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WikiLit: A literature review of scholarly research on Wikipedia

Authors

• Chitu Okoli (Chitu)
• Mohamad Mehdi
• Mostafa Mesgari
• Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen)
• Arto Lanamäki

Please contact us at wikilit - at - okoli.org.

License and attribution: How to distribute or re-use this data

Site license

• Abstracts are the property of their respective copyright holders.
• The rest of the wiki content is dual-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 3.0 license and under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL), unless stated otherwise. "Dual license" means you can choose to use either one of the two licenses.

Attribution

• To attribute your use of this data in accordance with the CC-BY-SA and ODbL licenses, please cite our working paper:

Okoli, Chitu, Mehdi, Mohamad, Mesgari, Mostafa, Nielsen, Finn Årup and Lanamäki, Arto, *** (March 13, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2021326

However, before you officially publish anything where you cite the working paper, please check here and on SSRN to see if we have published the final version yet, so that you can cite that.

• We have borrowed extensively from the forms, templates, semantic links, navigation structure and other presentation content from emijrp's WikiPapers. Many of the fields of the template in WikiLit follows the convention of WikiPapers.

Key details about this literature review

• We describe the methodology in detail in a working paper; it is currently very rough, but should be updated by May 2012.
• We include only research about Wikipedia, not about any other wiki or any other Wikimedia Foundation project.
• We focused mainly on peer-reviewed journal articles (over 300) and PhD dissertations (over 25), and have systematically sought to include these. It is a huge project, and we had to draw a limit to what we would mainly focus on.
• We have identified over 1,500 conference papers which we list with their abstracts. However, in our detailed analysis we have included only 70 or so of the most highly-cited conference papers. Because of our limited time and resources, unfortunately we were unable to analyze more than that in detail. However, we can certainly do detailed analysis of any important conference papers that we left out--please point them out!
• We do not include any items published after June 2011, after which the Wikimedia Research Newsletter was formally inaugurated; we're letting them pick up from where we stop.
• We have submitted a presentation proposal for Wikimania 2012.

Request for help

Please help us verify the accuracy of our data extraction so far. Practically, if you could take a look at your own publications and the publications you know well, that would be great. It's an open wiki, so please make any corrections directly, even anonymously. (However, if you want us to acknowledge your contributions, please create a user account and identify yourself on your user page.) In particular, please help us with the following:

• Please correct any inaccuracies you see, or e-mail us at wikilit - at - okoli.org to notify us of them.
• Please point out any peer-reviewed journal articles or PhD dissertations we have missed that were published before July 2011; we will certainly add these.
• Please point out any other scholarly studies (especially conference articles and significant non-peer-reviewed work) that you feel should definitely be analyzed in detail. Although we have listed 1,500 conference papers, our limited time and resources only permits us to analyze a fraction of them in detail. So, please help us highlight the most important ones that we have not analyzed in detail, with a brief explanation of why they are particularly important.
• Please add any scholarly studies about Wikipedia that we have left out! Our restrictions in what we include are purely pragmatic due to time and resource limitations. If you want to add anything that we say that we don't have the time to do ourselves, please feel free to do so! Please add your own research and those of others that you know well. However, if you add a new article, please be sure to ***fill all input fields***, since we will generally need complete data for our final analysis.
• Please suggest any data analysis or visualizations you would like to see as we synthesize and present the data.
• Please give any other feedback or suggestions that can help us make this dataset more useful to researchers!

The data is publicly available (it is dual-licensed CC-BY-SA and ODbL, except for copyrighted abstracts), but this is a beta release and there are probably a lot of errors. We hope to have a stable and very clean dataset within a couple months, both from community help and from our own internal quality control processes; we'll make another announcement when we feel it has reached "featured" quality. In particular, please wait a bit before exporting the data to other research collection websites and wikis until it is in a cleaner state; by then, we'll help make it available in as many export formats as practical. No later than May 31, 2012, we hope that this dataset will have attained exportable quality. (If this notice has not been updated by that date, then please contact us at wikilit - at - okoli.org to ask for the current status.)

How can I help?

Please help by filling missing fields in pages using the "Edit" tab or the [+] links and by creating new pages.

How can I create a new page?

For adding new content to WikiLit, you can use the following forms:

• Form:Publication: journal articles, conference papers, theses, etc.
• Form:Researcher: researchers.

How to browse this site

• Browse articles by research topics (click [+] to expand the subcategories):

• Browse articles

By title

By year of publication

• Browse researchers

By name

By country

• Browse the dataset by various categories

Nominate missing articles for us to add

Please list here any important articles that you feel we should add:

1. What is the quality of surgery-related information on the Internet? Lessons learned from a standardized evaluation of 10 common operations
2. Wikipedia and the emergence of dialogic expertise

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