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
  • Wikipedia Research procedures & ethics (e.g. SRAG)

Attendees

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  • Phoebe
  • Giota
  • Howief
  • Peter Gehres
  • Jodi Schneider
  • Andrea
  • Guillaume Paumier (external link)
  • Johanna/Jojoon(a) (phD student & CPOV network (external link))
  • Mayo Fuster Morell
  • Daniel Kinzler
  • Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen)
  • Cormac Lawler (Cormaggio)
  • Erinc Salor UvA (external link)
  • Iassen Halatchliyski
  • Andreea Gorbatai
  • Martin Hellberg Olsson

See also




The original document is available at http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/Wikipedia+Research+Summit