History: Wikipedia Research Summit

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.

!!!Topics
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* 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

!!! Attendees
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* Phoebe
* Giota
* Howief
* Peter Gehres
* Jodi Schneider


!!See also
* ((Invited Speakers|Andrew Lih's talk))
* Open space discussion
* Wikimania sessions
* Related [http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Academic_Researchers_in_Wikimedia_Communities:_Ethics,_Methods,_and_Policies|panel] at Wikimania
* 2009: Wikipedia research lunchtime discussion
* Wikipedia research policy -- came out of that discussion (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research|Wikipedia Research] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SRAG|SRAG]