This year's WikiSym will feature a conference-long informal track of presentations and papers about Wikipedia, including a Wikipedia Research Summit: an open discussion around the issues involved in researching Wikipedia (technical, social, or other). These discussions will lead into a similar program during Wikimania, which we hope will bring together researchers and Wikimedians for a productive dialog.

We hope that these sessions will lead to a broad discussion around solutions for some of these issues and new approaches for researching the "grand challenges" of Wikipedia.

Topics

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• What are the barriers to researching Wikipedia?
• What technical support do researchers of the Wikimedia Foundation projects need?
• What are some of the big questions that researchers can address?
• The dynamics and pedagogy of participation in Wikimedia projects
• Issues surrounding perceptions about Wikipedia as a) information resource b) an open educational resource
• Wikipedia Research procedures & ethics (e.g. SRAG)

Attendees

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• Phoebe
• Giota
• Howief
• Peter Gehres
• Jodi Schneider
• Andrea
• Guillaume Paumier
• Johanna/Jojoon(a) (phD student & CPOV network)
• Mayo Fuster Morell
• Daniel Kinzler
• Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen)
• Cormac Lawler (Cormaggio)
• Erinc Salor UvA
• Iassen Halatchliyski
• Andreea Gorbatai
• Martin Hellberg Olsson

See also

• Andrew Lih's talk
• Open space discussion
• Wikimania sessions
• Especially, the related panel at Wikimania
• 2009: Wikipedia research lunchtime discussion
• Wikipedia research policy — came out of that discussion (see Wikipedia Research and SRAG)

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