Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/How Wikidata and Wikipedia can help identify, improve and diversify the world literary canon in a multilingual context
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1. I am a librarian at Oregon State University in the United States. I'm a co-founder and co-leader of the #EveryBookItsReader campaign. 2. I was very excited to learn about this research. It will bring more attention to the importance of book coverage in Wikipedia. We can use the results and information to promote the #EveryBookItsReader campaign and encourage people to contribute to Wikipedia by adding and editing book summaries, critiques, and news coverage. 3. I believe librarians, booksellers, and publishers would benefit from more robust coversage of books in Wikipedia. And, of course, readers. 4. This small funding request could have a big impact! Bridges2Information (talk) 20:52, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
1. I am a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Alicante in Spain. I am a member of Wikimedia Spain and an active user of Wikidata. My research is focused on GLAM institutions and the reuse of digital collections, which also includes the use of Wikidata. I worked for more than 10 years as a software developer and researcher at the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
2. Wikipedia and Wikidata will benefit from a major contribution regarding book summaries and critiques.
3. The results could be used for teaching purposes at the university to increase the visibility of Wikimedia projects. The SPARQL queries could be included as examples of use based on Digital Humanities methods. This work could be part of the Spanish digital research infrastructure CLARIAH-ES.
4. Great proposal for a small funding request
--Gustavo.candela (talk) 17:19, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
(1) I am writing as a Wikipedia editor. (2) I think the main immediate result for Wikimedia communities will be as a means to identify literary works not reflected on a given Wikipedia edition. (4) However, what I find most appealing about this proposal is the foundation that it could lay for future research, maybe even newly building a kind of ATU index covering the whole (ok, most) literary works in existence. Albeit fulfilling the research outcome seems no easy feat. Platonides (talk) 01:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
1. I am Director for Open Knowledge in the University of Cadiz (Spain). My duties include increasing visibility of research work and open data. I am also a member of Wikimedia Spain and an active editor of Wikidata. 2. Wikipedia and Wikidata will benefit wider diversity of books indexed. 3. The results could be used for teaching and research purposes, helping to fill the gap between technology and Humanities (i.e. Digital Humanities) 4. Interesting proposal with a tight funding request --El Pantera (talk) 07:43, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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It seems to me to be a very positive project to show the importance of Wikipedia and Wikidata and that can be very productive to increase the visibility of Wikimedia projects encouraging more people to contribute. Jalu (talk) 18:16, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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1. I am a Wikipedia editor and a practitioner of Digital Humanities in the field of History. 2. The proposed project would be helpful to identify gaps in the coverage of important literary works in every language edition of Wikipedia. 3. Numerous opportunities to apply the same or similar method to other Digital Humanities projects. 4. Very efficient budgetwise! Hispalois (talk) 15:31, 24 February 2024 (UTC)