Re: [Wikimedia ZA] new paper

I wanted to share a paper [1] (abstract below) that I co-wrote with

which is a small part of the really interesting project that some of the folks on this list were involved with (the Wikipedia Primary School

[2]) in SA. Will hopefully be talking about this (and other Wikipedia

at Wikimania this year. Would love to hear any feedback you might have. Best, Heather. [1] author's preprint here https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qn5xd and published version here http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444818760870 [2]

Dr Heather Ford Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>, University of New South Wales w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/>

@hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects In order to counter systemic bias in peer production projects like Wikipedia, a variety of strategies have been used to fill gaps and

the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in

project aimed at improving articles relating to South Africa’s primary school curriculum and find that many of the predominant strategies are insufficient for filling Wikipedia’s gaps. Notifications that alert users to the existence of gaps including incomplete or missing articles, in particular, are found to be ineffective at improving articles. Only

the process of trust-building and the development of negotiated boundary objects, potential allies (institutional academics in this case) can be enrolled in the task of editing the encyclopaedia. Rather than a simple process of enrolment via notification, this project demonstrated the principles of negotiation required for engaging with new editor groups in the long-term project of filling Wikipedia’s gaps. _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to