I just realized that it might be helpful to cite an example of after-the-fact documentation. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline for a study that I listed on Meta after it was published.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling >> Wikipedia community about your research, and in exchange, you may get some >> feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring >> those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really. > > > This isn't quite right. For the last 3.5 years, new research which has > the potential to disrupt Wikipedian activities (surveys, interviews and > experiments) has been documented and discussed via a light-weight process > involving describing the project on meta. This process of documentation > and discussion is a means to public consent and I have yet to see a study > that goes through that process fail to run successfully. While this > process was recently scrutinized by a small group including Piotr, it's > certainly not merely a "best practice"; people expect it to work like > policy. We've had several researchers attempt to run surveys of English > Wikipedia only to be stopped and told to follow this process on Meta before > continuing. If you contact me or another researcher at the Wikimedia > Foundation, we will help you negotiate this process. (Piotr, if you would > like to reignite this discussion, I suggest we take it to a new thread.) > > However, it doesn't sound like this is what Xiangju is asking about. It > sounds more like he is asking about documenting a study *after-the-fact*. > Here, I think that meta has the potential to help you have a "broader > impact" (jargon for affecting something other than your citation count). > By listing your results on Meta, you enable Wikipedians to more easily take > advantage of your work. You might even find that your citation rate goes > up too since there are a lot of us academics working on wiki stuff who > track and discuss research on Meta. I've actually had a few citations to > reports I have authored primarily on Meta. Regretfully, those don't > "count" yet. I imagine it would have been different if I had a DOI. > > -Aaron > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Piotr Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are no constrains imposed on your research outside the >> declaration that your project is in line with ethical requirements (more or >> less required by most organizations anyway). >> >> Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling >> Wikipedia community about your research, and in exchange, you may get some >> feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring >> those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really. >> >> -- >> >> Piotr Konieczny, >> PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus >> >> On 11/8/2014 07:39, Xiangju Qin wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & >> Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland. >> >> I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little >> about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people >> from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like >> me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing >> research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia? >> >> I would also like to know the following question: >> >> When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper >> (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), >> he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get >> suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people. >> >> I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the >> implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't >> know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own >> project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much >> valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> Have a nice weekend everyone! >> >> Best wishes, >> >> >> Xiangju >> >> -- >> Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI >> Email: [email protected] or [email protected] >> Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin >> 4, Ireland >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing >> [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 >> >> >
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