Hi.
I think it desirable to post this on Internal-L as well, at least for the
first couple of issues, to get this concise information to many of our local
Wikimedian communities. I expect there are quite a few people who could be
interested in this, but currently aren't _aware_ of there being anything to
be interested in... :)
(Maybe also add an explicit invitation to join the Research community and to
look at relevant Meta pages.)
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We are glad to announce the inaugural issue of the
Wikimedia
Research Newsletter [1], a new monthly survey of recent scholarly
research about Wikimedia projects.
This is a joint project of the Signpost [2] and the Wikimedia
Research Committee [3] and follows the publication of two research updates
in the Signpost, see also last month's announcement on this list [4].
The first issue (which is simultaneously posted as a section of
the Signpost and as a stand-alone article in the Wikimedia Research
Index) includes 5 "in depth" reviews of papers published over the last few
months and a number of shorter notes for a total of 15
publications, covering both peer-reviewed research and results published in
research blogs. It also includes a report from the Wikipedia research
workshop
at OKCon 2011 and highlights from the Wikimedia Summer of Research program.
The following is the TOC of issue #1:
• 1 Edit wars and conflict metrics
• 2 The anatomy of a Wikipedia talk page
• 3 Wikipedians as "Janitors of Knowledge"
• 4 Use of Wikipedia among law students: a survey
• 5 Miscellaneous
• 6 Wikipedia research at OKCon 2011
• 7 Wikimedia Summer of Research
• 7.1 How New English Wikipedians Ask for Help
• 7.2 Who Edits Trending Articles on the English Wikipedia
• 7.3 The Workload of New Page Patrollers & Vandalfighters
• 8 References
We are planning to make the newsletter easy to syndicate and subscribe to.
If you wish your research to be featured, a CFP or event you organized to be
highlighted, or just join the team of contributors, head over to this page
to find out how: [5] We hope to make this newsletter a favorite reading for
our research community and we look forward to your feedback and
contributions.
Dario Taraborelli, Tilman Bayer (HaeB)
on behalf of the WRN contributors
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-07-25
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee
[4]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2011-June/001552.html
[5]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
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Dario Taraborelli, PhD
Senior Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://nitens.org/taraborelli
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