Hi!
Thanks so so much for all your recommendations, everyone! Wow, tons of food for thought. :)
I received one additional reference that was sent off-list, in response to this thread. It is:
Adcock, R., & Collier, D. (2001). Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research. /The American Political Science Review/, /95/(3), 529–546. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3118231
I hope to find some time in the next few days to make a list of the texts recommended here and put it somewhere accessible. After I do, I'll update this thread with the link.
Thanks again!!!!! :) Cheers, Andrew
On 2022-02-06 19:37, Samuel Klein wrote:
Much research lately studies current communities of X (say, Wikipedians), as something like a finite-game within the relatively stable and self-limiting framework set up by X once it became an institution (say, the post-2007 framework of WP and sibling projects).
I haven't seen as much research into the infinite-game aspect: the generation and seeding of projects with self-governing wiki nature https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki-Prinzip. Offline examples might include large-scale short-notice events, incl. some festivals, disaster relief, mass migration + rebuilding.
Scaling often involves building tools, but seeing the community and its work tools through the lens of whatever tools persist, in communities that survive long enough to be studied, can have two levels of survivorship bias built in. There may be a lot of subcommunities, mindsets, and tools that are essential to pulling off a broad collaboration, but are just a phase. One framework is to ground observations of a surviving group by studying the many similar efforts that fail https://mako.cc/academic/hill-almost_wikipedia-DRAFT.pdf.
I wonder if there are good examples of Stu's approach or others applied to the genesis of such communities. Or communities that explicitly try to seed and propagate new projects like them, which are then studied from the start.
//S
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:28 AM Andrew Greenagreen@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
I hope this is the right place to ask this question!
I was wondering if folks who are doing (or are interested in) research about Wikipedia might like to share texts that they feel best describe the general research frameworks they use (or might like to use).
I'd love to hear about any texts you like, regardless of format (textbook, paper, general reference, blog post, etc.).
It seems a lot of work about Wikipedia uses approaches from Computational Social Science. The main references I have for that are [1] and [2].
I'm especially interested in links between Computational Social Science and frameworks from more traditional social sciences and cognitive science.
Many thanks in advance!!!!! :) Cheers, Andrew
[1] Cioffi-Revilla, C. (2017) /Introduction to Computational Social Science. Principles and Applications. Second Edition./ Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
[2] Melnik, R. (ed.) (2015)/Mathematical and Computational Modeling. With Applications in Natural and Social Sciences, Engineering, and the Arts/. Hoboken, U.S.A.: Wiley.
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