Re: [Wiki-research-l] Why Do You Contribute to Wikipedia?

Hello, The research committee may have thought about this in the past; I'm asking here because I'm not sure: Is there some treatment online of how to reply to these sorts of polls and surveys, to help groups of researchers working over similar timeframes to consolidate their efforts? Collaborating in the structure and framing and proposed analysis, if not in the actual running of a survey and gathering of data, just as we collaborate on articles in a shared namespace? That would both produce better results and turn what could be a "researcher-user" relationship into a more general long-term collaboration devoted to understanding the nature of what we all do. The process of having different research groups and perspectives discuss their approach, could both clear up some common misunderstandings or half-familiarities, and encourage development of meta-research topics on wiki pages. So that we would aggregate and improve information by different researchers. Things like "the conduction of wiki surveys" and "developing meaningful inter-survey correlations" and "the publishing of raw data sets and error calculations" could be turned into wiki-monographs that would enhance the field. This would also provide a constructive outlet for both success stories and frustration stories of researchers -- who often leave without sharing those final thoughts. SJ On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Audrey Abeyta <audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266