I'm an academic working on north-west European, and on a good day Islamicate, medieval history, literature and language, and on modern Icelandic culture. See further http://www.alarichall.org.uk and Alaric Hall.
I was quite chuffed to find that Joe Lewis, 'University strike action in the UK' ([London]: House of Commons Library, 23 May 2023), is largely a précis of 2018–2023 UK higher education strikes, which I've maintained over the last few years (even with the same picture on the cover!). This is a bit cheeky, because the Creative Commons license for Wikipedia specifies that people adapting the material should give due attribution to Wikipedia, and it doesn't. But otherwise it's nice to see my work saving a civil servant some effort and helping inform Parliament :-) When those strikes are finally over I hope to tame the article and make it less of a sprawling chronicle.
This book looks great, though at the time of writing I haven't read it yet: Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, ed. by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020), ISBN9780262538176. Also, I must find out more about https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach.
Otherwise, these are some of my previous favourite studies on Wikipedia, focusing on its epistemological validity in relation to history (mostly as of summer 2017) and a few more recent pieces on editors' gender:
Ármann Jakobsson, 'Beware of the Elf! A Note on the Evolving Meaning of Álfar', Folklore, 126 (2015), 215-23, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2015.1023511 (Not on Wikipedia as such, but it starts by criticising a Wikipedia article I'd rewritten, and I later edited the article in the light of the publication—a nice story of scholarship doing its job.)
Bear, Julia B. and Benjamin Collier, 'Where are the Women in Wikipedia? Understanding the Different Psychological Experiences of Men and Women in Wikipedia', Sex Roles, 74(5-6) (2016), 254–65. doi:10.1007/s11199-015-0573-y
Bruckman, Amy S., Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), doi:10.1017/9781108780704
Fallis, Don, 'Toward an Epistemology of Wikipedia', Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (2008), 1662-74 http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105728
Ford, Heather, 'Fact Factories: Wikipedia and the Power to Represent' (unpublished D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 2015). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282643334; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4068.9361
Impey, Chris David, Martin Formanek, Sanlyn Rebecca Buxner, Matthew C. Wenger, 'Twenty Seven Years of Tracking Undergraduate Science Knowledge and Beliefs', Electronic Journal of Science Education, 21.4 (2017), 41-64. http://ejse.southwestern.edu/article/view/17315/11409
Jemielniak, Dariusz and Eduard Aibar, 'Bridging the Gap Between Wikipedia and Academia', Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67 (2016), 1773–76. http://www.uoc.edu/webs/eaibar/_resources/documents
Mai, Jens-Erik, 'Wikipedians' Knowledge and Moral Duties', Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling, 5.1 (2016), 15-22. http://www.ntik.dk/2016/Nr1/Mai.pdf
Mesgari, Mostafa, Chitu Okoli, Mohamad Mehdi, Finn Årup Nielsen, and Arto Lanamäki, ' “The Sum of All Human Knowledge”: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on the Content of Wikipedia', Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66 (2015), 219–45; https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978652/ (the various other Wikipedia literature reviews by these authors are also amazing!)
Shaw, Aaron and Eszter Hargittai, 'The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Wikipedia Editing', Journal of Communication, 68.1 (2018), 143–68. doi:10.1093/joc/jqx003
Wagner, Claudia, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, David Garcia, Filippo Menczer, 'Women Through the Glass Ceiling: Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia', European Physical Journal: Data Science, 5.5 (December 2016), 1-24, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4 (doesn't just talk about the gendering of contributors, but also how the encyclopaedia represents women)
Wray, K. Brad, 'The Epistemic Cultures of Science and Wikipedia: A Comparison', Episteme, 6 (2009), 38-51; https://doi.org/10.3366/E1742360008000531 (Wray is a useful go-to if you want to cite someone who has misunderstood Wikipedia!
For knowledge, skill and diligence in improving a variety of articles related to medieval studies and oral tradition -- DavidOaks (talk) 20:42, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For an excellent blog post and sterling work creating and editing articles! Best, Matty.007 13:21, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
Here is a reward! I know what you did was minimal but it was possibly the tipping point in creating Margin of Safety (book). Thank you Alarichall! :) Aviartm (talk) 03:32, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for always being to helpful! Lajmmoore (talk) 17:42, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
For helping with Arabic names!
It's really appreciated! Lajmmoore (talk) 08:45, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for making Wikipedia more useful Ninjas.Warrior (talk) 12:30, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the help with Fatima al-Suqutriyya's article! Lajmmoore (talk) 20:33, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
The Organical Branstar
For your contributions to Wikipedia Asian Month/2022 you should have received an actual barnstar, but haven't yet.
Please enjoy this branstar while you wait. Cheerio! BBQboffin (talk) 19:45, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Asian Month 2022 Barnstar
Dear Alarichall :
Thanks for participating Wikipedia Asian Month 2022. We are grateful of your dedication to Wikimedia movement and hope you join us next year!
Wish you all the best!
Wikipedia Asian Month Team
Wikipedia Asian Month 2023 Barnstar
Dear Alarichall :
Congratulations! Thank you so much for participating in the Wikipedia Asian Month 2023. We are very grateful for your dedication to the Wikimedia movement and effort in promoting Asian content. Hope to see you again this year and celebrate the 10th year of Wikipedia Asian Month together.
