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
Eric Scharff's PhD-thesis contains a study on using Swiki for creating course-material. [Chapter 8, I think] "Open Source Software: A Conceptual Framework for Collaborative Artifact and Knowledge Construction" http://www.esig.ucar.edu/scharff/thesis.html
Wouter Vanden Hove -- http://www.opencursus.org http://www.open-education.org
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