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2. Wikipedia is an new territory.

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19. Indirect systems of contributing to Wikipedia.
Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Edit button
Sources
Sources
Sources

20. Indirect systems of contributing to Wikipedia.
Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Edit button
Sources
Sources
Sources
Language
Policies
Reputation
Connectivity
Electricity
Volunteer model
Personal computer IP
Edit count
Critical mass

21. Indirect systems of contributing to Wikipedia.
External contributions
under
Reviews
Production of encyclopedic articles
Photos
Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Edit button
Playlist
of articles
Sources
Sources
Sources
Content under

22. Indirect systems of contributing to Wikipedia.
Content under
External contributions
under
Reviews
Production of encyclopedic articles
Photos
Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Edit button
Expertise
License clearing
Playlist
of articles
Role of grant-makers
Supporting new
original research
Sources
Sources
Sources

23. Visual information
A tool for research, evaluation and GLAM-wiki cooperation
References
Information design used as a research tool within the project Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP
programme - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_programme
(conceived and lead by SUPSI and supported by the FNS and the South African national research funds).
Project GLAM visual tools https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GLAM_visual_tool (conceived and
lead by SUPSI and supported by Wikimedia CH).
Wikidata workshop SUPSI https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_workshop_SUPSI

24. Editing history of articles, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

25. 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

26. Page views in one year (2014), visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

27. Page views in one year (2014), visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

28. Incoming and outgoing links,August 2015, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

29. Incoming and outgoing links, March 2016, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

30. 2015 2016 2015 2016
Impact of methods applied, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.
Reviews by the Wikipedia community Reviews by experts

31. Network of the articles selected - August 2015, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

32. Network of the articles selected - March 2016, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

33. Wikipedia Primary School, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.
August 2015 March 2016

34. articles under examination
August 2015 March 2016
incoming links per article (average)
outgoing links per article (average)
Google page rank (average)
Issues per article (average)
total amount of editors
number of edits
174 176(2 new articles)
342(+10.6%)309
386 667(+173%)
5,19
0,59
845
1463
5,18(-0,003%)
0,52(-12%)
773(-8,5%)
1481(+1,2%)
Network of the articles
under examination
life skills
South Africa
materials and others
sound
transport
Acid
Alcoholism
Aloe
Apartheid
Atom
Automobile
Bias
Bicycle
Biome
Boiling
Borehole
Bullying
Ceramic
Clay
Climate
Coal
Cooking
Decanting
Design
Discrimination
Drakensberg
Economy of South Africa
Ecosystem
Farm
Fiber
Food security
Food
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Gangster
Gas
Gauteng
Glass
Health
History of South Africa
HIV
HIV/AIDS
Human nutrition
Hydraulics
Kaditshwene
Khoikhoi
Latitude
List of South Africans
Longitude
Malaria
Map
Mapungubwe
Mpumalanga
Music of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Nest
Paper
Pneumatics
Politics of South Africa
Pollution
Rail transport
Reproduction
San people
Sand
Settling
Sexism
Sieving
Soil
Sound
South African cuisine
Stereotype
Steve Biko
Textile
Trade
Transport in South Africa
Transport
Vibration
Walter Sisulu
Water pollution
Wax
Wetlands
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Wood
Wool
Wikipedia Primary School (SUPSI 2014-2017).Wikipedia articles related to the South African primary school curriculum. Concept I. Pensa, design G. Profeta.
Filling the knowledge gap

35. Supported byIn partnership withResearch by
Iolanda Pensa, Madeira 2017.
This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License.
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.
Wikipedia Primary School
Providing the information necessary to the cycle of Primary Education
in the languages used by the different education systems