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
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%...
Kind regards, Ziko
2017-05-04 14:44 GMT+02:00 Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com:
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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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@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%...
Kind regards, Ziko
2017-05-04 14:44 GMT+02:00 Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com:
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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing when they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a 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@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@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@gmail.com:
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/
/
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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-i...
On 4 May 2017 at 23:37, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing when they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a 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@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@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@gmail.com:
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/
/
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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@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@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing when they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com:
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/
/
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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. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~morten/publications/cscw2015-improvementproject...
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@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@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@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing
when
they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com:
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/
/
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Hi Heather, I imagine the Wiki Education Foundation has data on the impact of their work on article quality. The pilot project for the foundation in 2010 was aimed at improving public policy articles. I hope this helps. Gabe
On May 5, 2017, at 4:46 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@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@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@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing when they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com:
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/
/
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Relevant to Gabriel's comment: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/ 08/31/academic-content/
Kevin is around this mailing list sometimes. Maybe he can give us an update. :)
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Gabriel Mugar gmugar@syr.edu wrote:
Hi Heather, I imagine the Wiki Education Foundation has data on the impact of their work on article quality. The pilot project for the foundation in 2010 was aimed at improving public policy articles. I hope this helps. Gabe
On May 5, 2017, at 4:46 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@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@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@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing
when
they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com:
> 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/
/
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I was going to chime in here and mention our 2015 CSCW paper, but Aaron beat me to it, thanks Aaron! :)
There are several related papers in our lit. review, such as the work studying the Public Policy Initiative (Lampe et al), projects related to the Wikipedia Education Program/APS Initiative (Farzan et al), and WikiProjects' Collaboration of the Week (Zhu et al). We also add the WikiCup in our study.
Not sure what other papers to recommend in this space at the moment, good luck!
Cheers, Morten
On 5 May 2017 at 08:24, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.com wrote:
Relevant to Gabriel's comment: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/ 08/31/academic-content/
Kevin is around this mailing list sometimes. Maybe he can give us an update. :)
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Gabriel Mugar gmugar@syr.edu wrote:
Hi Heather, I imagine the Wiki Education Foundation has data on the impact of their work on article quality. The pilot project for the foundation in 2010 was aimed at improving public policy articles. I hope this helps. Gabe
On May 5, 2017, at 4:46 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@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@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@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing
when
they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com: > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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Thanks so much, yes! I did find this in my initial search and it has been super useful. Also, thanks, Aaron for the other wikiedu link.
Best, Heather.
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On 5 May 2017 at 16:49, Morten Wang nettrom@gmail.com wrote:
I was going to chime in here and mention our 2015 CSCW paper, but Aaron beat me to it, thanks Aaron! :)
There are several related papers in our lit. review, such as the work studying the Public Policy Initiative (Lampe et al), projects related to the Wikipedia Education Program/APS Initiative (Farzan et al), and WikiProjects' Collaboration of the Week (Zhu et al). We also add the WikiCup in our study.
Not sure what other papers to recommend in this space at the moment, good luck!
Cheers, Morten
On 5 May 2017 at 08:24, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.com wrote:
Relevant to Gabriel's comment: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/ 08/31/academic-content/
Kevin is around this mailing list sometimes. Maybe he can give us an update. :)
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Gabriel Mugar gmugar@syr.edu wrote:
Hi Heather, I imagine the Wiki Education Foundation has data on the impact of their work on article quality. The pilot project for the foundation in 2010
was
aimed at improving public policy articles. I hope this helps. Gabe
On May 5, 2017, at 4:46 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@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@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@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing
when
they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for
a
summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_
quality_
dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com: >> >>> 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 <
net/
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Thanks so much for your reply, Gerard. I'm mostly interested in discovering research that has analysed the success of different approaches, but it's great that you're analysing missing information on WP. Thanks for sharing this!
Best, Heather.
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
On 5 May 2017 at 07:06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@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@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing when they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com:
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/
/
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Hi Heather, if it helps, we have done evaluation reports in 2013 and 2015 on edit-a-thons, writing workshops, Wikipedoa Education Program, and other Wikimedia programs. You can find both reports here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Evaluation_reports
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
María
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On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks so much for your reply, Gerard. I'm mostly interested in discovering research that has analysed the success of different approaches, but it's great that you're analysing missing information on WP. Thanks for sharing this!
Best, Heather.
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On 5 May 2017 at 07:06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@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@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Heather!
I've been working on methods for measuring content gaps and showing
when
they appeared and were closed.
See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ for a summary and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Interpolating_quality_ dynamics_in_Wikipedia_and_demonstrating_the_Keilana_Effect for a
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@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@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@gmail.com:
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
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net/
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This is great, thank you, Ziko!
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On 4 May 2017 at 16:45, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@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@gmail.com:
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
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Hi Heather, this sounds really interesting. Are you asking about Wikimedia programs? We have toolkits, guides and data reports to share about 6 different programs, including WiR, but I'm not sure if this is what you mean?
Please let me know.
Thanks!
María
*María Cruz * \ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E Team \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz@wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_ https://twitter.com/marianarra_
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com wrote:
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
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