Oh I nearly forgot about this: *The Success and Failure of Quality Improvement Projects in Peer Production Communities*
> Peer production communities have been proven to be successful at creating > valuable artefacts, with Wikipedia as a prime example. However, a number of > studies have shown that work in these communities tends to be of uneven > quality and certain content areas receive more attention than others. In > this paper, we examine the efficacy of a range of targeted strategies to > increase the quality of under-attended content areas in peer production > communities. Mining data from five quality improvement projects in the > English Wikipedia, the largest peer production community in the world, we > show that certain types of strategies (e.g. creating artefacts from > scratch) have better quality outcomes than others (e.g. improving existing > artefacts), even if both are done by a similar cohort of participants. We > discuss the implications of our findings for Wikipedia as well as other > peer production communities. Warncke-Wang, M., Ayukaev, V. R., Hecht, B., & Terveen, L. G. (2015, February). The success and failure of quality improvement projects in peer production communities. In *Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing* (pp. 743-756). ACM. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~morten/publications/cscw2015-improvementprojects.pdf On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Heather Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
