In Wikidata we have annotated 1873 items (articles, books, etc.) as
about Wikipedia. Some of them are listed in Scholia:
https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q52
Halfaker et al's "2013" paper, as mentioned, I would also mention.
Apart from that there is the famous Nature editorial article "Internet
encyclopaedias go head to head" from 2005 which may have contributed to
Wikipedia rise. I think it is the most cited Wikipedia study. It has
3182 Google Scholar citations. And it is the most cited study among the
Wikipedia works in Wikidata.
best regards
Finn
On 18/12/2020 18.23, Jeremy Foote wrote:
When it comes to understanding relationships between multiple language
editions, I think that Bao et al.'s work on Omnipedia has a bunch of great
insights for how to think about and measure relationships between content
in different editions.
Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Horn, M., & Gergle, D. (2012).
Omnipedia: Bridging the wikipedia language gap. *Proceedings of the 2012
ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems*, 1075–1084.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2208516.2208553
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM Johan Jönsson <brevlis...@gmail.com> wrote:
Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 16:23 skrev Morten Wang <nett...@gmail.com>:
Halfaker et al's 2013 paper digs deeply into answering why the Wikipedia
community started declining in 2007. They find that the quality assurance
processes that were created to deal with the firehose of content coming
in
with the exponential growth around 2004–2005 also end up discarding
good-faith contributions. This highlights the problem of how to do
quality
assurance while also being a welcoming community to newcomers who are
struggling to learn all of Wikipedia's various rules and conventions (see
also the Teahouse paper).
I think we need to start recommending it with a short explanation on
current trends and mention that it describes a piece of Wikipedia history
(where the mechanics behind the trend could still be relevant). You see the
same curve in a number of other languages (especially languages mainly
spoken in northern Europe), and like English they've typically flattened
out, English already around 2014, other number of languages with a similar
trend around 2018, yet we can still read that the Wikipedia editorship is
in decline in the present tense in papers and articles on English Wikipedia
published in 2020, referencing The Rise and Decline.
//Johan Jönsson
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