Post on 02-Jul-2015
description
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
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Open licensing of institutionally-
generated content
5
Publishing historical institutional
content to the web
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Publishing historical industry
content to the web
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Publishing obituaries
8
Encouraging user groups to publish
reviews
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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
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Prioritise historically female-
dominated professions and
organisations
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Prioritise historically Māori-
dominated professions and
organisations
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Encourage the generation of quality
secondary sources
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Proper authority control for iwi
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Use proper personal names
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Use specific geographical names
Questions?