That's a useful FAQ. May I suggest adding it as a link from the main
page of your wiki?
I'd do it myself, but the explanation of the email is @ by you
unless you release it, so... :)
--
Piotr Konieczny
"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski
On 5/1/2012 10:58 PM, Chitu Okoli wrote:
Hi Piotr,
http://WikiLit.referata.com
is the project website for a comprehensive literature review of
scholarly research on Wikipedia. Unlike permanent long-term
sites like AcaWiki (which compiles summaries of scholarly
studies of all subjects) and WikiPapers (which compiles
bibliographic and other details of scholarly research on wikis),
our site is a temporary project site for a literature review of
a very narrow subset of studies: those that focus on Wikipedia.
Our goal is to host our extracted literature review data there
while we are in the final stages of the review, complete and
clean it up, and then when completed, eventually export it all
to long-term sites like AcaWiki and WikiPapers.
We have no intention whatsoever to provide an alternative to
these sites--we truly appreciate the amazing amount of work that
has gone into them and that is required to keep them going, and
we have no intention to do that kind of work ourselves :-). On
the contrary, once our data collection is completed and the data
is cleaned, we hope to support these sites by feeding
high-quality data to them. (Admitted, though, there might be
license incompatibilities with AcaWiki, since our data is
licensed CC-BY-SA whereas theirs is CC-BY.) At that point, our
site will probably be closed for edits, and we will only point
people to those other sites if they want to add anything new,
and we also intend to provide exports of the dataset in various
formats, for which we've already received quite a few requests.
Our project team is constantly working heavily on the
site--we've made over 4,000 internal edits involving adding and
cleaning up data since we first launched the site on March 1,
not counting edits by external contributors--which we greatly
appreciate, since people who edit their own articles are
probably the most accurate! You see, this is actually an
internal project site that we're exposing externally to 1) get
feedback and help; and 2) share data in beta stage of
development. We hope to complete the project in the next couple
months.
I hope that clears up the difference. We certainly hope that the
existence of our site is not distracting or discouraging anyone
from contributing to WikiPapers, which we wholeheartedly
support!
Regards,
Chitu
Good question.
A more detailed explanation would be welcome, but it seems that
WikiLit is focused on research done exclusively at Wikipedias,
and WikiPapers is focused on all wikis researchs.
Maybe a fusion on project goals and data already available in
one single big project make it more interesting to contribute or
even to get moved to Wikimedia Foundation servers (as part of
the revamp on Proposals for new projects being drafted on the
"Sisters projects committes" too on draft stage http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sister_Projects_Committee
) ...
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Piotr
Konieczny
<pik1@pitt.edu>
wrote:
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