<3 rock on On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Shani Evenstein &lt;shani.even(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Welcome to the community! > > I am based at Tel Aviv University, where I teach 2 Wiki courses I developed > and reseach Wikipedia & Wikidata (among others). If there's anything I can > do to help, I'm a phone call away. :-) > > Best, > Shani. > > On 10 Jul 2017 23:02, "Alex Yarovoy" &lt;yarovoy.alex(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Thank you Leila, Stuart, Pine > > We will follow up on these comments and pointers > > > > A few additional words about this research - > > Our narrow definition of formal expertise focuses on those with academic > > qualifications who have published a scholarly work (i.e. appears in > Google > > Scholar) in the topic of the specific Wikipedia articles where one was > > active. > > We acknowledge that many experts do not have academic qualifications. > > The choice of "formal" (i.e. academic in this context) expertise enabled > a > > concrete operationalization and measurement. > > We welcome any ideas for pinpointing informal experts. > > > > We are currently in the first phase of research where we try to identify > > these formal experts. We've spent considerable amount of time in > > identifying 500 such experts, and now we use machine learning techniques > to > > automatically spot them (preliminary results are quite good). > > Once this is done, we can start asking interesting questions, such as: > > - What is the relative role of these formal experts to overall content > > contributed to Wikipedia? > > - Are formal experts' contributions "better"? (e.g. survive longer or > > > - Who are those formal experts? anonymous contributors? registered users? > > do they take additional roles within the community? > > - Formal experts' motivation > > > > Any other ideas for taking this research forward are more than welcome. > > > > Thank you, > > Ofer, Einat and Alex > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >