Prepare the first draft of a contributor gaps taxonomy. This will likely be of a very similar structure to the readership gaps taxonomy (T242173).
Description
Description
Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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Resolved | leila | T242172 Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps | |||
Resolved | Isaac | T250088 Draft Contributor Gaps Taxonomy |
Event Timeline
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Weekly update: not started yet. First steps will be to start gathering survey data / literature review.
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Weekly update:
Gathered a bunch of relevant surveys:
- Official WMF surveys (on-wiki):
- 2008 UNU-MERIT Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:UNU-MERIT_Wikipedia_survey
- April 2011 Editor Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_2011_April
- November 2011 Editor Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_2011_November
- 2012 Editor Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_2012
- 2014 Global South User Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Global_South_User_Survey_2014
- 2017 Community Insights Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2016-17_Report
- 2018 Community Insights Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report
- Pending: 2019 Community Insights Survey
- Research surveys
- 2013 VisualEditor Gender Microsurvey (WMF): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Gender_micro-survey
- 2019 Editor Gender Surveys (WMF): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveys_on_the_gender_of_editors
- Outside / Panel Surveys
- 2011 Readership Survey (WMF): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Readership_Survey_2011
- 2011 Mobile Readers Survey (WMF): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Mobile_Readers_Survey_2011
- The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Wikipedia Editing (Shaw and Hargittai): https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/68/1/143/4915319?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- 2017 Strategy Surveys (WMF): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/Brand_awareness,_attitudes,_and_usage_research_(July_2017)
- 2019 YouGov Survey of Women and Wikipedia (WMF): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/YouGov_survey_on_women_and_Wikipedia
- Affiliate surveys (on-wiki)
- 2012 Bangla Wikipedia Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Editor_Engagement_Project/Report/Monthly_(June-July_2012)
- 2014 Pakistan Reader Survey: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/20/pakistani-readers-survey/
- 2015 Greek Wikipedia Survey: http://wikiworkshop.org/2016/papers/wikiworkshop_icwsm2016_protonotarios.pdf
- Wikimedia CH 2015 Community Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Community_Survey_2015
- Wikimedia CH 2016 Community Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Community_Survey_2016
- WMDE 2016 Editor Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Editor_Survey_2016
- Wikimedia CH 2017 Community Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Community_Survey
- Wikimedia Ukraine 2018 Community Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ukraine/Community_Survey_2018
Feedback from team:
- Consider expanding more into to academic lit such as editor types, barriers, role of bots
- Possible delineation to highlight -- contributors can be bots (developers), editors (users), and anonymous contributors
- In barriers/solutions, we should comment availability (or lack of) tools like Visual Editor -- e.g., https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-May/093371.html
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Weekly update:
- Updated leafs of taxonomy with the relevant surveys
- Began writing introduction to taxonomy
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Weekly update:
- Focused on starting description of methods for executive summary / final report.
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Weekly update:
- Added draft of sociodemographic gaps to taxonomy
- Began going through surveys to identify trends -- e.g., median age of editors vs. country/world population
- Updated missing Editor/Reader Survey categories to Meta to simplify the process of identifying these surveys in the future
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Weekly update:
- Full first draft completed and added to Overleaf! Will continue to iterate with the team on this for the rest of the quarter.
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Resolving this task -- iteration will continue (just added the 2020 Community Insights survey!) but full draft is complete.