Hi Dorothy,

On data visualizations you and your friend may find good pieces to view at: http://seealso.hatnote.com/
It's a "collection of visualization projects built on Wikipedia data, curated by Hatnote."

An interesting study, in my opinion, with initial thoughts (around 2004) on how can we study the movement is:  Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating collaborative media as a news resource - http://www.ufrgs.br/limc/participativo/pdf/wikipedia.pdf

That's is what I remember by now, I am also interested on propose/test such metrics (mostly quantitative ones) and study it further.

Best regards,
Jonas