Hi Everyone,
I wanted to share two projects currently under consideration for IdeaLab
funding and which may be of direct interest to the Wiki research
community. Note, one purpose of the consciousness-raising repository is to
create a collection of stories for use by researchers studying marginalized
identities on Wikipedia. If you are interested or know someone who is
interested, let me know. If you have feedback for these projects, please
submit them to their discussion pages.
Thanks!
*Consciousness-Raising Repository Call for Working Group Participants*
*Purpose*: We're recruiting a group of diverse Wikipedians to help put
together a repository of stories from users experiencing marginalization on
Wikipedia. The purpose of the repository is to serve as a database of
knowledge about the forms marginalization can take for researchers studying
marginalized identities and as an outlet for users experiencing
marginalization.
*Requirements*: Experience working with marginalization and marginalized
groups. Interest in the Wiki-community. Willing to attend an hour-long
biweekly meeting.
*For more information*:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_Consciousness_Raising_Repo…
*Wiki Controversy Monitoring Engine Call for Developers*
*Purpose*: The controversy monitoring engine maintains a real-time rating
of the controversiality of Wikipedia articles by listening to the live
stream of edits from Wikipedia. We need someone who is interested in
building the web interface and interactive visualizations around these
controversies to enable administrators to monitor, investigate, and, if
need be, intervene to deescalate controversies. The goal is to create a
site like
stats.wikimedia.org.
*Requirements*: Knowledge of web development, web-based visualization,
and\or data analysis using Wikipedia's API or WikiData.
*For More Information*: see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Controversy_Monitoring_Engine
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Jason Radford
Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago
Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University
*Connect*: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter
<http://www.twitter.com/jsradford>, University of Chicago
<http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/>
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