Hello, It is a very good idea - as long as we don't get a new wiki for this purpose (such as strategy.wiki, outreach.wiki). Kind regards Ziko
2011/5/16 Chitu Okoli <[email protected]>: > Hi Dario, > > I for one strongly support all the goals here. The lack of a unified > researcher portal on Meta: > * Makes it hard to find related research projects; and > * Discourages me from posting information about what I'm currently doing, > since it seems like no one will really look at it. > I would definitely try to keep my current projects up-to-date if I knew > there was one central portal that all other research pages on Meta or > Wikipedia project pages pointed to, with minimal redundancies. > > Thanks for leading this project. > > ~ Chitu > > > -------- Message original -------- > Sujet: [Wiki-research-l] A new home for Wikimedia research? Come share > your thoughts > De : Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> > Pour : Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <[email protected]> > Copie à : The Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee mailing list > <[email protected]> > Date : 13 Mai 2011 19:19:40 > > The Wikimedia Research Committee [1] is currently considering a major > overhaul of the research section on Meta-Wiki: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/2011_overhaul > > The practical reason to start this process is to clean up and streamline > pages used by the Wikimedia community and by the Foundation to document > internal research projects and policies. The ambitious goal it to make > Meta:Research the main hub where all research on Wikimedia projects (be it > internal or external) is discussed, reviewed and tracked. The objectives we > are hoping to achieve in the short term with this project are the following: > > make it easy for researchers to find the resources and WMF support they are > looking for > bring as much transparency as possible to research involving the Wikimedia > community, by reducing attrition between the community and researchers and > making sure research is not disruptive of editor activity > design a scheme of incentives to increase researcher participation and to > increase the number of projects included in the Wikimedia research directory > design a series of incentives to nudge researchers towards releasing their > datasets under an open license and publishing/self-archiving their research > results via open access outlets/repositories. > > Our long-term vision aims to: > > provide support to the publication of research data on Wikimedia projects > via a unified open data infrastructure [2] > integrate structured bibliographic data into Meta:Research via whatever > solution the community decides to adopt [3] > > Many on this list are already actively involved in editing and maintaining > Meta research pages. Your feedback and suggestions on this project would be > very valuable. > Dario > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee > [2] We are currently reviewing a number of solutions to set up a central > repository of open research data: http://bit.ly/OpenDataPlatforms > [3] See the long discussion started on this list with this thread: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2011-March/001361.html > > > -- > Dario Taraborelli, PhD > Senior Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > http://wikimediafoundation.org > http://nitens.org/taraborelli > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Ziko van Dijk The Netherlands http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
