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. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > 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