[Wiki-research-l] different language Wikipedias and knowledge migration

2013-07-17 Thread lior gimel
Dear all, I'm currently writing a research proposal focused on Wikipedia as a case study in cross-cultural migration of epistemic cultures, and I need some help on the lit. review part. I'm looking for studies dealing directly with the attempt to adopt policies from one language version to another

Re: [Wiki-research-l] different language Wikipedias and knowledge migration

2013-07-17 Thread Chitu Okoli
Dear Lior, The WikiLit website has a category on Cultural and linguistic effects on participation: http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Category:Cultural_and_linguistic_effects_on_participation. You might find some useful studies among the 10 listed there. Regards, Chitu Sujet:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] different language Wikipedias and knowledge migration

2013-07-17 Thread Taha Yasseri
Dear Lior, Let me introduce two papers of mine one on linguistics aspect, probably not much of your interest, although discussing Simple English Wikipedia with lots of applications in education, and the other one on cultural differences among different language editions in terms of editorial wars