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This page is the master page on [[Meta:About|Meta-Wiki]] dedicated to the research of [[en:Wiki|Wikis]] with special focus on the [[Wikimedia projects]]. See also the [[Wiki Research Bibliography]].

==See also==
* [[Usage research]] of the wikimedia projects.
* [[b:en:Wiki_Science:Wikiresearch|Wikibooks:Wikiresearch]] (en)
* [[en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia]]
* [[de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Selbstreflexion_der_Wikipedia|Selbstreflexion_der_Wikipedia]] (de)
* [[de:Wikipedia:Wikipedistik|Wikipedistik]] (de)
** [[de:Wikipedia:Wikipedistik/Bibliographie|/Bibliographie]] - bibliography (mostly moved to [[# Wiki Research Bibliography]])
* [[Artikel in Information Wissenschaft & Praxis]]
* [http://www.google.com/search?q=Wikipedia+research+-%22original+research%22+site%3Amail.wikipedia.org Search for 'Wikipedia+Research at our mailing lists]
* [http://wikimania.wikimedia.org Wikimania!] Wikimedia conference and gathering, August, 2005
* [http://www.wikisym.org/ International Symposium on Wikis] October, 2005

== Who is currently doing research on Wikis and Wikipedia? ==
* '''[[User:Nichtich|Jakob Voss]]''' (studying computer science and library science in Berlin, Germany) - writing masters thesis on wikipedia - see his [http://wm.sieheauch.de/ Research Blog]
* '''Julien Levrel''' (studying sociology in France) - started a PhD on cooperation and collaboration using wiki
* [http://nsk.wikinerds.org Nikolaos S. Karastathis] (studying Computer Science) - doing university dissertation research on wikis and content management systems. Mainly on the [http://maatworks.wikinerds.org/index.php/NGWP software] and theoretical aspects of it, but also pays some attention to sociological implications.
* '''Chitu Okoli''', Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada (see [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2004-July/000741.html July 2004] and [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028350.html March 2005] "is analyzing the featured article nomination process for a research project"
* '''Cormac Lawler''' ([[en:User:Cormaggio|Cormaggio]]) (studying a M.Ed in Communications, Education and Technology in Manchester, U.K.) - writing masters dissertation on Wikipedia as a learning community
* '''Martin Erpicum''' (studying sociology in Belgium) - i'm working on fr.wikipedia.org
* '''Andrea Forte''' ([[en:User:Andicat|Andicat]]) - Ph.D. student in human-centered computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA), studying online learning communities
* '''[http://reagle.org/joseph/blog Joseph Reagle]''' ([[en:User:Reagle|Reagle]]) - A Ph.D. candidate at NYU studying collaberative culture (e.g. [http://reagle.org/joseph/2004/agree/wikip-agree.html A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective]
*'''[[User:Rosskurator|Andreas Brändle]]''' (studying communication science in Zurich, Switzerland) - writing thesis on quality in the german Wikipedia.
* '''Joachim Schroer''' and '''Prof. Guido Hertel''': Survey (18-3-2005 till 8-4-2005): http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/wikipedia.php
* '''[http://www.dsv.su.se/~petter/ Petter Karlström]''' - Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction, studying online learning communities. Hopefully not too similar to Andrea Forte's work!
* '''[http://www.beefchickenpork.org/kate Kate Raynes-Goldie]''' ([[en:User:katerg|katerg]]) and '''[http://www.exposedbrain.com/fono David Fono]''' are examining the Green Party of Canada's use of a wiki to create their last platform. See the [http://www.online-deliberation.net/conf2005/viewabstract.php?id=34 abstract] for the [http://www.online-deliberation.net/ Online Deliberation 2005 Conference].

=== Visualising and Statistics ===
* History Flow
* Wikistat
* How about something like [http://research.lumeta.com/ches/map/gallery/wired.gif] or [http://research.lumeta.com/ches/map/gallery/isp-ss.gif] of Wikipedia?
* [http://debianlinux.net/wikicompany/ mgraph] - tool for extracting the graphs formed by article and category links from a mediawiki database
* Daniel Wusch also wrote a little program that uses the [http://prefuse.sourceforge.net/ prefuse] toolkit to display and navigate the graph

==2004==
===Requests for collaboration to research===
* December 2004: Cormac Lawler (Ireland) asks to send Questionnaires to Wikipedians for a M.Ed dissertation: try to help a hand and start [[Research/Cormac Lawler questionnaire]] - see that page for details.
* Coordinate with '''[[Wikicensus]]''' and [[:en:User:Sj/Survey|Sj-survey]]

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