Research:Resources

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Bibliographies and References

• Wiki Research Bibliography - a bibliography of research publications. This resource includes this information using WIKINDX: http://bibliography.wikimedia.de/
• Wikipedia in academic studies (en) on Wikipedia
• http://wikindx.inrp.fr/biblio_encyclen/ (fr) - especially see [1]
• strategy:Wikimedia-pedia/Research
• Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments, review by Finn Årup Nielsen
• WikiPapers, a wiki research literature compilation (conference papers, journal articles, theses, datasets and tools)

Communities and Groups

• Communitas • Communitas! • Communitas • Communitas! • Communitas!
• MeatballWiki, especially Meatball for wiki researchers
• Social Research Collaborations
• WikiProject Wikidemia (en)
• dbpedia - Querying Wikipedia like a Database
• Semantic Wiki Interest Group
• Critical Point of View (CPoV)
  • Wikipedia Research Initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India)

Conferences and Events

See also: http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_events.

Critical Point of View (CPoV)

• Wikipedia Research Initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India)[2]
• Conference in Amsterdam, March 26-27, 2010
• Conference in Bangalore, January 12-13, 2010

Wikimania

• Wikimania 2007 August, 2007
• Proceedings of Wikimania 2006 August, 2006
• Proceedings of Wikimania 2005 August, 2005

Workshops on Mathematical Wikis (MathWikis)

• 1st Workshops on Mathematical Wikis (MathWikis); August, 2011

Workshops on Semantic Wikis

• 5th Workshop: Linking Data and People; May, 2010
• 4th Workshop: The Semantic Wiki Wiki Web; June, 2009
• 3rd Workshop: The Wiki Way of Semantics; June, 2008

Workshops on Semantic Publishing

• 1st Workshop (SePublica), May 2011

International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym)

• October 2011 (open access to complete proceedings)
• July 2010 (open access to complete proceedings)
• October 2009 (open access to complete proceedings)
• September 2008
• October, 2007
• August, 2006
  • Workshop on Wikipedia Research, WikiSym 2006
• October, 2005

Wikipedia Academy

• Wikipedia Academy 2007 August, 2007
• Wikipedia Academy 2006 June, 2006

Other

• ACM Hypertext 2007 September, 2007

Research Tools: Statistics, Visualization, etc.

See also: Research:Query Library

• History Flow Visualization - an animation of the changes done to a lemma over time.
• Mgraph - tool for extracting the graphs formed by article and category links from a mediawiki database
  • Daniel Wusch wrote a little program that uses the Prefuse toolkit to display and navigate the graph
• Wikipedia API
• Toolserver - Includes useful tools (with more description needed). Functional tools include:
  • To analyze statistical contributions of a single user:
  • http://tools.wikimedia.de/~river/cgi-bin/count_edits
  • http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ec
• WikiProject User scripts (en) - Includes useful scripts (with more description needed). Subpages:
  • Scripts - a library of user scripts.
  • Tutorial - a tutorial on how to start using or writing user scripts.
  • Techniques - a list of commonly used techniques.
  • This statistical script [3] gives useful statistics about users and pages, and has interesting features like differentiating between types of edits.
• Wikistats
• WikiTrust, a reputation and trust system for wiki authors and content.
• WikiXRay A Python tool collecting scripts to automate the quantitative analysis of any language version of Wikipedia. Mainly developed to support the analyses included in Felipe Ortega's PhD. thesis "Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis"
• StatMediaWiki, a statistical analysis tool for wikis
• Related pages:
  • en:Wikipedia:Computer help desk
  • en:Wikipedia:Scripts - mainly scripts to activate wikilinks in various IRC programs
  • en:Wikipedia:Tools - various types of tools: bookmarklets, user scripts, etc.
  • en:Wikipedia:WikiProject User CSS - a similar project
• Suggestions:
  • Context Driven Topologies - a mathematical and visual index to sort Wikipedia into themes and search by geographic location, knowledge domain, and internet address. See: CDT proposal
  • How about something like [4] or [5] of Wikipedia?
• List of tools at WikiPapers

Wikimedia Research Links

• Artikel in Information Wissenschaft & Praxis (de)
• Search for 'Wikipedia+Research at our mailing lists
• Selbstreflexion_der_Wikipedia (de)
  • /Bibliographie - bibliography (mostly moved to # Wiki Research Bibliography)
• Sj-survey
• Usage research of the wikimedia projects.
• Wikibooks:Wikiresearch (en)
• Wikicensus
• Wikipedistik (de)
• Wikiversity's research portal
• Ethically researching Wikipedia

Miscellaneous Links

• http://academia.wikicities.com - an approach similar to Wikiversity
• http://www.kefk.net/Wissen/Wikipedia/Rezeption/Forschung/ - Agon Buchholz
• The International Symposium on Wikis conference series, dedicated to wiki research and practice