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==Wikipedia Studies==
=== Completed Studies ===
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies|Wikipedia in academic studies]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia/Use of referencing and assessment]] - A brief survey of reference use in random articles.

=== Data ===
* See [[Wikipedia:Statistics]]

=== Ongoing Studies ===
''for Proposed Studies, see the Research Questions lists below;'' all content at [[/Studies]] has been incorporated into specific study pages.
* [[/Policy evaluations|Evaluations]] of changes in Wikipedia policies.
* [[/First edit|What encourages initial contribution?]]  
*: What encourages [[/Retention and return|retention and return]]?  (for a separate study...)
* [[/Fundraising|What encourages donations?]]  Donation details, feedback, and variation.
*: Much data can be collected, and many metrics, to evaluate this question; to date no structured experiments or analyses have been done.  See also this [[/Fundraising|analysis of WMF fundraising drives]], and these [[/Fundraising/Proposals|proposals]] for ways to evaluate potential fundraising techniques.
* Visualizations : History Flow (I and II), &c.
* [[/Quant|Wikipedia Quant Project]]:  Quantitative and statistical analysis of Wikipedia content, community behavior, and policy change, to be performed on a new, multipurpose [[Wikipedia:Statistics server|statistics server]] widely accessible to client researchers.  
* [[/Primary education|Use in primary education]] : how is Wikipedia used in primary schools, as source or knowledge, as introduction to collaboration, as space for contributing local knowledge?  Ditto for Wikimedia Commons.

'''Issues''' : How to identify classes of cases/user; what variations to impose (and how to implement them); then how to choose randomly among them to implement variation[s]; finally what data to collect [both primary and secondary metrics].