Thanks for sharing this, Marc. I've endorsed the project overall (as a volunteer, not staff), but also described some concerns/considerations with some aspects of the proposal on the talk page.
Cheers, Jonathan On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Marc Miquel <marcmiq...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat > Pompeu Fabra). > > While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation > could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content > representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language > editions. > > Few months later, I propose creating the *Wikipedia Cultural Diversity > Observatory* in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of > cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and > pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage. > > I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes > a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias > and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions. > > Here is the link of the project proposal: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_ > Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO) > > If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it. In any case, I will > appreciate any feedback, comments,... Of course, you are invited to become > participants, as there will be the need for users in the testing part. > > Thanks in advance for your time! > Best regards, > > Marc Miquel > Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona > ᐧ > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
