User:Jmskobalt~enwiki

Presentation
I'm a french user of Wikipedia till 2 years. I haven't so many edits but I contribute in an another way by analyse discussions, procedures, rules, conventions, principes, ... I study the self-organization of Wikipedia as a Phd student in Sociology in a french university : Université Marne-La-Vallée. I am very interested by the Social Network Analysis to modelize the cooperation between contributors and to understand articulations between various levels of engagement. I also work on cycles of life of Wikiprojects, how they emerge ? how they merge ? ...

We (see below) start a project with the french chapter of Wikipedia to visualize participation, roles, links between articles and category, contributors and thematics, ... I really hope I can make a presentation of first results during the next Wikimania.

Here is a little introduction, if you want more informations, you can check my personal page on fr or the Autograph website.

Autograph : Tools for self-organization of cooperative social networks
Gathering the domains of sociology, large graphs analysis and visualization, the aim of Autograph is to develop tools and services to help understand and act on the governance of large cooperative organizations managed through the Internet.

This exploratory project intends to conduct research on several online communities (Debian, Wikipedia, international activists, blogs, SIMS). Graph theory provides new directions for sociologists to study the organizational properties of these collectives.

The aim of the project is to develop new services of visualization, enabling the actors of the studied communities, to " see " the universe in which they cooperate to help them take decisions about the life of their communities. Cartographic and dynamic representations will be developped, enabling an exploration of the structure of the links and the thematic universe of the exchanges among actors. All these results will be developped in a tight relationship with the communities of users and tools will be Open Source.

Partners of the projects are :

Sociology


 * France Telecom Research & Development
 * ENST Paris (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)

Semantic networks


 * LIMSI

Graph Theory and network visualization


 * INRIA Futurs via In Situ
 * LIAFA
 * Semiosys

Valorisation


 * FING