On 8/22/05, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)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