Wikimedia-pedia/Research

This page intends to summarize scientific research around Wikimedia communities and projects.

• Categories
• Categorized list

See also: Not complete and not perfectly consistent categorized list

Mailing lists

• wiki-research-l

  The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss scientific research into the content and the communities of the Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and Meta-Wiki.

  Research into the technology of Wikimedia, MediaWiki, should primarily be discussed on wikitech-l instead. For content or community research projects with a strong technological component, cross-posting to both lists may be advisable.

• wikitech-l
• foundation-l

Groups

• meta:Wikimedia Research Network

Relevant pages

• meta:Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals
• meta:Wikimania05
• meta:Research
• http://stats.wikimedia.org/
• http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/
• meta:Wiki Research Bibliography

Books, papers and researches

• Erik Zachte: Timelines in Wikipedia
• Erik Zachte and Jakob Voss: Measuring and visualizing Wikipedia content.
• Yaron Ariel: Wikipedians’ sense of community, motivations, and knowledge building: a cross-cultural study
• Jeremy Tobacman: The Motivation of Wikipedia Contributors
• Amruta Lonkar, et al.: Global Wikipedia. Communities of Langues & Culture
• Cormac Lawler: Wikipedia as a learning community: content, conflict and the ‘common good’
• Joseph Reagle: A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking
• Cathy Ma, et al.: Wikipedia – Anonymous Users as Good Users
• Andreas Brand: Comparison between Wikipedia and open source projects:
• Network analysis: Robert Bonato (evaluation of link relationships)
• Boud(?): The role of pos/neg feedback and NPOV on meme evolution in the wikisphere
• Tsila Hassine: The dynamics of NPOV disputes
• Samuel Klein: History of the reference work
• Wolfgang Georgsdorf: A Wiktionary for sign languages
• Research on motivation of Wikipedia contributors
• Wiki Artificial Intelligence Project
• Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Is the Wikipedia Neutral?
• Wikipedia vs. Britannica
• Wikipedia mining for Q&A research
• Wikimania bibliography (doesn't work)
• Survey of Wikipedia users
• Wikipedia quality survey
• Days since first edit (statistics)
• Frost, Ingo: Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in virtuellen Gemeinschaften. Eine systemwissenschaftliche Analyse des deutschsprachigen Wikipedia-Projektes. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2006. 152 S., ISBN 3-8316-0609-9
• Wikis in Enterprises (Survey)
• Historical Nupedia-l Archive
• Roy Rosenzweig, Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
• Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge
• Social Research Collaborations
• General User Survey and useful tools
• Wikimedia Research, Quantitative Analysis, General User Survey and more
• Readability examples
• WikiSym 2006 - short report
• Reflection and research: User surveys (2 of 3)
• Computing Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis
• General User Survey
• WikiXRay and so on: search for "WikiXray", site:lists.wikimedia.org.
• A content-Driven Reputation System for Wikipedia
• NIH (US National Institutes of Health) Wiki fair
• Tracking the Lexical Zeitgeist with WordNet and Wikipedia
• Hitwise study on the participation ratio of Web 2.0 websites
• New Pew Internet report: 36% of Americans consult Wikipedia
• Exploring the Feasibility of Automatically Rating Online Article Quality
• Wikipedia as Collective Action (doesn't exist)
• Paper on Wikibooks (some development of the paper may be seen)
• Wikimedia and cyberstalking
• Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, Kathering Panciera, Loren Terveen, John Riedl. "Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia." To appear in Proc. GROUP 2007. 10 pages.
• Reid Priedhorsky, Benjamin Jordan, Loren Terveen. "How a Personalized Geowiki Can Help Bicyclists Share Information More Effectively." Short paper. To appear in Proc. WikiSym 2007. 6 pages.
• Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia
• An Analysis of Topical Coverage of Wikipedia
• Speaking on Wikipedia in/and schools
• Craig Anslow, Dirk Riehle, Towards end-user programming with wikis
• Survey on Adoption of Wiki Technology
• Where the information comes from?
• pictures of wikipedia growth
• Joseph Reagle, Dissertation: In Good Faith
• Three techreps: assigning trust to Wikipedia content, and reputation, contributions of authors (summary email)
• Daniel Kinzler, Automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia
• "My study is to examine the factors that support the creation and evolution of Wikipedia in an effort to describe why this “community of practice” (as defined by Lave and Wenger, 1991) has been so successful."
• Study about contribution to public wikis
• Diomidis Spinellis, Panagiotis Louridas, The collaborative organization of knowledge
• Ethnography of Wikipedia
• "We are conducting a study on the motivation of the knowledge sharing on Wikipedia."
• Potthast, Stein, Gerling. (2008). Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia.
• Study on Interfaces to Improving Wikipedia Quality (summary email)
• The use of Wiktionary in Natural Language Processing
• Case for Commons
• Felipe Ortega, Wikipedia: A quantitative Analysis
• Mathieu O’Neil, Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, April 2009, ISBN 978-0-7453-2796-9 / 215mm x 135mm / 242 pp
• Wikipedia coverage and conflict has been quantified
• Open source and diagramming survey
• Report on Science in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
• Mining Wikipedia link graph and more
• Wikipedia: Das Ratsel der Kooperation. Christian Stegbauer.
• Eric Goldman, Wikipedia’s Labor Squeeze and its Consequences

Discussions, ideas, workshops, relevant questions and similar

• Small wikis
• Connection between different language projects
• Wall Street Journal on Wikipedia quality
• Heuristics for recognizing patterns in edit histories.
• Classifying types of edits, using diffs or edit summaries.
• Comparative approaches to research and modelling article "clusters."
• Improving Quality and Reliability of Wikipedia
• Wiki and freelance knowledge work
• Wiki proliferation
• Versioning and distributed data
• Wikimedia Research and Privacy
• Copyright issues
• Real-time online gathering platform using a collaborative editor, Ting
• Editing statistics
• Security, e-portfolio, availability and language training in an Open education environment
• Wiki research techniques
• Research workshop at Wikimania
• How many know that WP is editable and discussable?
• Wikiversity research IRC meeting
• Wikis as a tool for fostering emergence of communities (It was a question; this and surrounding threads should be analyzed.)
• Proposal for improved version of Cite
• wikimedia and second life
• Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper
• Michael Bess - Wikipedia for historians
• Blog posts on improving English Wikipedia's Chinese topic articles
• The effects of localisation on usability and user attraction

Relevant journals

• International Journal of Internet Research Ethics

Software and similar

• SWiM 0.1 is out (semantic wiki for mathematics)
• JWPL - A Java-based Wikipedia API released
• Python parser for research
• Wikitrust: coloring the text of the Wikipedia according to its trust
• Wikipedia preprocessing tool (wikiprep) (doesn't exist)
• Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader
• DBpedia - Querying Wikipedia like a Database: Improved dataset released.
• PanImages: cross-lingual image search created using 'Wiktionaries'
• Wikidata (see the last ref for more links)
• On Google Summer of Code
• WikiXMLDB - Query Wikipedia with XQuery
• Wikipedia Thesaurus Visualization
• JWKTL - Java Wiktionary Library

Data

• Charts and graphs collected
• Data dumps
• Statistics on templates and references
• Wikimedia access data
• Bibliography
• Fundraising data dumps

Lists of papers

• Comprehensive Reference List Available Shows Impressive Depth, Breadth
• List of academic publications related to Wikipedia

Conferences and workshops

• Wikipedia and AI: An Evolving Synergy
• Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008)
• Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008
• TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008 CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.
• Social Cognition - Minds & Societies Summer Institute
• 2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice (SCooP)
• WikiSym 2009
• 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009)
• CFP - ACL/IJCNLP-2009 Workshop - The People's Web meets NLP - Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
• USER-CONTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN EVOLVING SYNERGY
• WikiSym 2008 proceedings
• Interdisciplinary Research on Wiki Communities
• HICSS 42 Minitrack on Open Movements
• Copenhagen Wiki Wednesday
• iCommons iSummit (29 Jul - 1 Aug 2008)
• First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture
• Summer Institute on Social Cognition
• SemWiki2008
• COMMUNIA conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age
• Wiki-Translation workshop at WikiSym 2008
• Wikimania 2008
• International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking (ICCMSN - 2008)
• MediaWiki developer meet-up in Berlin, April 3–5, 2009
• Social structure of Wikipedia authors (with references!)
• ACL/IJCNLP-2009 Workshop - The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
• Wikimania 2009
• WikiSym 2009
• "Knowledge and Experience Management" (FGWM)
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
• 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009)
• WEBCENTIVES'09

Miscellaneous

• On Research Network activity, results, research, ideas etc.
• Metadata extension
• How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko
• Updates: XML parser, weekly stats production, server, readership data
• wiki-translation (see mail for other links)
• Wiki Creole grammar, schema, transformations made available
• Building an academic network for Wikimedia
• RfC: Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals
• WikiScience, an initiative to create a virtual space promoting interaction and interdisciplinary research among wiki researchers
• Soliciting participants for Wikipedia studies
• ARNOVA: volunteerism research mailing list

In other languages

• Short Danish overview of Wikipedia research

• Overview of Wikipedia research on German Wikipedia (list of a bunch of different university research projects and scientists):

de:Wikipedia:Wikipedistik

To be analyzed

• On message ids
• Conferences and workshops up to the end of 2007. (And after adding all of them, papers should be analyzed.)
• Wikimania papers, out of the first one.
• Other papers from Wikimedian meetings.
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