On Feb 7, 2008 5:10 AM, Piotr Konieczny <
piokon@post.pl> wrote:
phoebe ayers wrote:
> It would be nice to have a dedicated spot to collect research
> studies/documentation/work (maybe Wikiversity is the right spot?)
> since right now it is spread out over several wikipedias, meta, and
> other wikis besides.
About a year ago I have collected most of Wikipedia related research at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_academic_studies but
since than few have updated the page. In the end, it is a community
resource just as any wiki is: if nobody wants to do it, we will not have
such a database. It's that simple. So I invite everyone to contribute to
that page; being on Wikipedia is has the known set of advantages - it
benefits from Wikipedia fame and snowball effect (can you name other
wiki research databases off the top of your head?), it will never
disappear, we all (should) know how to add to it, it is watched over by
a significant community, etc.
There's a broader page on meta: <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Bibliography> but the best wiki bibliography by far is at <
http://biblography.wikimedia.de> which unfortunately seems to be down at the moment. Wikiversity would just not compete as a bibliography (it lacks the funky search algorithms) - though we could import the meta page and start developing it as a part of a wider wiki research agenda. Wikiversity would be a good place for a workspace - but I'm not sure if Felipe was thinking of something more advanced (ie with wiki and other knowledge base features) as a "one stop shop".
Cormac