Methods to enhance the production of articles on specific topics. A presentation of the methodologies tested in the production of articles related to the South African primary school curriculum Iolanda Pensa, researcher, SUPSI Montréal 2017 https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WPS Is Wikipedia an educational tool?

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Wikipedia Primary School Providing the information necessary to the cycle of Primary Education in the languages used by the different education systems

Case study: South Africa 174 articles related to the South African primary school curriculum.

August 2015 March 2016 June 2017

• Articles’ assessment

• Review by • Review by experts • Review by scientific journals

• Online writing contest

• Edit-a-thons

• Articles featured on Wikipedia Portals

• Call for new article creation Playlists v Editing history of articles, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. Articles constantly edited Articles no longer edited Editing history of articles, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. Page views in one year (2014), visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. Page views in one year (2014), visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. Incoming and outgoing links, August 2015, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. References, notes, images, issues, March 2016, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. Network of the articles selected - August 2015, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa. Wikipedia Primary School Final Report, 2017. Edited by . Quality assessment of the 179 articles.

List of the reviews https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_programme/Evaluation Wikipedia Scientific Journal. Featuring biographies or quotes on the South Africa portal page on Wikipedia Surfing on the opportunity of joining a “barnraising” event on Wikipedia. 11 articles proposed and 8 articles highly improved. Wikipedia Primary School Final Report, 2017. Edited by Florence Devouard. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_ECAS_Basel_2017_-_Literature_and_sources_about_African_cities_and_open_access https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_ECAS_Basel_2017_-_Literature_and_sources_about_African_cities_and_open_access Wikipedia Primary School structure - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School/Structure_per_country Wikipedia Primary School Providing the information necessary to the cycle of Primary Education in the languages used by the different education systems

A research developed within a Swiss-South African cooperation lead by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the University of Cape Town, in partnership with Wikimedia Switzerland and the Africa Centre based in Cape Town, and with the support of SNF and the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).

Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator SUPSI), Tobias Schönwetter (principal investigator UCT), Florence Devouard, Luca Botturi, Marta Pucciarelli, Giovanni Profeta, Isla Haddow-Flood, Erica Litrenta, Heather Ford, Kelsey Wiens, Giancarlo Gianocca, Marco Lurati, Fabian Frei, Serena Cangiano.

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