User talk:Cormaggio
See Francis Schonken's outline of Cormac's research. You can contact me at cormaggio[at]yahoo.co.uk or cormaggio(at)gmail.com. Cormac; Cormaggio
You wrote:
- PS - if you hate questionnaires so much, what made you agree to this one? Just because it was about Wikipedia?
Well, erm, yes, I admit, that was the main reason.
- about attracting attention to your questionnaire
- on English Wikipedia I was thinking about RfC. Attracting attention to external research is however not the main purpose of that page, so people might oppose to it being posted there - I want to give it at try, if this doesn't cause disappointment on your side when effect would be different from expectation.
- on Dutch Wikipedia I would post on the Dutch equivalent of Village pump, i.e. nl:wikipedia:de kroeg. Note however that Dutch wikipedians have proven to be difficult to seduce into clicking towards meta.
- I am open to however people find my questionnaire and how many would like to contribute to my studies. However I deliberately avoided asking people to send it on to friends or colleagues, because I wanted a sense of the variety anmd geographical spread of Wikipedians (although this is obviously limited by language - there are many who flick between languages, and many who will stay in their community). Cormaggio
- about the topic of your dissertation
- I understand you primarily aim at the educational aspects of Wikipedia-like endeavours. Just wanted to tell you that in that respect I have this naive idea that if I were a teacher that instead of giving homework I'd ask my pupils to write an encyclopedia article in Wikipedia, that is: choose themself a topic that has no or a deficient wikipedia article, and show what they can make out of that (wikipedia history list is very easy to check what contribution exactly they made). For me as a teacher my work would be made easier, as other wikipedians might work on the same articles too, so I'd not be the only one giving feedback to my pupils. Well, somebody helping to answer the question whether this is indeed only naive or nonetheless workable as an educational scheme, would make me very happy.
- What I'd be interested in too (even more than in the previous), is somebody studying the specific sociology of the Wikipedia endeavour, which is somehow something of a different order, when comparing e.g. to slashdot, etc... even at meta it often appears that wikipedians are still unable to clarify to themselves how the whole thing works sociologically. Surely this would be an interesting field to explore for a social scientist? Now, I'm dreaming: that would probably be too large a field for your M.Ed dissertation...
- How's your German? I mean, reading the summary of Ingo Beyerlein's dissertation mentioned at m:Research, this is probably very close to what you're working on...
Lots of success!
--Francis Schonken 08:46, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- German was a long time ago for me, hence I probably wouldn't be able to tackle a dissertation. I do however have a few friends who are either native or fluent German, and if possible might help out in this. (Or any other suggestions?)
- I really appreciate your time and effort in taking this research forward, Francis. It has added a whole new dynamic to the way I was considering distributing the questionnaire, which has been fairly limited so far. As for the educational aspect of Wikipedia, your idea is pretty much exactly what I was thinking of doing myself or proposing to other educators. My view of education is pretty broad anyway (I'm not even a teacher as such), and i consider Wikipedia to be a learning community, not just about collecting information but learning collaboration. But I think this is the way that so-called E-learning is going, with teachers/educators using collaborative projects like Wikipedia, Moodle-based applications, or internal forums like WebCT, to get students to do their own research and feedback in whatever arena they choose as their learning environment/platform. I've got loads of links to elearning resources, which I hoep to post up to maybe my User page, as I get the hang of this whole thing. So more to follow.. Cormaggio
Questionnaire
Hey Cormac,
I'd like to fill in your questionairre, but I would prefer to do it by e-mail. The page on meta claims this is also an option, but I cannot find a mail link on your user page. If you don't want to reveal your e-mail publically, maybe you can go to my user page on the dutch wikipedia and send me an e-mail via that form, in which you mention your correct e-mail address.
- Got it. With some help from user:Francis Schonken I found your e-mail address in the text. Sander Spek
Thanks a million to you Sander, and I'll be emailing you as well - Cormac. (I really like Francis' approach - but am still trying to figure out what's the best way of arranging it, since I am pretty new to the editing and structuring of wikipedia)
The Ginormous Survey Merger
See m:Wikicensus for details on the different surveys already out there, and the different efforts underway.
I'm thinking there could be a single database with survey data and user information; perhaps with different surveys of different sizes, or some surveys sent out in multiple segments, or sectioned surveys... +sj + 19:50, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
My research page
I've set up a page at meta, m:Research/Wikipedia_as_a_learning_community where I hope to promote discussion on the experience of Wikipedians, related to interpersonal dynamics and the creation of community. If there are any comments, you could leave them here or on that page's talk page. Cormaggio 17:40, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Call for papers for Wikimania.
Wikimania workshops, lectures, short lectures, posters, and tutorials; in case you missed it. — Jeandré, 2005-03-18t14:21z
South Slavic NPOV page
(Answer to your request on my discussion page on metaWiki)
It's true that I'm enlisted as a participant in the South Slavic NPOV page, but I’m not a leading person there, moreover I’m Bulgarian, not from ex-Yugo states:) Unfortunately, the project is hibernated - many months there is no activity related to it. The very first issue discussed was one on language of communication (English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian or, possibly, Bulgarian in Latin script). Another issue is why this page should exist. One of the answers was, that on this page we could discuss all the controversial articles (related to South Slavic subjects). A preliminary list of such articles was created. The last issue on the list is one on the system of making proposals for NPOV articles. Unfortunately, such a system is far from invention :). Howsoever, an article is quoted as one on which some people from Serbian and Croatian Wikipedias have been worked. The subject of the article is Ideology of linguistic controversies between Croatians and Serbs. I’m not sure my summary is thorough enough, but if you have some additional questions concerning details, you’re welcome! (My discussion page on bg.wikipedia) --Harry 13:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)