Hello, to everyone to whom it concerns, my best wishes for the year 2020! I am interested in the number of scientific papers or monographies, articles etc. about wikis. Do you know about a paper that has come up with a relatively recent number? In my understanding, there are several problems that make it unwise to simply search for "wiki" in a general catalogue: * the word wiki can appear in words such as "Wikinger" (German for: viking), or it is used as a metaphor (e.g., for a reform of democracy) * some entities such as Wikileaks have "wiki" in their name, but are no wikis, and some entities such as Open Street Map are wikis, but don't have the word in their name * wiki relevant topics may appear under terms such as "collaborative writing" or "open content creation".
Kind regards Ziko
Am 05.01.20 um 14:35 Uhr schrieb Ziko van Dijk:
I am interested in the number of scientific papers or monographies, articles etc. about wikis. Do you know about a paper that has come up with a relatively recent number? In my understanding, there are several problems that make it unwise to simply search for "wiki" in a general catalogue:
Dear Ziko,
also, a happy new year to you and to everyone else on the list!
If you are interested in books about a subject you can actively search library catalogues for items related to a subject. E.g., in the catalogue of the German National Library there is a GND Sachbegriff called "Wiki" as http://d-nb.info/gnd/4806885-8. Other Sachbegriffe that come into mind might be Online-Community http://d-nb.info/gnd/1071012568, Social Media http://d-nb.info/gnd/4639271-3, etc. Just play around with the thesaurus they use and take a look into subject cataloguing. Do not search for the title "wiki", but rather for the subject term. You might also like to have a look into other national library catalogues, as sometimes the Swiss or the Austrian catalogues differ from the German one. No idea what other library traditions might be in this respect. LOC will probably not be as detailed as ours because they usually start and end with Dewey...
Hope this helps, Jürgen.
This largely depends on what you mean by "about"
Many tens of thousands of articles use a wikipedia or other WMF service as a source in some way (either a source for a definition, a selection or as a traditional datasource in some way) or speculate about the future of wikis.
At the other end of the spectrum, a vanishing small number tell experienced wikipedia editors anything they didn't already know about their wikipedia or other WMF service or quantify things we know in ways we don't see as deeply flawed.
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 02:36, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, to everyone to whom it concerns, my best wishes for the year 2020! I am interested in the number of scientific papers or monographies, articles etc. about wikis. Do you know about a paper that has come up with a relatively recent number? In my understanding, there are several problems that make it unwise to simply search for "wiki" in a general catalogue:
- the word wiki can appear in words such as "Wikinger" (German for:
viking), or it is used as a metaphor (e.g., for a reform of democracy)
- some entities such as Wikileaks have "wiki" in their name, but are no
wikis, and some entities such as Open Street Map are wikis, but don't have the word in their name
- wiki relevant topics may appear under terms such as "collaborative
writing" or "open content creation".
Kind regards Ziko _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Thanks, guys. Allow me to explain my motivation: I try to find out how "big" is research into wikis and Wikipedia at the moment. How much attention is given to it. And what would the basis look like if you'd try to establish a proper academic discipline about wikis. Kind regards Ziko
Am So., 5. Jan. 2020 um 21:21 Uhr schrieb Stuart A. Yeates < syeates@gmail.com>:
This largely depends on what you mean by "about"
Many tens of thousands of articles use a wikipedia or other WMF service as a source in some way (either a source for a definition, a selection or as a traditional datasource in some way) or speculate about the future of wikis.
At the other end of the spectrum, a vanishing small number tell experienced wikipedia editors anything they didn't already know about their wikipedia or other WMF service or quantify things we know in ways we don't see as deeply flawed.
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 02:36, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, to everyone to whom it concerns, my best wishes for the year 2020! I am interested in the number of scientific papers or monographies, articles etc. about wikis. Do you know about a paper that has come up
with
a relatively recent number? In my understanding, there are several problems that make it unwise to simply search for "wiki" in a general catalogue:
- the word wiki can appear in words such as "Wikinger" (German for:
viking), or it is used as a metaphor (e.g., for a reform of democracy)
- some entities such as Wikileaks have "wiki" in their name, but are no
wikis, and some entities such as Open Street Map are wikis, but don't
have
the word in their name
- wiki relevant topics may appear under terms such as "collaborative
writing" or "open content creation".
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