[Wikipedia-l] [fviegas at media.mit.edu: Wikipedia: academic paper]

[Jimmy Wales]

----- Forwarded message from Fernanda Viegas <fviegas at media.mit.edu> -----

From: "Fernanda Viegas" <fviegas at media.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:32:01 -0500
To: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
Subject: Wikipedia: academic paper 

Hello Jimmy,

I am a graduate student at the MIT Media Laboratory. I hope you remember me from last summer when I sent out a couple of messages to the Wikipedia mailing list about a visualization project I was working on, which looked at wiki sites. Martin Wattenberg from IBM and I built a visualization tool called "history flow" and we used this application to study some of the cooperation and conflict patterns among authors on Wikipedia.

We are happy to announce that the paper we wrote about this project has been accepted at a major academic conference (CHI 2004 - Computer Human Interaction). We will present the paper next month at the conference.

Here is a link to the paper:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf

Feel free to circulate this within the Wikipedia community. It would be great to hear from folks about what they think of the findings and whether these resonate with their experience of the community. Neither Martin nor I are on the mailing list anymore but, if anyone would like to get in touch with us, they can use these email addresses: 
fviegas at media.mit.edu
mwatten at us.ibm.com 


cheers,
- Fernanda Viegas

http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/
sociable media group
mit media laboratory



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
To: "Fernanda Viegas" <fviegas at media.mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] academic research on Wikis


> I can chat at any time, but preferably by email so I can compose my
> thoughts and answer questions coherently.  :-)
> 
> If you send me email about this, be sure to put wikipedia in the
> subject line, as I get so much spam and random nonsense that I could
> easily overlook a generic subject line.
> 
> 
> Fernanda Viegas wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and this summer I'm working on a Wiki related project that uses visualization to understand how Wiki pages evolve over time.
> > 
> > Because Wikipedia seems like such an interesting and thriving community, I would like to know whether any of you would be available to chat with me about how the community works and how consensus is achieved? 
> > 
> > Also, I would be very appreciative of any pointers you might have to other academic work being done on Wikipedia.
> > 
> > thanks a lot,
> > Fernanda Viegas
> > 
> > http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/  
> > sociable media group
> > mit media laboratory
>
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