Now that i understood. It was short, clear, and concise. Thank you On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Bob the Wikipedian < [email protected]> wrote:
> I read it several times before figuring out (maybe?) that this is a > request that update the list of questions at [[WP:WD]]. That page looks > rather...well, "outdated" is an understatement... > > However, it would seem to me that a researcher would generate questions > to research by looking at the discussion sections of recent papers on > the topic of Wikipedia. Usually in the discussion section, the author > mentions something like "more research needs to be done on /x/ /topic/." > > God bless, > Bob > > On 3/14/2011 11:28 PM, Elias Friedman wrote: > > Sad to say, I only read about a quarter of it before I gave up too. > > > > Sent from my Droid2 > > Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P > > אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי > > [email protected] > > On Mar 15, 2011 12:25 AM, "I Love Plankton"<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> TL;DR wall of text amirite? > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Chitu Okoli<[email protected] > >> wrote: > >> > >>> [Apologies for cross-posting; this same e-mail is being sent to > >>> wikipedia-l, WikiEN-l and foundation-l] > >>> > >>> Hi everyone, > >>> > >>> We are a research group conducting a systematic literature review on > >>> Wikipedia-related peer-reviewed academic studies published in the > English > >>> language. (Although there are many excellent studies in other > languages, > > we > >>> unfortunately do not have the resources to systematically review these > at > >>> any kind of acceptable scholarly level. Also, our study is about > > Wikipedia > >>> only, not about other Wikimedia Foundation projects. However, we do > > include > >>> studies about other language Wikipedias, as long as the studies are > >>> published in English.) We have completed a search using many major > > databases > >>> of scholarly research. We've posted separate messages to > wiki-research-l > >>> related to this literature review. > >>> > >>> We have identified over 2,100 peer-reviewed studies that have > > "wikipedia", > >>> "wikipedian", or "wikipedians" in their title, abstract or keywords. As > > this > >>> number of studies is far too large for conducting a review synthesis, > we > >>> have decided to focus only on peer-reviewed journal publications and > >>> doctoral theses; we identified 638 such studies. In addition, we > > identified > >>> around 1,500 peer-reviewed conference articles. > >>> > >>> We hope that our review would provide useful insights for both > > wikipedians > >>> and researchers. (Although we know that most Wikipedia researchers are > > also > >>> wikipedians, we define wikipedian or "Wikipedia practitioner" here as > >>> someone involved in the Wikipedia project who is not also a scholarly > >>> researcher.) In particular, here is a list of some of the research > > questions > >>> we are investigating in our review that are particularly pertinent to > >>> wikipedians (you can check wiki-research-l for the full set of research > >>> questions): > >>> > >>> 1. What high-quality research has been conducted with Wikipedia as a > > major > >>> topic or data source? As mentioned in the introductory e-mail, we have > >>> already identified over 2,100 studies, though we will only analyze 638 > of > >>> them in depth. We will group the articles by field of study. > >>> > >>> 2. What research questions have been asked by various sources, both > >>> academic scholarly and practitioner? We want to know both the subjects > > that > >>> the existing research has covered, and also catalogue key questions > that > >>> practitioners would like to be answered, whether or not academic > research > >>> has broached these questions. Also, we categorize the research > questions > >>> based on their purposes. > >>> > >>> 6. What conclusions have been made from existing research? That is, > what > >>> questions from RQ2 have been answered, and what are these answers? > >>> > >>> 7. What questions from RQ2 are left unanswered? (These present > directions > >>> for future research.) > >>> > >>> > >>> Regarding our RQ2, on the research questions that have been asked, we > > want > >>> to identify not only the research questions that we extract from the > >>> articles, but also what questions are of interest that have not been > >>> studied. For this, we have identified a few banks of Wikipedia-related > >>> research questions. > >>> > >>> We are most of all interested in questions that wikipedians are asking, > >>> other than what researchers are asking. There is an old list of > research > >>> questions or goals at > >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals; > these > >>> questions are about Wikimedia Foundation projects in general, though > >>> Wikipedia is of course included. Could you please review this list and > >>> update that page directly with any additional questions? Alternately, > you > >>> could reply us directly, and we could update the list. > >>> > >>> Another bank of questions we have identified is more directed towards > >>> academics and researchers: > >>> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikidemia#Research_Questions > > . > >>> We have asked the wiki-research-l subscribers to update that list. We > > will > >>> draw from both lists for our bank of research questions. > >>> > >>> Thanks for your help. > >>> > >>> Chitu Okoli, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada > >>> ( > >>> > > > http://chitu.okoli.org/professional/open-content/wikipedia-and-open-content.html > >>> ) > >>> Arto Lanamäki, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway > >>> Mohamad Mehdi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada > >>> Mostafa Mesgari, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikipedia-l mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikipedia-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikipedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
