[Wiki-research-l] my ph. d. -- still formulating a research question

So far, the best phrasing I've come up with is: What stands in the way of building and supplying low-cost, high-quality mathematics education via the internet? The art of encyclopedia-building doesn't seem to carry over directly to education. This should be of fairly general concern (the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] my ph. d. -- still formulating a research question

Hi All: Thanks a bunch for the comments: I'm just going to reply to everyone in one email for now, to keep things simple and, hopefully, brief! My latest question for you is here, and answers to your earlier questions are below. NEW QUESTION: METHODOLOGY ADVICE? What methodologies can I use to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Academic canonization by using Wikipedia? / Publications on scholarly usage of Wikibooks and Wikiversity?

1. Is anybody aware of examples for academic canonization by using Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia projects)? My hypothesis is that Wikipedia could be potentially used for this purpose, namely when many relevant researchers discuss a certain article and eventually come to new conclusions,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] List of papers: 2596.

Nice! On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:40 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I just want to share with you a list of 2596 papers about wikis I generated this afternoon scraping Google Scholar results.[1] To download, use: wget -t1 -c -i papers.txt. If you want to split the list before:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

@Audrey, are you sure you want to study motivations to contribute to Wikipedia? Maybe you should study flamewars on Wikipedia mailing lists instead, it promises to be a subject on which you could get lots of observational data! On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:11 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Re: Experimental study of informal rewards in peer production

quote who=Chitu Okoli date=Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:02:39PM -0400 In this case, I actually started this project with the hunch that barnstars would lead to a slight decline in editing behavior; That's the projected conclusion from e.g. Alfie Kohn, http://naggum.no/motivation.html also included

[Wiki-research-l] open letter to researchers

I thought this might be of interest particularly in light of the recent conversations here about academics vs wikipedians. - Joe Abstract Since access to research funding is difficult, particularly for young researchers, we consider a change in approach: We are the funding opportunity! I'll

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Social Network Analysis of Wikipedia

Hi Jeremy: This seems to be implied in your approach... but to reiterate: since the encyclopedia is a graph, it would be most useful to start by looking at centrality measures etc. there. If you define the social network (of people, where A-B if they've edited the same page), then clearly the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com wrote: The comment you quote of mine is in response to Samuel Klein's lists of more things that should be published. If we combine his list with your experience then we have a clear view of the collision that would motivate a new

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com wrote: Its a good time to think big, especially if big doesn't cost too much. Yeah! And for this reason, I think the best and most useful option (out of the ones that people are suggesting here) is ALL. Why not have a mainstream

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Mathieu ONeil mathieu.on...@anu.edu.au wrote: Once the publication process is launched then yes, normally everything (initial sub, reviews, responses, final paper) is published. But like I said, it seems that special issues are, at present, exempt from that?

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Joe Corneli holtzerman...@gmail.com wrote: while continuing to publish informally (as a pre-print or non-print) all initial submissions together with their reviews. Including for special issues. Furthermore, why not have discussion threads attached

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

Oops, that's on the Strategy wiki. I'll make corresponding links on meta and send them around. Sorry. For the moment real work should take place here anyway, so we can do this fast. http://piratepad.net/wiki-research-ideas ___ Wiki-research-l mailing

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

OK, real link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

In addition to summarizing everything, I've condensed the proposals down to these (Please feel free to reword, expand, maybe continue the conversation on the Talk page?): Proposals Specifically related to journals * The field of wiki studies exists but there is no dedicated journal. This is a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis (Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 37)

Thanks, added that to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal?

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Ed H. Chi c...@acm.org wrote: There has been a lot of talk about how to start a journal. The real issue in starting a journal is not the editorial board, or the way it is published, or whether it will gather the citation impact. The real issue is READERSHIP.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] sustainability of conferences (was Re: Wiki Research Journal?)

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Kerry Raymond k.raym...@qut.edu.au wrote: F2F builds trust in a way that seems harder to achieve by electronic means. I find if distributed teams initially meet in person (including eating and drinking together), subsequent electronic communication will work a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal?

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Pierre-Carl Langlais langlais.qo...@gmail.com wrote: I may sound a bit overractive, but can't we do both? I would easily imagine the following two-way system: *A wiki-laboratory, which hosts quick and less quick projects in progress. That could also include some

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal? - Why?

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Brian Keegan bkee...@northwestern.edu wrote: It seems nigh-impossible to assemble an editorial board that is simultaneously open and qualified to reviewing submissions that almost certainly cover the gamut from journalism and media studies, computer and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research Hub Re: Wiki Research Journal? - Why?

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Pierre-Carl Langlais langlais.qo...@gmail.com wrote: If you are interested in any of these initiative feel free to join the volunteers list : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas/Volunteers I think given the current audience, it would also be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] advice on Wikipedia topics for WikiSym 2013

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Fuster, Mayo mayo.fus...@eui.eu wrote: Hello! Thank you Heather for the note!. The call looks interesting to me, but I would suggest to add gender inclusion as a topic at the call for paper, as it is a central problem in Wikipedia. +1 Mark Graham and I

Re: [Wiki-research-l] advice on Wikipedia topics for WikiSym 2013

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Joe Corneli holtzerman...@gmail.com wrote: Along with this initiative, I suggest inviting Domas Mituzas (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzheado/228629484/) to give a keynote. Another nice point of reference: http://xkcd.com/214

Re: [Wiki-research-l] E-Learning with wikis…

Interesting venue :) One piece of published work you might want to take a look at is this: Joseph Corneli and Alexander Mikroyannidis, Crowdsourcing Education on the Web: A Role-based Analysis of Online Learning Communities, in Alexandra Okada, Teresa Conolly, and Peter Scott (eds.),

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

Is Wikipedia a relevant model for e-learning? This title invites skepticism b/c, a priori, Wikipedia is a website, not a model. Paragogy, which you mention -- thanks! -- might be closer: it at least contains the seeds of a model of learning. Theoretical precision is still work in progress - I'd

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: An epistemological critique of wikipedia

http://pierrelevyblog.com/2013/05/27/an-epistemological-critique-of-wikipedia/ - favorable review http://pierrelevyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/stevejankowski_thesis_v18.pdf - PDF (199 pages) ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

I think there's a gap between the OP's question about recruiting gamers (including console, LAN, FPS, MMORPG, and mobile gamers) and the range of ideas offered about []gamification[] of WP editing. But I think it could be useful to return to the initial question, and think more about what the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Toss around a project idea in IdeaLab, maybe get a grant?

First note is that this is vaguely related to earlier discussions in this list and here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas/Research_Hub On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab IdeaLab

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Bots vs. Wikipedians – Who edits more?

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: All edits are far from equal, someone who manually writes several paragraphs of encyclopaedic content is contributing something far more valuable than for example my recategorising 30 images from one

Re: [Wiki-research-l] this month's research newsletter

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com writes: Heather Ford, 01/07/2014 14:37: We want to encourage more research on Wikipedia, not attack the motivations of people we know little about I'm not sure about the specific wording, but I think the intention is only to stress the importance of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] this month's research newsletter

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Kim Osman kim.os...@qut.edu.au wrote: The newsletter is an important and unique space that has the potential to foster this interaction through gathering current research and also considering via effective and importantly *attributed* peer review, future

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] wikipedia access traces ?

On Thu, Sep 18 2014, Pine W wrote: Yes, but supposedly phone survey companies are able to get representative samples of broad populations despite many people refusing to respond to phone surveys. If opt-in users were chosen using similar methods, could arguably representative data be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

On Sat, Oct 25 2014, WereSpielChequers wrote: And just to add to the complexity of James' comments; there are some people who think that a general interest encyclopaedia should be written for a general audience. So articles with long sentences should be improved by rewriting into more but

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

On Sat, Oct 25 2014, Ditty Mathew wrote: Hi Ziko, You are right. But if the content of the article is very less or having less references, less edits, less no of images, less no of links etc, articles are of poor quality. Based on these factors, to some extent we can find the quality of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] CFP Journal of Peer Production: Work and peer production

One facet of wiki X economy that comes to mind for me is paid editing. There's a policy for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid_editing_(policy) - Many, but not all, types of paid editing are forbidden. And there are a few research uses of this 'term of art':

Re: [Wiki-research-l] citations to articles cited on wikipedia?

Regarding the question from the OP [oh, that's me!], here are some search terms that produce relevant results, citation frequency wikipedia -cite wikipedia -citing sources Interestingly, the first paper I found suggests that the trend is the almost the opposite of the one I was thinking would

[Wiki-research-l] citations to articles cited on wikipedia?

Hello, if I remember correctly there was some interesting research discussed here about citations to articles cited on Wikipedia. Can someone help me find that work? It is hard to google for, because I keep turning up research on citing Wikipedia itself, which is not what I'm after. The

[Wiki-research-l] design patterns for peer learning and peer production, with wikimedia case study - preprint

http://metameso.org/~joe/docs/peeragogy_pattern_catalog_proceedings.pdf is a preprint of the paper "Patterns of Peeragogy" to appear in Proceedings of Pattern Languages of Programs 2015. Abstract: We describe nine design patterns that we have developed in our work on the Peeragogy project, in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] design patterns for peer learning and peer production, with wikimedia case study - preprint

On Mon, Dec 28 2015, Oliver Keyes wrote: > My big question is how these pedagogic maps factor in the negatives of > peer production communities - harassment, toxicity - and route around > or solve for them. Hi Oliver, Thanks for the speedy and thought-provoking reply! The question above is a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] citing female academics

On Tue, Feb 23 2016, Heather Ford wrote: > There's an interesting discussion going on right now on the Association of > Internet Researchers mailing list about the citing of women (and women of > colour) in academia that I thought might be interesting. The comments are > also really (as

Re: [Wiki-research-l] citing female academics

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > Oddly, there appears to be no solidarity among female Wikipedians that take > this into account, because I assume we have lots of female academic > Wikipedians who could easily write about other female academics in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] citing female academics

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Heather Ford wrote: > I'd be curious to learn more about how we as a Wikipedia research > community fare here too... Somewhat related article in the Guardian today:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] citing female academics

Also, "Stephenson-Goodknight says she often notices that thinly-sourced articles about women get singled out for deletion when the same articles could easily be expanded and substantiated." (sorry for noise) ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] index of current research on wikipedia?

On Sun, Sep 11 2016, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Guillaume Paumier, 10/09/2016 16:43: >> WikiPapers is the main wiki-based curation platform for wiki-related >> academic publications, but it's down at the moment: >> http://wikipapers.referata.com/ > > Up now. > I thought >

[Wiki-research-l] index of current research on wikipedia?

Hi, I noticed that the pages here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_studies_about_Wikipedia and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia ...don't have any 2015 or 2016 articles. Naturally, such articles do exist (30,400 hits for "Wikipedia" since 2015 on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia and political neutrality

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:52 PM, James Salsman wrote: Do you think a comparison of the effects of bias in individual candidates' articles to the effects [of] systemic bias

[Wiki-research-l] call for abstracts - enabling mathematical cultures, June 30 deadline for december event

cultures from sociological, philosophical, educational and computational perspectives. Confirmed speakers include: Andrew Aberdein, Michael Barany, Alan Bundy, Joe Corneli, Matthew Inglis, Lorenzo Lane, Ursula Martin, Dave Murray-Rust, Alison Pease and Fenner Tanswell. Organising Committee

Re: [Wiki-research-l] feedback appreciated

On Sat, Aug 26 2017, Leila Zia wrote: > ** I personally would skip the whole conversation style in this kind > of article. In some of your audience, including me, it creates a first > reaction of "yes, we taught him a lesson." There's no accounting for taste, but I found the style offputting.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] feedback appreciated

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Caroline Sinders wrote: > What I am doing *right now* at the Wikimedia Foundation is the > fantastically weird but unsexy of job of designing tools and UI to mitigate > online harassment while studying on wiki-harassment. It's not just

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Input requested] Knowledge as a Service at the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018

Hi Adam, Could you please clarify: what are the possibilities for remote participation around this? Joe ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] question - Psychiatry studies

Would research on harrassment be relevant? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harassment_surveys https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox#Impact_of_Harassment_on_User_Retention Further: Is the ansatz that harrassing behaviour is a sign of poor mental health on the part of the harrasser

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

This section fills in some of the gaps left by the statement: "It is not only people who do not care for rules, it is also the people who obsess about rules." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Phelps#Wikipedia_article ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

I wonder if rather than trying to sort people into existing categories, it would be useful to have a more emergent understanding of Wikimedia and the broader open source community. Obviously we should be careful because it could amount to playing with fire (cf. Cambridge Analytica). *However*

[Wiki-research-l] Re: Wikidata book, invitation

Could you share the syllabus of the course you are teaching please? I am getting involved in teaching and something like this could inspire the faculty here. On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 19:29, Andrew Krizhanovsky < andrew.krizhanov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all. > > We wrote the very first version

[Wiki-research-l] Re: SMWCon 2023 - Call for Contributions: MediaWiki in the age of AI

Hi, The link you shared here seems to be incorrect...? "Go to the Conference Page ( https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_20223)" >>> SMWCon Fall 20223 There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title