Sad to say, I only read about a quarter of it before I gave up too.
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Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P
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On Mar 15, 2011 12:25 AM, "I Love Plankton" <iloveplankton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
TL;DR wall of text amirite?
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli(a)concordia.ca
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_Quest…
.
> 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…
)
Arto Lanamäki, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
Mohamad Mehdi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Mostafa Mesgari, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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