Hoi,
A similar thing can be found when you look at the history of a country.
Indonesia and Malaysia have much better articles than English Wikipedia. In
the same way, the content of western nobility is much better served in
Wikidata than the content for Asian nobility.
This is to be expected.
The
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 info
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
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Kerry Raymond
wrote:
> Yes, but when you are one of many English-speaking nations and in a world
> where English is widely spoken as a 2nd language, it’s hard to know if
> outreach from your chapter has any impact on en.WP. WMF asks for success
> metrics / KPIs
Please participate in the discussion about the "Creation and renewal of
the Committee" section. This is not to approve it yet, just a discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#.22Creation_and_renewal_of_the_Committee.22_section
Most of this text has been around for
A couple of research papers that might be helpful:
1: Hecht, B. and Gergle, D. 2009. Measuring Self-Focus Bias in
Community-Maintained Knowledge Repositories. Proceedings of the 2009
International Conference on Communities and Technologies , pp. 11-19.
http://www.brenthecht.com/publications/bhecht
Regarding Kerry Raymond's "Patriotic editing hypothesis", I've done
some very simple informal investigation regarding the quality of
geographic articles, these are mostly on cities, towns, counties, etc.
in en:Wikipedia. Geographic articles have much lower average quality
scores than other subject
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Which is why we have Wikidata?
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> "closure of the [[Category:Australia]]" is not going to work. In en.wiki
> subcategories are not subsets in any mathematical sense and the category
> tree has many, many loops and no roots.
>
> cheers
> stu
I think this will be important for us as a baseline to measure all sorts of
things regarding chapter activity as well. Australia is probably worse than
the Netherlands in terms of regional editting activity, and I have said
before that we have a major problem finding US editors in the "fly-over
sta
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