Hi Coenraad, I suspect VPN usage is quite high in the Russian Federation. Is this not a case of VPN proxies routing through South Africa?
Raymond On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 at 01:41, Coenraad Loubser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -- Raymond Ellis Machine Learning Specialist +27 71 673 3605 keybase.io/raymondellis twitter: @igelundfuchs linkedin: igelundfuchs facebook: raymondellis1974 _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
