On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli(a)concordia.ca> wrote:
Hi everyone,
As I mentioned in an e-mail last week, we are on the final stages of a large
literature review on scholarly research on Wikipedia. We have extracted and
organized most of the data and have published it to a Semantic MediaWiki
wiki at
http://wikilit.refarata.com.
structure through WikiPapers.] As I indicated, this is
sort of an incubator
site to finish up our data to prepare for publication, after which we intend
to export the data permanently to other sites like AcaWiki and WikiPapers.
Thanks for your responses to my inquiries; we have included abstracts, and
the data is dual-licensed as CC-BY-SA and ODC-ODbl
(
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/) [thanks, Dario, for the
links!], except for copyrighted abstracts. We have submitted a related
presentation proposal for Wikimania 2012 at
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikilit:_Ten_years_of_W….
We are asking the Wikipedia research community to please help us verify the
accuracy of our data extraction so far. Practically, if you could at least
take a look at your own publications and the publications you know well,
that would be great. It's an open wiki, so please make any corrections
directly, even anonymously. (However, if you want us to acknowledge your
contributions, please create a user account and identify yourself on your
user page.) In particular, please help us with the following:
* Please correct any inaccuracies you see, or e-mail us at wikilit(a)okoli.org
to notify us of them.
* Please point out any peer-reviewed journal articles or PhD dissertations
we have missed that were published before July 2011; we will certainly add
these. (After that, the Wikimedia Research Newsletter began.)
* Please point out any other scholarly studies (especially conference
articles and significant non-peer-reviewed work) that you feel should
definitely be analyzed in detail. Although we have listed 1,500 conference
papers (
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/List_of_conference_papers), our
limited time and resources only permits us to analyze a fraction of them in
detail. So, please help us highlight the most important ones that we have
not analyzed in detail, with a brief explanation of why they are
particularly important.
* Please add any published scholarly studies about Wikipedia that we have
left out, regardless of peer review or publication type! Please add your own
work! Our restrictions in what we include are purely pragmatic due to time
and resource limitations. However, if you add a new article, please be sure
to *complete as many input fields as possible*, since we will generally
exclude any article with incomplete data in our final analysis.
* Please suggest any data analysis or visualizations you would like to see
as we synthesize the data.
* Please give any other feedback or suggestion that can help us make this
dataset more useful to researchers! Send comments to wikilit(a)okoli.org.
The data is publicly available, but this is a beta release and there are
probably a lot of errors. We hope to have a stable and very clean dataset
within a couple months, both from community help and from our own internal
quality control processes; we'll make another announcement when we feel the
dataset has reached "featured" quality. In particular, please wait a bit
before exporting the data to other research collection websites and wikis
until it is in a cleaner state; by then, we'll help make it available in as
many export formats as practical.
Regards,
Chitu
For the WikiLit project team: Arto Lanamäki, Mohamad Mehdi, Mostafa Mesgari,
Finn Årup Nielsen, Chitu Okoli
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