Wikipedia Primary School: Providing the information necessary to the cycle of Primary Education 
in the languages used by the different education systems - Design Festival Bern 2017

1. Wikipedia Primary School
Providing the information necessary to the cycle of Primary Education
in the languages used by the different education systems
Iolanda Pensa, researcher, SUPSI
Design Festival Bern 2017

2. August 2015 March 2016 June 2017
• Review by Wikipedia community
• Review by experts
• Review by scientific journals
• Online writing contest
• Call for new article creation
• Articles featured
on Wikipedia Portals
• Edit-a-thons
• Articles’ assessment
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.

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

4. 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

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

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

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

8. References, notes, images, issues, March 2016, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

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

10. 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

11. +38%
+9%
+51%
+18%
Incoming and outgoing links, visualization by Giovanni Profeta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.
Articles selected Articles not selected

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

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

14. Wikipedia contributors, "Day of Reconciliation”
Wikipedia,The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Day_of_Reconciliation&oldid=778206124 (accessed May 4, 2017).

15. Page views.Visualization by Giovanni Profeta, cc by-sa. Wikipedia contributors, "Day of Reconciliation”
Wikipedia,The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Day_of_Reconciliation&oldid=778206124 (accessed May 4, 2017).

16. Size in bytes over time.Visualization by Giovanni Profeta, cc by-sa. Selection of the article by Florence Devouard.Wikipedia contributors, "Day of Reconciliation”
Wikipedia,The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Day_of_Reconciliation&oldid=778206124 (accessed May 4, 2017).

17. Size in bytes over time.Visualization by Giovanni Profeta, cc by-sa. Selection of the article by Florence Devouard.Wikipedia contributors, "Day of Reconciliation”
Wikipedia,The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Day_of_Reconciliation&oldid=778206124 (accessed May 4, 2017).

18. Comparing the article in August 2015 and December 2016.Visualization by Giovanni Profeta, cc by-sa. Wikipedia contributors, "Day of Reconciliation”
Wikipedia,The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Day_of_Reconciliation&oldid=778206124 (accessed May 4, 2017).

19. List of selected articles
Graph creation in
Gephi
Graph filtered to hide the
smallest bubbles
Get the amount of
links shared between
couples of pages
(edges)
Querying Wikipedia
API/scraping
Wikipedia page
Data parsing and
cleaning
Get page titles
(nodes)
Graphic design and
refinements in a
graphical software
Methodology: Data gathering and processing. Giovanni Profeta for Wikipedia Primary School, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School.

20. Scraping
• Excel
• Data Wrangler
• Gephi
• D3.js
• JQuery
• PHP
Data cleaning Visualization
Methodology:Tools and web libraries. Giovanni Profeta for Wikipedia Primary School, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School.

21. Wikipedia Primary School, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

22. github.com/giovannipro/wikimole, Giovanni Profeta for Wikipedia Primary School, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School.

23. giovannipro.github.io/wikipedia-primary-school/, Giovanni Profeta for Wikipedia Primary School, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School.

24. giovannipro.github.io/wikipedia-primary-school/datasets.html,Wikipedia Primary School, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School, cc by-sa.

25. Visibility is the easiest metric.
GLAMVisual Tool (SUPSI support WMCH, 2016-2017). Concept I. Pensa, design G. Profeta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GLAM_visual_tool

26. GLAMVisual Tool (SUPSI support WMCH, 2016-2017). Concept I. Pensa, design G. Profeta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GLAM_visual_tool

27. Supported byIn partnership withResearch by
Iolanda Pensa, Giovanni Profeta, 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