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Kevin is around this mailing list sometimes. Maybe he can give us an
update. :)
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Gabriel Mugar <gmugar(a)syr.edu> wrote:
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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Dr Heather Ford
>>> University Academic Fellow
>>> School of Media and Communications <http://media.leeds.ac.uk/>, The
>>> University of Leeds
>>> w:
hblog.org /
EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.
net/
>
> /
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>>> @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
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