Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

2017-01-26 Thread Tilman Bayer 
For a concrete quantitative estimate of the economic benefit
(technically, consumer
surplus ), albeit outdated,
probably too low, and not peer-reviewed, see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/March#Estimate_for_economic_benefit_of_Wikipedia:_.2450_million_by_2006_already
(The Economist cited the aforementioned Shane Greenstein, who "thinks
Wikipedia accounted for up to $50m of that surplus" as of 2006 - in other
words, Wikipedia provides a good that otherwise people would be willing to
buy, spending $50m on it that instead they get to spend on something else.)

Tangentially, the methodology of this research is also interesting, as it
tried to put price tags on the benefit provided by a small, specific slice
of Wikipedia content (images of bestseller authors on enwiki):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/April#Excessive_copyright_terms_proven_to_be_a_cost_for_society.2C_via_English_Wikipedia_images

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Aaron Halfaker 
wrote:

> Wikipedia has probably had some substantial external impacts.  Are there
> any studies quantifying them?  Maybe increased scientific literacy?  Or
> maybe GDP rises with access to Wikipedia?
>
> Are there any studies that have explored how Wikipedia has affected
> economic or social issues?
>
> I'm looking for any references you've got.
>
> -Aaron
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

2017-01-25 Thread Jonathan Morgan 
Following up on Fabian's suggestions, I put together a lit review

last year of the use of Wikipedia by a few different populations (focusing
on students), which includes the Head and Eisenberg paper.

- J

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Flöck, Fabian 
wrote:

> I do not know of directly measured social or economical impact, but there
> are at least some indicators of the dependency on Wikipedia as a free
> information source for modern societies and professions, maybe that helps:
>
> • A. Head and M. Eisenberg. How college students use the web to
> conduct everyday life research. First Monday, 16(4), 2011. ISSN 13960466.
> URL http://firstmonday.org/ojs/ index.php/fm/article/view/3484. For
> decision making: “...turning to search engines and Wikipedia almost as much
> as they did to friends and family”
> • K.-S. Kim, E. Yoo-Lee, and S.-C. Joanna Sin. Social media as
> information source: Undergraduates’ use and evaluation behavior.
> Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
> 48(1):1–3, 2011.
> • J. Beck. Doctors’ #1 source for healthcare information:
> Wikipedia. The Atlantic, 2014. URL http://www.theatlantic.com/
> health/archive/2014/03/doctors%2D1%2Dsource%2Dfor%
> 2Dhealthcare%2Dinformation%2Dwikipedia/284206/.
>
> General population:
>
> "As of May 2010, 53% of American internet users look for information on
> Wikipedia, up from 36% of internet users the first time we asked about
> Wikipedia usage in February 2007". (http://www.pewinternet.org/
> 2011/01/13/wikipedia-past-and-present/ ; sadly, there doesn’t seem to be
> a newer version of that poll available)
>
> 42% used Wikipedia at least once a week in 2016 in Germany:
> http://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/index.php?id=559 (n=1508 German
> speakers, representative for the German population) and it has been
> increasing quite steadily from 2007 (20%) until 2013 (32%)
> http://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/fileadmin/Onlinestudie/PDF/Eimeren_
> Frees.pdf , page 7 (“zumindest einmal wöchentlich”), for “at least
> sometimes” it’s up to around 70%
>
> Best,
>
> Fabian
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 24.01.2017, at 23:19, Aaron Halfaker  wrote:
> >
> > Wikipedia has probably had some substantial external impacts.  Are there
> any studies quantifying them?  Maybe increased scientific literacy?  Or
> maybe GDP rises with access to Wikipedia?
> >
> > Are there any studies that have explored how Wikipedia has affected
> economic or social issues?
> >
> > I'm looking for any references you've got.
> >
> > -Aaron
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> Gruß,
> Fabian
>
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> Researcher
> Computational Social Science department
> GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
> Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany
> Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-208
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

2017-01-25 Thread Flöck , Fabian 
I do not know of directly measured social or economical impact, but there are 
at least some indicators of the dependency on Wikipedia as a free information 
source for modern societies and professions, maybe that helps: 

• A. Head and M. Eisenberg. How college students use the web to conduct 
everyday life research. First Monday, 16(4), 2011. ISSN 13960466. URL 
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/ index.php/fm/article/view/3484. For decision 
making: “...turning to search engines and Wikipedia almost as much as they did 
to friends and family” 
• K.-S. Kim, E. Yoo-Lee, and S.-C. Joanna Sin. Social media as 
information source: Undergraduates’ use and evaluation behavior. Proceedings of 
the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 48(1):1–3, 2011.
• J. Beck. Doctors’ #1 source for healthcare information: Wikipedia. 
The Atlantic, 2014. URL 
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors%2D1%2Dsource%2Dfor% 
2Dhealthcare%2Dinformation%2Dwikipedia/284206/. 

General population: 

"As of May 2010, 53% of American internet users look for information on 
Wikipedia, up from 36% of internet users the first time we asked about 
Wikipedia usage in February 2007". 
(http://www.pewinternet.org/2011/01/13/wikipedia-past-and-present/ ; sadly, 
there doesn’t seem to be a newer version of that poll available)

42% used Wikipedia at least once a week in 2016 in Germany: 
http://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/index.php?id=559 (n=1508 German speakers, 
representative for the German population) and it has been increasing quite 
steadily from 2007 (20%) until 2013 (32%) 
http://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/fileadmin/Onlinestudie/PDF/Eimeren_Frees.pdf 
, page 7 (“zumindest einmal wöchentlich”), for “at least sometimes” it’s up to 
around 70%

Best, 

Fabian








> On 24.01.2017, at 23:19, Aaron Halfaker  wrote:
> 
> Wikipedia has probably had some substantial external impacts.  Are there any 
> studies quantifying them?  Maybe increased scientific literacy?  Or maybe GDP 
> rises with access to Wikipedia?  
> 
> Are there any studies that have explored how Wikipedia has affected economic 
> or social issues?
> 
> I'm looking for any references you've got.  
> 
> -Aaron
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Gruß, 
Fabian

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Researcher
Computational Social Science department 
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany
Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-208
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

2017-01-25 Thread fn 


I didn't find much for my review. Page 55 in:

http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/edoc_download.php/6012/pdf/imm6012.pdf

There is an impact on the encyclopaedia market. :) The downfall of 
Encarta gets attributed to Wikipedia. There is a recent paper from Shane 
Greenstein on the Encarta/Britannica story (not that much about Wikipedia).


http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Reference%20Wars%20-%20Greenstein_6c4ac193-51eb-4758-a5a6-a4c412261411.pdf


- Finn Aarup Nielsen


On 01/24/2017 11:19 PM, Aaron Halfaker wrote:

Wikipedia has probably had some substantial external impacts.  Are there
any studies quantifying them?  Maybe increased scientific literacy?  Or
maybe GDP rises with access to Wikipedia?

Are there any studies that have explored how Wikipedia has affected
economic or social issues?

I'm looking for any references you've got.

-Aaron


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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

2017-01-25 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter 
This is an area I am interested in also. I run two groups of Mexican students 
who work with Wiki project for their "servicio social," a community service 
requirement for all Mexican undergrads. There was some question this semester 
as to whether the program should continue as they were looking for evidence of 
"social impact"... which they were defining as students having direct contact 
with beneficiares (think reading to children or serving food at a soup 
kitchen). We did convince the powers-that-be that while there may not be 
face-to-face, we can provide numbers as to how many people access the materials 
that students create/improve (but cannot break it down as to how many of those 
are from Mexico).


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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

I have a few thoughts.

Thinking financially here: while I'm not aware of studies, the rise of 
Wikipedia coincided with the demise of Encarta. Also, I think that you'd want 
to take into consideration the impacts that Wikipedia has had via its 
appearance in Google search results and in Google's information summary panels; 
I'm sure that Google has reaped substantial financial benefits from Wikipedia. 
(This is a mixed blessing.) You might consider making an estimate of how many 
millions of dollars university and school libraries have saved by not 
purchasing proprietary encyclopedias.

You might consult with WikiProject Medicine and WPMF to learn about the public 
health impacts of their efforts in content development and translation efforts, 
which they seem to think have been substantial in the developing world.

I believe that the education folks in WMF and WEF have done some analyses of 
how Wikipedia assignments have may have yielded improved student engagement 
with material than traditional course assignments.

There are probably also financial benefits that others have reaped from using 
open source MediaWiki software. Perhaps the folks in WMF Tech would be able to 
provide some analysis of the benefits of MediaWiki to external organizations.

HTH,

Pine


On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Aaron Halfaker 
<ahalfa...@wikimedia.org<mailto:ahalfa...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Wikipedia has probably had some substantial external impacts.  Are there any 
studies quantifying them?  Maybe increased scientific literacy?  Or maybe GDP 
rises with access to Wikipedia?

Are there any studies that have explored how Wikipedia has affected economic or 
social issues?

I'm looking for any references you've got.

-Aaron

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

2017-01-24 Thread Pine W 
I have a few thoughts.

Thinking financially here: while I'm not aware of studies, the rise of
Wikipedia coincided with the demise of Encarta. Also, I think that you'd
want to take into consideration the impacts that Wikipedia has had via its
appearance in Google search results and in Google's information summary
panels; I'm sure that Google has reaped substantial financial benefits from
Wikipedia. (This is a mixed blessing.) You might consider making an
estimate of how many millions of dollars university and school libraries
have saved by not purchasing proprietary encyclopedias.

You might consult with WikiProject Medicine and WPMF to learn about the
public health impacts of their efforts in content development and
translation efforts, which they seem to think have been substantial in the
developing world.

I believe that the education folks in WMF and WEF have done some analyses
of how Wikipedia assignments have may have yielded improved student
engagement with material than traditional course assignments.

There are probably also financial benefits that others have reaped from
using open source MediaWiki software. Perhaps the folks in WMF Tech would
be able to provide some analysis of the benefits of MediaWiki to external
organizations.

HTH,

Pine


On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Aaron Halfaker 
wrote:

> Wikipedia has probably had some substantial external impacts.  Are there
> any studies quantifying them?  Maybe increased scientific literacy?  Or
> maybe GDP rises with access to Wikipedia?
>
> Are there any studies that have explored how Wikipedia has affected
> economic or social issues?
>
> I'm looking for any references you've got.
>
> -Aaron
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