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(a)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(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
So fix it,
Cheers,
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On
Behalf Of
James Salsman
Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 2:53 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, September 20,
2017 at
11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC
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(a)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
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/
Showcase#September_2017>.
...
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
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
---
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
http://www.avg.com
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>