Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia in academic studies

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Well as this section is growing we have to define what academic studies is. I am trying to collect all articles that are listed by bibliographic databases because this is where scientists should search for literature. Keep in mind that scientific does not mean a higher quality but you should expect a specific level - scientifc communities have their own rules like our NPOV. -- Nichtich

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[edit] IBM and Georgia Tech studies

Hi all. I wanted to bring it to your attention that you are missing some critical work done by Fernanda Viegas (IBM) and Forte and Bruckman (Georgia Tech). Here are the relevant citations. If anyone can put these in that would be great. Unfortunately I don't have time for it right now.

Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms. Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viégas, and Kate Hollenbach. Interact 2007.

The Hidden Order of Wikipedia. Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Matthew M. McKeon. HCII, 2007.

Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss, Frank van Ham. HICSS-40, 2007.

The Visual Side of Wikipedia Fernanda B. Viégas. HICSS-40, 2007.

Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow Visualizations Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kushal Dave. CHI 2004.

(the IBM papers, some of which I might be missing, are collected at: http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/publications.html )

Georgia Tech papers:

Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2008). Scaling consensus: increasing decentralization in Wikipedia governance. To appear in the Proceedings of Hawaiian International Conference of Systems Sciences (HICSS).

Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2007). Constructing text: wiki as a toolkit for (collaborative?) learning. To appear in the Proceedings of OOPSLA/ACM International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym).

Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2005). Why do people write for Wikipedia? Incentives to contribute to open-content publishing. GROUP 05 workshop: Sustaining community: The role and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems. Sanibel Island, FL.

(more papers by Andrea can be found on her homepage: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/pubs.html )

Bestchai (talk) 23:02, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SPAM-Abuse?

There seems to be some abuse being going on connected to the article by Cathy Ma. In fact, the web address of the paper returns an ad for holidays (a localized one, as it seems, for it is in German, my mother tongue). Has anybody had a similar experience? Or can anybody provide another link? - The paper is real and the link used to be correct, you can access it through the Google Archive... --129.194.8.73 11:07, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

You are right that the link is broken, my guess would be that the previous owner failed to renew the registration. If you can change the link for the working one from that archive, it would be great.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

I don't know where I can add this article Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past. It is writed by ... for The Center for History and New Media etc... Can you put this article? Thanks --199.26.15.150 19:53, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thx, I have added the info. I have been waiting for the article since I learned about it last year... nice :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia in amateur studies

I have compiled a list of studies published in Wikipedia space, as well as useful tools published here: see Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  18:46, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible articles from Reagle

I don't want to add my own, but if people find them worthwhile published stuff is in:

 http://reagle.org/joseph/2003/cv.html

Also, WP related blogging:

 http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/culture/wikipedia/

-Reagle 14:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New studies

[edit] Master thesis

Do we need a new section on thesis (masters, bachelors, phd...)? Here's a recent one: "Wikipedia as Collective Action". -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  16:40, 24 August 2007 (UTC)-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  16:40, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] University Business article

Not sure if this should go on this page, but it's kind of related. University Business Article on Web 2.0 GumbyProf: "I'm about ideas, but I'm not always about good ideas." 00:46, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article in Australian Quarterly

I have had an article published in Australian Quarterly that was derived from a conference paper I gave at the end of 2006. The article currently appears here [3] but will only be available there until the next issue, as AQ is not an electronic journal. Perhaps someone could take a look at the article and see if it's worthwhile including? AQ is not peer-reviewed. It is more an intellectual journalistic/essay/opinion type of magazine. --Mat Hardy (Affentitten) (talk) 00:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Too late. The article is no longer available at that link because the next edition has replaced it. --Mat Hardy (Affentitten) (talk) 22:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
The link may be available in Internet Archive. Feel free to add it to the non-peer-reviewed section.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Keywords

I suppose that wikipedia is the default keyword for all articles listed here. --AKA MBG (talk) 18:04, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Good point, however when possible I try to use the original keywords as listed by the publisher, and they don't always use Wikipedia as a keyword. It may indicate if the article is centered on Wikipedia or not, perhaps, or the acceptance of Wikipedia as a keyword by an academic community.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 22:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Page and Table size

What do you think about splitting the first huge table into years (one table for one year)? Or may be even to create subpages for each year. --AKA MBG (talk) 11:34, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Splitting means the sort will be less useful, and I think the sortable tables are useful.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 07:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
OK, I missed that the table columns could be sorted. All columns work (i.e. they really could be sorted), except the last column: keywords. Is it only my computer problem? --AKA MBG (talk) 14:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
They probably need to be standarized, also since articles often have many sources, the current 'sort by first alphabetical keyword' is not an optimal solution (but I am not sure how to improve it).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article on wikis

Public Interest Research, Collaboration, and the Promise of Wikis Here is an article about wikis. I don't know if you have decided to list those. If not, could you point me to the right place to list it? Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 17:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Evaluating Wiki as a tool to promote quality academic writing skills

Evaluating Wiki as a tool to promote quality academic writing skills by Steve Wheeler, Dawn Wheeler, Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth, UK. From the 10th International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning. May be of interest. DuncanHill (talk) 19:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)