Stuart reminds me of a point that I forgot to mention. While I believe that
directly contributing to Wikipedia is rarely beneficial for academics' CVs,
having one's work cited on Wikipedia might be viewed positively. Perhaps
one way that academics might be incentivized to contribute more to
Wikipedia is by encouraging them to post references to their works on talk
pages when the academics think that their work could be beneficial to
articles.
Pine
On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Stuart A. Yeates <syeates(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It is worth remembering that via the orcid identifier
in the authority
control template, the is now a standard linked-data mechanism for
researchers to identify themselves. I have no idea whether anyone is
looking at that though.
Cheers
Stuart
On Saturday, July 8, 2017, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
<javascript:;>> 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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