Dear all,
I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?
I would also like to know the following question:
When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.
I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
Many thanks!
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Best wishes,
Xiangju
If you want to do research about Wikipedia, you should certainly describe your work on the Research pages of Meta.
There are no negative implications -- and it does provide a quick way to link to a summary of your work.
For instance, my dissertation work at NUIG is described here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_Wikipedia_Coordinatio...
-Jodi
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Xiangju Qin qinxiangju@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?
I would also like to know the following question:
When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.
I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
Many thanks!
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Best wishes,
Xiangju
-- Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI Email: qinxiangju@gmail.com or xiangju.qin@ucdconnect.ie Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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It really boils down to the question whether you want to help others and/or get help. See:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Researcher
Based on your page here ( https://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/xiangju-qin ), I will suggest you to compare/contrast your definition/measure of Edit Longevity to Editor retention:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_retention
which is authored mainly by the WMF research scientist User:Halfak_(WMF)
Thank you for being honest in reporting that your supervisor "didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page." You might want to tell him that * one may find related/extra/competing theories * one may find related/extra/competing findings/datasets * one may find related/extra/competing tools/methods * one may turn your tools/methods into useful dashboards for Wikipedia editors to reflect on their actions and outcomes.
2014-11-07 23:39 GMT+01:00 Xiangju Qin qinxiangju@gmail.com:
Dear all,
I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?
I would also like to know the following question:
When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.
I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
Many thanks!
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Best wishes,
Xiangju
-- Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI Email: qinxiangju@gmail.com or xiangju.qin@ucdconnect.ie Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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"Wikipedia's Research project page" doesn't exist, I assume we're talking of the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki Research namespace. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research
Xiangju Qin, 07/11/2014 23:39:
I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page.
Almost nothing: * the text you write on the wiki is cc-by-sa, * say the truth, * addressing comments is nice. Some process/instruction pages are outdated; if you find indications in contrast with what above please report them here.
I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
I've created a category, there are only few pages so you could also read the talk pages etc. yourself to get an idea. :-) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Independent_research_projects
Nemo
There are no constrains imposed on your research outside the declaration that your project is in line with ethical requirements (more or less required by most organizations anyway).
Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling Wikipedia community about your research, and in exchange, you may get some feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really.
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
On 11/8/2014 07:39, Xiangju Qin wrote:
Dear all,
I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?
I would also like to know the following question:
When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.
I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
Many thanks!
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Best wishes,
Xiangju
-- Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI Email: qinxiangju@gmail.com mailto:qinxiangju@gmail.com or xiangju.qin@ucdconnect.ie mailto:xiangju.qin@ucdconnect.ie Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling Wikipedia community about your research, and in exchange, you may get some feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really.
This isn't quite right. For the last 3.5 years, new research which has the potential to disrupt Wikipedian activities (surveys, interviews and experiments) has been documented and discussed via a light-weight process involving describing the project on meta. This process of documentation and discussion is a means to public consent and I have yet to see a study that goes through that process fail to run successfully. While this process was recently scrutinized by a small group including Piotr, it's certainly not merely a "best practice"; people expect it to work like policy. We've had several researchers attempt to run surveys of English Wikipedia only to be stopped and told to follow this process on Meta before continuing. If you contact me or another researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation, we will help you negotiate this process. (Piotr, if you would like to reignite this discussion, I suggest we take it to a new thread.)
However, it doesn't sound like this is what Xiangju is asking about. It sounds more like he is asking about documenting a study *after-the-fact*. Here, I think that meta has the potential to help you have a "broader impact" (jargon for affecting something other than your citation count). By listing your results on Meta, you enable Wikipedians to more easily take advantage of your work. You might even find that your citation rate goes up too since there are a lot of us academics working on wiki stuff who track and discuss research on Meta. I've actually had a few citations to reports I have authored primarily on Meta. Regretfully, those don't "count" yet. I imagine it would have been different if I had a DOI.
-Aaron
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl wrote:
There are no constrains imposed on your research outside the declaration that your project is in line with ethical requirements (more or less required by most organizations anyway).
Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling Wikipedia community about your research, and in exchange, you may get some feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really.
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citation...
On 11/8/2014 07:39, Xiangju Qin wrote:
Dear all,
I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?
I would also like to know the following question:
When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.
I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
Many thanks!
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Best wishes,
Xiangju
-- Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI Email: qinxiangju@gmail.com or xiangju.qin@ucdconnect.ie Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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I just realized that it might be helpful to cite an example of after-the-fact documentation. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline for a study that I listed on Meta after it was published.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling
Wikipedia community about your research, and in exchange, you may get some feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really.
This isn't quite right. For the last 3.5 years, new research which has the potential to disrupt Wikipedian activities (surveys, interviews and experiments) has been documented and discussed via a light-weight process involving describing the project on meta. This process of documentation and discussion is a means to public consent and I have yet to see a study that goes through that process fail to run successfully. While this process was recently scrutinized by a small group including Piotr, it's certainly not merely a "best practice"; people expect it to work like policy. We've had several researchers attempt to run surveys of English Wikipedia only to be stopped and told to follow this process on Meta before continuing. If you contact me or another researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation, we will help you negotiate this process. (Piotr, if you would like to reignite this discussion, I suggest we take it to a new thread.)
However, it doesn't sound like this is what Xiangju is asking about. It sounds more like he is asking about documenting a study *after-the-fact*. Here, I think that meta has the potential to help you have a "broader impact" (jargon for affecting something other than your citation count). By listing your results on Meta, you enable Wikipedians to more easily take advantage of your work. You might even find that your citation rate goes up too since there are a lot of us academics working on wiki stuff who track and discuss research on Meta. I've actually had a few citations to reports I have authored primarily on Meta. Regretfully, those don't "count" yet. I imagine it would have been different if I had a DOI.
-Aaron
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl wrote:
There are no constrains imposed on your research outside the declaration that your project is in line with ethical requirements (more or less required by most organizations anyway).
Basically, it's a "best practices" kind of thing; you are telling Wikipedia community about your research, and in exchange, you may get some feedback from the few volunteers (often researchers themselves) monitoring those pages. Nothing more, nothing less, really.
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citation...
On 11/8/2014 07:39, Xiangju Qin wrote:
Dear all,
I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?
I would also like to know the following question:
When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.
I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?
Many thanks!
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Best wishes,
Xiangju
-- Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI Email: qinxiangju@gmail.com or xiangju.qin@ucdconnect.ie Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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