@Aroraakhil and @MGerlach worked on identifying ways to measure and improve the visibility of Wikipedia articles, by looking at one specific category of invisible articles: orphan articles, or articles that are not linked from anywhere else in a Wiki.

Selection, Extent, and visibility of articles are the 3 aspects that were found to be important when thinking about knowledge gaps metrics and ways to describe inequalities on Wikipedia. In the knowledge gap index, each gap (gender, geography, etc) is now measured via

• a 'selection' metric, the % of articles about each category in the gap, say man/women, different regions, etc
• an 'extent' metric, the average quality of articles in each category.

We discussed the feasibility of adding a 'visibility' metric to the knowledge gap index, where we measure a gap by calculating the percentage of orphan articles that belong to each category (28% of orphan articles are about women)? It seems that with the current data and available code, there are viable solutions to do this in a relatively short time frame, hence creating this task.

@fkaelin feel free to add relevant links to repos and data.