Grants talk:Project/Frimelle and Hadyelsahar/Scribe: Supporting Under-resourced Wikipedia Editors in Creating New Articles/Midpoint

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Comments from I JethroBT (WMF)[edit]

Hello Frimelle and Hadyelsahar, and thanks for your midpoint report on Scribe. I am accepting your midpoint report with the following comments and questions:

  • Thanks for sharing the prototype videos ([1] [2]) from earlier this year at major Wikimedia movement events. It's great to see you have been able to transition the prototype to become usable for contributors in under-resourced languages using mobile to edit.
  • The summary of research on the different functions of Scribe is also especially helpful. For instance, your note that both the domains of Museums and Women in science there is a high overlap between references used in Catalan and Arabic Wikipedias, these are mostly in English references is interesting to learn about, both that references are comparable between these languages and that they are primarily relying on English-language sources.
  • The interviews are not yet published, as they are still ongoing and we plan to use to contacts we gained from conference attendees to gather more perspectives. I know I'm not the only one who is interested in these interviews, so we look forward to seeing these in your final report. Thanks for sharing an important outcome from these interviews regarding the decision to focus on making Scribe primarily for mobile users.
  • In Arabic the top 10 cited references are social media sites such as youtube, twitter, instagram. Finally, we provision that to ensure we suggest of references with high credibility we will have to exclude some of those references, even from the white-list this can be done through a manual intervention process by the community, i.e. using the Wikipedia community to create a domain specific lists of high quality sources. While these sources lack editorial mechanisms and are not high credibility sources, aren't there cases where YouTube and social media sources are appropriate to use to source certain claims and information? Will excluding these sources negatively impact the ability for editors to develop and improve articles?
  • Related to the above, has it been challenging to identify and suggest high-credibility sources in any particular language/domain area or cross-section you have encountered so far?

Thanks for your hard work on Scribe, and we look forward to your final report! With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 16:59, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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