Weekly update:

• reviewed literature on measurement of content-gaps (mainly gender)
• following the most comment approach, I measured gender-content gap (selection) in different wikis over their full lifetime based on fraction of articles on male/female biographies, where we use wikidata to define the set of available biographies.

• discussion with @GoranSMilovanovic on how Wikidata Concept Monitor measures use of Wikidata-items in Wikipedia projects via their appearance in infoboxes/templates.

Weekly update:

• coordinating this week with Rafael Escalona Reynoso to set up discussion on a possible knowledge gap index.

Weekly update:

• created document collecting information and notes on other indices (such as the global innovation index) in order to identify common themes and possible collaborators when starting this work at a later stage

@MGerlach thanks. Please get in touch with Jaime Anstee; I learned recently that she's working on an index for knowledge equity and it's good to know how much of the knowledge gaps are part of her thinking and also if there's anything we can reuse from their work.

Weekly update 02/17

• scanned literature for measurement of geographical content gaps
• contacted Jaime Anstee and Dana McCurdy to discuss measurement of knowledge equity index

Weekly update 02/24

• None.

Weekly update 03/02

• had meeting with Jamie Anstee previous week: scheduled regular meetings to sync work on equity index and avoid overlap
• extended ressource list on available indices and methodology (OECD's Handbook on constructing composite indices )
• added metrics/measurement content-genre/topic gap

Weekly update 03/09:

• started to add metrics on cultural gaps (Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory
• started adding metrics on readership gaps

Weekly update 03/16:

• created 1st full overview on possible metrics (readers, content) here
• discussion with leila, isaac, miriam on possible directions of metrics
• took notes on methodology of construction of composite indices here

Weekly updates 03/30:

• ongoing discussions with isaac, miriam, leila on how to proceed