Hoi,
The study by Aaron is about English Wikipedia and concentrates on female
scientists. Great study but when you want to know about the coverage of
English Wikipedia compared to missing knowledge, there are other more
relevant approaches. I blogged about one [1]. There are many categories
with a definition for its content where English is missing a substantial
number of articles. I blogged about that as well [2].
As your need content relating to South Africa, in Wikidata we included all
the current parliamentarians of South Africa. Most do/did not have an
article. There are many places in SA that do not have an article and
neither does their Mayor. In the Black Lunch Table project artists from the
African Diaspora are documented and when they emigrate they are in focus.
It follows that South African artists can do with some loving tender care.
It is easy to come up with relevant subjects that are missing.
My advise to you is: consider the subject in your curriculum. Google for
South African subjects relating to what is on topic and write, expand
curate as is needed. Talk in the classroom about how Wikipedia is failing
South Africa and discuss what can be done and how you make the biggest
impact.. IMHO it starts with well connected stubs.
Do yourself a favour get some friendly admins onboard and protect yourself
against deletionists. For them South Africa is not what they know so how
can it be notable?
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2017/04/wikidata-user-stories-sum-of-all.html
[2]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2017/04/wikipedia-research-world-famous-in.html
On 4 May 2017 at 23:37, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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>
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