Research/Categories

This page is about categorization of research around Wikimedia.

Users

(Research focused on content users)

• Usage
• Usability

Contributors

(Research focused on contributors)

• Usage
• Usability
• Motivation
• Social Networks
• Collaboration and Group Decision-Making

Knowledge and Information Management

• Wikipedia Concepts and Categories (Ontologies)
• Distribution of Information and Information Growth on Wikipedia
• Pragmatics [Meaning and Definition Related Disputes and Resolutions on Wikipedia]
• Knowledge Management on Wikipedia
• Encyclopedistics
• Lexicography
• History of Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Applied Research

• (All research aimed at improving various features of Wikimedia projects.)

Wikimedia and the Outside World

• (Research related to wikis, collaboratively built knowledge, collaborative communities, free knowledge, free culture etc.; as well as research related to collaboration of Wikimedia and non-Wikimedia projects.)

Technologies

(Technologies and software.)

• Users
• Contributors
• Knowledge and Information Management
• Wikimedia applied research
• Wikimedia and the outside world
• Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• (uncategorized, new, etc)