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

Who is currently doing research on Wikis and Wikipedia?

Jakob Voss (studying computer science and library science in Berlin, Germany) - writing masters thesis on wikipedia - see his Research Blog
Julien Levrel (studying sociology in France) - started a PhD on cooperation and collaboration using wiki
Nikolaos S. Karastathis (studying Computer Science) - doing university dissertation research on wikis and content management systems. Mainly on the 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 July 2004 and March 2005 "is analyzing the featured article nomination process for a research project"
Cormac Lawler (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 (Andicat) - Ph.D. student in human-centered computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA), studying online learning communities
Joseph Reagle (Reagle) - A Ph.D. candidate at NYU studying collaberative culture (e.g. A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective
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
Petter Karlström - Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction, studying online learning communities. Hopefully not too similar to Andrea Forte's work!
Kate Raynes-Goldie (katerg) and David Fono are examining the Green Party of Canada's use of a wiki to create their last platform. See the abstract for the Online Deliberation 2005 Conference.
Kevin Carillo (MSc. student in admistration in Montreal, Canada; doing master's thesis on Wikipedia) see [1]
Boud Roukema Boud (cosmologist in Poland) - proposed project for wikimania meeting - at the moment see my home page w:User:Boud - i'm particularly interested in whether positive and negative feedback processes in the wikisphere (especially wikimedia wikis) tend to override the fundamental bias (non-neutrality) induced by favouring people with internet access and by favouring reputable primary sources. i'd be happy to do cooperate on this, but my (idealistic) hope is that the article will be GFDL and the software will be user-friendly and GPL so that others can easily build on the results. Boud 01:13, 13 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Visualising and Statistics

History Flow
Wikistat
How about something like [2] or [3] of Wikipedia?
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 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 Sj-survey

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 * '''[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].
 * '''Kevin Carillo''' (MSc. student in admistration in Montreal, Canada; doing master's thesis on Wikipedia) see [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-April/029007.html]
+* '''Boud Roukema''' [[User:Boud|Boud]] (cosmologist in Poland) - proposed project for wikimania meeting - at the moment see my home page [[w:User:Boud]] - i'm particularly interested in whether positive and negative feedback processes in the wikisphere (especially wikimedia wikis) tend to override the fundamental bias (non-neutrality) induced by favouring people with internet access and by favouring ''reputable'' primary sources. i'd be happy to do cooperate on this, but my (idealistic) hope is that the article will be GFDL and the software will be user-friendly and GPL so that others can easily build on the results. [[User:Boud|Boud]] 01:13, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 === Visualising and Statistics ===