Re: [Wiki-research-l] Models for developing underserved topics on Wikipedia

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… [2] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2017/04/wikipedia-research-world-famous-… On 4 May 2017 at 23:37, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: