Laboratory equipment.

SETI@home was an early example of distributed collaborative research efforts.

Welcome to Wikiversity's research portal. In addition to Wikiversity's learning mission in the pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary and non-formal educational sectors, the Wikimedia Foundation's approved project proposal for Wikiversity includes an approval to host research. The research portal is Wikiversity's main entry point to all known research being hosted here, as well as all documents and supporting materials relating to research, such as proposals and other administrative materials. If you wish to conduct research using Wikiversity, you should start by reading the various guidelines, bearing in mind their provisional status, and look at some existing projects. Research projects at Wikiversity are fundamentally collaborative and open to all. Discuss research projects, reports, methodologies, methods, theories, etc. in the research discussion forum.

Wikiversity page count up to March 2007. Click to enlarge.

Learning to learn a wiki way - Using wikis as tools for learning is a new and evolving social practice. If Wikiversity is to succeed, we need to learn how to make the best use of wikis for learning. This project aims to be an exemplar of how a wiki can be used for learning and to refine, develop and expand on the social practice of using wikis for learning.

Exobiology

Searching for water and life on Mars. The map shows a possible landing site at Eos Chasma.

Action research, Astronomy Project, Bibliography and Research Methods, Bloom clock project, Supernova models, Developing Wikiversity through action research, Wikiversity Distributed Virtual Supercomputer, Ethnography, Freelance academics, Hedonic modelling, Human Genetic Uniqueness Project, Introduction to research, Learning to learn a wiki way, Paducah2020, Research grant collaboration group, SchoolForge, Screensaver Project, Systems And Tools Educational Philosophy, Theory of Everything Project, UFO research, Exobiology, Wikiversity Genomics Database, Evolutionary Neuroscience Laboratory

The Wikiversity project proposal included the idea of allowing some research activities inside Wikiversity.

Research-related materials in the Wikiversity namespace:

• Research Mentoring Program
• Research guidelines
• Wikiversity:Research Ethics
• Wikiversity:Original research
• Wikiversity:Secondary research
• Wikiversity:Review board
• Wikiversity:Research collaboration
• Publishing original research
• Sandbox Server

Research-related categories:

• Research
• Primary research proposals
• Research collaboration
• Research grant collaboration group
• Research policy proposals
• Science research and the Law
• Secondary Research
• Wiki journals

Research-related topics:

• Topic:Research
• Topic:Business Research
• Topic:Science research and the Law

"It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas … If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you … On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones." - Carl Sagan

Please feel welcome to add to this list.

• Repair the research category so that the category tree displayed on this page is more user-friendly.

Other Wikiversity research-related portals:

• Education
• Engineering and Technology
• Life Sciences
• Mathematics
• Physical Sciences
• Social Sciences
• General Science Portal

2009

• 15 August: celebrate Wikiversity Day!
• 1 January: visit the Think Tank to suggest a new learning project

2008

• 24 August: join Wikiversity the Movie
• 15 August: Wikiversity is two years old today.

• Creating educational content at Wikiversity (teacher-orientated tour).
• Starting out at Wikiversity (student-orientated tour).
• If you missed the main welcome page, try again!