Thanks very much Vojtěch. Yes, I have been playing with this on Semantic
MediaWiki for a year or so, the idea being that I could pretend that a
professor's research project was a 'Class' and that would enable the
contributions of all the research students who wrote about this research
project ('Class') to be added up easily.
But I see that this is being replaced by the Campaigns extension, I wonder what
might be most appropriate there. I haven't experimented with that yet, because
I hadn't been able to get a definitive answer about citing and COI.
Best wishes
Jenny. Open_Research
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> On 10 Jul 2014, at 16:33, Vojtěch Dostál <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The user contributions can also be tracked using the Education extension
> which you can get installed for your wiki. Students just enrol in the class
> using a special page like this:
>
> https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:VO%C5%A0_soci%C3%A1ln%C4%9B_pedagogick%C3%A1_a_teologick%C3%A1/Z%C3%A1klady_pr%C3%A1va_%282013-2014%29
>
> To get the statistics for each course, you just copy the list of usernames in
> each class and analyze them using Wikimetrics app.
>
> good luck
> Vojtěch
>
>
>
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> 2014-07-10 17:28 GMT+02:00 Pau Cabot <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Jennifer,
>>
>> First, COI is related to editing Wikipedia in your own interests or in the
>> interests of your external relationships. It does not forbid obviously
>> writing about the things you're an expert on. If you are able to separate
>> these two things, you're allowed to do it.
>>
>> Related to the tracking of the alumni, I did it by creating a page where
>> there were listed my students' constributions, so I could easily keep track
>> of their progress. To count their editions, you can use this tool, which
>> counts all user contributions, but it does not matter as usually the only
>> editions that pupils make are the ones related to the project.
>>
>> In addition, if the aim of getting editions done by alumni is due to COI
>> issues, I think it's not the solution. The problem does not depend on the
>> user that makes the edits but on the intention of the edits.
>>
>> Pau.
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-10 16:43 GMT+02:00 Jennifer Gristock <[email protected]>:
>>> Greetings everyone. I'm still working on that system to encourage
>>> university professors to contribute to Wikipedia, a system that is
>>> concerned not through teaching, like the Education Programme, but through
>>> research.
>>>
>>> I need some help. Can you tell me, in the Wikipedia API, is there a way to
>>> count the contributions that a user has made on behalf of another
>>> particular user? For example, a professor might ask a group of PhD students
>>> to make contributions involving his/her research on various Wikipedia
>>> pages, on his/her behalf.
>>>
>>> I have been frequently told (at the Teahouse and elsewhere) that Professors
>>> are not allowed to contribute information about their own published
>>> research papers on Wikipedia pages, because this would be biased. (Which is
>>> rather a downer for the professor, because this means they are forbidden to
>>> write about the things they are most passionate and knowledgeable about.)
>>>
>>> If this is rule is true, then it must certainly be seen as a roadblock to
>>> academic engagement with Wikipedia. If it isn't, then it is editors'
>>> perception of the rule as true (as I have experienced) that is the
>>> roadblock.
>>>
>>> It seems to me that the way to overcome this roadblock is to introduce a
>>> way of counting the contributions made by a person (say, a research
>>> student, or a colleague) on behalf of a Professor. So at the end of the
>>> year, the Professor can say 'my research contributed to X edits on
>>> Wikipedia' as easily as each individual student (who might contribute on
>>> behalf of many academic researchers) can count their individual edits.
>>>
>>> Can the API accommodate this in some way? Perhaps through some sort of
>>> 'project' code or something?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yours hopefully,
>>>
>>> Jenny Gristock (Open_Research)
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On 9 Jul 2014, at 22:40, LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to draw your attention to the Educator Training we'll be having
>>>> as part of the Wikimania Pre-conference on August 7:
>>>>
>>>> https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/Educator_training
>>>>
>>>> The Educator Training is designed to give educators of all levels the
>>>> knowledge they need to use Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects as a
>>>> teaching tool in their classrooms. The training is open to educators from
>>>> any country, and Wikipedia editing experience is not required.
>>>>
>>>> If you're interested in attending or you know someone who is, please see
>>>> the page for more information. I especially encourage anyone who's thought
>>>> about getting a Wikipedia Education Program going in your country to
>>>> attend, as you'll learn a lot about the different kinds of assignments
>>>> students could do.
>>>>
>>>> LiAnna
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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