Once again, I have to apologise for my absence at the last research network meeting. (I think weekends are problematic for getting everyone together, though I know we're in different timezones - it was saturday night for me - and there's probably no other solution than doing it on weekends - a bit Catch 22). Erik (M) noted we need more psy-soc input, which is definitely my slant on all this, and I feel bad about not contributing to something I'm very much interested in. I'd even assured Erik I was coming... bah.
I've responded to some ideas on m:Research, specifically Erik's (Z) idea on a general user survey, which I'd like to lend a hand to - also wikis in education, which is the focus of my masters. Which then got me thinking about that I'm currently restarting work on my dissertation, which is on "Wikipedia as a learning community" (and which I'm writing a paper on for Wikimania) and which raises a lot of issues on how information and experience is collated and used within the organisational schema of Wikimedia and what lessons need to be learned on an ongoing basis. Basically, I'm proposing that I could slant my dissertation to incorporate a study that was needed, broadly within the aforementioned framework. I'm happy to collaborate on this, ie. make my study a part of a wider one, or even a starting point to a survey/project, like testing a particular methodology for quality of data, response rate etc.
I'll be doing this in some way anyway (and you can get a picture of what I've been doing so far in my wikimania paper, link below) but essentially what I'm doing here is throwing it open to other ideas and see if we can work on anything together, or if there's something that you'd like to see done. No guarantees mind, and bear in mind that too much technical stuff tends to fry my brain :)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Paper-CL1
All the best,
Cormac / Cormaggio
Dear Cormac,
You wrote:
I'll be doing this in some way anyway (and you can get a picture of what I've been doing so far in my wikimania paper, link below) but essentially what I'm doing here is throwing it open to other ideas and see if we can work on anything together, or if there's something that you'd like to see done. No guarantees mind, and bear in mind that too much technical stuff tends to fry my brain :)
Thanks for uploading the first full paper for the Wikimania proceedings. I went through the list of all submissions - you can finally find almost all speakers at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania05-Paper http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania05-Poster http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania05-Workshop
Would you like helping with the proceedings - that is formating submissions uniformly, proofreading, helping and reminding authors etc.? Of course everybody can help a bit (it's a wiki) but I'm still looking for someone who would also like to feel responsible for the proceedings as a whole.
Greetings, Jakob
On 6/21/05, Jakob Voss jakob.voss@nichtich.de wrote:
Dear Cormac, Thanks for uploading the first full paper for the Wikimania proceedings.
well, it's still a draft and a bit shoddy, but thanks to you too :)
I went through the list of all submissions - you can finally find almost all speakers at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania05-Paper http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania05-Poster http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania05-Workshop
Would you like helping with the proceedings - that is formating submissions uniformly, proofreading, helping and reminding authors etc.? Of course everybody can help a bit (it's a wiki) but I'm still looking for someone who would also like to feel responsible for the proceedings as a whole.
Greetings, Jakob
I'll certainly pitch in. I'd like to get as much of my disseration written by Wikimania itself - so I'm busy - but would like to see what others are doing and to give a hand. On those points though, is there a pre-set format that you would like to keep to? Is feedback to authors something that is going to be done? And will there be a printed version of the papers/proceedings?
Also, on Wikimania in general, I'm looking for somewhere on :meta or :wikimania where you can just brainstorm ideas for mini projects, or just even list them to be discussed there and then. Is this the place? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Feedback
Cormac
Cormac Lawler wrote:
Would you like helping with the proceedings - that is formating submissions uniformly, proofreading, helping and reminding authors etc.? Of course everybody can help a bit (it's a wiki) but I'm still looking for someone who would also like to feel responsible for the proceedings as a whole.
I'll certainly pitch in. I'd like to get as much of my disseration written by Wikimania itself - so I'm busy - but would like to see what others are doing and to give a hand.
I know. Wikimania keeps me away of my Thesis at the moment. But it's also related to research.
On those points though, is there a pre-set format that you would like to keep to? Is feedback to authors something that is going to be done?
To create a pre-set format is something that needs to be done. Feedback can be given for instance at the discussion pages - what is needed more is editing submissions and reminding authors to make the bunch of wiki pages look more like Proceedings in the end.
And will there be a printed version of the papers/proceedings?
If someone deals with it - yes. We try to get all papers under GFDL/CC-BY-SA so everyone is free to create a printed version. If you ask me if it's realistic - no. But I'm going to get something like DOI/ISBN etc. and archive it to make the papers more citable and better to find in databases.
Also, on Wikimania in general, I'm looking for somewhere on :meta or :wikimania where you can just brainstorm ideas for mini projects, or just even list them to be discussed there and then. Is this the place? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Feedback
Looks good, but you could also create http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Activities
In any way try to link it from many places and point people to it.
Greetings, Jakob
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