User:Cormaggio

My name is Cormac Lawler. I did a PhD at the University of Manchester, on the process of setting up and developing Wikiversity. Previously, I've studied how the Wikipedia project is constructing a learning community as much as it is creating an encyclopedia, which was the basis for my M.Ed dissertation in Communication, Education and Technology (also in Manchester). I'm very interested in online collaboration and community building and I am particularly studying interpersonal dynamics, conflict resolution and identity within collaborative projects.

I can be contacted at cormaggio (at) gmail.com.

Cormaggio: wikiversity | meta | commons and others...

Current (on Wikiversity)

 * Developing Wikiversity through action research - understanding and developing Wikiversity by participating in its development
 * Paper for Wikimania 2007: "Learning and learning about learning in Wikiversity"

On Wikipedia

 * Pilot study: "A small-scale study of Wikipedia"
 * Pilot study questionnaire
 * Paper for Wikimania 2005
 * Edited version of Wikimania paper translated into German, and published in the Open Source Jahrbuch 2006
 * M.Ed dissertation: "Wikipedia as a learning community"
 * Wikipedia as a learning community: content, conflict and the ‘common good’
 * Small questionnaire for dissertation

Research on and around Wikipedia/wikis

 * Research on meta
 * m:Wikimedia_Research_Network
 * Wikidemia- overview of people researching WP
 * Wikicensus (on meta) - with details of different projects/inquiries
 * Overview of Wikipedia and research on Wikiscience
 * WikiJournals
 * Wikiresearch (on meta)
 * Wikipedia_in_academic_studies
 * m:Wiki_Research_Bibliography

Interests/work

 * Special projects committee
 * Wikiversity (Meta)
 * Wikiversity (Wikibooks)
 * School_and_university_projects
 * Wikimedia_UK

WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Education
 * WikiProject Alternative education
 * WikiProject Community
 * WikiProject Wikidemia
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team

Interesting articles (or articles I am interested in)

 * General: Parable of the broken window, Mean center of U.S. population, Irish mythology, Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China, Potemkin village, Elephant in the room, Degenerate art
 * Photography: Photogram, Anna Atkins, Mary Ellen Mark
 * Education: John Dewey, Paulo Freire, Lev Vygotsky, Etienne Wenger, Donald Schon, Constructionist learning, Constructivism (learning theory). See WikiProject Education.
 * Places (add photos and info): Manchester (environs, local areas and local stuff), Dublin (photos), Ballymore Eustace (and Russborough House), Barcelona, Guatemala, Chiapas, Finland (Lahti)
 * Articles that are interesting but that I don't necessarily agree with: Tragedy of the commons
 * Articles I've read but that I'm slightly wary of: Transhumanism, 'Pataphysics, Free-market environmentalism
 * The world we live in: Hikikomori,
 * Stats (euch): Statistics, Probability distribution, Standard score, Student's t-test, Null hypothesis, List_of_statistical_topics, Category:Statistics

People

 * My collection of Wikipedians - ooh
 * Wikipedia:Who&Why?
 * m:Power_structure
 * m:Wikipedia_sociology
 * m:User:Sj/structure
 * Community_hash
 * I also think there could also be a something like a Graveyard to parallel Missing_Wikipedians (no? too morbid? tell me..)

Project

 * Collaboration of the week
 * WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias
 * Pushing_to_1.0
 * m:Article_validation_feature
 * m:The_future_of_Wikipedia

Self-reflection

 * Wikipedia
 * Itself
 * What_Wikipedia_is_not
 * Criticisms
 * Our_responses_to_our_critics

Some Other Links

 * Sandbox
 * Edit count
 * Google search for Wikipedia content
 * Browse
 * Wikipedia Signpost - Newsletter
 * Blocking_policy_proposal
 * Policies_and_guidelines
 * Policy Library
 * Talk_Etiquette_FAQ
 * Dispute_resolution
 * Wikiquette
 * Civility
 * WikiGnome
 * Vandalism in progress
 * Village pump
 * Wikipedia in the media
 * Featured articles
 * Featured pictures
 * Featured article candidates
 * m:Multilinguilism
 * m:New_project_policy
 * Ward Cunningham interview
 * Ward Cunningham's original wiki
 * Larry Sanger's article on Wikipedia in Kuro5hin 31/12/04
 * Joseph Reagle article on Wikipedia with a section on conflict
 * Project:Trade Standard-trade accountability&transparency

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