Hi WSC,
That is an interesting idea, and the question of the corpus to draw from (or build) is key. In my own work, I have used the following techniques:
- direct solicitations from domain experts. I will express my interest in consulting a diverse range of perspectives and will ask for book titles and/or the names of people from underrepresented demographics who are doing work in the field.
- name-database. I start from a list of underrepresented domain experts (I have found some such things on wikipedia itself as well as places like 500womenscientists) and I will look to see if any of the people have books on the topic I'm researching.
For now, my interest remains focused on understanding the current gender balance of the citations on Wikipedia. To this end, I am still very interested in hearing from someone with knowledge of wikidata about how best to use it and any limitations I should be aware of.
Thanks, Greg
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 10:17 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
WereSpielChequers, 02/09/19 17:10:
If you can come up with software that identifies sources that we aren't using but should then that would make
for
some interesting reports on Wikiprojects, or an interesting opportunity
for
the wiki library.
Good point. This also came up at a research meetup at Wikimania, where the question was what corpora could be used (one proposal is the Internet Archive): see notes at https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Meetups/Affiliates_and_Research
A related proposal was https://github.com/eggpi/citationhunt/issues/137
I'd particularly like to see something along the lines of a bot that
sends
messages to active Wikipedia editors "As an editor who has been active in topic zzzzzz we would like to send you a free copy of the new book xxxxxx by yyyyy. Click here to arrange your free copy"
I would be interested in helping you do this (for Italian-language editors?). I think it can easily be written in a way that doesn't sound like a promotion for the specific item.
Federico
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