A few of the other attendees of WikiSym and I had a long discussion
about the problems related to interactions between researchers and
Wikipedians. It seems to me that the conclusion we came to is that the
vast majority of the problems could be solved through an organized
effort to build policy and procedures with the Wikipedia community.
I've written up a proposal
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Resear…)
to create a WikiProject to help organize the effort to construct these
policies and procedures for the English Wikipedia.
The proposal is short (2 paragraphs and a few examples). Please have a
look if you have or are planning to interact with Wikipedians during
your research.
Thanks!
Aaron Halfaker
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota