I remember reading somewhere on Wikipedia: that it'd be really nice for publicity if we could have a research paper about Wikipedia published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. I'm currently a history undegraduate at the University of Texas - Austin and would like to "spam" some of our school's professors about this. Is there an existing pre-formed letter for this purpose or should I author my own? Have there been other attempts to solicit academic research by other Wikipedians? To what degree of success?

Kent Wang