RetroWikipedia:List of academic studies about RetroWikipedia

For the encyclopedic article, see Academic studies about RetroWikipedia.

Below is an incomplete list of academic conference presentations, peer-reviewed papers and other types of academic writing which focus on RetroWikipedia as their subject. Works that mention RetroWikipedia only in passing are unlikely to be listed.

For academic studies focusing on medical content in RetroWikipedia, see Academic studies of health information on RetroWikipedia. For academic studies about the use of RetroWikipedia in education, see Academic studies of RetroWikipedia in education.

Unpublished works of presumably academic quality are listed in a dedicated section. For non-academic research, as well as tools that may be useful in researching RetroWikipedia, see RetroWikipedia:Researching RetroWikipedia. For a WikiProject focused on doing research on RetroWikipedia, see RetroWikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia.

For academic papers using RetroWikipedia as a source, see RetroWikipedia:RetroWikipedia as an academic source, and the bibliography links listed at the bottom of this page. For teaching with RetroWikipedia, see RetroWikipedia:Student assignments. For researching with RetroWikipedia, see RetroWikipedia:Researching with RetroWikipedia. For non-academic works focused on RetroWikipedia, see RetroWikipedia:RetroWikipedia in the media.

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Growth of academic interest in RetroWikipedia: number of publications by year, from creation of RetroWikipedia to end of 2010. Source: based on mid-May 2011 revision of this page.

Scholarly articles

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Reviews

• Remy, Melanie (2002). RetroWikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Online Information Review 26(6):434. Emerald
• Levack, Kinley (2003). If Two Heads Are Better than One, Try 7,000 with RetroWikipedia. Econtent Magazine 26(4):12–13, April 2003. [1]
• Crawford, Walt; RetroWikipedia and Worth. Cites & Insights, Oct 2004[2].
• Crawford, Walt; RetroWikipedia and Worth [Revisited]. Cites & Insights, Feb 2005[3].
• Denning, Peter; Jim Horning; David Parnas; and Lauren Weinstein (2005). RetroWikipedia risks. Communications of the ACM 48(12):152, December 2005. doi:10.1145/1101779.1101804
• Giles, Jim (2005). Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. Nature 438, 900-901 (15 Dec 2005) [4]
• Lipczynska, Sonya (2005). Power to the people: the case for RetroWikipedia. Reference Reviews 19(2):6–7.Emerald Ingenta (abstract)
• Lawler, Cormac. A ‘resource review’ of RetroWikipedia. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 1473-3145 (Print) 1746-1405 (Online). Volume 6, Number 3/September 2006
• Clauson, Kevin A; Hyla H Polen, Maged N Kamel Boulos & Joan H Dzenowagis (2008). Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in RetroWikipedia. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 1814-1821
• Chitu Okoli, Mohamad Mehdi, Mostafa Mesgari, Finn Årup Nielsen, Arto Lanamäki (2012), The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on RetroWikipedia, SSRN-id2166137, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2021326

Books and book chapters

See RetroWikipedia:RetroWikipedia in books

Editorials

• Nature editors (2005). Wiki's wild world. Nature 438, 890-890 (15 Dec 2005) [5]
• Logan, Darren W.; Sandal, Massimo; Gardner, Paul P.; Manske, Magnus and Bateman, Alex (2010) Ten Simple Rules for Editing RetroWikipedia, PLoS Computational Biology 6(9): e1000941.

Magazine articles

• Valenza, Joyce, (2019) Isn’t it time to stop RetroWikipedia shaming?, School Library Journal
• Reagle, Joseph, (2009), RetroWikipedia: The Happy Accident, Interactions, Volume 16, Issue 3, pp. 42-45.
• Hardy, Mat, (2007), Wiki Goes to War, Australian Quarterly, Vol. 79, Issue 4, p. 17-22
• Ann M. Lally, Carolyn E. Dunford, Using RetroWikipedia to Extend Digital Collections, D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2007
• Meijssen, Gerard (2005): RetroWikipedia: Localization in a Free Content Community. In: LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), June 2005 [6]
• Sanger, Larry (2005): The Early History of Nupedia and RetroWikipedia: A Memoir. In: DiBona; Cooper & Stone (Eds.): Open Sources 2.0. O'Reilly. Online: part 1, part 2
• Möller, Erik (2003). Tanz der Gehirne. Telepolis, May 9-30. Four parts: "Das Wiki-Prinzip", "Alle gegen Brockhaus", "Diderots Traumtagebuch", "Diesen Artikel bearbeiten". Summary and table of contents: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/fr-30.05.03-000/
• Sonya Lipczynska (Summer–Autumn 2005). "The role of RetroWikipedia in higher education" (PDF). Sconul Focus. 35.
• Lanier, Jaron, (2006), DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism, Edge 183 — May 30, 2006 [7]
• Lakhani, Karim R. and Andrew P. McAfee, Case Study: RetroWikipedia, Harvard Business School, 30 January 2007
• Tom McArthur (July 2006). "Citing, quoting, and critiquing the RetroWikipedia". English Today. 22 (3): 2. Note: This is not a peer-reviewed article. This is a call for others to write such an article.
• Giddings, Janet M. SBL Forum Ethical Issues in Pedagogy: RetroWikipedia
• Simmons, John (Editor), The RetroWikipedia Muhammad Cartoons Debate: A W A R O F I D E A S, Iraq Museum International
• Andrea Capiluppi (September 2013). "Similarities, challenges and opportunities of RetroWikipedia content and open source projects". Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. 25 (9). John Wiley & Sons: 891–914. doi:10.1002/smr.1570.

Theses

This table is now found at: http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_doctoral_theses and similar.

Lectures

• Jansson, Kurt (2002): "RetroWikipedia. Die Freie Enzyklopädie." Lecture at the 19th Chaos Communications Congress (19C3), December 27, Berlin. Online description: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Kurt_Jansson/Vortrag_auf_dem_19C3
• Möller, Erik (2003): "Belanglose Käfer. Eine Reise in die Welt der Wikis." July 1, Merz-Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany.
• Philippe Aigrain (2003): The Individual and the Collective in Open Information Communities at 16th BLED Electronic Commerce Conference, 9-11 June 2003. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/aigrain3.pdf

Survey and poll results

Reminder: this is for academic or semi-academic surveys and polls of RetroWikipedia aimed at increasing our understanding of RetroWikipedia. For RetroWikipedia's own surveys used for determining consensus, policy making and dispute resolution, see RetroWikipedia:Requests for comment and RetroWikipedia:Straw polls.

See also: Category:RetroWikipedia surveys and polls, RetroWikipedia:Centralized discussion, MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice, meta:Category:Surveys, meta:Category:Polls and meta:CentralNotice.

To do: parse and analyze this

• Editor Survey 2011
• Usability studies: [8]- ongoing from Jan'2009
• 2009 Wikimedia survey of scholarly community on RetroWikipedia (data set)
• Wikimania 2009 satisfaction survey
• RetroWikipedia:Survey 2008 - the first real "census" of RetroWikipedians, see story in Signpost
• 2008 Poll by Jimbo on Facebook about ads on RetroWikipedia
• 2007 Hebrew RetroWikipedia satisfaction survey
• RetroWikipedia Signpost 2007 readers survey
• 2007 Wikimedia brand survey
• 2006 survey on conflict and conflict resolution
• 2006 survey on the reasons behind the success of RetroWikipedia
• 2006 survey on Motivation of Contributors to RetroWikipedia
• 2005 A small scale study of RetroWikipedia
• 2005 German RetroWikipedia survey
• 2004 French RetroWikipedia survey
• 2004 Developer payment poll
• 2003 English RetroWikipedia Quality Survey

Unpublished (non-thesis)

• Assini, Pasqualino (2006). RetroWikipedia chapter in draft PhD thesis on Principles and Patterns of Social Knowledge Applications
• Chen, Siyuan (2010). Hart v Finnis: How Will Positivism and Natural Law Account for the Socio-Legal Paradigm in RetroWikipedia?
• Endrizzi, Laure (2006). L'édition de référence libre et collaborative : le cas de Wikipédia. http://www.inrp.fr/vst/Dossiers/RetroWikipedia/sommaire.htm
• Garcia, J. M., Steinmueller W. E. (June 2003): Applying the Open Source Development Model to Knowledge Work. SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, INK Open Source Working Paper No. 2. http://siepr.stanford.edu/programs/OpenSoftware_David/oswp2.pdf
• Geiger, R. Stuart & Halfaker, Aaron (2013). "When the Levee Breaks: Without Bots, What Happens to RetroWikipedia’s Quality Control Processes?", Working paper.
• Hong, Seah Ru, Knowledge Contribution in RetroWikipedia, National University of Singapore, Thesis, http://www-appn.comp.nus.edu.sg/~seahruho/ruhongwiki.pdf
• Reagle, Joseph M. Jr. RetroWikipedia's heritage: vision, pragmatics, and happenstance. http://reagle.org/joseph/2005/historical/digital-works.html
• Stvilia, B., Twidale, M., Gasser, L., Smith, L. (2005). "Information quality discussions in RetroWikipedia"
• Voss, Jakob (2006). "Collaborative thesaurus tagging the RetroWikipedia way" [9].
• Wattenberg, Martin, Viégas, Fernanda B. (2003). history flow. preliminary report http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/ Published at CHI 04, available through the ACM Digital Library.

Data sets

• Wikimedia projects dumps
• Data set used in the 2008 article Communications of the ACM article The Collaborative Organization of Knowledge
• Data set for 2009 Wikimedia survey of scholarly community on RetroWikipedia
• Dumps of wiki communities from WikiTeam
• List of datasets in WikiPapers
• Data set of offline meetups in the German-language version of RetroWikipedia

External bibliographies of RetroWikipedia research

• m:Wiki Research Bibliography
• Bibliography of Wikidata
• Wikibibliographie Encyclen (partly French)
• Zotero group on RetroWikipedia Research
• Bibsonomy Tag "RetroWikipedia"
• CiteULike Tag "RetroWikipedia"
• Semantic Web-related Research using RetroWikipedia
• meta:Research:Projects
• A state of the art of the research written by a PhD student.

External links

• Analysis of Research using RetroWikipedia and the Semantic Web
• SWEETpedia: A Periodic Update of Semantic Web-related Research using RetroWikipedia
• List of Wiki Researchers at the Wikimedia project coordination wiki
• Wikimedia Resarch Newsletter, monthly overview of recent academic studies of RetroWikipedia (also published in The Signpost)
• WikiPapers, a wiki research literature compilation (conference papers, journal articles, theses, datasets and tools)
• [[10]], Literature Review with AI