On 23 Apr 2018, at 5:21 pm, Raymond Ellis
<raymond.ellis(a)gmail.com> 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
<coenraad(a)wish.org.za> 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
<hfordsa(a)gmail.com> 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_pr…
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.
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