Hello Franco (et al.),

this is certainly interesting work, but I think you've posted to the wrong place :-)

Firstly, there is a dedicated research mailing list which is designed to discuss and promote research in Wikimedia here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l You can find a list of people interested in research, and some projects, on the meta page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research

Then there is the Wikimedia Research Network which is trying to identify the needs of the Wikimedia project/community: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research_Network

I think that, if you are looking for collaborators, you could leave a note on the respective talk pages. It could be down to individuals on those pages, although there are a number of people potentially interested and experienced in your field who aren't on those pages. You don't necessarily have to repeat everything you've just written - instead you could write a few lines and point people to your original mail which is here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2005-September/000001.html You could also try on-wiki notice boards like the village pump, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump

Hope this helps

Cormac

On 9/1/05, Franco Bagnoli franco.bagnoli@unifi.it wrote:

Dear Friends,

I'm writing to you (originally intended to some administrator os wikimedia) after a suggestion by Luis Arias, of Xwiki.org.

We (Andrea Sterbini, Marco Temperini and myself) are researchers in Italian universities (AS and MT are computer scientists in Rome, and I am a physicists in Florence).

AS is collaborating in the development of TWiki, and with MT is interested in collaborative software and lazy management. I am mainly interested in self-organization but I'm also developing web tools for teaching.

We all are interested in wikis, in how the wiki technology may be used in enterprises, formation and education and in the patterns that arise among users.

We were thinking in concretizing our interests (mainly developed extra-work) in an European project, with the goal of to studying some real test cases (we have contributed in setting up a few of them, others may be easily found), expecially where the wiki concept is unknown (and Italy is particularly full of such examples).

An abstract of the project may be found at

http://www.complex.unifi.it/twiki/bin/view/Projects/ProgettoALACRE

There is a call of the European Community well suited for this goal

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/workprogramme/wp0506_en/2_5_9.htm (Collaborative Working Environments)

But we miss international partners and it is quite late (the deadline is the 21th of september).

However, we are intersted in carrying on this investigation. Since all of you have a large experience on wikis, you may have suggestions and comments that are welcome.

Best wishes

-- Franco Bagnoli franco.bagnoli@unifi.it Dipartimento di Energetica & Centro Dinamiche Complesse Universita' di Firenze, via S. Marta, 3 I-50139 Firenze, Italy. Tel. +39 0554796592, fax: +39 0554796342

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