Erik & I had a good meeting last week with the MacArthur Foundation, who
reiterated their interest in funding research related to Wikipedia and
the other Wikimedia projects. Their primary interest is in developing a
better understanding of the Wikipedia audience (readers), but I believe
they are potentially interested in research into the contributor
community as well.
Our research goals & interests are laid out here
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals
It's a pretty full list, but not an exhaustive one. We'd encourage
anyone who wants to conduct research into the Wikimedia projects to
approach MacArthur for funding, and/or talk to us.
Thanks,
Sue
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:03:41 -0700
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
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FYI
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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: RfC: Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sue & I have drafted a set of research goals that the Wikimedia
Foundation supports. The purpose of the document is to have something
we can point researchers, universities, foundations, and other third
parties to when they ask us: So, what kind of research are you
interested in? Will you support/endorse my research proposal X? In
most cases, we will not actively pursue these goals directly -- we'll
just try to facilitate & endorse research by third parties.
These research goals need to line up with our overall organizational
goals to make sense, so we've tried to map research goals to
organizational goals.
In light of this constraint, please do feel free to make revisions, or
to suggest changes on the discussion page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals
It's still a draft looked at by only two people - so we do expect it
to be incomplete. :-)
(BTW - I'm aware that some chapters are pursuing a research agenda on
their own: This is great, and these Foundation goals are in no way
meant to be prescriptive for chapters.)
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