Wiki tab sweep

Tab sweep of items I reviewed regarding how social policies support or enable the success of wikis:


General Wiki Statistics

List of the largest installations of Mediawiki

http://s23.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis

Information and stats about Wikimedia project

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics

General Statistics of Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

Raw, public server-log style page statistics on Wikipedia

http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

Example of user community mining the public statistics published by Wikipedia

http://stats.grok.se/

Public charts showing Wikimedia usage stats

http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/

 

 

 

Examples of Wikipedia policies / social roles

Welcoming Commitee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcoming_committee

Example tool provided to select users on Wikimedia sites, along with the social policies that govern it — CheckUser

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Checkuser

Wikipedia arbitration policy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_policy

 

 

 

 

 

The study of wikis and why and how they work

How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko

http://dirkriehle.com/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.pdf

 

http://dirkriehle.com/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html

International Symposium on Wikis

http://www.wikisym.org/

From Little Things, Big Things Grow

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fromlittlethings

Wiki Patterns

http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Wikipatterns

measuring wiki viability

http://nitens.org/docs/wikidyn.pdf

what makes wikis work

http://snurb.info/node/742

What makes wikis work well

http://www.deltaknowledge.net/2008/08/what-makes-wiki-work-well.html

Viable wikis

http://www.patres-project.eu/images/4/47/ViableWikis.pdf

Design principles of Wiki: How can so little do so much?

http://c2.com/doc/wikisym/WikiSym2006.pdf

 

 

 

Specific Papers I found enlightening

Cooperation and Quality in Wikipedia.

http://ws2007.wikisym.org/space/WilkinsonHubermanPaper

Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia.

http://ws2007.wikisym.org/space/ReaglePaper

Quantitative Analysis of theWikipedia Community of Users

http://ws2007.wikisym.org/space/OrtegaGonzalezBarahonaPaper/Ortega_WikiSym2007_WikipediaQuantitativeAnalysis.pdf

Structuring Wiki Revision History

http://ws2007.wikisym.org/space/SabelPaper

exposing wikipedia revision activity

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/research%20papers/18500102.pdf

Wiki Trust Metrics

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/research%20papers/18500017.pdf

measuring author contributions to the Wikipedia

http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca/papers/08/wikisym08-users.pdf

a method for measuring co-authorship relationships in mediawiki

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/research%20papers/18500125.pdf

Cooperation and quality in Wikipedia

http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/wikipedia/wikipedia07.pdf

Are wikis usable?

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/proceedings/paper-01.pdf

 

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