Jimmy Wales wrote:
* How can small
(language) Wikimedia Wikis be managed efectively?
This is not an appropriate question for this list.
Sorry, but in my opinion the question *is* appropriate if you define
research as "an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in
order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or
theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts,
laws or theories." [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research]
But your're right that there may be *better* places to ask the question.
We need to be clear on the purpose of this list. This
list is for people
doing research *about* Wikipedia/Wikimedia, not for the work of Erik's
research committee.
I'm not clear on the prupose of this list. I'm just interested in
research community, not in research committee.
I envision this list as a low-volume list primarily
for _academic_
researchers (but not exclusively academics) who are working on articles
for publication about Wikimedia stuff. It will not serve that audience
if we spend a lot of time here discussing ideas of how to better manage
our work, etc.
What if you want to write an article in how to manage Wikis? I better
specify my research questions:
* How much vandalism does occur in small wikis compared to large ones?
* How fast is vandalism reverted in small wikis compared to large ones?
* Are there phases of growth in a wiki? (yes there are)
* How can you determine when a small wiki starts to growth essentialy?
* How much do decisions in the starting phase of a Wiki influence it's
evolution? Can you detect factors of influence?
* Can you discriminate healthful and unhealthful at all?
* Can you support small wikis in growing well?
I really don't know how to divide research into "for all researchers"
and "for committee members only". It's easier to send technical stuff to
wikitech-l, but what kind of "organizational issues of the Research
Network" do you want to delegate to another place?
Greetings,
Jakob