Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
Delightfully, it turns out that someone had done exactly this months ago, and is now running a contest to pick the best: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/19/vote-most-exciting-research-about-wikipedia/ Thanks for the other suggestions, - Andrew. On 18 February 2013 15:10, Andrew Gray wrote: > Hi all, > > A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or > otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either > > a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or > b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject? > > I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP > and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would > be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find > interesting are often unusual :-) > > Suggestions appreciated! > > Thanks, > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: > http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki Using google cache because this page is not working (maybe only today?) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C7l687ionEAJ:wiki.cas-group.net/index.php%3Ftitle%3DSelf-Organization&hl=pt&tbo=d&strip=1 See "Web 2.0 and Wiki". T -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
A friend of mine wrote a thesis based on the genres used to describe bands and albums by \Wikipedia and other networks. I'll introduce to you Twitter. On 18 February 2013 15:10, Andrew Gray wrote: > Hi all, > > A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or > otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either > > a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or > b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject? > > I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP > and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would > be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find > interesting are often unusual :-) > > Suggestions appreciated! > > Thanks, > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
P. S. because of that, I am also really curious on what will happen when someone use a MOOC with Wikipedia. See this proposal, for instance https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses It will be quit interesting to see the possibly good effects of students engaging on Wikipedia to improve it. This is very related to this also interesting research on what Wikipedia can teach us about the future of journalism http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/what-wikipedia-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-news/ Tom On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: > Hi, Andrew. > > Recently I came to a subject I first listened about 13 years ago in > the work of Murray Gell-Mann on complex adaptive systems, when I just > started to study physics. I think Wikipedia is an interesting system > to analyse such subject. Please, see > > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/10._Social_Ties:_Networking_Together#The_Magic_of_Wikis.3F > > http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki > > I haven't been making research recently, but on my spare time I've > been studying related to that. And because of Jonathan Morgan reseach > bellow on WikiProjects > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikiproject_Participation_%26_Mentorship > > this paper > > https://docs.google.com/file/d/1nTHh4GRswNaa5mQE4aQc3AZQf3SpSojGsOR9LQTbCj1OBlq4xnLNalkuvKAP/edit > > and discussion with the Portuguese Wikipedia community, we are trying, > through discussions with the network of the Ministry of Healthy in > Brazil, to revitalize the medicine WikiProject on the Portuguese > Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The idea is to > form a critical mass of contributors and see how much it will improve > the content on this subject, working also together with other partner > we have made through the catalyst program in Brazil, like translation > universities. > > Thus a complex adaptive system is the most interesting thing that came > to me because of Wikipedia. > > Tom > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Andrew Gray > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or >> otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either >> >> a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or >> b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject? >> >> I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP >> and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would >> be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find >> interesting are often unusual :-) >> >> Suggestions appreciated! >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> - Andrew Gray >> andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk >> >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more > useful than a life spent doing nothing." -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
Hi, Andrew. Recently I came to a subject I first listened about 13 years ago in the work of Murray Gell-Mann on complex adaptive systems, when I just started to study physics. I think Wikipedia is an interesting system to analyse such subject. Please, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/10._Social_Ties:_Networking_Together#The_Magic_of_Wikis.3F http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki I haven't been making research recently, but on my spare time I've been studying related to that. And because of Jonathan Morgan reseach bellow on WikiProjects https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikiproject_Participation_%26_Mentorship this paper https://docs.google.com/file/d/1nTHh4GRswNaa5mQE4aQc3AZQf3SpSojGsOR9LQTbCj1OBlq4xnLNalkuvKAP/edit and discussion with the Portuguese Wikipedia community, we are trying, through discussions with the network of the Ministry of Healthy in Brazil, to revitalize the medicine WikiProject on the Portuguese Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The idea is to form a critical mass of contributors and see how much it will improve the content on this subject, working also together with other partner we have made through the catalyst program in Brazil, like translation universities. Thus a complex adaptive system is the most interesting thing that came to me because of Wikipedia. Tom On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > Hi all, > > A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or > otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either > > a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or > b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject? > > I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP > and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would > be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find > interesting are often unusual :-) > > Suggestions appreciated! > > Thanks, > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?
Hi all, A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject? I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find interesting are often unusual :-) Suggestions appreciated! Thanks, -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
