Fwd'ing to F-l in case you did not read the Signpost this week... this is WONDERFUL, thank you so much to the Signpost and to the Research Committee.
The amount of research done on and about Wikipedia has grown substantially over the last few years, and has gotten a good deal more sophisticated as well; studies about participation, editing experiences, off-line access and how readers use Wikipedia -- such as those profiled in this issue -- are all deeply relevant to the work we are doing across Wikimedia. Because of this I have long hoped for stronger ties between the academic research community that studies Wikimedia and Wikimedia itself, and we are now building those ties with, for instance, the volunteer research committee: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_committee (RCOM, not to be confused with ARBCOM), and the summer of research: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/01/summerofresearchannouncement/ The Signpost summary is a welcome addition and I look forward to future editions. -- phoebe ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wikipedia Signpost <wikipediasignp...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:33 PM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Summaries of recent Wikipedia research To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, the current issue of the Signpost (the English Wikipedia's community-written and community-edited weekly news bulletin) contains a section summarizing some recent academic research about Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-06-06/Recent_research See also an earlier such overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-04-11/Recent_research In the future, we are planning to publish such surveys of recent Wikipedia research on a monthly basis, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee - expect further announcements on this list. If you know about a newly published academic research paper about Wikipedia that seems worth covering, a tip is welcome at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions Regards, HaeB -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
