Thanks Coenraad, Raymond! Raymond, yes, that was my initial thought but would be good to know whether it’s an error from Erik :)
Best Heather Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Apr 2018, at 5:21 pm, Raymond Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
