[Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

P. S. because of that, I am also really curious on what will happen
when someone use a MOOC with Wikipedia. See this proposal, for
instance

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses

It will be quit interesting to see the possibly good effects of
students engaging on Wikipedia to improve it. This is very related to
this also interesting research on what Wikipedia can teach us about
the future of journalism

http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/what-wikipedia-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-news/

Tom

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
<tom at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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)
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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."