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

2012-11-01 Thread Piotr Konieczny
This is not a list for researching collaboration support software, this is a list for discussing one specific type of it, the wikis (with a focus on Wikipedia). I see nothing wrong with retaining this focus, and I am surprised that the rather successful WikiSym is trying to reframe itself. Perh

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-11-01 Thread John Vandenberg
On Nov 1, 2012 9:28 AM, "Piotr Konieczny" wrote: > > > On 10/31/2012 6:34 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> >> Piotr Konieczny, 31/10/2012 23:08: >>> >>> Would anyone have/know where to find any of the following estimates for >> >> >>> * of Wikipedians with a userpage >> >> >> http://stats.wikime

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-11-01 Thread michael w
This issue of sufficient participation does appear of rising concern to wikipedia's survival following our first community peak in ~2007 and has brought my attention back to the project after some years of inactivity. In my opinion, revisions to the interface will be central to eliciting more non-

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

2012-11-01 Thread Aaron Halfaker
> I'd suggest focusing on the area of wiki studies, nothing more and nothing less. I don't think that this is a good strategy. Wiki's are just one type of collaboration support software. What if the artifact of collaboration is not hypertext? Most people would not consider a open source code re

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

2012-11-01 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Le 1 nov. 2012 à 17:14, Piotr Konieczny 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 content ea

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New paper: Wikipedia. Between lay participation and elite knowledge representation

2012-11-01 Thread René König
I´m not sure what´s the most typical argument here but there are certainly scholars who argue in this direction. For example, Daniela Pscheida who wrote in regard to Wikipedia: 'The acceptance of societally relevant knowledge is no longer determined a priori, one-sidedly and authoritatively, b

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

2012-11-01 Thread Piotr Konieczny
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 content easy to read and to refer to. What's wrong with hosting it at one

[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 dea

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

2012-11-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:49:22 +0700, John Vandenberg wrote: It would be good to extend the research of War of 1812 to non-English Wikipedias. Ive had a quick look and it is surprising how many of the articles pretty good, but none are very good. I think that there is a depth level at which non-En