Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

this is a fascinating thread, thanks for starting it, Iolanda. For his PhD dissertation, Alan McConchie studied the impact of automated or bulk-imported geodata on the growth and activity of the OSM editor community. I am copying him as he might have some insights to share. I also wanted to make a bold proposal to the list. We’ve been discussing for a while this notion of "topic pages”, i.e. reviews on the state of the art of research on topic areas of key interest to the Wikimedia community: • these pages would be hosted on Meta, they would be maintained and curated by researchers and community members and would include pointers to the relevant literature • they could be used as the main resource for newbie wiki researchers and volunteers interested in Wikipedia research but also as compact digests for existing researchers about areas they haven’t explored • what’s more, they could be forked at any point in time and turned into conference/journal submission as review articles with major contributors as authors • finally, they could include a section with unanswered research questions that could seed further research. Would people in this thread be interested in a pilot for a topic page on automatic article creation in Wikimedia sites? Dario On Mar 17, 2014, at 3:49 AM, Iolanda Pensa <iolanda(a)pensa.it> wrote: