Movement Strategy/Initiatives/Identify Wikimedia's Impact
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Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content
In order to Identify Topics for Impact, we need to understand and identify the impact of the Wikimedia Projects and their content. We need to research how people use the content of Wikimedia Projects. For example, this research may explore the extent to which people understand and trust Wikimedia’s content. Consequently, research conclusions would be used to create tools to measure the impact of Wikimedia Projects in different contexts. Communities, researchers, and partner organizations should collaborate closely in understanding the impact and creating tools to measure it.
- Research how our content is used, measuring the coverage, quality, and verifiability of content, the public's trust, and their ability to access and understand our content. This will give us a better understanding of the different ways in which Wikimedia content can make an impact on improving people’s lives.
- Understand how our projects can be misused or abused by detecting threats with significant potential for harm (such as misinformation, disinformation or scams).
- Conduct and support research and analysis to identify topic areas that have a high impact on the world and on knowledge consumers.
- This requires developing tools to analyze content, creating a shared understanding of impact among Movement stakeholders, and developing relationships with specialized partners.
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| Initiative | Project | Stakeholder type | Project lead | Geography of the project | Implementation Phase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Overall Initiative Coordination | ||||
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Knowledge Gaps Index Taxonomy | WMF | Research | ||
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Harmful Content Portfolio | WMF | Content Compliance | Global | Execution & Implementation |
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Wikimedia Enterprise | WMF | Enterprise | Global | Execution & Implementation |
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Overall Initiative Coordination | ||||
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Identifying local topics of impact - Chile | Chapter | WM Chile | Latin America & The Caribbean | Completion & Reporting |
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Harmful Content Portfolio | WMF | Content Compliance | Global | Execution & Implementation |
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | WM UK/Research into Knowledge Gaps | Chapter | Wikimedia UK | Project Planning | |
| 37. Identify the impact of Wikimedia projects & content | Harmful Content Portfolio | WMF | Content Compliance | Global | Execution & Implementation |
Related documents and discussions
Some of the past discussions, texts and old versions of Movement Strategy recommendations that can provide further context to this initiative:
- Resource Allocation recommendation #1: Include knowledge consumers
- Diversity recommendation #6: Establishing partnerships in order to represent and protect worlds’ cultural diversity
- Partnerships recommendation #1: Provide the knowledge needed for understanding and solving global issues
- Partnerships recommendation #4: Data partnerships approach to fulfill the vision of knowledge as a service for our partners
- Partnerships recommendation #5: Focus on knowledge equity when determining priorities for Partnerships
- Research:Wikipedia Knowledge Graph with DeepDive (2015)
- Research:Wikipedia Knowledge Integrity Risk observatory (2021)
- Research:Prioritization of Wikipedia Articles (2020)
- Research:Cross-lingual article quality assessment (2022)
- Research:Automatically labeling low quality content (2020)
- Research:Knowledge Gaps Index/Taxonomy (2020)
- Thinking about the impact of the Wikimedia movement
- Toolforge: Highest priority articles in Portuguese (Artigos com maior prioridade, 2020)