I just realized that it might be helpful to cite an example of
after-the-fact documentation. See
for a study
that I listed on Meta after it was published.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Basically, it's a "best practices" kind
of thing; you are telling
Wikipedia community about your research, and in
exchange, you may get some
feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring
those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really.
This isn't quite right. For the last 3.5 years, new research which has
the potential to disrupt Wikipedian activities (surveys, interviews and
experiments) has been documented and discussed via a light-weight process
involving describing the project on meta. This process of documentation
and discussion is a means to public consent and I have yet to see a study
that goes through that process fail to run successfully. While this
process was recently scrutinized by a small group including Piotr, it's
certainly not merely a "best practice"; people expect it to work like
policy. We've had several researchers attempt to run surveys of English
Wikipedia only to be stopped and told to follow this process on Meta before
continuing. If you contact me or another researcher at the Wikimedia
Foundation, we will help you negotiate this process. (Piotr, if you would
like to reignite this discussion, I suggest we take it to a new thread.)
However, it doesn't sound like this is what Xiangju is asking about. It
sounds more like he is asking about documenting a study *after-the-fact*.
Here, I think that meta has the potential to help you have a "broader
impact" (jargon for affecting something other than your citation count).
By listing your results on Meta, you enable Wikipedians to more easily take
advantage of your work. You might even find that your citation rate goes
up too since there are a lot of us academics working on wiki stuff who
track and discuss research on Meta. I've actually had a few citations to
reports I have authored primarily on Meta. Regretfully, those don't
"count" yet. I imagine it would have been different if I had a DOI.
-Aaron
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> wrote:
> There are no constrains imposed on your research outside the
> declaration that your project is in line with ethical requirements (more or
> less required by most organizations anyway).
>
> Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling
Wikipedia community about your research, and in
exchange, you may get some
feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring
those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really.
>
> --
>
> Piotr Konieczny,
PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/cita…
>
> On 11/8/2014 07:39, Xiangju Qin wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science &
> Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
>
> I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little
> about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people
> from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like
> me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing
> research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?
>
> I would also like to know the following question:
>
> When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper
> (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014),
> he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get
> suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.
>
> I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the
> implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't
> know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own
> project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much
> valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Have a nice weekend everyone!
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Xiangju
>
> --
> Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI
> Email: qinxiangju(a)gmail.com or xiangju.qin(a)ucdconnect.ie
> Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin
> 4, Ireland
>
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