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Academic studies of Wikipedia

1 Statistics about all language projects
1.1 Stats based on external (non-Wikimedia) data
1.2 Complex metrics and statistics
1.3 Wikipedia
1.3.1 English Wikipedia
1.3.2 Japanese Wikipedia
1.3.3 German Wikipedia
1.4 Wiktionaries
1.5 Related Projects

Wikimedia Research Index



The Wikimedia Research Newsletter completes its first volume

User:Staeiou R. Stuart Geiger, a PhD student at UC Berkeley's School of Information

Researching Wikipedia (formerly known as State of Wikipedia) discusses some ways to quantitatively measure various aspects of Wikipedia project as well as covers research done in that area. The subject is difficult, as there are different goals that Wikipedia may have, and different ways of measuring achievement of those goals.
Contents
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1 Theory
1.1 Raw numbers
1.2 Relevance to the Web
1.3 Coverage
2 List of conducted studies and other resources
2.1 Category:Wikipedia statistics
2.2 Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
2.3 Category:Wikipedia tools
2.4 Category:Wikipedia essays
3 See also

Academic studies of Wikipedia

Below is an incomplete list of academic conference presentations, peer-reviewed papers and other types of academic writing which focus on Wikipedia as their subject. Works that mention Wikipedia only in passing are unlikely to be listed.

Ethically researching Wikipedia

Content analysis

Most research of Wikipedia does not involve ethical issues of informed consent. Because all contributions to Wikipedia are publicly released under the GNU Free Documentation License (see Wikipedia:Copyright), content analysis – the analysis of publicly-available pages, archives, or logs is generally considered exempt from such requirements and does not require an IRB approval. Nevertheless, researchers should notify their IRBs that they are conducting such research; IRBs have the responsibility to agree that a given activity is exempt, and often have forms (e.g., http://www.irb.cornell.edu/forms/ has a Request for Exemption from IRB Review form).
[edit] Surveys and interviews

If researchers distribute surveys or privately interview Wikipedians, this does require an IRB approval.

It is both easy and standard to inform the participant that their responses will be made public in certain ways and kept confidential in other ways. Common elements required by IRB for surveys and interviews include a recruitment script providing participants with information about this research project and their rights, to be emailed to or posted on a public wiki discussion page of an editor. Example of such a script:
“ I am RESEARCHER'S REAL NAME, and I am a researcher at SPECIFIC UNIVERSITY. I am conducting a research of SUBJECT. The purpose of this research is to GATHER INFORMATION ON/CONTRIBUTE TO/ETC. For that reason, we will be SURVEYING/INTERVIEWING PEOPLE LIKE YOU asking them to COMPLETE A BRIEF (X MINUTES) QUESTIONNAIRE/PARTICIPATE IN A BRIE (X MINUTES) INTERVIEW. If you are willing to participate, our QUESTIONNAIRE/INTERVIEW will ask you about SUBJECT. There are no foreseeable risks nor benefits to you associated with this project. All responses are confidential. Your participation is

nformation for editors

This section gives a brief overview of who researchers are and why they are interested in studying Wikipedia and its editors.
[edit] Who are researchers

There are a wide variety of backgrounds from which people approach studying Wikipedia.

Academics: the students, professors, and staff of colleges and universities
Industry researchers: the staff of private companies
Independents: individuals without an affiliation with an interest in 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.

nformation society
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For other uses, see Information society (disambiguation).

The information society is a society where the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally, through using IT in a creative and productive way. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart, whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding. People who have the means to partake in this form of society are sometimes called digital citizens. As Beniger[1] shows, this is one of many dozen labels that have been identified to suggest that we are entering a new phase of society.

The markers of this rapid change may be technological, economic, occupational, spatial, cultural, or some combination of all of these.[2] Information society is seen as the successor to industrial society. Closely related concepts are the post-industrial society (Daniel Bell), post-fordism, post-modern society, knowledge society, Telematic Society, Information Revolution, Liquid modernity, and network society (Manuel Castells).

Citations
303 Enhanced hypertext categorization using hyperlinks - Chakrabarti, Dom, et al. - 1998
131 Computing Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis - Gabrilovich, Markovitch - 2007
124 Semantic wikipedia - Völkel, Krötzsch, et al. - 2006
102 Topical locality in the web - Davison - 2000
79 Yago: a core of semantic knowledge - Suchanek, Kasneci, et al. - 2007
72 WikiRelate! Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia - Strube, Ponzetto - 2006
21 Mining domain-specific thesauri from Wikipedia: A case study - Milne, Medelyan, et al. - 2006
14 Extracting semantic relationships between wikipedia categories - Chernov, Iofciu, et al. - 2006
12 Relation extraction from Wikipedia using subtree mining - Nguyen, Matsuo, et al. - 2007
8 Wikipedia mining for an association web thesaurus construction - Nakayama, Hara, et al. - 2007
3 A thesaurus construction method from large scale web dictionaries - Nakayama, Hara, et al. - 2007
3 Improving the extraction of bilingual terminology from Wikipedia - Erdmann, Nakayama, et al. - 2009
2 Web Consortium, "Simple knowledge organisation systems (skos)," http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos - Wide - 2004
1 Leuf, The Wiki Way: Collaboration and Sharing on the Internet - Bo - 2

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This study examined the impact of technological and economic factors on the global diffusion of Wikinomics among developed and developing countries. Examining different language editions of Wikipedia, this study found significant correlation between a variety of socio–economic factors and involvement in Wikipedia.