Hello,
I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's sourcing.
I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social media, etc.
The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have been posted to Wikipediocracy:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
sashi
Hi Sashi,
I think that there is a research project regarding Wikipedia sources in the WMF Annual Plan for this fiscal year. I believe that the Head of the Wikipedia Library, Jake Orlowitz, is involved. I suggest that you reach out to him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi_(WMF).
Also, I recommend that you subscribe to the Research-l mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l. You could try asking your question there, especially if you don't hear back from Jake.
Good luck with your research,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:44 PM sashi learning@creoliste.fr wrote:
Hello,
I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's sourcing.
I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social media, etc.
The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have been posted to Wikipediocracy:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
sashi
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Hi, you might be interested in "Getting to the Source":
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2491064 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heather_Ford/publication/262291510_Gett...
That work was done 5 years ago, so it's worth checking for followup research. Citations might be a good place to start: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=809641647115845540&as_sdt=2005&...
-Adam [[mw:User:Adamw]]
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:43 PM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Sashi,
I think that there is a research project regarding Wikipedia sources in the WMF Annual Plan for this fiscal year. I believe that the Head of the Wikipedia Library, Jake Orlowitz, is involved. I suggest that you reach out to him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi_(WMF).
Also, I recommend that you subscribe to the Research-l mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l. You could try asking your question there, especially if you don't hear back from Jake.
Good luck with your research,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:44 PM sashi learning@creoliste.fr wrote:
Hello,
I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's sourcing.
I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social media, etc.
The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have been posted to Wikipediocracy:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
sashi
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Interesting metrics and ideas here, but nobody's going to take your research particularly seriously if you choose to post it in an open sewer. I'd suggest a Medium or Wordpress blog.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:44 AM sashi learning@creoliste.fr wrote:
Hello,
I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's sourcing.
I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social media, etc.
The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have been posted to Wikipediocracy:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
sashi
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I would suggest to conduct them on Wikiversity, where people can collaborate on research projects in the same way that make Wikipedia a place no one is going to take an encyclopedic article seriously. 😉
Le 29 août 2018 22:21:08 GMT+02:00, Robert Fernandez wikigamaliel@gmail.com a écrit :
Interesting metrics and ideas here, but nobody's going to take your research particularly seriously if you choose to post it in an open sewer. I'd suggest a Medium or Wordpress blog.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:44 AM sashi learning@creoliste.fr wrote:
Hello,
I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here
on
this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's sourcing.
I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social media, etc.
The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have been posted to Wikipediocracy:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
sashi
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