Hi Dario,

I for one strongly support all the goals here. The lack of a unified researcher portal on Meta:
* Makes it hard to find related research projects; and
* Discourages me from posting information about what I'm currently doing, since it seems like no one will really look at it.
I would definitely try to keep my current projects up-to-date if I knew there was one central portal that all other research pages on Meta or Wikipedia project pages pointed to, with minimal redundancies.

Thanks for leading this project.

~ Chitu


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Sujet: [Wiki-research-l] A new home for Wikimedia research? Come share    your thoughts
De : Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
Pour : Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Copie à : The Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee mailing list <rcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Date : 13 Mai 2011 19:19:40
The Wikimedia Research Committee [1] is currently considering a major overhaul of the research section on Meta-Wiki:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/2011_overhaul

The practical reason to start this process is to clean up and streamline pages used by the Wikimedia community and by the Foundation to document internal research projects and policies. The ambitious goal it to make Meta:Research the main hub where all research on Wikimedia projects (be it internal or external) is discussed, reviewed and tracked. The objectives we are hoping to achieve in the short term with this project are the following:

  • make it easy for researchers to find the resources and WMF support they are looking for
  • bring as much transparency as possible to research involving the Wikimedia community, by reducing attrition between the community and researchers and making sure research is not disruptive of editor activity
  • design a scheme of incentives to increase researcher participation and to increase the number of projects included in the Wikimedia research directory
  • design a series of incentives to nudge researchers towards releasing their datasets under an open license and publishing/self-archiving their research results via open access outlets/repositories.

Our long-term vision aims to:
  • provide support to the publication of research data on Wikimedia projects via a unified open data infrastructure [2]
  • integrate structured bibliographic data into Meta:Research via whatever solution the community decides to adopt [3]

Many on this list are already actively involved in editing and maintaining Meta research pages. Your feedback and suggestions on this project would be very valuable. 

Dario

[1]  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee
[2] We are currently reviewing a number of solutions to set up a central repository of open research data: http://bit.ly/OpenDataPlatforms 
[3] See the long discussion started on this list with this thread: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2011-March/001361.html 


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Dario Taraborelli, PhD
Senior Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation

 


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