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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I remember reading somewhere on Wikipedia: that it'd be
really nice for publicity if we could have a research paper about Wikipedia
published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. I'm currently a history undegraduate
at the </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of </span></font><font size=2
  face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Texas</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> - </span></font><font
  size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Austin</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and would
like to &quot;spam&quot; some of our school's professors about this. Is there
an existing pre-formed letter for this purpose or should I author my own? Have
there been other attempts to solicit academic research by other Wikipedians? To
what degree of success?</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kent Wang</span></font></p>

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