The Wikipedia Diversity Observatory: helping communities to bridge content gaps through interactive interfaces

Journal of Internet Services and Applications

David Laniado¹  Marc Miquel-Ribé¹ 

[1] Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;

关键词: Diversity;    Culture gap;    Gender gap;    Online collaboration;    Wikipedia;    Digital humanities;    Data visualization;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13174-021-00141-y

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we present the Wikipedia Diversity Observatory, a project aimed to increase diversity within Wikipedia content. The project provides dashboards with visualizations and tools which show content gaps in terms of imbalances in the coverage of topics, and of concepts that are not shared across Wikipedia language editions. The dashboards are built on datasets generated for each of the more than 300 existing language editions, with features that label each article according to geography, gender and other categories relevant to overall content diversity. Through various examples, we show how the tools encourage and help editors to bridge the gaps in Wikipedia content. Finally, we discuss the project’s impact on the communities and implications for the Wikimedia movement in a moment in which covering diversity is considered strategic.

【 授权许可】

CC BY