Phoebe, I just joined the Wiki research group and I will post it there. Thanks for the heads up. Here is the abstract of my thesis: The Transformation of the Encyclopedia: A Textual Analysis and Comparison of the *Encyclopædia Britannica* and *Wikipedia* The purpose of this thesis is to explore the following research question: Are there grammatical textual differences between *Encyclopædia Britannica*and *Wikipedia*? Specifically, this study will focus on the articles for "Communism" and "Dwight D. Eisenhower" that appear in the online version of Encyclopædia* Britannica* and *Wikipedia*. Using a grammatical textual analysis, the study finds there is little difference grammatically between*Encyclopædia Britannica * and *Wikipedia* though they are very different types of systems. There are several different types of textual or contextual methods that could expand on this initial approach to find differences between* Encyclopædia Britannica* and *Wikipedia*. what are you doing with Wiki's? M On 4/25/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Mark!
Since you made it public, would you be willing to fwd the link to wiki-research-l? ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l)
Also, given all those interesting readings, I'm curious about what your thesis is about.
Finally, I think the quote in your sig comes from William Gibson, not Tim O'Reilly :)
cheers, phoebe
On 4/23/07, Mark Bell <typewritermark@gmail.com> wrote:
Folks,
I thought I would post my Wikipedia bibliography from my master's
thesis.
Hope you find it useful.
http://www.storygeek.com/?page_id=83
M
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