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