doing wikipedia when you're not editing wikipedia
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Doing wikipedia
when you're not editing
wikipedia
Stuart Yeates
History
● Started 10 years ago
● 100 million hours of TV / day in the USA
● Divert 1% of those hours
● Build an encyclopedia
● ...from the point of view of TV watchers…
● → GLAM + diversity initiatives
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Encourage the generation of quality
secondary sources
2
Digitise Holdings
3
Open licensing of holdings
1 — 3
These are the primary reasons we
love GLAM institutions
4
Open licensing of institutionally-
generated content
5
Publishing historical institutional
content to the web
6
Publishing historical industry
content to the web
7
Publishing obituaries
8
Encouraging user groups to publish
reviews
9
Use an interoperable authority
control scheme
10
Don't change your URLs
Systematic Bias
● Understand what biases you have
● Understand that individual Wikipedia editors
are almost certainly worse than you are
● Things you can do to help...
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Churn historical institutional content
13
Prioritise historically female-
dominated professions and
organisations
14
Prioritise historically Māori-
dominated professions and
organisations
15
Encourage the generation of quality
secondary sources
16
Proper authority control for iwi
17
Use proper personal names
18
Use specific geographical names
Questions?
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