[Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

2009/8/16 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:

> For me while interesting, it is hardly new and therefore not that
> interesting what people like Ed H Chi write about Wikipedia. They do not
> write about Wikipedia, they write about the English language Wikipedia.
> Invariably news written about Wikipedia concentrates on just one of over 260
> projects. It diminishes what Wikipedia is about and it ignores important
> things that are happening.


Yes, completely. Do other Wikipedias show the same S-curve of growth?
Large ones, small ones? *That* is interesting. Let's see if we can
encourage PARC along these lines. Or indeed competing researchers.


- d.