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/ rather...well, "outdated" is an understatement...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 Okoli<Chitu.Okoli(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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[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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