Kevin,
That's great you've signed up for the workshop - looking forward to actually meeting you this time! The meta page is just a brainstorm as of yet, so please add ideas of what you'd like to hear/talk about etc.
A book about what can be done on wiki research is a great idea! There are already books on Wikibooks that align with what you're thinking of, eg. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Statistics and http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science - there are possibly more. But if you are proposing a space for exploring methodologies, well, this list is a decent start - but it's also the kind of thing that I'd like to see included in Wikiversity, ie. a community of practice about doing research on Wikimedia or wikis in general. I'd also like to share more about R for example - I've been struggling with it all year ;-)
Overall, I think sharing is the right way to go - I think we should be doing a lot more of it. Incidentally, Jakob keeps a blog on his and related work at http://wm.sieheauch.de/
Cheers, Cormac
On 5/22/06, Kevin Gamble kevin_gamble@ncsu.edu wrote:
Andre, et al:
I signed up for the workshop in Boston. Looking forward to it.
In regards to the sharing I was actually thinking of the workshop Erik and Jakob conducted in Frankfurt. I learned a lot from that session, and came home and started learning R and Jung. It would be nice if we could share that type of information outside of the context of an annual meeting.
Maybe what we need is a wiki research cookbook? Sort of a step-by-step approach with code snippets on methodologies? A wiki book?
kevin
I think there is also a research workshop that might happen in Boston... I'm not 100% sure if it's on the schedule at this point. I'll be there, I know Cormac will too. He started this page to talk about what we might want to accomplish at such a workshop:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program/Research_thingy
I can say that the reason I haven't been sharing much is that I haven't collected any new data recently. :-)
Andrea
On 5/21/06, Kevin Gamble kevin_gamble@ncsu.edu wrote:
Colleagues,
I'm wondering if anyone else might be interested in trying to ramp-up the activity of the Research Network? More discussion of results, research ideas, methodologies, log manipulation, collaborative work, script sharing, visualization techniques, funding, etc?
I'm not sure exactly how to make this happen but thought that it might make a good topic itself. I'm wondering who might be coming to Boston? I'd be willing to buy the beer if we'd like to try to get together.
Kevin
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