I talk to wiki researchers fairly often -- both people who are involved in projects already documented onwiki and people starting up new ones in universities, etc -- and I usually suggest that they use wiki-research-l as a way to get feedback on their ideas. I'm often told though that it doesn't seem very useful, because the list is so low traffic! Seems like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem.
It would be nice to have a dedicated spot to collect research studies/documentation/work (maybe Wikiversity is the right spot?) since right now it is spread out over several wikipedias, meta, and other wikis besides. But a mailing list can also be helpful -- though it seems like the main questions that gets asked and answered is "are the wikipedia dumps up yet?" "anyone have one I can get?" etc. Maybe we need a research FAQ! :) -- phoebe On Feb 6, 2008 5:35 AM, Marc Schwenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Cormac, hi everbody > > I am new to this list and would appreciate sharing ideas / being part of > such a research community. > > As far as I see there are allready several wikis that try to collect persons > involved in research: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedistik > > and projects: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Research_Projects > > > Greetings > > Marc Schwenzer > > > > On 06.02.2008, at 10:29, Cormac Lawler wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2008 10:56 PM, Dirk Riehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I already moderate the WikiSym wiki research list, which is equally > > low traffic, so I can offer to take this one on too. --Dirk > > > > I'd kinda like this list to be slightly more active - currently it's a bit > more of an announce list. I'd like to develop a community of researchers who > can share ideas, experiences, critiques etc., but I wonder if a mailing list > is the best way though. The obvious question arises: how about a wiki? I'd > like to offer Wikiversity [1] as a place where people interested could work > and see what other people are working on - not replacing this list but > augmenting it. Though if anyone has other ideas for a suitable medium or > space, I'd love to hear them... > > Cheers, > Cormac > > [1] English Wikiversity: <http://en.wikiversity.org> ; Multilingual portal > <http://www.wikiversity.org> _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
