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Ipc alpine world championships Wikimedia report

Laura Hale
Laura Hale

A report on Wikimedia coverage of the International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing World Championships by Wikinews accredited reporters.

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2013 IPC Alpine Sking World Championships, La Molina, Spain Improving Winter Paralympic Sport Coverage Laura Hale laura.hale@wikinewsie.org Mar鱈a Sefidari maria.sefidari@wikinewsie.org 1 March 2013
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Two interviews conducted for English Wikinews, including one with a high profile Spanish personality who participates in the sport. IPC Alpine engaging reporters on Twitter. Over 13,000 views of Wikinews articles covering the event. Experience gained on English and Spainish Wikinews for doing bilingual interviews by a member of the Spanish speaking community. Over 10,000 views on English and Spanish Wikipedia for articles created and improved for the project in February. Multiple conversations held with various people about Wikimedia volunteer efforts to improve Winter Paralympic content. This included people inside the IPC, the CPE, media, skiers and locals in La Molina. Produced more Wikinews and Wikipedia content, and shared more pictures than traditional media, which excludes Olympic specific news sites and NPCs. Wikinews coverage of some skiers was the only media coverage they received during and for their participation in the competition. Examples include Ralph Green and Christopher Devlin-Young of the United States, Mitchell Gourley of Australia, Corey Peters of New Zealand, and Laura Valeanu of Romania.
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT 20 English Wikinews articles published about the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships. 3 Spanish Wikinews articles published. 101 para-alpine skiers photographed with their pictures uploaded to Commons. Average skier has 5.8 pictures of them. Wikipedia articles on 11 different Wikipedias updated to include pictures, video or audio featuring 25 different skiers from the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships. Articles created or updated on English and Spanish Wikipedia about every notable Spanish competitor at the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships. 16 English Wikipedia articles created about Spanish Paralympic sport and Spanish disability skiers. 10 Spanish Wikipedia articles created about the Paralympic movement in general, para-alpine skiing and Spanish disability skiers. 10 English Wikipedia DYKs between 16 and 28 February. Several articles about Para-alpine skiing classification on English Wikipedia elevated to Good Articles.
CONVERSATIONS While in La Molina, there were several important conversations held for a period of five or more minutes specifically discussing the Winter Paralympic sport efforts on Wikimedia projects. They include: 19-Feb conversation with a New Zealand Paralympic Committee coach where we talked about the interview with Adam Hall in Colorado and how the coach had read some of the Australian reporting from London Paralympics. 20-Feb conversation with IPC President Sir Philip Craven where we briefly mentioned project and how articles are reliable. 21-Feb conversation with CPE Chef-de-mission where we talked about work done in Australia and desire to replicate it in Spain. 21-Feb conversation with a USA Paralympic skier where we talked about interviewing people in Colorado and how Wikimedians interviewing people is great experience for everyone to gain more relevant experience in area of expertise. 25-Feb conversation with Irene Villa following the interview where we discussed Wikipedia, the value of using Wikipedia and Wikinews to promote disability and womens sport. 26-Feb conversation with a French photographer about the work done in London, copyright issues on Commons, and the value of Wikipedia classification articles in understanding Paralympic sport.
TWITTER REFERENCES One of the ways to measure reach of Wikimedia work is to check the number of links made on Twitter. It can give an idea of community support by showing how often participants link out, and if others are finding and linking to this content. With efforts to cover the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships, with a focus on Spanish competitors, started in early February, the total number of links to English and Spanish Wikipedia and Wikinews on Twitter was tracked using Topsy. Tracking 65 articles across these four projects, the most linked to content was Wikinews interviews Irene Villa on English Wikinews, which had 8 links shared by four contributors. 27 articles had links shared by 11 total users between 1 and 28 February. The average user had 7,940 followers. This number is skewed high because two of the eleven had huge follower counts including @wikinoticias with 75,422 followers and @_irenevilla_ with 16,542 followers. Despite the large follower counts, their links on Twitter did not necessary translate into actual traffic. Beyond these links to Wikinews and Wikipedia, the IPC Alpine Skiing retweeted a link to Commons content and engaged with Wikinews reporters on Twitter. Wikinews reporters also tweeted to skiers before and during the event about their work.
TWITTER REFERENCES The table below includes the list of all the relevant content that has been linked to on Twitter, how many times it was linked to and who linked to it between 1 February and 1 March.
TWITTER REFERENCES The table below shows the follower totals and location of people who tweeted links to the 65 articles created for or connected with IPC Alpine World Championships content on Wikinews and Wikipedia.
FACEBOOK REFERENCES Both English Wikinews and Spanish Wikinews have official Facebook fan pages where contributors often push out the latest content published on the projects. Wikinews has 9,806 fans and Wikinoticias has 3,986 fans. as of 1-Mar. The table below documents the number of likes and comments to individual stories on their pages when a link was pushed out.
WIKIMEDIA VIEWS The graph below gives an idea of the relative popularity of English Wikipedia, English Wikinews, Spanish Wikipedia and Spanish Wikinews on a daily basis for people looking for information about the IPC Alpine World Championships. English and Spanish Wikipedia totals are only for members of the Spanish team competing at the event. English and Spanish Wikinews include all articles produced about the event. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 Wikimedia totaly daily page views: La Molina Spanish Wikipedia Spanish Team English Wikipedia Spanish Team English Wikinews Spanish Wikinews
WIKIPEDIA: ARTICLES CREATED On Spanish Wikipedia, Raystorm created a number of articles focusing on general Paralympic sport, para- alpine skiing and Spanish disability skiers. Articles she created include Esqu鱈 alpino paral鱈mpico , Clasificaciones paral鱈mpicas de esqu鱈 alpino, B2 (clasificaci坦n), LW1 , Ludwig Guttman, Jon Santacana, Gabriel Gorce, Miguel Galindo Garc辿s, rsula Pueyo, and Nathalie Carpanedo. Every notable Spanish competitor at the event now has a Spanish language Wikipedia article. Clasificaciones paral鱈mpicas de esqu鱈 alpino is being prepped for future nomination as a Good Article. On English Wikipedia, most of the core articles about para-alpine skiing had already been created including articles about para-alpine skiing, classification articles and articles about para-alpine skiing at the Winter Paralympics. Thus, the emphasis for article creation and improvement for this project was on Spanish disability skiers. Every Spanish competitor at the event now has an English Wikipedia article.
WIKIPEDIA: DID YOU KNOW Articles about Spanish disability skiers and the Spanish Paralympic Committee were taken to Did You Know on English Wikipedia, appearing on the front page of Wikipedia. The stats show the number of page views on the day they appeared. As of the time of writing the report, some of the articles created for these efforts were still making their way through the DYK process. None of these DYKs included a picture and several appeared in the middle of the night for Spain. Two more became DYKs in early March including Nathalie Carpendo and Gabriel Gorce.
WIKIPEDIA: DID YOU KNOW The text of the DYKs appearing on Wikipedia were: ... that Miguel Galindo Garces won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, although he does not have a disability? ... that Spanish visually impaired guides Aleix Su単辿, F辿lix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer all skied with blind para- alpine skier Gabriel Gorce? ... that ETA bombing survivor, author and para-alpine skier Irene Villa was a member of the first Spanish women's disability ski club? ... that visually impaired skier Andr辿s Boira represented Spain at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics with different ski guides? ... that Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo is the Honorary President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee? ... that following a paragliding accident that left Teresa Silva a paraplegic, she went on to create a disability sport organisation and is working to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in alpine skiing? ... that para-alpine skier and blind sailor Carme Garc鱈a has trouble living in Vigo, Spain, because of the occasional lack of streets with sidewalks? ... that Ram坦n Homs is a para-alpine LW6/8 classified standing skier who lost his arm in a motorcycle accident?
WIKINEWS SCREENCAPS
WIKINEWS VIEWS Based on daily articles published with data current for 28-Feb, the graph below gives an idea of the views on English and Spanish Wikinews for articles relative to the date they were published on. It shows that predictably, interest in a news article peaks on the first day. Unlike most new sources though, English Wikinews maintains article traffic at a higher level than more traditional media. Daily average views on English Wikinews is comparable to daily views during the London Paralympics and IPC Nor-Am Cup for similar coverage. 0 50 100 150 200 250 Day 1 views Day 2 views Day 3 views Day 4 views Day 5 views Day 6 views Day 7 views Daily Wikinews views on IPC Alpine Champs relative to publishing date Average Average en Average es
WIKINEWS VIEWS Based on daily articles published, the graph below gives an idea of the cummulative views on English and Spanish Wikinews for articles as they first started getting pushed out on 16-Feb. 16 articles were published on English Wikinews and 3 were published on Spanish Wikinews in this period. Spanish Wikinews articles were published on 20-Feb, 22-Feb and 27-Feb. English Wikinews stories were published on 16 (1), 20 (3), 21 (2), 22 (1), 24 (3), 25 (3), 26 (3), 28 (1) of February and 1 (3) March. There were 13,756 views for event coverage on Wikinews between between 16 and 28 Feb. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 Total daily Wikinews views Total Total en Total es
COMMONS: IMAGES 477 pieces of media were uploaded to Commons related to the IPC Alpine World Championships. This includes at least five audio files and ten video files. It includes pictures or video of 101 different para-alpine skiers from at least 15 different countries. It is highly probable that many of the skiers photographed will be competing at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics. This creates a ready to use selection of freely licenced media that will not be easily available at the Games themselves.
COMMONS: USAGE Pictures of 24 skiers taken at La Molina were used on eleven different language Wikipedias including English, Spanish, Basque, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish. The skiers represented come from several different countries including Austria, Canada, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, Slovakia and the United States. The average skier photographed at the event has 5.8 pictures of them on Commons. These pictures and their inclusion on articles aid in adding legitimacy to an article and encourage additional editors to contribute to the article the image is used on. Videos of several skiers were included on relevant classification article on English Wikipedia in order to better illustrate what these classifications mean in practice. These can be found on LW2 (classification), LW6/8, LW9, LW11, LW12, B2 (classification), and B3 (classification).

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  • 1. 2013 IPC Alpine Sking World Championships, La Molina, Spain Improving Winter Paralympic Sport Coverage Laura Hale laura.hale@wikinewsie.org Mar鱈a Sefidari maria.sefidari@wikinewsie.org 1 March 2013
  • 2. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Two interviews conducted for English Wikinews, including one with a high profile Spanish personality who participates in the sport. IPC Alpine engaging reporters on Twitter. Over 13,000 views of Wikinews articles covering the event. Experience gained on English and Spainish Wikinews for doing bilingual interviews by a member of the Spanish speaking community. Over 10,000 views on English and Spanish Wikipedia for articles created and improved for the project in February. Multiple conversations held with various people about Wikimedia volunteer efforts to improve Winter Paralympic content. This included people inside the IPC, the CPE, media, skiers and locals in La Molina. Produced more Wikinews and Wikipedia content, and shared more pictures than traditional media, which excludes Olympic specific news sites and NPCs. Wikinews coverage of some skiers was the only media coverage they received during and for their participation in the competition. Examples include Ralph Green and Christopher Devlin-Young of the United States, Mitchell Gourley of Australia, Corey Peters of New Zealand, and Laura Valeanu of Romania.
  • 3. CONTENT DEVELOPMENT 20 English Wikinews articles published about the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships. 3 Spanish Wikinews articles published. 101 para-alpine skiers photographed with their pictures uploaded to Commons. Average skier has 5.8 pictures of them. Wikipedia articles on 11 different Wikipedias updated to include pictures, video or audio featuring 25 different skiers from the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships. Articles created or updated on English and Spanish Wikipedia about every notable Spanish competitor at the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships. 16 English Wikipedia articles created about Spanish Paralympic sport and Spanish disability skiers. 10 Spanish Wikipedia articles created about the Paralympic movement in general, para-alpine skiing and Spanish disability skiers. 10 English Wikipedia DYKs between 16 and 28 February. Several articles about Para-alpine skiing classification on English Wikipedia elevated to Good Articles.
  • 4. CONVERSATIONS While in La Molina, there were several important conversations held for a period of five or more minutes specifically discussing the Winter Paralympic sport efforts on Wikimedia projects. They include: 19-Feb conversation with a New Zealand Paralympic Committee coach where we talked about the interview with Adam Hall in Colorado and how the coach had read some of the Australian reporting from London Paralympics. 20-Feb conversation with IPC President Sir Philip Craven where we briefly mentioned project and how articles are reliable. 21-Feb conversation with CPE Chef-de-mission where we talked about work done in Australia and desire to replicate it in Spain. 21-Feb conversation with a USA Paralympic skier where we talked about interviewing people in Colorado and how Wikimedians interviewing people is great experience for everyone to gain more relevant experience in area of expertise. 25-Feb conversation with Irene Villa following the interview where we discussed Wikipedia, the value of using Wikipedia and Wikinews to promote disability and womens sport. 26-Feb conversation with a French photographer about the work done in London, copyright issues on Commons, and the value of Wikipedia classification articles in understanding Paralympic sport.
  • 5. TWITTER REFERENCES One of the ways to measure reach of Wikimedia work is to check the number of links made on Twitter. It can give an idea of community support by showing how often participants link out, and if others are finding and linking to this content. With efforts to cover the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships, with a focus on Spanish competitors, started in early February, the total number of links to English and Spanish Wikipedia and Wikinews on Twitter was tracked using Topsy. Tracking 65 articles across these four projects, the most linked to content was Wikinews interviews Irene Villa on English Wikinews, which had 8 links shared by four contributors. 27 articles had links shared by 11 total users between 1 and 28 February. The average user had 7,940 followers. This number is skewed high because two of the eleven had huge follower counts including @wikinoticias with 75,422 followers and @_irenevilla_ with 16,542 followers. Despite the large follower counts, their links on Twitter did not necessary translate into actual traffic. Beyond these links to Wikinews and Wikipedia, the IPC Alpine Skiing retweeted a link to Commons content and engaged with Wikinews reporters on Twitter. Wikinews reporters also tweeted to skiers before and during the event about their work.
  • 6. TWITTER REFERENCES The table below includes the list of all the relevant content that has been linked to on Twitter, how many times it was linked to and who linked to it between 1 February and 1 March.
  • 7. TWITTER REFERENCES The table below shows the follower totals and location of people who tweeted links to the 65 articles created for or connected with IPC Alpine World Championships content on Wikinews and Wikipedia.
  • 8. FACEBOOK REFERENCES Both English Wikinews and Spanish Wikinews have official Facebook fan pages where contributors often push out the latest content published on the projects. Wikinews has 9,806 fans and Wikinoticias has 3,986 fans. as of 1-Mar. The table below documents the number of likes and comments to individual stories on their pages when a link was pushed out.
  • 9. WIKIMEDIA VIEWS The graph below gives an idea of the relative popularity of English Wikipedia, English Wikinews, Spanish Wikipedia and Spanish Wikinews on a daily basis for people looking for information about the IPC Alpine World Championships. English and Spanish Wikipedia totals are only for members of the Spanish team competing at the event. English and Spanish Wikinews include all articles produced about the event. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 Wikimedia totaly daily page views: La Molina Spanish Wikipedia Spanish Team English Wikipedia Spanish Team English Wikinews Spanish Wikinews
  • 10. WIKIPEDIA: ARTICLES CREATED On Spanish Wikipedia, Raystorm created a number of articles focusing on general Paralympic sport, para- alpine skiing and Spanish disability skiers. Articles she created include Esqu鱈 alpino paral鱈mpico , Clasificaciones paral鱈mpicas de esqu鱈 alpino, B2 (clasificaci坦n), LW1 , Ludwig Guttman, Jon Santacana, Gabriel Gorce, Miguel Galindo Garc辿s, rsula Pueyo, and Nathalie Carpanedo. Every notable Spanish competitor at the event now has a Spanish language Wikipedia article. Clasificaciones paral鱈mpicas de esqu鱈 alpino is being prepped for future nomination as a Good Article. On English Wikipedia, most of the core articles about para-alpine skiing had already been created including articles about para-alpine skiing, classification articles and articles about para-alpine skiing at the Winter Paralympics. Thus, the emphasis for article creation and improvement for this project was on Spanish disability skiers. Every Spanish competitor at the event now has an English Wikipedia article.
  • 11. WIKIPEDIA: DID YOU KNOW Articles about Spanish disability skiers and the Spanish Paralympic Committee were taken to Did You Know on English Wikipedia, appearing on the front page of Wikipedia. The stats show the number of page views on the day they appeared. As of the time of writing the report, some of the articles created for these efforts were still making their way through the DYK process. None of these DYKs included a picture and several appeared in the middle of the night for Spain. Two more became DYKs in early March including Nathalie Carpendo and Gabriel Gorce.
  • 12. WIKIPEDIA: DID YOU KNOW The text of the DYKs appearing on Wikipedia were: ... that Miguel Galindo Garces won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, although he does not have a disability? ... that Spanish visually impaired guides Aleix Su単辿, F辿lix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer all skied with blind para- alpine skier Gabriel Gorce? ... that ETA bombing survivor, author and para-alpine skier Irene Villa was a member of the first Spanish women's disability ski club? ... that visually impaired skier Andr辿s Boira represented Spain at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics with different ski guides? ... that Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo is the Honorary President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee? ... that following a paragliding accident that left Teresa Silva a paraplegic, she went on to create a disability sport organisation and is working to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in alpine skiing? ... that para-alpine skier and blind sailor Carme Garc鱈a has trouble living in Vigo, Spain, because of the occasional lack of streets with sidewalks? ... that Ram坦n Homs is a para-alpine LW6/8 classified standing skier who lost his arm in a motorcycle accident?
  • 14. WIKINEWS VIEWS Based on daily articles published with data current for 28-Feb, the graph below gives an idea of the views on English and Spanish Wikinews for articles relative to the date they were published on. It shows that predictably, interest in a news article peaks on the first day. Unlike most new sources though, English Wikinews maintains article traffic at a higher level than more traditional media. Daily average views on English Wikinews is comparable to daily views during the London Paralympics and IPC Nor-Am Cup for similar coverage. 0 50 100 150 200 250 Day 1 views Day 2 views Day 3 views Day 4 views Day 5 views Day 6 views Day 7 views Daily Wikinews views on IPC Alpine Champs relative to publishing date Average Average en Average es
  • 15. WIKINEWS VIEWS Based on daily articles published, the graph below gives an idea of the cummulative views on English and Spanish Wikinews for articles as they first started getting pushed out on 16-Feb. 16 articles were published on English Wikinews and 3 were published on Spanish Wikinews in this period. Spanish Wikinews articles were published on 20-Feb, 22-Feb and 27-Feb. English Wikinews stories were published on 16 (1), 20 (3), 21 (2), 22 (1), 24 (3), 25 (3), 26 (3), 28 (1) of February and 1 (3) March. There were 13,756 views for event coverage on Wikinews between between 16 and 28 Feb. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 Total daily Wikinews views Total Total en Total es
  • 16. COMMONS: IMAGES 477 pieces of media were uploaded to Commons related to the IPC Alpine World Championships. This includes at least five audio files and ten video files. It includes pictures or video of 101 different para-alpine skiers from at least 15 different countries. It is highly probable that many of the skiers photographed will be competing at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics. This creates a ready to use selection of freely licenced media that will not be easily available at the Games themselves.
  • 17. COMMONS: USAGE Pictures of 24 skiers taken at La Molina were used on eleven different language Wikipedias including English, Spanish, Basque, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish. The skiers represented come from several different countries including Austria, Canada, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, Slovakia and the United States. The average skier photographed at the event has 5.8 pictures of them on Commons. These pictures and their inclusion on articles aid in adding legitimacy to an article and encourage additional editors to contribute to the article the image is used on. Videos of several skiers were included on relevant classification article on English Wikipedia in order to better illustrate what these classifications mean in practice. These can be found on LW2 (classification), LW6/8, LW9, LW11, LW12, B2 (classification), and B3 (classification).