Thanks, Heather! This looks super interesting and relevant. I look forward
to reading it :)

Jonathan

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Heather Ford <hfor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Amir,
>
> I did send this via Twitter, but wanted to send here too in case anyone
> else is interested. Our paper summarises some of the research on
> notifications. A pre-print is available here:
>
> https://makebuildplay.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/wp_primary_school_paper_
> acceptedv.pdf
>
>
> Happy to chat more and would very much like to chat to others doing
> research on knowledge gaps on Wikipedia.
>
> Best,
> Heather.
>
> Dr Heather Ford
> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>,
> University of New South Wales
> w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> /
> t:
> @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
>
>
> On 9 February 2018 at 20:53, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Heather,
> >
> > Thanks for starting this thread.
> >
> > Where can I read your research that comes to the conclusion that
> automated
> > mechanisms are insufficient for solving the gaps problem?
> >
> > Sorry if this was mentioned somewhere already; I sometimes get lost on
> long
> > emails, and it's possible that I missed it :)
> >
> >
> > בתאריך 9 בפבר׳ 2018 05:04,‏ "Heather Ford" <hfor...@gmail.com> כתב:
> >
> > Having a look at the new WMF research site, I noticed that it seems that
> > notification and recommendations mechanisms are the key strategy being
> > focused on re. the filling of Wikipedia's content gaps. Having just
> > finished a research project on just this problem and coming to the
> opposite
> > conclusion i.e. that automated mechanisms were insufficient for solving
> the
> > gaps problem, I was curious to find out more.
> >
> > This latest research that I was involved in with colleagues was based on
> an
> > action research project aiming to fill gaps in topics relating to South
> > Africa. The team tried a range of different strategies discussed in the
> > literature for filling Wikipedia's gaps without any wild success.
> Automated
> > mechanisms that featured missing and incomplete articles catalysed very
> few
> > edits.
> >
> > When looking for related research, it seemed that others had come to a
> > similar conclusion i.e. that automated notification/recommendations alone
> > didn't lead to improvements in particular target areas. That makes me
> think
> > that a) I just haven't come across the right research or b) that there
> are
> > different types of gaps and that those different types require different
> > solutions i.e. the difference between filling gaps across language
> > versions, gaps created by incomplete articles about topics for which
> there
> > are few online/reliable sources is different from the lack of articles
> > about topics for which there are many online/reliable sources, gaps in
> > articles about particular topics, relating to particular geographic areas
> > etc.
> >
> > Does anyone have any insight here? - either on research that would help
> > practitioners decide how to go about a project of filling gaps in a
> > particular subject area or about whether the key focus of research at the
> > WMF is on filling gaps via automated means such as recommendation and
> > notification mechanisms?
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Best,
> > Heather.
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