Re: [Wiki-research-l] Country (culture...) as a factor in contributing to collective intelligence projects

2018-07-24 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
This is a very interesting project. Just in short remark in line with Juliana’s observation: the hardest part would be to account for the specific "inner" culture developed by each wikimedian communities. Since most of them has started on a relatively small scale, numerous norms and lasting

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia focus of research (was Research discussion: Visions for Wikipedia)

2014-10-28 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Hi everyone, I cannot resist the temptation to troll a bit on this thread: *we need 10K or even 100K new active editors: would it not result in even higher levels of bureaucracy? Internet technologies have certainly allowed to keeps large community running with fuzzy rules. Yet, I'm not so

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia focus of research (was Research discussion: Visions for Wikipedia)

2014-10-28 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
=14nA7_k05NsCredir_esc=y which points that fact that after some times, project are mature and need less people to participate. Maybe Wikipedia has entered in adulthood (which is, sometime, boring) Nicolas Le 28/10/2014 16:14, Pierre-Carl Langlais a écrit : Hi everyone, I cannot

Re: [Wiki-research-l] diffdb formatted Wikipedia dump

2013-10-07 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
I agree with Klein. If you do not need to exploit the entire Wikipedia database, requests through a python scraping library (like Beautiful Soup) are certainly sufficient and easy to set up. With an aleatory algorithm to select the ids you can create a fine sample. PCL Le 07/10/13 19:31,

[Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
and I still need to adapt to some unfamiliar formal norms. The original data will be disclosed in a shortwhile, probably on Meta- Wiki. Pierre-Carl Langlais – Abstract : This chapter gives a global appraisal of wiki-based pedagogic projects. The growing influence

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/File:Wikipedia_E-Learning_Model_Preprint.pdf The typo might be somehow hazardous; this is my first scholar publication in English and I still need to adapt to some unfamiliar formal norms. The original data will be disclosed in a shortwhile, probably on Meta- Wiki. Pierre-Carl

[Wiki-research-l] French Research Newsletter

2013-04-17 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
in the French-speaking wiki communities, do not hesitate to send me a copy of your work. So far, I have seldom the ability to access anything but OA publishings. Pierre-Carl Langlais ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wiki-research-l] E-Learning with wikis…

2013-02-16 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Education Program http://education.wikimedia.org that hopefully can help you. Tom On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Pierre-Carl Langlais langlais.qo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am currently writing a chapter on the use of Wiki for learning purposes (to be published by the end of the year

[Wiki-research-l] E-Learning with wikis…

2013-02-08 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Dear all, I am currently writing a chapter on the use of Wiki for learning purposes (to be published by the end of the year in E-Learning 2.0, IGI Global). I am asked to give some insights on future research (that is, planned and/or not yet published). Do you heard of any ongoing study

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research Hub Re: Wiki Research Journal? - Why?

2012-11-15 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
the volunteers list : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas/Volunteers Pierre-Carl Langlais ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal?

2012-11-05 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Following the discussion of yesterday, I have enhanced a bit the design draft: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas/Design It now includes a specific thema for each issue. For instance, I have chosen « Wikipedia Verifiability ». In order to visualize what kind of content we

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal?

2012-11-05 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
I equally see the journal as a way to bridge research as it is, and research as it's likely to become. The main work the editing committee is liable to do is social: enforce usual procedures, keep in touch with the ISI and other certification centers, find partnerships with scholar

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal?

2012-11-04 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Yes, that's a good point. Nevertheless, readership is not an inherent quality. It depends on several factors, most of which are attractiveness (is the journal layout fine to read? does the selection brings up insightful content?), positioning (which scientific disciplines are concerned?)

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal?

2012-11-04 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Le 5 nov. 2012 à 01:57, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com a écrit : I wonder if a better place to innovate might be in the conduct of research, rather than the reporting, review and publication of research? While wiki speeds collaboration within a community, the research literature favors

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal…

2012-11-02 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
, but others need to be retained in order for the journal to receive academic recognition. Juliana. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Pierre-Carl Langlais langlais.qo...@gmail.com wrote: One idea would be to appoint one or several volunteer editor(s). They could ensure all the formal

[Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal…

2012-11-01 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Dear colleagues, Last week I attended the parisian Open Access week main event that was held at the Unesco. I evoked briefly the migntable project of a Wiki Research Journal that was discussed in september (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas ). It was received with a good

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal…

2012-11-01 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Le 1 nov. 2012 à 17:14, Piotr Konieczny pio...@post.pl a écrit : On 11/1/2012 7:45 AM, Pierre-Carl Langlais wrote: *Technical issue : we probably need a specific wiki. Whereas not highly sophisticated, it should perhaps include some reading functions in order to make the journal main