[Air-l] wikipedia research?

[Sam Tilden]

Charlie,
   
  Surely you don't mean that academic snobbery would actually defeat a path of research. Somebody actually got thrown off this list for for suuggessing it  there was such a phenomena.
   
  Sam

Charlie Balch <charlie at balch.org> wrote:
  I started to research the Wikipediests awhile back but did not pursue the
topic as I was convinced by faculty that academic snobbery would never allow
a paper to be published on this topic. It is a fascinating culture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_editor#Authorship_and_management_proc
ess

As usual with Wikipedia, the information has changed since last I looked. I
recall a culture that included Fairies who corrected grammatical errors
quietly in the background, Police (probably not the term used) who checked
for copyright infringement, vandals (also probably not the term used) who
changed pages and other colorful descriptors.

The times they are a changing,

Charlie Balch
Doctoral Candidate, Instructional Technology
LSU

Professor of CIS
Arizona Western College


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Subject: [Air-l] wikipedia research?

Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I
am curious if anyone is doing research on:

the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers,
editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough
to know the nomenclature).

Barry Wellman
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