(in 2010, much has happened since)
Anne Goldenberg & Rut Jesus are two researchers involved in the comprehension of wikis and wikiaffiliated structures. They have written together about a possible tool to uncover wikiarticle writing and have presented a workshop at WikiSym' 08. They are both PhD students researching Wikis:
Anne Goldenberg is a PhD student based in Montreal. She studied negotiations of contributions in public wikis. She is a wiki and free software researcher and practitioner, she directed the Wikigraphe project, sponsored by the CIAM. She also co-organized the RococoCamp / RecentchangesCamp who was held in Montreal 2006. She taught free software and wiki principles to several classes (UQAM, UPAM), research groups (labCMO, Computer society), community groups (Studio XX, Koumbit) and to the Union. She is also specialized in the organization of OpenSpace (Rocococamp, UPAM, SAT Code Forum). She set up a first version of [Coll/nn/ective Mind] at the Artivistic Festival in October 2009, Montreal.
Rut Jesus is a PhD student based in Copenhagen. She is studying cooperation and distributed cognition in Wikiarticles. She studied Physics and Philosophy, worked for Learning Lab Denmark at the Center for Learning Games and runs different workshops in the interface of gaming/reflection/open space/play, with themes as diverse as sexual identity or ontology, for activists and academics.