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Research on wikis can refer to at least three areas: content, sociology, and technology. For Wikimedia projects for the first two areas, there is a dedicated discussion list, wiki-research-l. For the area of technology, there is the general development mailing list, wikitech-l.

The Wikimedia Research Network is a voluntary association for coordinating research in all fields. It is made of individual researchers and teams dedicated to various topics: See Research Projects.

Below are lists of researchers and resources. For research on wikis in general (not limited to Wikimedia), the Wiki Symposium provides a forum.

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[edit] Research Projects

Here is a listing of current and proposed research projects: Research Projects. If you wish to start a research project and invite others to comment, you can list it at the preceding link.

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  • Rebecca Mancy from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Manu Kapur from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technical University (Singapore) are investigating pedagogical aspects of Wikipedia from an evolutionary, complexity science perspective. For example, one of their research questions relates to whether the Wikipedia model leads to pedagogically strong content. They are currently writing a review article of current research surrounding these issues.
  • Norhisham Mohamad Nordin (Norhisham) - Ph.D. student at University of Western Australia(UWA) in Perth. Under the supervision of Jane Klobas, who wrote a book on wiki, entitled "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration[1]". Research topic on Wiki as a collaborative tools in school. Previous research on CSCL known as CCEL(Computer-based Collaborative and Exploratory Learning) won a medal in Geneva Innovation Expo 2006.'Wikilaborate' and share ideas at researcher's site.
  • Said Kassem Hamideh (Gretzinger) is conducting a cross-genre discourse analysis of dialogic interaction in three sites, one of which involves Wikipedia. This is for an MA Thesis in the department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  • Jochen Leidner is carrying out research on Wikipedia mining for automatic Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Extraction (IE) and Question Answering (QA).
  • Ingo Frost, wrote a Diploma-theses in systems-science[2] at the university of osnabrueck, Germany[3]: Civil particitpation in virtual communities? A systematic analysis of the German Wikipedia-project. His work - in German language - was publishd at the beginning of 2006 as first scientific monography about wikipedia (ISBN 978-3-8316-0609-2).
  • Jakob Voss (studying computer science and library science in Berlin, Germany) - writing masters thesis on Wikimetrics - see his Research Blog
  • Julien Levrel aka Jmskobalt (studying sociology in France) - started a PhD on cooperation and collaboration using wiki.
  • Nikolaos S. Karastathis (studying Computer Science) - doing university dissertation research on wikis and content management systems. Mainly on the software and theoretical aspects of it, but also pays some attention to sociological implications.
  • Chitu Okoli, Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada (see July 2004 and March 2005 "is analyzing the featured article nomination process for a research project"
  • Cormac Lawler (Cormaggio), wrote MEd dissertation on Wikipedia as a learning community (also Wikimania paper), currently working on PhD proposal based on Wikiversity, but also interested in Wikimedia_UK.
  • Martin Erpicum (studying sociology in Belgium) - I wrote a master thesis in sociology on fr.wikipedia.org.
  • Andrea Forte (Andicat) - Ph.D. student in human-centered computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA), studying online learning communities
  • Joseph Reagle (Reagle) - A Ph.D. candidate at NYU studying collaberative culture (e.g. A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective
  • Andreas Brändle (studying communication science in Zurich, Switzerland) - writing thesis on quality in the german Wikipedia.
  • Joachim Schroer and Prof. Guido Hertel - Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the university of Wuerzburg (Germany), international survey about the motivation of participants in Wikipedia now online at: http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/wikipedia.php?lang=en (German survey ran from 18-3-2005 till 8-4-2005)
  • Petter Karlström - Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction, studying online learning communities. Hopefully not too similar to Andrea Forte's work!
  • Kate Raynes-Goldie (katerg) and David Fono are examining the Green Party of Canada's use of a wiki to create their last platform. See the full text for the Online Deliberation 2005 Conference.
  • Kevin Carillo (MSc. student in admistration in Montreal, Canada; doing master's thesis on Wikipedia) see [4]
  • Boud Roukema Boud (cosmologist in Poland) - proposed project for wikimania meeting - at the moment see my home page w:User:Boud - i'm particularly interested in whether positive and negative feedback processes in the wikisphere (especially wikimedia wikis) tend to override the fundamental bias (non-neutrality) induced by favouring people with internet access and by favouring reputable primary sources. i'd be happy to do cooperate on this, but my (idealistic) hope is that the article will be GFDL and the software will be user-friendly and GPL so that others can easily build on the results. Boud 01:13, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Will Lakeman (MA student in Media and Cultural Studies at Sussex, England) is writing on the Wikipedia and the democratisation of human knowledge, looking both at the structure of the Wikipedia and the interaction of its community of editors. His research page can be found here. All comments are welcome on Will's Wikipedia user page
  • Marco Kalz (Mkalz) (PhD-Student in Educational Technology Unit, Hagen, Germany) is working about "Structuration principles in Wikipedia". Besides, I am interested in educational use of wikis and the WP.
  • Sisay Fissaha Adafre (PhD student in information access at the University of Amsterdam) is working on automated question answering against Wikipedia. Answering Questions against Wikipedia: Access and Authoring Support provides a short description of the project.
  • Antti Kapanen has submitted his thesis "Development of the WikiDossier Software" to the North Karelia Polytechnic. Advisor: D. Weber-Wulff
  • Sander Spek (SanderSpek, Dept. of Computer Science, Universiteit Maastricht) is doing a PhD on knowledge sharing which includes Wikipedia on topics such as trust between users. An MSc student supervised by Sander, Frank Palmen, is working on a recommender system for Wikipedia pages to add to a user's watchlist.
  • Judith Simon (Judith) (Master in Psychology at FU Berlin, now PhD-Student in Philosophy of Science at University of Vienna) is working on changing conceptions of knowledge and their relation to technology.
  • Gabriela Avram (Coniecto) (Postdoc researcher at the Interaction Design Center, Univerity of Limerick, Ireland)is doing research on Social Software, online learning communities and communities of practice in the context of Global Software Development.
  • Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) is an assistant professor at University of Hong Kong, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, looking into Wikipedia as a case study in participatory journalism. Published one of the earliest metrics-based evaluations of Wikipedia articles in April 2004. See web site.
  • Markus Glaser (Mglaser) is writing a PhD thesis on collaborative opinion forming and deliberation with wikis.
  • Bryan Pfaffenberger (Department of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia)is writing a paper on the Wikipedia community's construction of two dimensions of online identity: anonymity and privacy.
  • Jose Felipe Ortega (GlimmerPhoenix, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at URJC University, Madrid, Spain; see Libre Software Engineering Research Group). He is also Associate Professor at Alfonso X El Sabio University. He's currently working about multimedia content distribution schemes in large wikis, like Wikipedia, and trying to characterize the content creation process in Wikipedia, undertaking a complete statistical analysis based on Wikipedia database dumps. He is writing his PhD. thesis on modelling contribution patterns of the Wikipedia community of users. He is also developing WikiXRay, a Python software tool automating the quantitative analysis of Wikipedia database dumps, including 2D, 3D graphics and statistics.
  • Manfred Faden Dipl. Soz-Ök. Library of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, studying Library and Information Science at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (Postgraduate Correspondence Degree Course). Is writing a masters thesis on „Der Einsatz eines Wikis als zentrales Kommunikationsinstrument für die Thesauruspflege an verteilten Bibliotheksstandorten“ (The application of a Wiki as central instrument of communication for the Thesaurus maintenance at connected libraries in separate locations).
  • Christine Klaßen, FU Berlin, Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften, is writing a master's thesis about the Wikipedia in the context of the Enlightenment (the political dimension)130.133.204.217 18:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • M C Morgan, professor of English, Bemidji State University, USA. Research and teaching in collective writing using wikis and a rhetoric of wiki, investigating effective composing strategies, page patterns, linking, refactoring.
  • Josef Kolbitsch is a PhD student in Computer Science at Graz University Technology, Austria. His research focuses on electronic encyclopaedias and collaboration in digital libraries.
  • Derek Hansen is a PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information studying the use of wikis by online technical and medical support communities.
  • Doug Morris (Reswik) is a PhD student in Loyola University of Chicago's Sociology Department who is conducting dissertation research on collaborative editing of featured articles in the English Wikipedia.
  • PARC User Interface Research Group (en:User:Parc wiki researcher) - a researcher studying conflict occurance and resolution on Wikipedia. Surveyed select enwiki users (see en:User talk:Parc wiki researcher).
  • Elijah Meeks (Elijahmeeks) is a PhD student at the University of California, Merced in the World Cultures and History program. He is studying the use of new media in the presentation and understanding of knowledge in the humanities.
  • Claudia Müller (PhD student at the University of Potsdam, Department of Business Informatics and Electronic Government) is working on the analysis of self-organization in corporate wikis. One result of her research is the SONIVIS:Project, which enables to visualize collaboration and topics based on Wiki-specific networks.
  • Sylvain Firer-Blaess (Karibou) is a postgraduate student at the University of Sussex and is writing on the power structure, the economy and the ethical outcomes of the Wikipedia. A set of articles in french have been published at homo-numericus.net
  • Rut Jesus is a PhD student at the Center for Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at Copenhagen University. Studying 'Cooperation of Emergent Cognition in Socio-Technological Networks, the case of Wikipedia'.
  • Kotaro Nakayama is a PhD at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in Osaka-Univ.. His current research topic is Wikipedia mining and he developed a huge scale thesaurus named Wikipedia Thesaurus by Wikipedia mining. See wikipedia-lab.org.
  • Chris Bizer from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) works within the DBpedia project on extracting structured information such as infobox data and multi-lingual abstracts from Wikipedia. The data is published on the Web as RDF and is interlinked with other datasets.
  • Enric Senabre Hidalgo (user:esenabre) is a PhD candidate at the Open University of Catalonia. His current research topic is about the similarities between Wikipedia growth and the ways of collaborating and organizing in open source development projects.
  • Christophe Prieur from laboratories Liafa (University Paris Diderot) and Sense (Orange Labs), studies wikipedia as a social network, from both points of view of social and computer sciences.
  • Sören Auer works with his Agile Knowledge Engineering & Semantic Web (AKSW) group in particular on the DBpedia project with the ultimate goal of transforming Wikipedia from a content base into a knowledge base.
  • Anne Goldenbergis a PHD candidate in Communication at UQAM (Montreal, Québec) and in Sociology at Unice Sophia Antipolis (Nice, France). Her thesis deals with Common Sens Negociation Within Public Wikis.
  • 'Liam Wyatt (Witty lama is writing a History thesis at UNSW, Australia, on the topic of Wikipedia's academic lineage. How historiographical debates in the academy are relevant to those taking place on-wiki and vice versa.

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