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 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 "