Hi Heather! I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing when they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a long-form discussion of the methods. I've got a complete dataset of per-article quality assessments for all articles in English Wikipedia Halfaker, Aaron; Sarabadani, Amir (2016): Monthly Wikipedia article quality predictions. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3859800.v3 I'm working hard to get that dataset hosted on Quarry so that it would be easier experiment with for arbitrary new cross-sections by anyone who is interested. But we've hit some technical hurdles. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146718 On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Andrew Krizhanovsky < [email protected]> wrote: > Great project! Thank you for information. > > There is the discussion about the multilingual project name at page 33-34. > I like the name Wikischool :) > > Best regards, > Andrew Krizhanovsky. > > On 4 May 2017 at 18:45, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does it have to be Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a reference work for > > "everybody", but not especially written for pupils in the primary > education. > > > > We discussed this kind of issues at the foundation of the Klexikon, see > our > > report in English: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_version_ > Konzept_Wikipedia_f%C3%BCr_Kinder.pdf > > > > Kind regards, > > Ziko > > > > > > > > 2017-05-04 14:44 GMT+02:00 Heather Ford <[email protected]>: > > > >> 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 > >> w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> > / > >> t: > >> @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wiki-research-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
