Wikis
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General
- Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals
- Wiki Research Bibliography
- current research
- WikiMatrix
- Wikipatterns
- IBM Visual Communication Lab Publications
- A wiki of wiki, wiki people and wiki ideas
- web resources of wikis (in German)
- Wiki publications (publications until 2005)
- more wiki publications (publications until 2005)
- WikiEngines
- another list of WikiEngines
List of Wiki projects
List of references about wikis
- Methods and Measures for the Analysis of Corporate Wikis:A Case Study
- Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph
List of references about Wikipedia
- Wikipedia in academic studies (An almost complete list)
- Survey of Wikipedia accuracy and completeness
- More research on the accuracy and completeness of the Wikipedia
- Wikipedia press coverage
- Wikipedia press coverage (German)
- HistoryFlow: visualizing the editing history of Wikipedia pages
- Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia
- The Visual Side of Wikipedia
- V. Zlatic, M. Bozicevic, H. Stefancic, and M. Domazet: Wikipedias: Collaborative web-based encyclopedias as complex networks. Phys. Rev. E 74, 016115 (2006), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.016115
- A. Capocci, V. D. P. Servedio, F. Colaiori, L. S. Buriol, D. Donato, S. Leonardi, and G. Caldarelli: Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: The internet encyclopedia Wikipedia Phys. Rev. E 74, 036116 (2006), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.036116
- Complex Networks in Different Languages: A Study of an Emergent Multilingual Encyclopedia*
- Ingo Frost: Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in virtuellen Gemeinschaften? Eine systemwissenschaftliche Analyse des deutschsprachigen Wikipedia-Projektes. [1]
- Butler, D., 2008, Publish in Wikipedia or perish; Website; Nature News [2].
- Huss, J. W., Orozco, C., Goodale, J., Wu, C., Batalov, S., Vickers, T. J., Valafar, F. und Su, A. I., 2008, A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function, PLoS Biology 6(7), e175 [3].
- Keim, B., 2007, News feature: WikiMedia, Nat Med 13(3), 231-233 [4].
Analysis of Wikipedia
- Different tools for analyzing Wikipedia - great list!
- Wikipedia Statistics English
- Wikipedia -- Eine empirische Analyse (In German)
- Network Analysis for Wikipedia (http://www.fran.it/)
- Voss, Jakob (2005) Measuring Wikipedia. In: Proceedings International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics: 10th, Stockholm (Sweden).
- Analysing and visualising Wikipedia (presentation)
- Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Wikipedia and Its Authors
- Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: The internet encyclopedia Wikipedia
- Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Software for analyzing Wikis
Overview of tools here
| Name + URL | Description |
|---|---|
| Mediawiki Extensions | Mediawiki Extensions |
| JWPL Java Wikipedia Library | Free, Java-based application programming interface that allows to access all information contained in Wikipedia |
| WikiDashboard | Providing social transparency to Wikipedia |
| Wiki Explorator | Reports for Wikis (in German) |
| WikiLens | To rate things, and add more things (e.g., movies, books, classes, software projects) to allow anyone to rate them |
| WikiPlayer | To "replay" and analyze the wiki-based collaboration |
| WikiXRay project | Goal is to develop a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project |
| WikiTracer | Web service providing platform-independent analytics and comparative growth statistics for wikis. |
| Wiki Trust | Tool to compute author reputation and text trust of wikis in real-time (MediaWiki extension, BSD license) |
| Wikipedia article traffic statistics | .. |
| Six degrees of Wikipedia - links | Finds the shortest path between any two Wikipedia articles |
| Edit counter | Edit count shows a user's total contributions, as well as some statistics about them |
| XML Export MediaWiki | Export of article history in XML |
| MWDumper | Quick little tool for extracting sets of pages from a MediaWiki dump file |
| SIOC exporter for MediaWiki based wikis | Automatically extract wiki structural information to RDF |
| Wikibu | Provides a rough indication of the reliability of an article..and more |
| HAPPI | HAPPPI - Historical text highlighting wiki gadget (Screenshot) |
Wikis in Companies
- [Industrialization guide] - step by step guide on how to introduce a MediaWiki in a company
- [omCollab project] - provides a platform for enterprise collaboration and uses MediaWiki as the wiki component
- Corpedia (in German)
Related Conferences
- WikiSym - The conference and community for wiki researchers and practitioners worldwide
- Wikimania conference for all Wikimedians who contribute to one of the many Wikimedia Foundation projects
