Input needed on a Wikiversity project Hi Jimbo Wales I m trying to get a project started on Wikiversity Wikipedia and the 2008 US elections which is a research project on how Wikipedia articles are created and improved particularly when the topic is the subject of strong sentiments and relates to events that change over the time period in the study probably January 2008 through January 2009 but there s some question about when the campaign actually began I m leaving you and a few other folks this note because you ve had some interest in Wikiversity s studies of Wikipedia in the past I wanted to get a few more eyes on the project before announcing it on Wikipedia I hope to do that over the next few days on the talk pages of the 4 beta test articles Barack Obama John McCain Sarah Palin and Joe Biden with a broader announcement later after the initial kinks are worked out I was also hoping you would know people who would be interested in this as well as knowing people with a few special skills including Data collection and sorting from the article histories how many edits and what sorts of edits over a given time period etc People who can make good graphs and charts from that data people who can help develop guidelines for whether and how to discuss individual editors if they are felt to be notable I think this could be a very fruitful study Wikipedia s model of content creation is quite complicated but it works SB Johnny talk