This year's WikiSym will feature a conference-long informal track of presentations and papers about Wikipedia, including a Wikipedia Research Summit: an open discussion around the issues involved in researching Wikipedia (technical, social, or other). These discussions will lead into a similar program during Wikimania, which we hope will bring together researchers and Wikimedians for a productive dialog.
We hope that these sessions will lead to a broad discussion around solutions for some of these issues and new approaches for researching the "grand challenges" of Wikipedia.
We hope that these sessions will lead to a broad discussion around solutions for some of these issues and new approaches for researching the "grand challenges" of Wikipedia.
Topics
please add your own topics here- What are the barriers to researching Wikipedia?
- What technical support do researchers of the Wikimedia Foundation projects need?
- What are some of the big questions that researchers can address?
- The dynamics and pedagogy of participation in Wikimedia projects
- Issues surrounding perceptions about Wikipedia as a) information resource b) an open educational resource
- Wikipedia Research procedures & ethics (e.g. SRAG)
Attendees
Please add your name if you are interested in this session- Phoebe
- Giota
- Howief
- Peter Gehres
- Jodi Schneider
- Andrea
- Guillaume Paumier
- Johanna/Jojoon(a) (phD student & CPOV network)
- Mayo Fuster Morell
- Daniel Kinzler
- Finn Ã…rup Nielsen (fnielsen)
- Cormac Lawler (Cormaggio)
- Erinc Salor UvA
- Iassen Halatchliyski
- Andreea Gorbatai
- Martin Hellberg Olsson
See also
- Andrew Lih's talk
- Open space discussion
- Wikimania sessions
- Especially, the related panel at Wikimania
- 2009: Wikipedia research lunchtime discussion
- Wikipedia research policy — came out of that discussion (see Wikipedia Research and SRAG)