Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies

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Growth of academic interest in Wikipedia: number of publication by year, from creation of Wikipedia to end of 2006.
Growth of academic interest in Wikipedia: number of publication by year, from creation of Wikipedia to end of 2006.
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Below is an incomplete list of academic conference presentations, peer-reviewed papers and other types of academic writing which focus on Wikipedia as their subject. Works that mention Wikipedia only in passing are unlikely to be listed.

Unpublished works of presumably academic quality are listed in a dedicated section. For non-academic research, as well as tools that may be useful in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia. For academic papers using Wikipedia as a source, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia as an academic source. For teaching with Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:School and university projects. For researching with Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia. For non-academic works focused on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.

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[edit] Conference presentations and papers

See also: Wikimania conference series
This table is sortable.
Authors Title Conference / published in Year Online Notes Abstract
Adler, B. Thomas, and de Alfaro, Luca A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia Proceedings of WWW 2007, the 16th International World Wide Web Conference, ACM Press, 2007 2007 [1]
Ahn, David, Jijkoun, Valentin, Mishne, Gilad, Müller, Karin, de Rijke, Maarten, and Schlobach, Stefan Using Wikipedia at the TREC QA Track The Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2004) 2005 [2]
Aronsson, Lars Operation of a Large Scale, General Purpose Wiki Website: Experience from susning.nu's first nine months in service Paper presented at the 6th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing, November 6 - 8, 2002, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Printed in: João Álvaro Carvalho, Arved Hübler, Ana Alice Baptista (editors), Elpub 2002. Technology Interactions. Proceedings of the 6th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing. held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 6-8 November, 2002, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-89700-357-0, pages 27-37 2002 [3] Despite Wikipedia not being mentioned in title or abstract, it is discussed and often mentioned (compared) in the text.
Augur, Naomi, Ruth Raitman and Wanlei Zhou Teaching and learning online with wikis 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Perth, Australia: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE). (5th—8th Dec 2004). 95–104. 2004 [4] Despite Wikipeida not being mentioned in title or abstract, it is a common example and heavily discussed in article itself.
Bellomi F., Bonato R. Lexical Authorities in an Encyclopedic Corpus: a Case Study with Wikipedia. Paper presented at the International Colloquium on ‘Word structure and lexical systems: models and applications’, December 16 - 18, 2004, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. 2004 [5] Blog description only?
Buriol L.S., Castillo C., Donato D., Leonardi S., Millozzi S. Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph. To appear in Proceedings of the Web Intelligence Conference (WI), Hong Kong 2006. Published by IEEE CS Press. 2006 [6]
Bryant, Susan, Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia Proceedings of GROUP International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2005. pp 1.-10. 2005 [7]
Caldarelli, Guido; Capocci, Andrea; Servedio, Vito; Buriol, Luciana; Donato, Debora; Leonardi, Stefano Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia American Physical Society. APS March Meeting, March 13-17, 2006 2006 [8]
Cosley, Dan, Dan Frankowski, Loren G. Terveen and John Riedl SuggestBot: using intelligent task routing to help people find work in Wikipedia Proceedings of the 12th International conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007), pages 32--41 2007 [9]
Denise Anthony, Sean Smith, & Tim Williamson Explaining Quality in Internet Collective Goods: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the Case of Wikipedia Fall 2005 Innovation & Enterpreneurship Seminar at MIT 2005 [10]
Emigh, William and Herring, Susan C. Collaborative Authoring on the Web: A Genre Analysis of Online Encyclopedias Paper presented at the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. « Collaboration Systems and Technology Track », Hawai. 2005 [11]
Fissaha Adafre, Sisay and de Rijke, Maarten Discovering Missing Links in Wikipedia Proceedings of the Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications (LinkKDD-2005) 2005 [12]
Fissaha Adafre, Sisay and de Rijke, Maarten Finding Similar Sentences across Multiple Languages in Wikipedia EACL 2006 Workshop on New Text–Wikis and Blogs and Other Dynamic Text Sources 2006 [13]
Fissaha Adafre, Sisay and de Rijke, Maarten Exploratory Search in Wikipedia Proceedings SIGIR 2006 workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems (EESS) 2006 [14]
Forte, Andrea, Amy Bruckman From Wikipedia to the classroom: exploring online publication and learning International Conference on Learning Sciences. Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences 2006 [15]
Gabrilovich, Evgeniy and Shaul Markovitch Computing Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis. Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India, January 2007. 2007 [16]
Gabrilovich, Evgeniy and Shaul Markovitch Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge. Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), pp. 1301-1306. 2006 [17]
Grassineau, Benjamin Wikipédia et le relativisme démocratique OMNSH 2006 [18] French
Krizhanovsky, Andrew Synonym search in Wikipedia: Synarcher. 11-th International Conference "Speech and Computer" SPECOM'2006. Russia, St. Petersburg, June 25-29, pp. 474-477 2006 [19]
Lih, Andrew Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism, April 16 - 17, 2004, Austin, Texas, United States. 2004 [20]
Ma, Cathy The Social, Cultural, Economical Implications of the Wikipedia Paper submitted to Computers and Writing Online 2005 2005 [21]
Mainguy Gaëll "Wikipedia and science publishing. Has the time come to end the liaisons dangereuses?" paper presented at the 3rd NATO-UNESCO Advanced Research Workshop Science Education: Talent Recruitment and Public Understanding. Balatonfüred, Hungary, 20-22 October 2006 2006 [22]
Möller, Erik Loud and clear: How Internet media can work. Presentation at Open Cultures conference, June 5 - 6, Vienna. 2002 [23] Video and no abstract?
Pedersen, Niels M. L. & Anders Due Wikipedia - viden som social handlen. Paper presented at The 3. Nordic Conference on Rhetoric, May 19-20, Oslo, Norway 2006 [24] Danish
Primo, Alex Fernando Teixeira and Recuero, Raquel da Cunha Hipertexto cooperativo: Uma análise da escrita coletiva a partir dos blogs e da Wikipédia. Paper presented at Seminário Internacional da Comunicação. « Da aldeia global ao ciberespaço: Tecnologias do imaginário como extensão do homem », Porto Alegre 2003 [25] Portugese
Sigurbjörnsson, Börkur, Kamps, Jaap, and de Rijke, Maarten Focused Access to Wikipedia Proceedings DIR-2006 2006 [26]
Smolenski, Nikola Wikipedia in Serbian language and Cyrillic script. Presentation at scientific-technical conference "Contemporary informatic technologies - Internet and Cyrillic script", November 25, Bijeljina. 2003 [27] Serbian?
Spek, Sander and Postma, Eric and Herik, Jaap van den Wikipedia: organisation from a bottom-up approach. Paper presented at the Research in Wikipedia-workshop of WikiSym 2006, Odense, Denmark. 2006 [28]
Tunsch, Thomas: Museum Documentation and Wikipedia.de: Possibilities, opportunities and advantages for scholars and museums. J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2007: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 31, 2007 at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/tunsch/tunsch.html 2007 [29] pre-conference communication: museums.wikia.com
Viégas, F. B., Wattenberg, M. and Dave, K. "Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations". CHI 2004, 575-582. 2004 [30]
Viégas, Fernanda, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss, Frank van Ham Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia. Proceedings of Hawaiian International Conference of Systems Sciences Big Island, Hawaii. 2007 [31]
Winkler, Stefan Selbstorganisation der Kommunikation Wissenschaft - Öffentlichkeit im virtuellen Raum, Koblenz, Forschungsstelle Wissenstransfer.  ? 2003 German
Krötzsch, Markus, Denny Vrandecic, Max Völkel Wikipedia and the Semantic Web The Missing Links Wikimania'05 2005 [32]
Krötzsch, Markus, Denny Vrandecic, Max Völkel Semantic Wikipedia International World Wide Web Conference. Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web 2006 [33] no open content found
Voss, Jakob Measuring Wikipedia. Proceedings International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics : 10th, Stockholm (Sweden) 2005 [34]
Denoyer, Ludovic, Patrick Gallinari The Wikipedia XML corpus SIGIR Conference Proceedings. Volume 40 , Issue 1 (June 2006). WORKSHOP SESSION: INEX. Pages: 64 - 69 Year of Publication: 2006 ISSN:0163-5840 2006 [35] no open content found
Bellomi, Francesco and Roberto Bonato [edit] Network Analysis for Wikipedia Proceedings of Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt, Germany. 2005 [36]
Reagle, Joseph M. A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking Proceedings of Wikimania 2005—The First International Wikimedia Conference, Frankfurt, Germany. 2005 [37]
McGuinness, Deborah L., Honglei Zeng, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Li Ding, Dhyanesh Narayanan, Mayukh Bhaowal Investigations into Trust for Collaborative Information Repositories: A Wikipedia Case Study Proceedings of the Workshop on Models of Trust for the Web 2006 [38]

[edit] Peer-reviewed journal articles

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Authors Title Publisher Year Online Notes Abstract
Willinsky, John What open access research can do for Wikipedia First Monday volume 12, issue 3 2007-03-05 [39] "The open access references that we were able to locate for the smaller sample of twenty entries in the course of the study have now been added to the relevant Wikipedia articles and clearly marked with a link to the “open access copy” (by Sarah Munro"
B.T. Adler, L. de Alfaro. A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia. Technical report ucsc-crl-06-18, School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 2006 2006 [40]
Lorenzen, Michael Vandals, Administrators, and Sockpuppets, Oh My! An Ethnographic Study of Wikipedia’s Handling of Problem Behavior. MLA Forum 5, no. 2, 2006 [41]
Capocci A, Servedio VDP, Colaiori F, Buriol LS, Donato D, Leonardi S, Caldarelli G Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: The internet encyclopedia Wikipedia Phys. Rev. E 74 (3): 036116 2006 [42]
Chesney, Thomas An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility First Monday. 11 (11) November 2006. 2006 [43]
Nikolaos Th. Korfiatis, Marios Poulos, George Bokos Evaluating authoritative sources using social networks: an insight from Wikipedia Online Information Review, Volume 30 Number 3 2006 pp. 252-262 2006 [44]
Rosenzweig, Roy Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past Journal of American History 93 (1): 117-146 2006 [45]
Kolbitsch J, Maurer H The Transformation of the Web: How Emerging Communities Shape the Information We Consume Journal of Universal Computer Science 12 (2): 187-213. 2006 [46]
Kolbitsch J, Maurer H Community Building around Encyclopaedic Knowledge Journal of Computing and Information Technology 14 2006 [47]
Barton M D The future of rational-critical debate in online public spheres Computers and Composition 22 (2): 177-190 2005 [48]
Altmann U Representation of Medical Informatics in the Wikipedia and its Perspectives Stud Health Technol Inform 116: 755-760 2005 [49]
Sauer IM, Bialek D, Efimova E, Schwartlander R, Pless G, Neuhaus P "Blogs" and "wikis" are valuable software tools for communication within research groups" Artif Organs 29 (1): 82-3. 2005 [50]
McKiernan, Gerry WikimediaWorlds Part I: Wikipedia Library Hi Tech News. 22 (8) November 2005 2005 [51]
Ciffolilli, Andrea Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia. First Monday. 8 (12) December 2003 2003 [52]
Cedergren, Magnus (2003). Open content and value creation. First Monday. 8 (8) August 2003. 2003 [53] Despite not mentioning Wikipedia in title or abstract, the paper discusses it as one of the main examples.
Benkler, Yochai Coase's penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm The Yale Law Jounal. v.112, n.3, pp.369-446. 2002 [54] Despite not mentioning Wikipedia in title or abstract, the paper discusses it as one of the main examples. N/A
Stalder, Felix and Hirsh, Jesse Open Source Intelligence First Monday. 7 (6) Jun 2002 2002 [55]
Miller, Nora Wikipedia and the Disappearing "Author" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 62, 2005 2005 [56] no open content
Holloway, Todd, Miran Bozicevic, Katy Börner Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Wikipedia and Its Authors arXiv.org cs.IR/0512085 / Submitted to Complexity, Special issue on Understanding Complex Systems. 2005 [57]
Pfeil, Ulrike, Panayiotis Zaphiris, Chee Siang Ang Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(1), article 5 2006 [58]
Willinsky, John What open access research can do for Wikipedia First Monday, volume 12, number 3 (March 2007), 2007 [59]

[edit] Reviews

  • Remy, Melanie (2002). Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Online Information Review 26(6):434. Emerald
  • Levack, Kinley (2003). If Two Heads Are Better than One, Try 7,000 with Wikipedia. Econtent Magazine 26(4):12–13, April 2003.
  • Crawford, Walt; Wikipedia and Worth. Cites & Insights, Oct 2004[60].
  • Crawford, Walt; Wikipedia and Worth [Revisited]. Cites & Insights, Feb 2005[61].
  • Denning, Peter; Jim Horning; David Parnas; and Lauren Weinstein (2005). Wikipedia risks. Communications of the ACM 48(12):152, December 2005. DOI:10.1145/1101779.1101804
  • Giles, Jim (2005). Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. Nature 438, 900-901 (15 Dec 2005) [62]

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  • Lipczynska, Sonya (2005). Power to the people: the case for Wikipedia. Reference Reviews 19(2):6–7.Emerald Ingenta (abstract)
  • Lawler, Cormac. A ‘resource review’ of Wikipedia. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 1473-3145 (Print) 1746-1405 (Online). Volume 6, Number 3/September 2006

[edit] Books and book chapters

See Wikipedia:Wikipedia in books

[edit] Editorials

  • Nature editors (2005). Wiki's wild world. Nature 438, 890-890 (15 Dec 2005) [64]

[edit] Valuable articles in non-peer reviewed magazines

[edit] Lectures

  • Möller, Erik (2003): "Belanglose Käfer. Eine Reise in die Welt der Wikis." July 1, Merz-Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany.


[edit] Unpublished

  • Voss, Jakob (2006). "Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way" [67].

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