[Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia literature review - include or exclude conference articles (was Request to verify articles for Wikipedia literature review)

As an HCI/CS researcher who has published at top peer-reviewed conferences about Wikipedia, but not journals, I'd like to echo James' statements. Journals are not the norm in CS/HCI research. Knowledge is shared through conferences, not journals. On 3/14/11 11:32 AM, James Howison wrote: > Hi there, > > Great project; massive but will be much appreciated. We did something similar for empirical studies of Open Source, recently accepted at ACM Computing Surveys (PDF pre-print available here [1], article not in print until 2012 (!! that's another email entirely, bah)) > > I recognize the need to cut down the number of articles for review, we reviewed around 600 and that was a multi-year effort. We did that mainly by excluding conceptual (hence empirical) or passing reference articles (ie we did a two-step filter on many more articles), but were forced to only do journal articles for updates during the (long) revision process. I regret that necessity, it decreases the utility of the work. > > Given the publication venues of choice for many academics in this community I do wonder if you aren't shooting yourself in the foot by excluding peer-reviewed conferences and restricting to journals. Personally I'd rather read a review that included the top journals and top conferences than one that included all journals. Or even rather read a review over a shorter time period that included publications over journals and conferences, or on more specified topics. The interesting question is, "what do we know about wikipedia" not "what did we publish in journals about wikipedia". In particular you will find you have systematically excluded the contribution of HCI authors. > > Given the commendable and massive effort you are providing (and your approach to coverage below is really interesting), getting that wrong at the outset seems a shame. > > Best regards, > James Howison > > [1] Crowston, K., Wei, K., Howison, J., and Wiggins, A. (2012). Free (libre) open source software development: What we know and what we do not know. ACM Computing Surveys, 44(2): > http://floss.syr.edu/content/freelibre-open-source-software-development-wha… > > > On Mar 14, 2011, at 13:58, Chitu Okoli wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> We are a research group conducting a systematic literature review on Wikipedia-related peer-reviewed academic studies published in the English language. (Although there are many excellent studies in other languages, we unfortunately do not have the resources to systematically review these at any kind of acceptable scholarly level. Also, our study is about Wikipedia only, not about other Wikimedia Foundation projects. However, we do include studies about other language Wikipedias, as long as the studies are published in English.) We have completed a search using many major databases of scholarly research. In a separate thread, we will also talk about research questions related to our review. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Chitu Okoli, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada >> (http://chitu.okoli.org/professional/open-content/wikipedia-and-open-content…) >> Arto Lanamäki, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway >> Mohamad Mehdi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada >> Mostafa Mesgari, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada