Hoi, One of the area's where Wikipedia is not performing optimally is in the area of mental health. I am working towards an editathon on the subject. The aim is to consider information in multiple languages not only Dutch.
What I am looking for is how we can measure the impact it has on traffic. After all I am interested in the whole of the subject not only in the articles that are updated or written.
My problem is in two: what is the best way of identifying a subject as broad as mental health and is it possible to get historic information on traffic? Thanks, GerardM
PS I am working on Wikidata on the subject.
I think James Heilman and Bluerasberry may be good resources for you, since this fits broadly within the scope of WikiProject Medicine. (:
Pine
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, One of the area's where Wikipedia is not performing optimally is in the area of mental health. I am working towards an editathon on the subject. The aim is to consider information in multiple languages not only Dutch.
What I am looking for is how we can measure the impact it has on traffic. After all I am interested in the whole of the subject not only in the articles that are updated or written.
My problem is in two: what is the best way of identifying a subject as broad as mental health and is it possible to get historic information on traffic? Thanks, GerardM
PS I am working on Wikidata on the subject.
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If you are asking about whether there is more page views as a result of the editathon, you could use this tool:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/treeviews/
That can give you monthly stats on the page views on a set of articles by category (or set of category). Coming before-and-after stats may tell you if it makes an impact.
Kerry
From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen Sent: Friday, 29 January 2016 2:03 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Gerard van Wijk researchenik@gmail.com Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Planning a project
Hoi,
One of the area's where Wikipedia is not performing optimally is in the area of mental health. I am working towards an editathon on the subject. The aim is to consider information in multiple languages not only Dutch.
What I am looking for is how we can measure the impact it has on traffic. After all I am interested in the whole of the subject not only in the articles that are updated or written.
My problem is in two: what is the best way of identifying a subject as broad as mental health and is it possible to get historic information on traffic?
Thanks,
GerardM
PS I am working on Wikidata on the subject.
Hoi, One huge issue with mental health subjects is that the quality at Wikidata is below par. Recently I added hundreds of psychiatrists for instance. Many mental health interventions are not marked as such and the whole logical tree of mental health items is a mess. When it is about Wikipedia, the category trees are incomplete as well because articles often are lacking in that field.
The notion to only follow reads based on categories will not work for me because the need for quality articles in the Netherlands is not only in Dutch but also in Arabic, Somali, Bosnian (to indicate a few groups of refugees that live in the Netherlands).
Getting mental health to a proper state will take many 'interventions' whereby existing articles suddenly become part of the field. It does make sense to update the numbers of articles read based on such actions.. Is there any experience with that, does the data store allow for this? Thanks, GerardM
On 29 January 2016 at 00:28, Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
If you are asking about whether there is more page views as a result of the editathon, you could use this tool:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/treeviews/
That can give you monthly stats on the page views on a set of articles by category (or set of category). Coming before-and-after stats may tell you if it makes an impact.
Kerry
*From:* Wiki-research-l [mailto: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Gerard Meijssen *Sent:* Friday, 29 January 2016 2:03 AM *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities < wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> *Cc:* Gerard van Wijk researchenik@gmail.com *Subject:* [Wiki-research-l] Planning a project
Hoi,
One of the area's where Wikipedia is not performing optimally is in the area of mental health. I am working towards an editathon on the subject. The aim is to consider information in multiple languages not only Dutch.
What I am looking for is how we can measure the impact it has on traffic. After all I am interested in the whole of the subject not only in the articles that are updated or written.
My problem is in two: what is the best way of identifying a subject as broad as mental health and is it possible to get historic information on traffic?
Thanks,
GerardMPS I am working on Wikidata on the subject.
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