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This is an archived version of this page, as edited by Nichtich (talk | contribs) at 19:05, 18 April 2005 (→‎Published research: => moved to Bibliography). It may differ significantly from the current version.

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

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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-Goldiewants to examine the Green Party of Canada's use of a wiki to create their last platform. [1]

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

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