User:Phoebe/evaluatingcontribs

Introduction
For researchers, scholars, professors, librarians, and other academics whose contributions to scholarship and public service, there is a question whether contributions to Wikipedia can or should count as "professional" work. There is no doubt that work on Wikipedia [and the other Wikimedia projects] can be highly scholarly, and that Wikipedia is one of the highest-impact sources of information in terms of number of readers.

Reading

 * Essays on this subject, examples, experts
 * Adrianne, JB Murray, D. Eppstein, Brianwc ... Wilson44691, drmies... User:Jeremyblock, User:Dcrjsr

Contribution from academics

 * examples
 * best practices

What have you edited?

 * Count your edits:
 * Globally, across all Wikimedia projects:
 * How many pages have you created:
 * Find the top contributors to a page: [ (example:)

What's the impact of your edits?

 * http://stats.grok.se -- measures traffic to an article

Reading, examples

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 * Category:Wikipedian university teachers

Survey questions
draft If you are a researcher, scholar, professor, librarian, or other academic whose contributions to scholarship and public service are counted as part of your job and/or advancement criteria:
 * Do you contribute to Wikipedia? If so, do you use your real name or identify yourself with a pseudonym?
 * Have you ever listed your Wikipedia contributions as part of your review packet or c.v.?
 * If so, what have you listed? (e.g., number of edits made, number of articles edited, etc?) and what type of contribution have you listed them as (e.g. public service, professional contributions, etc.)?
 * Do you list your Wikipedia contributions in other professional material (like a professional website?)
 * If so, where have you listed your contributions?
 * Do you think Wikipedia contributions should "count" as part of your record of professional work?
 * If so, what type of contribution do you see it being (education, service, something else?)
 * If so, what metrics do you think would be most helpful for evaluating someone's Wikipedia contributions? (for instance, amount contributed, quality of contributions, visibility/impact of contributions, something else?)
 * What encourages you to contribute to Wikipedia as a professional scholar?
 * What discourages you to contribute to Wikipedia as a professional scholar?


 * What tools (either currently existing or not) do you think would be most helpful for evaluating individual editor contributions to Wikipedia?
 * Are there any other comments that you'd like to make?
 * Demographics:
 * What's your job title?
 * How long have you been in this position or field (approx.)?

Reasons for academic contributions
''I propose that all academics with research specialties, no matter how arcane (and nothing is too obscure for Wikipedia), enroll as identifiable editors of Wikipedia.... The advantages should be obvious. First, it is another outlet for our scholarship, one that may be more likely to be read than many of our journals. Second, we are directly serving our students by improving the source they go to first for information. Third, by identifying ourselves, we can connect with other scholars and interested parties who stumble across our edits and new articles. Everyone wins.'' From

Model projects for getting credit for this work: