Hi Anders,
Yes, it's a great question! Mark Graham and I are currently working on a
project around how to determine quality within and between Wikipedias and
I've been looking around for literature. I'm only just starting the
literature review but I've found some interesting studies by Callahan
Thanks for answer
Your answer confirm my fear, that focus is almost completly to en:wp
and how it is compared with an ideal perfect Q
My interest and what I believe the movement need before we dig into next
round of strategy round is
*what versions are dysfunctional. These represent a risk
This topic comes in handy for my research on Featured Articles in WP:PT.
Maybe some of you may remember my request a little while ago about studies
on Wikipedias other than English. Well, not that I believe that the
Featured Article requirements are a good evaluation per se, in terms of
quality of
My starting point have been the newly created articles on svwp. They
will represent the usual bunch of football playser, tv-stars,
computergames, films etc where svwp are behind most versions but where
enwp is excellent. The interesting comparisons comes from the next
levels of articles that
This thread seems really to be dealing with two distinct issues: coverage
and quality.
On the coverage side, the best work I know of is from Brent Hecht and
Darren Gergle. Especially [1] but also [2,3]. The English edition may be
the greatest in size, but in reality most other languages contain
Dear Anders,
Thank you for bringing this up. My experience is that there is still a
huge gap between computer-based quantity-oriented studies and
human-based selective sample quality-oriented studies.
I published in 2009 a paper on small or weak articles but I am
afraid that it was too much a
Indeed, Juliana, one example: for the complex process with regard to a
German emperor in 1848/1849, it would have been possible to write one
or several articles on e.g. the debates in the National Assembly. But
what did de.wp? Elected with [[Kaiserdeputation]], the Assembly's
delegation to the
Dear Heather,
In our WikiLit systematic reviews we found a few publications. I have
just made a semantic query on the WikiLit site to give you an overview:
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/WikiLit:Quality
There are not that many. You should find them described in our review on
research on
Thanks a lot for all feedback and links I will look into.
My feeling, though, is that I am more interested in what is below the
belt, ie rottenness creeping into different versions, more then the
more acceptable quality aspect we are used looking into.
I will see if I, after reading your
Well, it seems to be a general social media survey, not something specific
to Wikimedia, so ;p.
On 9 June 2014 17:59, Piotr Konieczny pio...@post.pl wrote:
Is it just me or would anyone else be more motivated if instead of a
drawing for an ipad the researchers would promise to write a
*Apologies for cross-posting*
This is just a quick reminder that only 5 days left to submit your full
paper to the SOCIAL NETWORKING COMMUNITIES minitrack at the Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). This is one of the
most popular and largest minitracks at the
Having followed this thread, I am somewhat confused about what is meant by
the term article quality, even in a single language, yet alone multiple
languages.
Sticking just to a single language for the moment ...
Do we mean that the facts presented are correct? That the kings and queens
were born
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