On 3/8/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
You ask people for a research workshop. There is one problem that I
have with it from the start. It is probably too narrow in scope, I do
think / expect that you do not want to limit it only to wikiPedia. I
expect that you would be equally happy to include people who have an
interest in the other projects like wikibooks, wiktionary, wikinews et
al
Thanks,
GerardM
Thanks Gerard - oh absolutely - sorry, I should have made that clear
(hence forwarding to the lists again - I don't think you'll mind :-)).
I think there were different ideas on kinds of workshops / tutorials
to run (I think you were still around at that stage of the meeting?),
so one was on *using Wikimedia content for doing research*, another
was on *doing research about Wikimedia and its communities'
activities* (possibly to be split up between developers and social
scientists, but possibly not). Sorry, again. Any other comments/ideas?
Cormac
On 3/8/06, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
FYI
Just a bit of context for those who don't know: Wikimania will be
happening this August in Harvard, Boston, USA. Call for participation
has been distributed, text at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006_Call_for_Participation -
see below for workshop idea. All the best,
Cormac
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From: phoebe ayers <brassratgirl(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2006 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: Social science speakers and workshops
Cormac & all,
One of the workshops you brought up Sunday is something that I would
really like to see -- a breakout session about researching wikipedia -
e.g, a more informal forum for researchers who study wikipedia to talk
about techniques, problems, current ideas, future studies... (am I
getting the general idea right?) I know you & I and Andrew Lih (who
I'm cc'ing in on this) have talked about it briefly, and it was also
brought up last year but never happened.
I guess this could be a workshop format or maybe a birds-of-a-feather.
At any rate, I'd like to be able to schedule it in. Any volunteers :)
or suggestions for who could lead such a thing? It shouldn't be too
difficult to put together; more a matter of scheduling a time & making
sure interested parties can show up, and possibly arranging specific
demonstrations of techniques. It could be social-science oriented, or
(this might be better) open to all researchers in all topics, as long
as they're trying to figure out how to study the site.
phoebe