That means we basically have to find a list of all academics who are
Wikimedians anyway!

On a separate note, I also came up with the possibility of using Wikipedia
as a metric for academic prominence: rank academics by the number of
Wikipedia articles in which they've been cited.

On 18 March 2011 16:43, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Probably in terms of edit count / contributions to Wikipedia.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 18 Mar 2011, at 16:42, Deryck Chan wrote:
>
> > Do you mean generally top in the academia, or the top UK academic in
> terms of Wikipedia edit count?
> >
> > On 18 March 2011 16:38, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > One further question from them, which is a rather interesting one:
> >
> > "Is there any way at all knowing who the TOP UK academic author is?"
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > On 18 Mar 2011, at 16:28, Michael Peel wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for everyone's recommendations; I've passed as many of them on
> as I could. I also talked to them for about 30 mins about my edits to
> Wikipedia (although I keep forgetting how small my enwp edit count is,
> considering how much time I spend on Wikimedia...) and everything that the
> UK community + WMUK's trying to do with education at the moment.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On 18 Mar 2011, at 07:28, Michael Peel wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> The Guardian Education Supplement's planning on writing an article on
> the use of Wikipedia in academia, and they're looking for Wikimedians who
> are also UK-based academics that they can talk to (and also academics that
> have an aversion to Wikipedia). If you think you'd fit the bill, or know
> someone that might, please could you get in touch asap? They need to talk to
> someone today ideally...
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Mike
> > >>
> > >
> >
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