[Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi, Andrew.

Recently I came to a subject I first listened about 13 years ago in
the work of Murray Gell-Mann on complex adaptive systems, when I just
started to study physics. I think Wikipedia is an interesting system
to analyse such subject. Please, see

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/10._Social_Ties:_Networking_Together#The_Magic_of_Wikis.3F

http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=Self-Organization#Web_2.0_and_Wiki

I haven't been making research recently, but on my spare time I've
been studying related to that. And because of Jonathan Morgan reseach
bellow on WikiProjects

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikiproject_Participation_%26_Mentorship

this paper

https://docs.google.com/file/d/1nTHh4GRswNaa5mQE4aQc3AZQf3SpSojGsOR9LQTbCj1OBlq4xnLNalkuvKAP/edit

and discussion with the Portuguese Wikipedia community, we are trying,
through discussions with the network of the Ministry of Healthy in
Brazil, to revitalize the medicine WikiProject on the Portuguese
Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The idea is to
form a critical mass of contributors and see how much it will improve
the content on this subject, working also together with other partner
we have made through the catalyst program in Brazil, like translation
universities.

Thus a complex adaptive system is the most interesting thing that came
to me because of Wikipedia.

Tom

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or
> otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either
>
> a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or
> b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject?
>
> I'm giving a talk next month which will cover research about/with WP
> and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would
> be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find
> interesting are often unusual :-)
>
> Suggestions appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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-- 
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."