Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gaps

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Heather,

Thanks for starting this thread.

Where can I read your research that comes to the conclusion that automated
mechanisms are insufficient for solving the gaps problem?

Sorry if this was mentioned somewhere already; I sometimes get lost on long
emails, and it's possible that I missed it :)


בתאריך 9 בפבר׳ 2018 05:04,‏ "Heather Ford"  כתב:

Having a look at the new WMF research site, I noticed that it seems that
notification and recommendations mechanisms are the key strategy being
focused on re. the filling of Wikipedia's content gaps. Having just
finished a research project on just this problem and coming to the opposite
conclusion i.e. that automated mechanisms were insufficient for solving the
gaps problem, I was curious to find out more.

This latest research that I was involved in with colleagues was based on an
action research project aiming to fill gaps in topics relating to South
Africa. The team tried a range of different strategies discussed in the
literature for filling Wikipedia's gaps without any wild success. Automated
mechanisms that featured missing and incomplete articles catalysed very few
edits.

When looking for related research, it seemed that others had come to a
similar conclusion i.e. that automated notification/recommendations alone
didn't lead to improvements in particular target areas. That makes me think
that a) I just haven't come across the right research or b) that there are
different types of gaps and that those different types require different
solutions i.e. the difference between filling gaps across language
versions, gaps created by incomplete articles about topics for which there
are few online/reliable sources is different from the lack of articles
about topics for which there are many online/reliable sources, gaps in
articles about particular topics, relating to particular geographic areas
etc.

Does anyone have any insight here? - either on research that would help
practitioners decide how to go about a project of filling gaps in a
particular subject area or about whether the key focus of research at the
WMF is on filling gaps via automated means such as recommendation and
notification mechanisms?

Many thanks!

Best,
Heather.
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gaps

[Heather Ford]

Thanks so much for the super helpful comments and suggestions, Leila,
Kerry! I so appreciate it.

And yes, this is a great way to frame the distinction i.e. that some gaps
can be filled by existing contributors (using automated techniques like
recommendations) but others can only be filled by bringing in new
contributors and/or by creating alternative support mechanisms or
incentives (in the way that programmes like GLAM or editing competitions
might do). Curious if anyone else on the list has recommendations for
research in the latter category... I'm still convinced we need more
academic research here :)

Best,
Heather.



Dr Heather Ford
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media ,
University of New South Wales
w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net  / t:
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On 9 February 2018 at 12:18, Leila Zia  wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Kerry Raymond 
> wrote:
> > I think we can't address content gaps unless we also address contributor
> gaps.
>
> This is very important. We very likely have reader/consumer gaps, (for
> sure) content gaps, and contributor gaps and these gaps are connected
> to each other in ways that we need to much better understand.
>
> Leila
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] A new landing page for the Wikimedia Research team

[Jan Dittrich]

For people being interested in i18n, have a look at the design team’s
research in i18n-ized Static Site Generators:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164449

Jan

2018-02-08 20:20 GMT+00:00 Jonathan Morgan :

> Quick heads up that there's now a Phab tag[1] for the landing page. Please
> feel free to use this tag to document issues and feature requests.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/3243/
>
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Morgan 
> wrote:
>
> > Aaron: I'll ask Baha about the issue tracking... *issue* today. The code
> > is hosted on Gerrit now, with a one-way mirror on this GitHub repo[1],
> > which is not ideal from an openness/collaboration POV. For me, enabling
> > easy issue tracking and pull requests is the most pressing issue. In the
> > meantime, you can submit tasks through Phab. Add them to the Research
> > board[2] and/or as subtasks of our Landing Page creation epic[3]. Not
> > ideal, but at least you can capture things this way.
> >
> > Federico: Translation via translatewiki would be very cool. We haven't
> > prioritized this because, well, none of our on-wiki research team pages
> > were ever translated, and this microsite is intended to supplement our
> > on-wiki content, not replace it. But it sounds like a potential 'roadmap'
> > kinda deal and I'll make sure to track it.
> >
> > Iolanda: this is the landing page for the Wikimedia Foundation Research
> > team[4], not for the international community of researchers who study
> > Wiki[*]edia. It's also not the landing page for all researchers and
> > research activities within the Wikimedia Foundation--just those of team
> > members (and Aaron, whose Scoring Platform team is a kind of spin
> > off/sibling of the research team).
> >
> > Thanks everyone for the feedback so far. Keep it coming,
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > 1. https://github.com/wikimedia/research-landing-page
> > 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/research/
> > 3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107389
> > 4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Aaron Halfaker  >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hey folks, I see you're using github[1], but you've disabled the issue
> >> tracker there.  Where should I submit bug reports and feature requests?
> >> Maybe you could add a link next to "source code" at the bottom of the
> >> page.
> >>
> >> 1. https://github.com/wikimedia/research-landing-page
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Aaron Halfaker <
> aaron.halfa...@gmail.com
> >> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Depends on which standard.  This is not a wiki page so it won't be
> >> > translatable using the on-wiki translate tools.  However, it's quite
> >> > possible that we could use something like translatewiki.net.  I'm not
> >> > sure if that is on the road map.  Dario, what do you think?
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:31 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
> >> nemow...@gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Will it be translatable with standard tools?
> >> >>
> >> >> Federico
> >> >>
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