----- Forwarded message from Fernanda Viegas
<fviegas(a)media.mit.edu> -----
From: "Fernanda Viegas" <fviegas(a)media.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:32:01 -0500
To: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales(a)bomis.com>
Subject: Wikipedia: academic paper
Hello Jimmy,
I am a graduate student at the MIT Media Laboratory. I hope you remember me from last
summer when I sent out a couple of messages to the Wikipedia mailing list about a
visualization project I was working on, which looked at wiki sites. Martin Wattenberg from
IBM and I built a visualization tool called "history flow" and we used this
application to study some of the cooperation and conflict patterns among authors on
Wikipedia.
We are happy to announce that the paper we wrote about this project has been accepted at
a major academic conference (CHI 2004 - Computer Human Interaction). We will present the
paper next month at the conference.
Here is a link to the paper:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf
Feel free to circulate this within the Wikipedia community. It would be great to hear
from folks about what they think of the findings and whether these resonate with their
experience of the community. Neither Martin nor I are on the mailing list anymore but, if
anyone would like to get in touch with us, they can use these email addresses:
fviegas(a)media.mit.edu
mwatten(a)us.ibm.com
cheers,
- Fernanda Viegas
http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/
sociable media group
mit media laboratory
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales(a)bomis.com>
To: "Fernanda Viegas" <fviegas(a)media.mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] academic research on Wikis
I can chat at any time, but preferably by email
so I can compose my
thoughts and answer questions coherently. :-)
If you send me email about this, be sure to put wikipedia in the
subject line, as I get so much spam and random nonsense that I could
easily overlook a generic subject line.
Fernanda Viegas wrote:
Hello,
I am a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and this summer I'm working on a Wiki
related project that uses visualization to understand how Wiki pages evolve over time.
Because Wikipedia seems like such an interesting and thriving community, I would like to
know whether any of you would be available to chat with me about how the community works
and how consensus is achieved?
Also, I would be very appreciative of any pointers you might have to other academic work
being done on Wikipedia.
thanks a lot,
Fernanda Viegas
http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/
sociable media group
mit media laboratory
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