[liberationtech] New research report on Wikipedia source management

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From: Heather Ford <hford at ushahidi.com>

Hi there,

We've just published the report for the *Understanding Sources* ethnographic
study of Wikipedia sources - including the case study of the 2011 Egyptian
Revolution article http://scr.bi/NfsKQg. This report forms part of a
project to explore successful communities' management of sources to inform
the development of SwiftRiver.

I've found it really interesting to use grounded
theory<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory> methodology
to study Wikipedia and Wikipedians and would love to meet other
ethnographers/researchers who are using similar methods. I've been
documenting some of my challenges/successes on the new
ethnographymatters.net such as the one here: http://bit.ly/NfvfSv and we're
looking for other researchers to contribute if anyone is interested.

I feel like doing this kind of work is an adventure in problem-solving so
it would be great if there are others who are finding the same challenges.

Best,
Heather.

 Heather Ford
Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver
http://ushahidi.com
@hfordsa on Twitter
http://hblog.org
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