+1 for Stu Geiger's approach. I also like to take an ethnographic approach to understanding Wikipedia as a project/workspace/community. I used to conduct a *lot* of interviews with Wikipedia community members, and the best reference I've found for how to do ethnographic interviewing well is James Spradley's appropriately-named classic methods manual https://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=688. If you're curious whether this is the right approach for you, you can find sample chapters of that work in various places on the web, like here (PDF http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/Spradley.pdf).
Jonathan
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 9:20 AM Isaac Johnson isaac@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to also call out the trace ethnography approach that R. Stuart Geiger and others have used to great effect in studying Wikipedia -- e.g., see https://stuartgeiger.com/trace-ethnography-hicss-geiger-ribes.pdf
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 3:47 AM Pablo Aragón paragon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for sharing this question and the two references. In the field of Computational Social Science, [1-3] are key references to me, I hope they inspire you too.
Best,
[1] Salganik, M. J. (2019). Bit by bit: Social research in the digital
age.
Princeton University Press. https://www.bitbybitbook.com
[2] González-Bailón, S. (2017). Decoding the social world: Data science
and
the unintended consequences of communication. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/decoding-social-world
[3] Lazer, D. M., Pentland, A., Watts, D. J., Aral, S., Athey, S., Contractor, N., ... & Wagner, C. (2020). Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities. Science, 369(6507), 1060-1062.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 5:28 PM Andrew Green agreen@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi all,
I hope this is the right place to ask this question!
I was wondering if folks who are doing (or are interested in) research about Wikipedia might like to share texts that they feel best describe the general research frameworks they use (or might like to use).
I'd love to hear about any texts you like, regardless of format (textbook, paper, general reference, blog post, etc.).
It seems a lot of work about Wikipedia uses approaches from Computational Social Science. The main references I have for that are [1] and [2].
I'm especially interested in links between Computational Social Science and frameworks from more traditional social sciences and cognitive
science.
Many thanks in advance!!!!! :) Cheers, Andrew
[1] Cioffi-Revilla, C. (2017) /Introduction to Computational Social Science. Principles and Applications. Second Edition./ Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
[2] Melnik, R. (ed.) (2015)/Mathematical and Computational Modeling. With Applications in Natural and Social Sciences, Engineering, and the Arts/. Hoboken, U.S.A.: Wiley.
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