Research:Visualizing Content-Gaps through Languages (Orphan Articles)

Contact

Martina Sánchez Medina

University of St Andrews

Duration:  2025-June – 2025-August

orphan-article content-gap language

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Research:Projects

This page documents a research project in progress.
Information may be incomplete and change as the project progresses.
Please contact the project lead before formally citing or reusing results from this page.

This project will visualize content-gaps across the Spanish, French, English, and German Wikipedias. Its aim is to render an easy to use interface by which Wikipedia readers are invited to create an article. It focuses specifically on orphan articles. The output will be a web-based visualization tool.

Methods

Participants: Focus Groups and Interviews with Wikipedia Readers.

Dataset: Extracting from WikiData / Wikipedia Database Replicas.

Methodology: Short-term Agile. Iterations shall be validated by participants.

Timeline

First prototype (only visible for participants) to be finalized by July 27th, 2025.

Final prototype to be finalized by August 11th, 2025

Policy, Ethics and Human Subjects Research

Ethics approval from the University of St Andrews Ethics Committee currently in progress.

Results

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Resources

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