Greetings everyone,<br><br>Now that the the WMF summer research program in the Community Department has come to a close, I wanted to point interested parties to the body of findings we&#39;ve produced. <br><br>We covered a lot of territory so to save you the trouble if you just want to browse, we collected our most salient results into one wiki page. <br>

<ul><li>Relevant blog post here: <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/06/summer-research-findings/">http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/06/summer-research-findings/</a></li></ul><ul><li>Summary of findings on Meta, with links to further documentation: <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011/Summary_of_Findings">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011/Summary_of_Findings</a></li>

</ul>Next steps are twofold for this program: <br><ol><li>We&#39;ll be working with the Global Development team and some volunteers from the local community to extend these analyses to cover Portuguese Wikipedia, specifically to support Global Dev&#39;s work in Brazil. <br>

</li><li>We&#39;re choosing and implementing a platform to release not just our code, but the datasets we compiled over the summer. You&#39;ll hear more about this soon, but we&#39;re taking our time in order to decide on a solution that will work in the long term for sharing open data beyond the dumps. <br>

</li></ol>Last but not least, if anyone would like to have a more in-depth discussion about these findings and the research that produced them, I&#39;m definitely open to hosting an IRC office hours with some members of the team. Just let me know if you&#39;re interested (on or offlist) and I&#39;ll set something up soon.<br>

<br>-- <br>Steven Walling<div>Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation</div><div><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org" target="_blank">wikimediafoundation.org</a></div><br>