User talk:Apolo1991

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Apolo1991, good luck, and have fun. wizzito | say hello! 14:49, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If it doesn't spoil your research

I'm wondering about the methodology of choosing wikipedians for your research. Looking at your sample to date, I'm seeing many low edit-count folks, people who have left the project long ago, and even some blocked contributors. These solicitations are unlikely to gain you much useful information. Are you sampling randomly? If you're looking for an active wikiproject, I can recommend the WP:WikiProject Military History which has many active members who've been around for many years. If you need any assistance, feel free to contact me. BusterD (talk) 21:38, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@BusterD: Thanks for the comment! I want to focus mainly on the history of the United States, that's why I chose members of that project. I am aware of WikiProject Military History. Probably, I will ask the members of the project in the future. Apolo1991 (talk) 23:00, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome and thanks for your interest in the field. MH has task forces which are US centric. WikiProject:Biography also might serve as a source for subjects. I'll presume your intention is to maximize return engagement, so allow me to suggest navigation popups (available via this link in your own preferences). When applied to a user link, popups can give you some user information: #of edits, date of first edit, date of last edit, whether the account is blocked, etc. This info may allow you to quickly identify more likely respondents. BusterD (talk) 23:41, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Some of us put a lot of time and effort in for years building up historical Wikipedia articles but got burnt out and moved on to other things. I think that the sample size of respondents should be of a wide variety and not just focused on very active users. I've moved on to Wikitree at this point, choosing to avoid the squabbles and politics involved here but every once in a while I will return to make some corrections or additions. I'm glad that Apolo1991 contacted me so that I could offer my input. Monsieurdl ^{mon talk} 21:20, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I responded to the survey after I saw your post about it here, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Survey about History on Wikipedia. Now that I'm on your talkpage, I notice you say, ... I want to focus mainly on the history of the United States ... but you don't mention "focus" on the Women in Red talkpage. Maybe consider adding that? Note, too, that there's a question to you on the Women in Red talkpage regarding participatory limitation to U.S. residents. Thanks in advance for clarifications, and I wish you well as you pursue your studies. Pinging LZia (WMF), a senior research scientist, lead, in the Wikimedia Foundation as a friendly FYI. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:06, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep: Hi, I decided to expand the area of my research and include multiple historical topics. That's why a sent a message to WikiProject Women in Red. My main focus is history on Wikipedia, as you can see from the title of the survey. It can include the history of the US, women's history, gender history, military history, etc. Apolo1991 (talk) 16:29, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You'll see I've also raised this on the WiR talk page. It seems to me you need to ask your professors how you can extend responses to those living outside the United States. Much of the most informative work on history has been carried out by non-residents. See for example all the detailed work on women's coverage in nationality law in the extensive series of articles by SusunW under Category:Nationality law. She's American but lives in Mexico and therefore cannot respond to your request.--Ipigott (talk) 16:47, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ipigott, you know me so well. I read this post with interest on the WiR page until I saw limit of the scope to US history. We are now and have always been a global world, not only because of human migration, but also because of legal and political expansion through colonization. Focusing solely on the US, the context is lost of how historical events did not happen in isolation. Writing comprehensive history is hard and one the most frequent reasons for that is that historians have tended to focus on Fooian narratives that give only mainstream/nationalist accountings of the past. As Wikipedia is a mirror of those trends, it is hard to include the stories of the un- and under-represented throughout history and even more difficult without understanding the context of international social development. SusunW (talk) 17:18, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'd have been happy to participate in the survey, but don't live in the US. Good luck with your project! Dsp13 (talk) 17:39, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please STOP spamming editors NOT in America, who will find out they can't participate in your survey! Johnbod (talk) 15:12, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnbod: Done. I have included it in my new message. Apolo1991 (talk) 15:19, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Research interests

Hi apolo1991, I've responded to your survey. Please feel free to reach out to a couple of the editors I mentioned in the survey if you need to--tell them I sent you. And contact me again if you have questions about my answers! auntieruth (talk) 15:22, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]