Wikimedia Research/Showcase/Archive/2020/09

September 2020

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Knowledge gaps

September 23, 2020 Video: YouTube

A first draft of the knowledge gaps taxonomy for Wikimedia projects

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By WMF Research Team

In response to Wikimedia Movement’s 2030 strategic direction, the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a framework to understand and measure knowledge gaps. The goal is to capture the multi-dimensional aspect of knowledge gaps and inform long-term decision making. The first milestone was to develop a taxonomy of knowledge gaps which offers a grouping and descriptions of the different Wikimedia knowledge gaps. The first draft of the taxonomy is now published and we seek your feedback to improve it. In this talk, we will give an overview over the first draft of the taxonomy of knowledge gaps in Wikimedia projects. Following that, we will host an extended Q&A in which we would like to get your feedback and discuss with you the taxonomy and knowledge gaps more generally.

• More information: meta:Research:Knowledge_Gaps_Index/Taxonomy