Hi, Andrew.
Recently I came to a subject I first listened about 13 years ago in the work of Murray Gell-Mann on complex adaptive systems, when I just started to study physics. I think Wikipedia is an interesting system to analyse such subject. Please, see
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/10._Social_Ties:_Networking_...
http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki
I haven't been making research recently, but on my spare time I've been studying related to that. And because of Jonathan Morgan reseach bellow on WikiProjects
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikiproject_Participation_%26_Mento...
this paper
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1nTHh4GRswNaa5mQE4aQc3AZQf3SpSojGsOR9LQTbCj1O...
and discussion with the Portuguese Wikipedia community, we are trying, through discussions with the network of the Ministry of Healthy in Brazil, to revitalize the medicine WikiProject on the Portuguese Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The idea is to form a critical mass of contributors and see how much it will improve the content on this subject, working also together with other partner we have made through the catalyst program in Brazil, like translation universities.
Thus a complex adaptive system is the most interesting thing that came to me because of Wikipedia.
Tom
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk 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,
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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