Hi Cormac, I hope Wikiversity will be represented at the Open
Education Symposium at Carnegie Mellon this spring. It's the first
time a lot of major players in learning research are coming together
to focus on OER. There's a lot of latent support in this community for
open access that hasn't been tapped yet. I'm definitely going and
looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.
Andrea
On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Felipe and Marc,
Meta has been a useful resource to a point - however, the only actual
research project that it generated, [[m:General User Survey]], was never
actually realised. Apart from this, it served as an organising space for the
[[m:Wikimedia Research Network]], and [[m:Research]] was mostly used for
researchers to add their name to the list with a brief description of their
research. But I never felt a genuine community of researchers there (apart
from the short-lived WRN) - and this is always what I have hoped for. This
would be more than a knowledge-share space to me - it would be a place for
people to form and reformulate questions, to critique one another's work,
and possibly develop some collaborative research projects. The case you cite
of people coming into Wikimedia with lots of similar questions only
reinforces to me that such a space would be useful. However, the
knowledge-sharing aspect is also essential, in order to document what is
available, and what has been done before - and I'd like to know what other
tools you think would be useful/necessary. Finding relevant literature
becomes more and more important with the increasing amount of literature
being churned out on wikis - this would be facilitated by focused searching
of bibliographies, but the human (ie community) element also comes into it.
So, it's really more a shared workspace than a knowledge bank that I'm
thinking of. I'd be thrilled to start (or continue) work on such a space on
Wikiversity if there is some interest from this list.
Cormac
On Feb 6, 2008 1:58 PM, Felipe Ortega <glimmer_phoenix(a)yahoo.es> wrote:
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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