Hi Alain et al,
not sure if it's helpful/relevant to you, but i'm currently completing my
thesis on examining the community structures within Wikipedia, and how it
fosters a sense of citizenship. Have done extended interviews with WP users
from around the world as part of this....
I can share some of my work with you if interested, just shoot me an email.
Tamsin
http://www.isea2008.org/index.html
Event: 25th July to August 3rd 2008, Singapore
"We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers
from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts
benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between
contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies,
pedagogies and institutional practices."
Call for proposals submissions: 15th July - 30th of September 2007
One of the themes is "Wiki Wiki":
http://www.isea2008.org/themes3.html
cheers,
Brianna
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They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
I need a good solid reference to substantiate the following claim:
"Besides leading to high quality content, wikis have been shown to be good tools for fostering the emergence of active communities"
Does anyone know of a good research paper that looks specifically at this kind of impact of wikis?
Thx.
----
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Chair, WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
Yes, I would like a copy of the paper, thx.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Cc: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> Subject: Re: [wiki-research] Wikis as a tool for fostering
> emergence ofcommunities
>
> I will be presenting a paper "Virtual Community Maintenance
> with a Repository" at the ASIST conference in October that
> discusses the ways in which a wiki repository has helped
> strengthen an email-based technical support community. The
> abstract is found at
> http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/papers/72.html
>
> If you would like a copy of the paper let me know.
>
> Derek L. Hansen
> Assistant Professor
> University of Maryland
>
> On 8/29/07, Desilets, Alain <Alain.Desilets(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
> > I need a good solid reference to substantiate the following claim:
> >
> > "Besides leading to high quality content, wikis have been
> shown to be good tools for fostering the emergence of active
> communities"
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good research paper that looks
> specifically at this kind of impact of wikis?
> >
> > Thx.
> >
> >
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> > 2007
> >
> > 2007 International Symposium on Wikis
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> >
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http://wiki-riki.wikispaces.com/Research+Papers+and+Reports ->
"Wikibook AERA paper.pdf"
Sajjapanroj, S., Bonk, C. J., Lee, M., & Lin, M.-F. G. (2007, April).
The challenges and successes of Wikibookian experts and Wikibook
novices: Classroom and community perspectives. Paper presented at the
American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
The Challenges and Successes of Wikibookian Experts and Wikibook
Novices: Classroom and Community Collaborative Experiences
Abstract:
The present study explored the creation of Wikibooks in both classroom
(i.e., Wikibook Novices) and general community (i.e., Wikibookian
Experts) contexts. Observations, surveys, and follow-up email
interviews were the primary means of data collection. This study
analyzed various demographic data of Wikibookians as well as
motivational factors involved in Wikibook creation. Other variables
explored included Wikibook ownership, challenges, frustrations,
perceptions of success and completion, and norms for collaboration in
the Wikibook community. The results indicate that Wikibookians were
young males with varying educational backgrounds; fewer than half
without a four year college degree. Wikibookian Experts were more
likely to perceive that a Wikibook could be completed than Wikibook
Novices in a classroom project. And compared to the novices, the
Wikibookians Experts were also more likely to indicate that no one
owns a Wikibook. Still there were similarities across the populations
in this survey. For instance, they both tended to see a Wikibook
environment as informal, exploratory, collaborative, and somewhat
independent, though in varying degrees. They also recognized that
there are multiple roles involved in the completion of a
Wikibook—contributor, author, reader, etc.—as well as multiple owners
or no owner of the final Wikibook product; assuming that there is a
final product. Importantly, they perceive at a Wikibook project as a
way to share knowledge, obtain personal growth, publish their work,
learn new technologies, and make a contribution to society. However,
the Wikibook Novices favored the publishing avenues it provided as
well as the technology experimentation whereas the Wikibook experts
focused on sharing knowledge and looking for personal growth and
enrichment. Many research avenues are noted to follow-up some of
these similarities and differences.
cheers,
Brianna
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They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
Hello,
My Master's Thesis, Wikipedia as Collective Action: Personal Incentives and
Enabling Structures, is now available at:
http://www.msu.edu/~john2429/Wikipedia as Collective Action.pdf
Comments and feedback are welcome and appreciated, as I plan to revise the
paper and submit it for publication. Thanks for reading, if it's of
interest to you.
Benjamin Johnson
Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media
College of Communication Arts and Sciences
Michigan State University
john2429(a)msu.edu
benjamin.k.johnson(a)gmail.com
On 8/14/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/13/1939231
FWIW, I mailed him privately and suggested to use a zero-install
server running PHP with MediaWiki, accessing the bzip dump through a
modified Database.php file. I did that once with a sqlite database,
but I ran into size/access speed trouble when trying a "real-size"
wikipedia instead of a small demo. He seems to agree, but doesn't know
enough PHP to hack it.
Magnus
I'm sure many of you have seen the slashdot story with the same title
as this thread. It pointed to
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html which is
the description of a simple offline Wikipedia reader which runs off
the bzipped dumps.
I for one thought the use of bzip2recover to seek over the bzipped
dumps without decompressing the whole thing was genius. And I was
even more excited when I found out how simple the source code to
bzip2recover is so small (just one .c file with no includes or anything, see
http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/bzip2/bzip2recover.c).
So it should be easy to tweak the bzip2recover program to eliminate
the need to split the file up at all. I'm kind of surprised if there
isn't already something out there to build and index to seek through
bzip2 files, but I've been looking for one for quite some time and
didn't find anything. Now I know it's possible though, and apparently
not very difficult.
Dear Wikipedia researchers,
WikiPrep is a preprocessing script written in Perl that takes an XML dump of
Wikipedia, and
infers some information that was implicitly present there. In particular, it
performs the following tasks:
1) Template substitution in article texts
2) Building a hierarchy of categories (i.e., for each category, it collects ids
of its immediate descendants)
3) Identifies related articles based on contextual clues
4) Resolves link redirection and dumps additional information that allows one to
easily build a link graph
for the entire Wikipedia snapshot
5) Computes statistics about categories and links
6) Collects anchor text associated with links pointing at each article
WikiPrep is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2,
and
is available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/wikiprep.
Regards,
Evgeniy.