Relevant to Gabriel's comment: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/ 08/31/academic-content/
Kevin is around this mailing list sometimes. Maybe he can give us an update. :) On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Gabriel Mugar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Heather, > I imagine the Wiki Education Foundation has data on the impact of their > work on article quality. The pilot project for the foundation in 2010 was > aimed at improving public policy articles. > I hope this helps. > Gabe > > > On May 5, 2017, at 4:46 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 > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
