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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