Hi Heather My first instinct is that it's an error in the geographic IP address database. Erik, can you link me to or supply the GeoIP database used?
Regards On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Heather Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to share a paper [1] (abstract below) that I co-wrote with others > which is a small part of the really interesting project that some of the > folks on this list were involved with (the Wikipedia Primary School Project > [2]) in SA. Will hopefully be talking about this (and other Wikipedia work) > at Wikimania this year. Would love to hear any feedback you might have. > > Best, > Heather. > > [1] author's preprint here https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qn5xd and > published version here > http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444818760870 > > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_programme > > > 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> > Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects > > In order to counter systemic bias in peer production projects like > Wikipedia, a variety of strategies have been used to fill gaps and improve > the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in a > project aimed at improving articles relating to South Africa’s primary > school curriculum and find that many of the predominant strategies are > insufficient for filling Wikipedia’s gaps. Notifications that alert users > to the existence of gaps including incomplete or missing articles, in > particular, are found to be ineffective at improving articles. Only through > the process of trust-building and the development of negotiated boundary > objects, potential allies (institutional academics in this case) can be > enrolled in the task of editing the encyclopaedia. Rather than a simple > process of enrolment via notification, this project demonstrated the > principles of negotiation required for engaging with new editor groups in > the long-term project of filling Wikipedia’s gaps. > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
