It is worth remembering that via the orcid identifier in the authority control template, the is now a standard linked-data mechanism for researchers to identify themselves. I have no idea whether anyone is looking at that though.
Cheers Stuart On Saturday, July 8, 2017, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I believe that this is a subject of interest to the community. It would > indeed be helpful to know the percentage of people with graduate-level > academic qualifications who regularly make contributions on English > Wikipedia and other language editions of Wikipedia. > > I'd suggest thinking about the following: > > 1. In general, academics don't receive benefits to their C.V. from > contributing to Wikipedia. My guess is that this is a major reason why > relatively few academics contribute to Wikipedia on a regular basis. It > might be interesting if you can produce data that confirms a hypothesis > like this. > > 2. I would encourage changing the term that you use from "recognized domain > experts" to "people with graduate-level academic qualifications". In the > U.S., in many domains, there are multiple ways for people to gain > reputations of being experts in domain; an academic qualification is often > not required, although it may be helpful. > > Pine > > > On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Alex Yarovoy <yarovoy.a...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm a Master student working under the supervision of Drs. Arazy and > Minkov > > (Haifa U) > > My research explores the extent to which "recognized domain experts" > > contribute to Wikipedia. > > (I use a narrow definition for "recognized domain experts" to include > those > > with academic qualifications in the relevant topic). > > I manually tracked these experts using a variety of sources, and then use > > machine learning methods for automatically identifying domain experts > > within Wikipedia editors. > > > > I'm writing to explore whether this research is on interest to the > > community and to learn if other people have already tackled this research > > question. > > > > Thank you in advance for pointing me to relevant research projects > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
