Hi Alex, Welcome to the community!
I am based at Tel Aviv University, where I teach 2 Wiki courses I developed and reseach Wikipedia & Wikidata (among others). If there's anything I can do to help, I'm a phone call away. :-) Best, Shani. On 10 Jul 2017 23:02, "Alex Yarovoy" <yarovoy.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Leila, Stuart, Pine > We will follow up on these comments and pointers > > A few additional words about this research - > Our narrow definition of formal expertise focuses on those with academic > qualifications who have published a scholarly work (i.e. appears in Google > Scholar) in the topic of the specific Wikipedia articles where one was > active. > We acknowledge that many experts do not have academic qualifications. > The choice of "formal" (i.e. academic in this context) expertise enabled a > concrete operationalization and measurement. > We welcome any ideas for pinpointing informal experts. > > We are currently in the first phase of research where we try to identify > these formal experts. We've spent considerable amount of time in > identifying 500 such experts, and now we use machine learning techniques to > automatically spot them (preliminary results are quite good). > Once this is done, we can start asking interesting questions, such as: > - What is the relative role of these formal experts to overall content > contributed to Wikipedia? > - Are formal experts' contributions "better"? (e.g. survive longer or > result in increased quality score (per ORES) > - Who are those formal experts? anonymous contributors? registered users? > do they take additional roles within the community? > - Formal experts' motivation > > Any other ideas for taking this research forward are more than welcome. > > Thank you, > Ofer, Einat and Alex > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
