I wanted to share a paper [1] (abstract below) that I co-wrote with others 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 Project [2]) in SA. Will hopefully be talking about this (and other Wikipedia work) 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] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_pro...
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/ / t: @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 improve the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in a 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 through 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.
Hi Heather
My first instinct is that it's an error in the geographic IP address database. Erik, can you link me to or supply the GeoIP database used?
Regards
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com wrote:
I wanted to share a paper [1] (abstract below) that I co-wrote with others 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 Project [2]) in SA. Will hopefully be talking about this (and other Wikipedia work) 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] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_pro...
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/ / t: @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 improve the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in a 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 through 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@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi Coenraad,
I suspect VPN usage is quite high in the Russian Federation. Is this not a case of VPN proxies routing through South Africa?
Raymond
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 at 01:41, Coenraad Loubser coenraad@wish.org.za wrote:
Hi Heather
My first instinct is that it's an error in the geographic IP address database. Erik, can you link me to or supply the GeoIP database used?
Regards
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com wrote:
I wanted to share a paper [1] (abstract below) that I co-wrote with
others
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
Project
[2]) in SA. Will hopefully be talking about this (and other Wikipedia
work)
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]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_pro...
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/
/ t:
@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
improve
the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in
a
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
through
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@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to
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Thanks Coenraad, Raymond! Raymond, yes, that was my initial thought but would be good to know whether it’s an error from Erik :)
Best Heather
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On 23 Apr 2018, at 5:21 pm, Raymond Ellis raymond.ellis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Coenraad,
I suspect VPN usage is quite high in the Russian Federation. Is this not a case of VPN proxies routing through South Africa?
Raymond
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 at 01:41, Coenraad Loubser coenraad@wish.org.za wrote:
Hi Heather
My first instinct is that it's an error in the geographic IP address database. Erik, can you link me to or supply the GeoIP database used?
Regards
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Heather Ford hfordsa@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to share a paper [1] (abstract below) that I co-wrote with
others
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
Project
[2]) in SA. Will hopefully be talking about this (and other Wikipedia
work)
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]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_pro...
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/
/ t:
@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
improve
the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in
a
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
through
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@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to
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