Wikipedia:WikiProject Research
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This WikiProject exists to record, discuss, and manage academic studies about Wikipedia, to help researchers get access to the required and available data and users without disrupting Wikipedia, and to pursue related goals in furtherance of the Wikipedia community's practical interests in the face of the fact that Wikipedia is a significant topic of scientific interest.
It is also a space for researchers who are studying Wikipedia to interact with the Wikipedia community to discuss ideas, collaborate with each other and ensure that the methods used for gathering data and recruiting subjects account for the needs and norms of the community.
Related pages include m:Research, and m:Statistics. This page and project are still very preliminary and will benefit from your contributions and insight. If you would like to help, please sign the members list below and introduce yourself on the talk page.
Goals
- Monitor how researchers of Wikipedia are conducting their research on the site and whether they are following Wikipedia policy requirements (as specified in Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not § Wikipedia is not a laboratory) and wider ethical requirements (as described in Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia).
- Reach out to researchers and receive calls from help from researchers to make sure that everything is going the way it should.
- Monitor, document, and keep developing recommendations for best practices for researchers of Wikipedia.
- Keep track of project space pages that deal with research of Wikipedia and make sure they are adequately maintained (e.g., keep updating the Wikipedia:List of academic studies about Wikipedia).
- Note interesting results coming from research of Wikipedia and look for any potential benefit for the Wikipedia community in individual research projects.
- Keep taking note of how the Wikimedia Foundation researches Wikipedia and how the Foundation and the broader Wikimedia movement is interacting with the research community (e.g., what Wikimedia Research is doing; see also m:Research:FAQ).
Members
Active
This section is for people who are currently willing and able to contribute some time and play an active role in the Research Project.
- Stu (aeiou)I'm Researching Wikipedia 17:31, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:42, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- Josh Parris 06:42, 5 January 2010 (UTC) I can't escape the vortex
- DarTar (talk) 12:07, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
- Andrew327 06:17, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact 19:50, 1 February 2015 (UTC), see also my French user page on fr.Wikiversitiy
Inactive
- EpochFail (talk|contribs) 22:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- PiperNigrum (hail|scan) 00:57, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
- CMUResearcher (talk) 20:35, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
- -- ForteTuba (talk) 20:35, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- riedl (talk) 00:22, 18 Dec 2009 (UTC)
- Bilal Abdul Kader (talk|contribs) 22:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- Pickle23 (talk) 22:15, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
- Thelmadatter (talk) 17:49, 13 August 2013 (UTC)* Peter Isotalo 16:52, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Resources
- Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia
- Staeiou's Research protocol
- WP:ORCID - Using your ORCID identifier on your Wikipedia user page
Mailing Lists
- wiki-research-l - a mailing list for the discussion of research in Wikipedia.
Data
- Wikipedia:Database download - Regular XML and SQL dumps of English Wikipedia's database and resources for interacting with them
- m:Statistics - various Wikipedia statistics
- Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia - discusses some ways to measure various aspects of Wikipedia project as well as covers current research.