On 8/22/05, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Looking back, it would have been useful to have a "research tools" section at Wikimania, during the days before the formal conference. Jakob V. and Erik Z. touched on some of this, by discussing some of the visualization tools and software tools they used, but it might be useful to have a step-by-step hands-on session for folks who don't know much about UNIX command line and text processing tools. We should definitely make it a part of WM2006.
Agreed.
Unfortunately, my suggestion of a roundtable for research didn't materialize. But we should keep the conversation going. Perhaps a tutorial on Meta on where to start when using Wikipedia data for research.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
That would be fantastic. I'll draft some questions as per Jakob's request and will happily fill the role of dumb guinea pig to make sure the tutorial is as helpful as possible. But I'll have to hold on doing this for at least the next two weeks as this dissertation finally takes shape.
Thanks, Cormac