Last updated: August 2023
What is the nature and extent of the sources cited for public policy related issues on English Wikipedia, including organization publications?
How can policy reports and papers from organizations (grey literature) be verified and cited more efficiently and effectively on Wikipedia?
Provide new insights on what is cited on Wikipedia across social, politics, environmental, public health and policy related articles.
Increase the transparency of vested interests on public interest issues.
Improve recognition and coverage of diverse and credible perspectives such as the views of Indigenous, environmental and community organizations.
Strengthen and streamline Wikipedia’s citation and verifiability processes for editors and readers.
Improve citation template infrastructure
Contribute relevant research findings to Wikimedia projects including Wikicite, Shared citations and other projects.
Provide an open linked dataset on organization publications for ongoing analysis and reuse
Provide guidelines and a dataset for the wider evidence and policy community
Enhance Wikimedia’s role as a leader in digital and media literacy and education – helping to deliver the 2030 Movement Strategy as essential infrastructure of the free knowledge ecosystem.
This is the proposal timeline which will be updated with more detail as the project progresses.
July
Project initiation
Review of related research projects and methods and existing data analysis and tools
Initial page selection and analysis
Engage data analyst to the project - Done
August – September
Consultations with community at Wikimania in Singapore
Review policy pages in WP and organizations in Wikidata and make selection of corpus
Extract citation data from corpus into structured format
Data cleaning and linking
October
Data cleaning and linking
Consultation with community at Wikidata Taiwan on data analysis
November - December
Data analysis and visualisation
2024
January-February
Case study analysis, data synthesis and initial results write up
March
Guidelines developed and circulated for review and feedback including giving presentations to key groups across the Wikimedia community
Report and journal article drafts prepared.
April
Publication of report, data and methods in open access report on Zenodo, OSF or Github
Journal article submission
Project completion and reporting.
Guideline development ongoing with community and proposal for changes