Hello All
As I'm currently working on my major thesis about extracting a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia data, I have collected quite a bit of research resources about wikipedia. Here are a few links:
* My Wikipedia Research link collection: http://del.icio.us/brightbyte/wikipedia%2Bresearch * Wikipedia tag on CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/tag/wikipedia * Wikipedia group on CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/group/382/library * My own wikipedia stuff there: http://www.citeulike.org/user/brightbyte/tag/wikipedia * Overview page for my thesis work: http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiWord
I hope this will be useful to someone. I mainly focused on Wikipedia as a resource for linguistic and semantical analysis.
As to having a central place to coordinate and discuss research: yes, that would be great. Though I'm also not sure of the best form. A good bibliography system would sure help, and wiki-style flexible creation of topic pages, and some sort of discussion system, and perhaps a "planet" style aggregated news feed? Ideally, all this could be provided by a single system - I have discussed my dreams about a Bibliography Thing / research platform a few weeks ago here: http://brightbyte.de/page/The_Bibliography_Thing
Regards, Daniel Kinzler, aka Duesentrieb, aka BrightByte