>> I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but there is a mailing list about wiki research at large (not just wikipedia research).
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wiki-research@wikisym.org
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> thanks Alain! Do you think the two lists overlap much, though? Though
> this list is titled 'Research into Wikimedia content and communities'
> there's a lot of things applicable to non-Wikimedia research; and by
> extension much wiki research focuses on Wikipedia et al :)
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stuff (research, practice, standards, etc.) outside the Wikimedia scope!
I think some overlap is natural as Wikimedia issues are wiki issues too.
However, unless you explicitly change the scope of this list to be
generally about wikis and not just Wikimedia related, I'd keep the two
wiki research lists separate.
Yes, two lists can happily coexist. However, as a shared workspace, I'd still like to have something that incorporates 'wiki-general' and 'Wikimedia-specific' research - and this can easily be started on Wikiversity (and can also be expanded into overlapping areas like "open educational resources", "online communities", "collaborative software development" etc etc). The Wikiversity research portal is at <
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Research>, and it's really not very good - we could start refactoring it, or developing a new page at, say, <
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Research/new> and merging them when we get a good structure together.