I was going to chime in here and mention our 2015 CSCW paper, but Aaron beat me to it, thanks Aaron! :)
There are several related papers in our lit. review, such as the work studying the Public Policy Initiative (Lampe et al), projects related to the Wikipedia Education Program/APS Initiative (Farzan et al), and WikiProjects' Collaboration of the Week (Zhu et al). We also add the WikiCup in our study. Not sure what other papers to recommend in this space at the moment, good luck! Cheers, Morten On 5 May 2017 at 08:24, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
