Hi everyone, A friendly reminder that we will be starting our showcase in about 1 hour. The theme is *A Look at External Factors that Help Different Language Versions of Wikipedia Thrive*. You can watch at https://www.youtube.com/live/oH0PCNIzF0E.
Best, Kinneret On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 11:59 AM Kinneret Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, November > 20, at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here > <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732123800>. The theme for this showcase > is *A Look at External Factors that Help Different Language Versions of > Wikipedia Thrive*. > > You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream: > https://www.youtube.com/live/oH0PCNIzF0E. As usual, you can join the > conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live. > > This month's presentations: > The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative > analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editionsBy *Sejal Khatri*Why > do some peer production projects do a better job at engaging potential > contributors than others? We address this question by comparing three > Indian language Wikipedias, namely, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada. We > found that although the three projects share goals, technological > infrastructure, and a similar set of challenges, Malayalam Wikipedia’s > community engages language speakers in contributing at a much higher rate > than the others. Drawing from a grounded theory analysis of interviews with > 18 community participants from the three projects, we found that experience > with participatory governance and free/open-source software in the > Malayalam community supported high engagement of contributors. > Counterintuitively, we found that financial resources intended to increase > participation in the Marathi and Kannada communities hindered the growth of > these communities. Our findings underscore the importance of social and > cultural context in the trajectories of peer production > communities.Low-Resource > Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding StudyBy *Hellina > Hailu Nigatu, UC Berkeley*Online Knowledge Repositories (OKRs) like > Wikipedia offer communities a way to share and preserve information about > themselves and their ways of living. However, for communities with > low-resourced languages—including most African communities—the quality and > volume of content available are often inadequate. One reason for this lack > of adequate content could be that many OKRs embody Western ways of > knowledge preservation and sharing, requiring many low-resourced language > communities to adapt to new interactions. In this talk, we will go through > findings from two studies: (1) a thematic analysis of Wikipedia forum > discussions and (2) a contextual inquiry study with 14 novice contributors > who create content in low-resourced languages. We will focus on three > Ethiopian languages: Afan Oromo, Amharic, and Tigrinya. Our analysis > revealed several recurring themes; for example, contributors struggle to > find resources to corroborate their articles in low-resourced languages, > and language technology support, like translation systems and spellcheck, > result in several errors that waste contributors’ time. Based on our > analysis, we will also outline design opportunities for building better > language support tools and interfaces for low-resourced language speakers. > Best,Kinneret > > -- > > Kinneret Gordon > > Lead Research Community Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
