User:Phoebe/Research

On research I am particularly interested in how people outside the Wikipedia community view and use Wikipedia -- groups such as librarians, teachers, or "ordinary users." I'm also interested in how the Reference Desk feature functions, and how trust and 'right answers' are generated on the Wikipedia. As a library science student, I posted a short survey for participants on the Wikipedia Reference desk. Although that survey is now outdated, it is still available here: [1] If you have asked or answered questions on that desk, please feel free to fill it out.It is completely confidential and will only be used for my own research into online and community reference services. I recently gave a presentation at the superb first annual Wikimania conference in Frankfurt on the information behavior of Wikipedia users. It can be found here[2]. I am also very interested in other people's research on the 'pedia and would love to get in touch with people doing research.

• See [3].