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Scholarly research of Wikipedia is useful for understanding the encyclopedia's content, readers, editors, history, current state, and future. These results also yield important knowledge applicable to other open content communities. In addition to driving scholarly knowledge of such systems, this work can also give results that can improve Wikipedia itself. Much valuable research cannot be done without Wikipedia community members who volunteer to participate in studies.
However please be aware of the WP:NOTLAB policy.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Research is the hub for research on the English Wikipedia. Research that has previously been done can be found at meta:Research and Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia.
This section gives a brief overview of who researchers are and why they are interested in studying Wikipedia and its editors.
There are a wide variety of backgrounds from which people approach studying Wikipedia.
They are here to perform scientific analysis of Wikipedia and its users and, most often, intend to publish the results of their work in academic publications.
In the past, research in Wikipedia has built an understanding of how Wikipedia works, [1] why people contribute, [2] how editors interact with each other, [3] what work is discarded and why, [4] how admins are chosen, [5] [6] and how to detect vandalism. [7] [8] This research serves to increase understanding in how Wikipedia works and to improve its functioning. Researchers approach understanding Wikipedia in a few different ways.
Wikipedia is an interesting medium for scientific research. It is one of the most visited websites on the internet, serving as an information resource to millions of users every day. [9] Scientists find it remarkable that an encyclopedia in which articles can be edited by anyone anonymously, and in which damage can only be repaired after it occurs, has quality comparable to traditional encyclopedias. [10] They want to understand how the social dynamic of Wikipedia works. Further, Wikipedia is one of the few examples of millions of people working together on a single project. The Wikimedia Foundation also supports the work of researchers by maintaining two public mailing lists, one devoted to scholarly research and one for the committee, of Wikimedia projects and releasing periodic database snapshots for analysis.
Please familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia guideline.
Wikipedia has emerged as a site that continues to increase in popularity, both globally and in the U.S.
This is an
essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
Scholarly research of Wikipedia is useful for understanding the encyclopedia's content, readers, editors, history, current state, and future. These results also yield important knowledge applicable to other open content communities. In addition to driving scholarly knowledge of such systems, this work can also give results that can improve Wikipedia itself. Much valuable research cannot be done without Wikipedia community members who volunteer to participate in studies.
However please be aware of the WP:NOTLAB policy.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Research is the hub for research on the English Wikipedia. Research that has previously been done can be found at meta:Research and Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia.
This section gives a brief overview of who researchers are and why they are interested in studying Wikipedia and its editors.
There are a wide variety of backgrounds from which people approach studying Wikipedia.
They are here to perform scientific analysis of Wikipedia and its users and, most often, intend to publish the results of their work in academic publications.
In the past, research in Wikipedia has built an understanding of how Wikipedia works, [1] why people contribute, [2] how editors interact with each other, [3] what work is discarded and why, [4] how admins are chosen, [5] [6] and how to detect vandalism. [7] [8] This research serves to increase understanding in how Wikipedia works and to improve its functioning. Researchers approach understanding Wikipedia in a few different ways.
Wikipedia is an interesting medium for scientific research. It is one of the most visited websites on the internet, serving as an information resource to millions of users every day. [9] Scientists find it remarkable that an encyclopedia in which articles can be edited by anyone anonymously, and in which damage can only be repaired after it occurs, has quality comparable to traditional encyclopedias. [10] They want to understand how the social dynamic of Wikipedia works. Further, Wikipedia is one of the few examples of millions of people working together on a single project. The Wikimedia Foundation also supports the work of researchers by maintaining two public mailing lists, one devoted to scholarly research and one for the committee, of Wikimedia projects and releasing periodic database snapshots for analysis.
Please familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia guideline.
Wikipedia has emerged as a site that continues to increase in popularity, both globally and in the U.S.