Thank you so much for your replies! I'm mostly interested in research that has been done to study the value/impact of different types of interventions. But this is all useful, thank you!
On 5 May 2017 07:07, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
