Sun 18 May 2014 11:26PM
A campaign to increase the coverage and diversity of coverage of New Zealand academics in wikipedia
Stuart Yeates
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I have an idea for a campaign to grow the coverage and diversity of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Zealand_academics (it’s a bit ambiguous but that includes pure researchers as well as researcher-teachers). There is an implicit secondary goal for this campaign, attract new local editors to wikipedia.
My plan has four stages:
- limited call for nominations / suggestions / ideas for listings. These can either be individuals or groups / classes of people (‘all PIs of current contestable science investment round winners’ / ‘all Hector Medal recipients’ / ‘Fellows of the RSNZ for whom the RSNZ has published obits’ ). This needs to be done by people who are familiar with the NZ science landscape (in the first iteration, this group).
- search for sources on these individuals (needed both for writing the articles and to prove them ‘notable’ (= eligible for inclusion in wikipedia)). This needs to be done by people who understand what an independent secondary source is in the wikipedia sense (in the first iteration, probably me, unless there are any other wikipedia editors wishing to step forward?).
- a broadcast / amplified call for people to write articles based on sources.
- rinse and repeat.
A condition of my participation would be that we'd be moving the gender and ethnic balances in the right direction.
Stuart Yeates Tue 23 Sep 2014 10:49AM
Don't know what you people have been up to but I'm almost finished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles/New_Zealand_academic_biographies just a handful of red links still link to articles yet to be written.
Stuart Yeates · Sun 15 Jun 2014 5:23AM
Work continues apace, there are now a couple more worklists in play, ones that double as actual useful content too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honorary_Doctors_of_the_University_of_Canterbury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honorary_Doctors_of_Victoria_University_of_Wellington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honorary_Doctors_of_Lincoln_University_(New_Zealand) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honorary_Doctors_of_the_University_of_Waikato Not all of these people are academic per se, but they're all pro-university high-profile people. about 50% of them already have articles.