Hi Heather,
this sounds really interesting. Are you asking about Wikimedia programs?
We have toolkits, guides and data reports to share about 6 different
programs, including WiR, but I'm not sure if this is what you mean?

Please let me know.

Thanks!

María



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On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Heather Ford <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've started working on a paper with folks who ran a fascinating project
> called "Wikipedia Primary School" [1] where they investigated different
> mechanisms or models for eliciting and developing Wikipedia content that
> was relevant to the South African national primary school curriculum. We
> are currently writing a paper that assesses each of the different types of
> "interventions" that were tested/tried out in trying to fill in these gaps
> - including editathons, contests and collaborations with scientific
> journals. It seems as though there are a host of different types of models
> that are used to fill in Wikipedia's gaps beyond the original "volunteer
> edits what interests them in their spare time" model (e.g. Wikipedians in
> residence, editing Wikipedia as part of class assignments). If anyone has
> any good references to work already undertaken in this area please let me
> know!
>
> Many thanks,
> Heather.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School
>
> Dr Heather Ford
> University Academic Fellow
> School of Media and Communications <http://media.leeds.ac.uk/>, The
> University of Leeds
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