I've just written a post on the lack of small language Wikipedia research for Ethnography Matters http://ethnographymatters.net/2012/09/06/where-does-ethnography-belong/ as part of a reflection on last week's WikiSym :)
Would also be interested in helping to collect the material that is out there on Mendeley or Zotero if you're interested, Hrafn? Best, Heather. On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Brian Keegan wrote: > Joe Reagle's "Good Faith Collaboration" is an excellent alternative. > > On Sep 5, 2012 4:37 AM, "Hrafn H Malmquist" <h...@hi.is> wrote: > Good day everyone > > My name is Hrafn Malmquist, I am an Icelandic student of library and > information science at the University of Iceland, writing a master's thesis > on the Icelandic Wikipedia (http://is.wikipedia.org) which I have > personally actively contributed to for about six years > (http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notandi:Jabbi). It has currently 34,478 > articles and a very active user base of probably less than 30 users. My > approach is wholistic, recounting the general history of Wikipedia, the > Icelandic Wikipedia, the statistical development and possibly conduct > interviews with contributing users. > > Any pointers on interesting research - especially with regard to small > language communities - would be well appriciated. > > In searching for sources on the general history of Wikipedia, the best > overview I found is Andrew Lih's The Wikipedia Revolution > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Revolution). I find it to be > interesting but incomplete and rather sloppy when it comes to citing > sources. He should have finished it off with more care. Does anyone know of > a better alternative? > > Best regards, Hrafn > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l Heather Ford Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver http://ushahidi.com | http://swiftly.org @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org Heather Ford www.ethnographymatters.net @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org
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