Hi Alex,
I believe that this is a subject of interest to the community. It would
indeed be helpful to know the percentage of people with graduate-level
academic qualifications who regularly make contributions on English
Wikipedia and other language editions of Wikipedia.
I'd suggest thinking about the following:
1. In general, academics don't receive benefits to their C.V. from
contributing to Wikipedia. My guess is that this is a major reason why
relatively few academics contribute to Wikipedia on a regular basis. It
might be interesting if you can produce data that confirms a hypothesis
like this.
2. I would encourage changing the term that you use from "recognized domain
experts" to "people with graduate-level academic qualifications". In the
U.S., in many domains, there are multiple ways for people to gain
reputations of being experts in domain; an academic qualification is often
not required, although it may be helpful.
Pine
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Alex Yarovoy <yarovoy.alex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm a Master student working under the supervision of Drs. Arazy and Minkov
(Haifa U)
My research explores the extent to which "recognized domain experts"
contribute to Wikipedia.
(I use a narrow definition for "recognized domain experts" to include those
with academic qualifications in the relevant topic).
I manually tracked these experts using a variety of sources, and then use
machine learning methods for automatically identifying domain experts
within Wikipedia editors.
I'm writing to explore whether this research is on interest to the
community and to learn if other people have already tackled this research
question.
Thank you in advance for pointing me to relevant research projects
Alex
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