I talk to wiki researchers fairly often -- both people who are involved in projects already documented onwiki and people starting up new ones in universities, etc -- and I usually suggest that they use wiki-research-l as a way to get feedback on their ideas. I'm often told though that it doesn't seem very useful, because the list is so low traffic! Seems like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem.
It would be nice to have a dedicated spot to collect research studies/documentation/work (maybe Wikiversity is the right spot?) since right now it is spread out over several wikipedias, meta, and other wikis besides. But a mailing list can also be helpful -- though it seems like the main questions that gets asked and answered is "are the wikipedia dumps up yet?" "anyone have one I can get?" etc. Maybe we need a research FAQ! :)
-- phoebe
On Feb 6, 2008 5:35 AM, Marc Schwenzer hkiws@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Cormac, hi everbody
I am new to this list and would appreciate sharing ideas / being part of such a research community.
As far as I see there are allready several wikis that try to collect persons involved in research:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedistik
and projects: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Research_Projects
Greetings
Marc Schwenzer
On 06.02.2008, at 10:29, Cormac Lawler wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 10:56 PM, Dirk Riehle dirk@riehle.org wrote:
I already moderate the WikiSym wiki research list, which is equally low traffic, so I can offer to take this one on too. --Dirk
I'd kinda like this list to be slightly more active - currently it's a bit more of an announce list. I'd like to develop a community of researchers who can share ideas, experiences, critiques etc., but I wonder if a mailing list is the best way though. The obvious question arises: how about a wiki? I'd like to offer Wikiversity [1] as a place where people interested could work and see what other people are working on - not replacing this list but augmenting it. Though if anyone has other ideas for a suitable medium or space, I'd love to hear them...
Cheers, Cormac
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