Thanks so much, yes! I did find this in my initial search and it has been
super useful. Also, thanks, Aaron for the other wikiedu link.
Best,
Heather.
Dr Heather Ford
University Academic Fellow
School of Media and Communications <http://media.leeds.ac.uk/>, The
University of Leeds
w:
<http://ethnographymatters.net/> / t:
@hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
On 5 May 2017 at 16:49, Morten Wang <nettrom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was going to chime in here and mention our 2015 CSCW
paper, but Aaron
beat me to it, thanks Aaron! :)
There are several related papers in our lit. review, such as the work
studying the Public Policy Initiative (Lampe et al), projects related to
the Wikipedia Education Program/APS Initiative (Farzan et al), and
WikiProjects' Collaboration of the Week (Zhu et al). We also add the
WikiCup in our study.
Not sure what other papers to recommend in this space at the moment, good
luck!
Cheers,
Morten
On 5 May 2017 at 08:24, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Relevant to Gabriel's comment:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/
08/31/academic-content/
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
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/
>>>
>>> /
>>>>> t:
>>>>> @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
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