Actually, we already thought about creating a common knowledge-share space, possibly based
in wiki technology but with many other useful tools. It could integrate many research
sources about Wikipedia, currently scattered all over the web:
* WikiResearch at meta.wikimedia
* Wikimetrics at
http://wm.sieheauch.de/, and other wiki bibliography sources (maybe,
linked with Citeulike lists...).
* A common forum to exchange ideas and resources for research about Wikipedia.
* Most important thing: A common interface to ask Wikimedia Foundation for data sources.
Wikimedia admins are (almost always) too busy to attend researchers' petititons.
It's not rare to spend at least 3 months to obtain certain information sources, due to
both contact and agreement delays. It's also frequent that certain common petitions
show up again over time. With a central point to find resources, this problem would be
mitigated, at least to some an extent point.
* Of course, a mailing-list would be also a benefit, possibly split into important
subtopics: research-metrics, research-semantics, research-authoring...
Maybe Wikiversity could be a good starting point to integrate the whole thing.
Regards,
Felipe.
Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> escribió: On Feb 5, 2008 10:56 PM, Dirk Riehle
<dirk(a)riehle.org> wrote:
I already moderate the WikiSym wiki research list, which is equally
low traffic, so I can offer to take this one on too. --Dirk
I'd kinda like this list to be slightly more active - currently it's a bit more of
an announce list. I'd like to develop a community of researchers who can share ideas,
experiences, critiques etc., but I wonder if a mailing list is the best way though. The
obvious question arises: how about a wiki? I'd like to offer Wikiversity [1] as a
place where people interested could work and see what other people are working on - not
replacing this list but augmenting it. Though if anyone has other ideas for a suitable
medium or space, I'd love to hear them...
Cheers,
Cormac
[1] English Wikiversity: <http://en.wikiversity.org> ; Multilingual portal
<http://www.wikiversity.org>
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