EduWiki Conference 2025/Program/Finding knowledge gaps/Tools
Types of knowledge gaps
[edit]| Missing content | Poorly structured content | Surplus content | Cataloging gaps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Articles | Outdated | Non-notable | Categories |
| Sections | Inaccurate | Inappropriate (Vandalism/Hate speech) | Interwiki links |
| Perspectives | Unverified | Copyright infringement | Navboxes |
| References | Unnotable | ||
| Images and media | Unbalanced | ||
| Un-wikified | |||
| Disorganized | |||
| Inaccessible |
What are people searching for?
[edit]Google Trends
[edit]- To see the trending search terms for any region for specific time periods.
- Worldwide trends in COVID-19: Google Trends
What gathers the most views?
[edit]Pageviews
[edit]- Comparision of two hospitals in Colombia over the last year: (link)
Massviews
[edit]- Massviews of the category: Hospitals in Colombia from Jan to May 2025: (link)
What appears in other reference works?
[edit]MesH list
[edit]Index of terms and keywords
[edit]- Index of oncology articles
- Creating your own index list from keyword lists of reference works, example Index of women's health articles
Content integration from an existing reference work
[edit]- Integrating contents from a reference book to Wikipedia: A book on global women's issues in CC0, link
What terms appear in existing articles?
[edit]- Internal links on existing Wikipedia articles: Hospital San Juan de Dios, Bogotá, Ctrl+F of "[[" to find the internal links
- What links to a given Wikipedia article, example here.
What areas need to be complete?
[edit]Wikidata SPARQL query
[edit]- Colombian hospitals known to Wikidata but not English Wikipedia: (link)
PET Scan
[edit]- Link to the tool: PET Scan
- Articles from the category: Hospitals in Colombia with byte size less than 10,000 KB (query)
Vital articles
[edit]- WikiProject Vital articles
- Example: Level 4 vital articles in biology and health: (link)
Navboxes
[edit]- Navbox of Hospitals in Colombia (Navbox)
WikiProjects
[edit]- Example, WikiProject Hospitals
Missing encyclopediac articles
[edit]What kind of offering do you have to make?
[edit]You decide based on your interest and expertise!
Groups and tasks
[edit]- Task 1: Google Trends (COVID-19 trends)
- Task 2: Pageviews and Massviews (Pageviews of two hospitals in Colombia)
- Task 3: PET Scan (stub articles about hospitals in Colombia)
- Task 4: Navbox (Hospital articles)
- Task 5: SPARQL query (Hospitals in Colombia that Wikidata knows of)
- Task 6: WikiProject (WikiProject Hospitals)