Sorry for the long posting; Bob is right, we're essentially asking you to please updatehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals with any additional research questions you might be interested in, or send us the questions directly for us to add. I should have put the request at the top of the message, and then left the rest as general background at the bottom.

Thanks, Chitu

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Bob the Wikipedian< bobthewikipedian at gmail.com https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l> wrote:

/ I read it several times before figuring out (maybe?) that this is a

/>/ request that update the list of questions at [[WP:WD]]. That page looks />/ rather...well, "outdated" is an understatement... />/ />/ However, it would seem to me that a researcher would generate questions />/ to research by looking at the discussion sections of recent papers on />/ the topic of Wikipedia. Usually in the discussion section, the author />/ mentions something like "more research needs to be done on /x/ /topic/." />/ />/ God bless, />/ Bob/

Message: 7 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:40:38 -0400 From: Chitu OkoliChitu.Okoli@concordia.ca Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Request for feedback on research questions for Wikipedia literature review To:foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org,wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID:4D7E6126.1020609@concordia.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

[Apologies for cross-posting; this same e-mail is being sent to wikipedia-l, WikiEN-l and foundation-l]

Hi everyone,

We are a research group conducting a systematic literature review on Wikipedia-related peer-reviewed academic studies published in the English language. (Although there are many excellent studies in other languages, we unfortunately do not have the resources to systematically review these at any kind of acceptable scholarly level. Also, our study is about Wikipedia only, not about other Wikimedia Foundation projects. However, we do include studies about other language Wikipedias, as long as the studies are published in English.) We have completed a search using many major databases of scholarly research. We've posted separate messages to wiki-research-l related to this literature review.

We are most of all interested in questions that wikipedians are asking, other than what researchers are asking. There is an old list of research questions or goals athttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals; these questions are about Wikimedia Foundation projects in general, though Wikipedia is of course included. Could you please review this list and update that page directly with any additional questions? Alternately, you could reply us directly, and we could update the list.

Thanks for your help.

Chitu Okoli, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (http://chitu.okoli.org/professional/open-content/wikipedia-and-open-content....) Arto Lanam?ki, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway Mohamad Mehdi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Mostafa Mesgari, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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