New subject: Wikipedia reviews published on content and on readership

12 May 2014

Hi everyone,

We have two Wikipedia literature reviews recently accepted for 
publication, both at the Journal of the American Society for Information 
Science and Technology. Open access versions are available on the 
Concordia University institutional repository:

* Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders: A systematic review of 
scholarly research on Wikipedia readers and readership 
(https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978617/). This article reviews 
studies on ranking and popularity; Wikipedia as a knowledge source; 
student readership; and commercial aspects of Wikipedia, among other 
topics.

* “The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly 
research on the content of Wikipedia 
(https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978618/). This article reviews 
studies on the quality of Wikipedia (including reliability, 
comprehensive, and antecedents to quality) and the size of Wikipedia.

These are part of our larger literature review on Wikipedia (working 
paper at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2021326; online database of studies at 
http://wikilit.referata.com). We are currently working on detailed, 
focused review papers on other important Wikipedia research topics like 
motivations to participation, collaborative culture, Wikipedia as a 
textual corpus, and other topics.

Unfortunately, because of the tremendous breadth of the topic, the 
reviews mainly cover journal articles and doctoral theses (with several 
important conference papers) up to 2011-2012.

We would very much appreciate your comments and feedback on the two 
accepted papers, and on the working paper with the other topics.

Regards,
Chitu Okoli
Mohamad Mehdi
Mostafa Mesgari
Finn Årup Nielsen
Arto Lanamäki