Hello Anne, hello Hanteng

It was fun to stay with you for WikiSym - I hope we'll meet again soon. We'll probably justbump into each other at some conference :)

Anyway - Anne, you asked about "litterature about Wikipedia projects (and portals) and their status in regards with the Wikipedia construction" -- I'm not sure what you mean. To get an overview of the projects run by Wikimedia, see http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects. A more or less complete list is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects. Or maybe you are looking for something entirely different? "Wikipedia" is a specific project (it's even a trademark). Not sure if a good overview of "wiki portal" in general exists... there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms but that's mostly about places where you can start your own wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_communities could also be a good starting point. I'm not aware of any scientific research comparing wiki communities -- would be interesting :) The WikiTracer thing may go into that direction http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/WikiTracer:_mapping_the_wikisphere, though it seems to me mostly about metrics for community dynamics.

Hanteng, thanks for the link to meta, I didn't even know that page :) which shows that it's probably not very comprehensive -- or i'm not well informed. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Bibliography seems to be a good starting point for looking for bibliographies, I have added a few links to "folksonomic" collections. I have tried to use Zotero before, but didn't quite get into it. It lacks the social, wiki-ish aspect. Bibsonomy is a bit better for that, though not great. I have ranted about this a while ago here: http://brightbyte.de/page/The_Bibliography_Thing. Even sparked some discussion.

In the long run, all this should be tied into a "wiki research planet" type thing, independant of wikimedia. I look forward to exchange more ideas with more people :)

Han-Teng Liao (OII) schrieb:

Hello, The 'Research' page on the Meta is the first place to go. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research

I am looking forward to using Zotero for future collaboration. Even now we can start using Zotero and share the references easily by exporting the individual's local reference database onto the any wiki pages via Wikipedia citation format. http://www.zotero.org/ It has been speculated that Zotero will be mature and ready for real collaborative citation. Hence I feel it might be a great way to start your own citation database while contributing to the research community via exporting them periodically.

After I finished my proposal exam next Monday, I will begin to write 

how-to pages. For the moment, may I suggest we use the Meta page as portal?

Best regards, hanteng

Anne GOLDENBERG wrote:

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Hi all, Hi Andrea,

I'm looking for litterature about Wikipedia projects (and portals) and their status in regards with the Wikipedia construction.

I know that Andrea Forte mentionned that there's been a focus on Wikipedia projects, I think it was during her presentation at Wikisym. But any other references about this is also welcome :).

Anne Goldenberg

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Thank you all for the links! May I add something about the research agenda set by the foundation. I guess that's the key to get some research funding from the foundation.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals

Piotr Konieczny wrote:

Han-Teng Liao (OII) wrote:

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I am looking forward to using Zotero for future collaboration. Even now we can start using Zotero and share the references easily by exporting the individual's local reference database onto the any wiki pages via Wikipedia citation format. http://www.zotero.org/ It has been speculated that Zotero will be mature and ready for real collaborative citation. Hence I feel it might be a great way to start your own citation database while contributing to the research community via exporting them periodically.

The idea looks interesting, but it seems the plugin is firefox only (and I use SeaMonkey) :(

In addition to the links provided, as always, I'll point out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_academic_studies - the page which has the potential to be as good as, well, Wikipedia (and which, as far as I know, is the most comprehensive Wikipedia research database, since early this year I spend lots of time trawling other databases and updating this one). Do note it is Wikipedia only (not wikis in general).