Hi Heather, I imagine the Wiki Education Foundation has data on the impact of their work on article quality. The pilot project for the foundation in 2010 was aimed at improving public policy articles. I hope this helps. Gabe
On May 5, 2017, at 4:46 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you so much for your replies! I'm mostly interested in research that has been done to study the value/impact of different types of interventions. But this is all useful, thank you!
On 5 May 2017 07:07, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The study by Aaron is about English Wikipedia and concentrates on female scientists. Great study but when you want to know about the coverage of English Wikipedia compared to missing knowledge, there are other more relevant approaches. I blogged about one [1]. There are many categories with a definition for its content where English is missing a substantial number of articles. I blogged about that as well [2].
As your need content relating to South Africa, in Wikidata we included all the current parliamentarians of South Africa. Most do/did not have an article. There are many places in SA that do not have an article and neither does their Mayor. In the Black Lunch Table project artists from the African Diaspora are documented and when they emigrate they are in focus. It follows that South African artists can do with some loving tender care. It is easy to come up with relevant subjects that are missing.
My advise to you is: consider the subject in your curriculum. Google for South African subjects relating to what is on topic and write, expand curate as is needed. Talk in the classroom about how Wikipedia is failing South Africa and discuss what can be done and how you make the biggest impact.. IMHO it starts with well connected stubs.
Do yourself a favour get some friendly admins onboard and protect yourself against deletionists. For them South Africa is not what they know so how can it be notable? Thanks, GerardM
[1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2017/04/wikidata- user-stories-sum-of-all.html [2] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2017/04/wikipedia- research-world-famous-in.html
On 4 May 2017 at 23:37, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing when they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
long-form
discussion of the methods.
I've got a complete dataset of per-article quality assessments for all articles in English Wikipedia
Halfaker, Aaron; Sarabadani, Amir (2016): Monthly Wikipedia article
quality
predictions. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3859800.v3
I'm working hard to get that dataset hosted on Quarry so that it would be easier experiment with for arbitrary new cross-sections by anyone who is interested. But we've hit some technical hurdles. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146718
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Andrew Krizhanovsky < andrew.krizhanovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Great project! Thank you for information.
There is the discussion about the multilingual project name at page
33-34.
I like the name Wikischool :)
Best regards, Andrew Krizhanovsky.
On 4 May 2017 at 18:45, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Does it have to be Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a reference work for "everybody", but not especially written for pupils in the primary
education.
We discussed this kind of issues at the foundation of the Klexikon,
see
our
report in English: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_version_
Konzept_Wikipedia_f%C3%BCr_Kinder.pdf
Kind regards, Ziko
2017-05-04 14:44 GMT+02:00 Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com:
Hi all,
I've started working on a paper with folks who ran a fascinating
project
called "Wikipedia Primary School" [1] where they investigated
different
mechanisms or models for eliciting and developing Wikipedia content
that
was relevant to the South African national primary school
curriculum.
We
are currently writing a paper that assesses each of the different
types
of
"interventions" that were tested/tried out in trying to fill in
these
gaps
- including editathons, contests and collaborations with scientific
journals. It seems as though there are a host of different types of
models
that are used to fill in Wikipedia's gaps beyond the original
"volunteer
edits what interests them in their spare time" model (e.g.
Wikipedians
in
residence, editing Wikipedia as part of class assignments). If
anyone
has
any good references to work already undertaken in this area please
let
me
know!
Many thanks, Heather.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School
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