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• Closed-source papers on open source communities: a problem and a partial solution

  June 12, 2011

  In the Wikipedia research community — that is, the group of academics and Wikipedians who are interested in studying Wikipedia — there has been a pretty substantial and longstanding problem with how research is published. Academics, from graduate students to tenured faculty, are deeply invested and entrenched in an system that rewards the publication of [...]

  posted in Blog Posts, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• The Lives of Bots

  March 5, 2011

  I’m part of a Wikipedia research group called “Critical Point of View” centered around the Institute for Network Cultures in Amsterdam and the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore.  (Just a disclaimer, the term ‘critical’ is more like critical theory as opposed to Wikipedia bashing for its own sake.)  We’ve had some great conferences and [...]

  posted in Academic Works, Published Works by R. Stuart Geiger

• Perils of Keyword-Based Bibliometrics: ISI’s ’1990 Effect’

  February 5, 2010

  Have you done historical bibliometric analysis of a scientific field or topic area and found that there is a massive increase in research articles after 1990?  Are you using ISI’s Web of Science and searching by topic or keyword?  If so, don’t make the same mistake I did: these results aren’t because of some sea [...]

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• Researching Wikipedia Holistically: A Tentative Approach

  October 11, 2008

  This is a tentative article-length introduction to my thesis on Wikipedia. It is an attempt to analyze Wikipedia from an interdisciplinary perspective that tries to make problematic various assumptions, concepts, and relations that function quite well in the “real world” but are not well-suited to studying Wikipedia. I begin by talking about the nature of [...]

  posted in Thesis, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: Collaborative research on Wikiversity with Cormac Lawler

  July 20, 2008

  Collaborative research on Wikiversity by Cormac Lawler (user Cormaggio on Wikimedia projects) at the University of Manchester.  Wikiversity is a relatively young project in the Wikimedia umbrella, but I think it is a natural development and a great space to realize the potential of all the educators currently on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and all the [...]

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger