Oh I nearly forgot about this:
*The Success and Failure of Quality Improvement Projects in Peer Production
Communities*
Peer production communities have been proven to be
successful at creating
valuable artefacts, with Wikipedia as a prime example. However, a number of
studies have shown that work in these communities tends to be of uneven
quality and certain content areas receive more attention than others. In
this paper, we examine the efficacy of a range of targeted strategies to
increase the quality of under-attended content areas in peer production
communities. Mining data from five quality improvement projects in the
English Wikipedia, the largest peer production community in the world, we
show that certain types of strategies (e.g. creating artefacts from
scratch) have better quality outcomes than others (e.g. improving existing
artefacts), even if both are done by a similar cohort of participants. We
discuss the implications of our findings for Wikipedia as well as other
peer production communities.
Warncke-Wang, M., Ayukaev, V. R., Hecht, B., & Terveen, L. G. (2015,
February). The success and failure of quality improvement projects in peer
production communities. In *Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on
Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing* (pp. 743-756). ACM.
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:46 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
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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