in the systematic part of this review. Number of Pages in PDF File: 71 Keywords: Wikipedia, systematic literature review, open content, open knowledge, free cultural works, open source Working Paper Series Free download http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021326 Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
