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===Usage===
===Usage===
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Pageviews have increased very substantially to more than
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,000 as of
April 20
, 2015, especially after the very widely used pages of the [http://repec.org/ Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)] service [https://ideas.repec.org/ IDEAS] link back to each article page of the wiki that links to an entry at their pages (cf. [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/The_Impact_of_Legalized_Abortion_on_Crime_%28QJE_2001%29 this example] and check in [https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/qjecon/v116y2001i2p379-420.html their entry] under "lists"). Several academic blogs reported. [http://davegiles.blogspot.de/2013/09/replication-and-reproducibility.html] [http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/05/replication-in-economics.html] [http://blog.repec.org/2014/07/16/economics-replication-wiki-now-on-ideas/] [http://andrewgelman.com/2014/08/22/replication-wiki-economics/] [http://bitss.org/2014/06/27/replication-in-economics-database/] The [https://www.aeaweb.org/rfe/showCat.php?cat_id=9 American Economic Association lists the wiki as useful resource for economists]. It was presented at the [http://econ.au.dk/fileadmin/site_files/filer_oekonomi/subsites/smye/BookletSMYE.pdf Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Aarhus, 2013], the [http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Ashley/Full%20Programme_v14%20%28website%20version%29.pdf Economics Network conference in Exeter, 2013], the [https://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/assa_programs/ASSA_2014.pdf American Economic Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, 2014], the [http://www.touteconomie.org/afse2014/index.php/meeting2014/lyon/paper/view/348 Annual Meeting of the French Economic Association in Lyon, 2014], the [http://www.eea-esem.com/eea-esem/2014/prog/viewpaper.asp?pid=3108 joined conference of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association in Toulouse, 2014], and the [http://bitss.org/annual-meeting/2014-2/ 2014 Research Transparency Forum of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences].<br>
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Pageviews have increased very substantially to more than
511
,000 as of
June 2
, 2015, especially after the very widely used pages of the [http://repec.org/ Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)] service [https://ideas.repec.org/ IDEAS] link back to each article page of the wiki that links to an entry at their pages (cf. [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/The_Impact_of_Legalized_Abortion_on_Crime_%28QJE_2001%29 this example] and check in [https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/qjecon/v116y2001i2p379-420.html their entry] under "lists"). Several academic blogs reported. [http://davegiles.blogspot.de/2013/09/replication-and-reproducibility.html] [http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/05/replication-in-economics.html] [http://blog.repec.org/2014/07/16/economics-replication-wiki-now-on-ideas/] [http://andrewgelman.com/2014/08/22/replication-wiki-economics/] [http://bitss.org/2014/06/27/replication-in-economics-database/] The [https://www.aeaweb.org/rfe/showCat.php?cat_id=9 American Economic Association lists the wiki as useful resource for economists]. It was presented at the [http://econ.au.dk/fileadmin/site_files/filer_oekonomi/subsites/smye/BookletSMYE.pdf Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Aarhus, 2013], the [http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Ashley/Full%20Programme_v14%20%28website%20version%29.pdf Economics Network conference in Exeter, 2013], the [https://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/assa_programs/ASSA_2014.pdf American Economic Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, 2014], the [http://www.touteconomie.org/afse2014/index.php/meeting2014/lyon/paper/view/348 Annual Meeting of the French Economic Association in Lyon, 2014], the [http://www.eea-esem.com/eea-esem/2014/prog/viewpaper.asp?pid=3108 joined conference of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association in Toulouse, 2014], and the [http://bitss.org/annual-meeting/2014-2/ 2014 Research Transparency Forum of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences].<br>
Even though quite a number of researchers have registered, few participate actively. To change this we try to get more students involved and to further expand the database to let it cover a significant part of the empirical literature in economics and possibly other fields.<br>
Even though quite a number of researchers have registered, few participate actively. To change this we try to get more students involved and to further expand the database to let it cover a significant part of the empirical literature in economics and possibly other fields.<br>
We also need to fix some technical issues, e.g., with the forms we use so far only one replication can be entered for every original study but [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Study_with_more_than_one_replication the most interesting studies get replicated more often]. We can display this with a [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Template:NewReplication%28Boilerplate%29 boilerplate] but the code is too difficult to understand for most users. We plan to solve this with [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Defining_forms#Multiple-instance_templates multiple instance templates] and [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Adding_subobjects subobjects]. There is also a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Images#Scale_and_place_image_.28slideshow.29_on_main_page bug with the placement of the slideshow on the main page]. And searchability has to be improved significantly because the [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Special:Ask standard ask form] is not user friendly. We are currently trying to get easily clickable properties on each page with category pages that show where else to find the same values like for [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Article_methods_and_estimation methods] and [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Article_software_used software] used. It still would not allow combined searches that are pivotal in order to find studies as researchers need it. That is why we are hoping for a cooperation with a software company that offers an improved search. We use the [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/ReplicationWiki:Community_portal Community portal] to keep track of plans for improvement.
We also need to fix some technical issues, e.g., with the forms we use so far only one replication can be entered for every original study but [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Study_with_more_than_one_replication the most interesting studies get replicated more often]. We can display this with a [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Template:NewReplication%28Boilerplate%29 boilerplate] but the code is too difficult to understand for most users. We plan to solve this with [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Defining_forms#Multiple-instance_templates multiple instance templates] and [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Adding_subobjects subobjects]. There is also a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Images#Scale_and_place_image_.28slideshow.29_on_main_page bug with the placement of the slideshow on the main page]. And searchability has to be improved significantly because the [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Special:Ask standard ask form] is not user friendly. We are currently trying to get easily clickable properties on each page with category pages that show where else to find the same values like for [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Article_methods_and_estimation methods] and [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Article_software_used software] used. It still would not allow combined searches that are pivotal in order to find studies as researchers need it. That is why we are hoping for a cooperation with a software company that offers an improved search. We use the [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/ReplicationWiki:Community_portal Community portal] to keep track of plans for improvement.
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*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount Confirm account] ensures only users with an academic background who register with their real name can edit pages, which to us seemed important given prevalent conflicts about replication of scientific studies and the experience with the page [http://www.science-fraud.org science-fraud.org] that was [http://retractionwatch.com/2013/01/02/facing-legal-threats-science-fraud-temporarily-suspends-posting/ shut down due to legal threats]
*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount Confirm account] ensures only users with an academic background who register with their real name can edit pages, which to us seemed important given prevalent conflicts about replication of scientific studies and the experience with the page [http://www.science-fraud.org science-fraud.org] that was [http://retractionwatch.com/2013/01/02/facing-legal-threats-science-fraud-temporarily-suspends-posting/ shut down due to legal threats]
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:JavascriptSlideshow JavascriptSlideshow] is used on the [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de main page] for a quick introduction to the wiki
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:JavascriptSlideshow JavascriptSlideshow] is used on the [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de main page] for a quick introduction to the wiki
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[[File:ReplicationWiki Journal CategoryTree.png|thumb|left|[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree Category Trees] serve to [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Journal display journals with their different issues over the years]]]
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[[File:ReplicationWiki Journal CategoryTree.png|thumb|left|[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree Category Trees] serve to [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Journal display journals with their different issues over the years]]]
*[http://www.wiki4games.com/Wiki4Games:W4G_Rating_Bar W4G Rating Bar] [[File:Ratingbar.png]] is used to allow a [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Top_rated_studies_for_replication rating of studies that should be replicated]
*[http://www.wiki4games.com/Wiki4Games:W4G_Rating_Bar W4G Rating Bar] [[File:Ratingbar.png]] is used to allow a [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Top_rated_studies_for_replication rating of studies that should be replicated]
*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text Replace Text] was used because a lot of the data that was originally imported from an Excel sheet was not standardized (cf. [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php?title=The_Welfare_Effects_of_Misperceived_Product_Costs:_Data_and_Calibrations_from_the_Automobile_Market_(AEJ:EP_2013)&diff=prev&oldid=24550])
*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text Replace Text] was used because a lot of the data that was originally imported from an Excel sheet was not standardized (cf. [http://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php?title=The_Welfare_Effects_of_Misperceived_Product_Costs:_Data_and_Calibrations_from_the_Automobile_Market_(AEJ:EP_2013)&diff=prev&oldid=24550])
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialDeleteHistory Delete History] proved useful as the wiki was first set up with a team before it was launched to the general public that we thought should not be confused by changes that we had needed to try out the wiki
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialDeleteHistory Delete History] proved useful as the wiki was first set up with a team before it was launched to the general public that we thought should not be confused by changes that we had needed to try out the wiki