There's some related literature on academics attitude towards Wikipedia,
mostly from the perspective of how they use it (primarily teaching with
it). I did a review of it for one of my articles; it boils down to the
fact that many don't understand it (think it is commercial, for example)
and thus are hostile, others are afraid that its alternative to peer
review will destroy traditional academia (resistance to change). Once
they get over those issues they become more sympathetic, but most are
pessimistic about being able to contribute to Wikipedia, seeing it as
something not helpful towards their careers and not expecting much
change here.
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
On 7/23/2013 10:04 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Dearest research list!
Two things:
1) I am looking for anything and everything about counting Wikipedia
contributions for attribution & tenure/promotion purposes and/or C.V.
enhancement, especially for academic faculty. This includes blog
posts, anecdotes, research, case studies...
2) I'm just starting a review on the subject, which is also going to
involve interviewing academics involved in Wikipedia about their
thoughts, hopes and dreams on the subject of getting 'credit' for
their contributions: so let me know if you're interested in being
interviewed.
If there's interest maybe we can get together a little informal
discussion at WikiSym/Wikimania as well.
thanks!
Phoebe
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