Is wiki research (including Wikipedia research) research on
computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW).
Sure. A lot of it. If it's research of the nature of wikis, then certainly. A lot of papers that study Wikipedia/wikis are published via ACM CSCW[1].
If it's research that just so happens to use Wikipedia as a dataset, then I don't know if we should even call it Wikipedia research. Some research of the content and work patterns in Wikipedia is a mixture of the two. For example, an analysis of the content in Wikipedia might be useful for identifying bias and missing information -- even if that was not original intention of the study and identifying bias and missing information is purely used to tune some content algorithm.
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen fn@imm.dtu.dk wrote:
Can I ask a silly question: Is wiki research (including Wikipedia research) research on computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW).
My immediate thought was: yes of course. I do note that on Wikipedia there is only a parenthetic mentioning of Wikipedia in "Computer-supported cooperative work" and no mentioning of CSCW in "Wiki" (but I have also heard that you shouldn't trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit).
I suppose that some wiki research could be non-CSCW research? E.g., research on named entity extraction using Wikipedia would not be called CSCW.
best regards Finn Årup Nielsen http://www.compute.dtu.dk/~faan/
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