To clarify, WPMEDF has self organized without direct WMF involvement. While we are a member of the WM movement and support has been provided for a couple of members to attend WMCON, we has never applied for or received specific funding from the WM movement.
Individuals, associated with WPMEDF, have applied for and received individual engagement grants. In other words all these opportunities are avaliable from the movement for those interested in improving Wikipedia's economics coverage.
Best James
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:29 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
That example is only the most visible tip of the iceberg. Now that there is evidence of multiple causal influences from Wikipedia's text to real life consequences, I repeat my suggestion that the Foundation should help editors organize a more careful and concerted effort towards authentic neutrality in economics and political economics articles which are likely to influence fiscal policies, just like it helps support the Medical and Women's user group affiliates today. I have no illusions that if I were part of such a formal effort it would be less successful than if it were composed entirely of Enwiki editors in good standing, and I will not be correcting the specific mistake in the Economics because I want to know how long it will stand, especially now that good alternatives have been proposed on its talk page (for several months!) There are plenty of others very much like it in other articles.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net wrote:
So fix it, Cheers, Peter
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Wow, first there was solid evidence that tourism is causally influenced
by Wikipedia, and now science. The English Wikipedia's Economics article still says "Tax cuts [boost] aggregate demand."
Isn't it time that potentially harmful biases in economics articles are
tempered as carefully as those in medical articles?
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Sarah R srodlund@wikimedia.org wrote:
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR5JwqyVGSk
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Science is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial By Neil C. Thompson and Douglas Hanley
As the largest encyclopedia in the world, it is not surprising that Wikipedia reflects the state of scientific knowledge. However, Wikipedia is also one of the most accessed websites in the world, including by scientists, which suggests that it also has the potential to shape science. This paper shows that it does. Incorporating ideas into a Wikipedia article leads to those ideas being used more in the scientific literature. This paper documents this in two ways: correlationally across thousands of articles in Wikipedia and causally through a randomized experiment where we added new scientific content to Wikipedia. We find that fully a third of the correlational relationship is causal, implying that Wikipedia has a strong shaping effect on science. Our findings speak not only to the influence of Wikipedia, but more broadly to the influence of repositories of scientific knowledge. The results suggest that increased provision of information in accessible repositories is a very cost-effective way to advance science. We also find that such gains are equity-improving, disproportionately benefitting those without
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