Awhile back I found an interesting lecture by Luca de Alfaro on YouTube called How (Much) To Trust Wikipedia. It deals with methods of figuring out whether to trust information within an article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6mB4soRlR8

Another interesting work is "How Wikipedia Works"-- a book by Wikipedia editors Phoebe, Charles Matthews, and the late Tlogmer. It has several exciting stories, such as the one about a stub created by Jimbo that was deleted within minutes.

Bob

On 2/18/2013 9:10 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:

Hi all,

A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either

a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject?

I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find interesting are often unusual :-)

Suggestions appreciated!

Thanks,