On 3/8/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, You ask people for a research workshop. There is one problem that I have with it from the start. It is probably too narrow in scope, I do think / expect that you do not want to limit it only to wikiPedia. I expect that you would be equally happy to include people who have an interest in the other projects like wikibooks, wiktionary, wikinews et al
Thanks, GerardM
Thanks Gerard - oh absolutely - sorry, I should have made that clear (hence forwarding to the lists again - I don't think you'll mind :-)). I think there were different ideas on kinds of workshops / tutorials to run (I think you were still around at that stage of the meeting?), so one was on *using Wikimedia content for doing research*, another was on *doing research about Wikimedia and its communities' activities* (possibly to be split up between developers and social scientists, but possibly not). Sorry, again. Any other comments/ideas?
Cormac
On 3/8/06, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
FYI
Just a bit of context for those who don't know: Wikimania will be happening this August in Harvard, Boston, USA. Call for participation has been distributed, text at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006_Call_for_Participation - see below for workshop idea. All the best,
Cormac
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: phoebe ayers brassratgirl@gmail.com Date: Mar 8, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Social science speakers and workshops
Cormac & all,
One of the workshops you brought up Sunday is something that I would really like to see -- a breakout session about researching wikipedia - e.g, a more informal forum for researchers who study wikipedia to talk about techniques, problems, current ideas, future studies... (am I getting the general idea right?) I know you & I and Andrew Lih (who I'm cc'ing in on this) have talked about it briefly, and it was also brought up last year but never happened.
I guess this could be a workshop format or maybe a birds-of-a-feather. At any rate, I'd like to be able to schedule it in. Any volunteers :) or suggestions for who could lead such a thing? It shouldn't be too difficult to put together; more a matter of scheduling a time & making sure interested parties can show up, and possibly arranging specific demonstrations of techniques. It could be social-science oriented, or (this might be better) open to all researchers in all topics, as long as they're trying to figure out how to study the site.
phoebe