This project, Research, is 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.

Contents 1 Goals (sorted by importance) 2 Scope 3 Ancestor (Wiki)Projects 4 Members 4.1 Supporters 5 Studies 5.1 Proposed 5.2 Ongoing 5.3 Completed 6 Resources 6.1 Guidelines 6.2 Mailing Lists 6.3 Data

[edit] Goals (sorted by importance)

1. Create policy of Wikipedia:Research
2. Build study recruitment system
   1. Design and implement Wikipedia:Subject Recruitment Approvals Group
   2. Build bot and gain approval

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to design, implement, discuss, and manage academic research that involves Wikipedia. We seek to ensure that researchers are given access to as much data and users as is possible while ensuring that we remain a productive part of the Wikipedia community.

[edit] Ancestor (Wiki)Projects

• WikiProject Wikidemia
• Wikipediology

[edit] Members

Please add your name here!

• EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
• PiperNigrum ^(hail|scan) 00:57, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
• Stu ^(aeiou)_{I'm Researching Wikipedia} 17:31, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
• _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:42, 16 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)

[edit] Supporters

This section is for people who are interested and supportive, but who do not have time to take an active role.

• R27182818 (talk) 17:13, 22 November 2009 (UTC) (Reid Priedhorsky, University of Minnesota)
• Ever wonder (talk) 23:52, 23 November 2009 (UTC) (Martin Hellberg Olsson, Ghent University)
• GlimmerPhoenix 10:41, 23 November 2009 (UTC) (Felipe Ortega, University Rey Juan Carlos)

[edit] Studies

[edit] Proposed

[edit] Ongoing

• HAPPI - a user interface modification that allows editors to visualize how content has persisted through an article while they edit them.
• NICE - a user interface modification that adds information about the reverted user and eases communication within Wikipedia's undo interface.

[edit] Completed

[edit] Resources

[edit] Guidelines

• Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia
• Staeiou's Research protocol

[edit] Mailing Lists

• wiki-research-l - a mailing list for the discussion of research in Wikipedia.

[edit] 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.