Difference between revisions of "Talk:Timeline of Our World in Data"

Revision as of 19:56, 31 July 2024

Overall, the timeline looks pretty good! A few things I would like to see more:

Competition/alternatives: What other resources existed prior to OWID and/or were created or expanded along with OWID? It'll be good to understand the ecosystem in which OWID started and currently operates, and how it differs from the competition. Gapminder comes to mind as something with overlap, though they don't exactly serve the same needs.✔
What are the blockers to finishing up the things in "What the timeline is still missing" on the page? The last two items in particular seem easy to pick up and execute -- the first three seem more broad-based and I can understand if you want to defer them to the next expansion.
Disclaimer: In many of the timeline rows, you paraphrase OWID's views in the article as if they are your own. I think it's fine to do this, but it may be worth including a disclaimer that the paraphrasing of rows is done for convenience of exposition and doesn't mean that Timelines wiki or you (as the author of this timeline) endorse OWID's views on all matters.

Pre-launch "article publication": What does it mean to have published articles before the website's launch date? Were these articles accessible only to people with logins? Or were they also published in some other venue?
Go-live date: In the "Summary by year" you say May 2014, but the full timeline gives June 2014. Can you reconcile?
Missing reference for "A guest author shares how she utilizes Our World in Data (OWID) in her medical practice to understand and address complex mental health issues." Also, you say "A guest author" but later refer to "Gordon"; if you're using the name, you should put it upfront so that its appearance is not confusing.

I read through the Wikipedia page Our World in Data. The information in there seems to be covered in this timeline.

One thing I did notice is that Wikipedia says upfront that OWID is a project of the Global Change Data Lab. You mention Global Change Data Lab further down in the summary by year and then in the full timeline, but don't explicitly call out OWID as a project of it at the beginning. Is this something you want to change?

I also asked ChatGPT for a timeline of OWID and the timeline it provided seems to be largely a subset of this timeline.

Year	Month and date (approximately)	Topic	Event type	Details
2021	May		Team	Lars Yencken joins the team.^[1]

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-| 2016 || February || || Team || Jaiden Mispy joins {{w|Our World in Data}} as {{w|web developer}}.<ref name="Former Team Members and Contributors">{{cite web |title=Former Team Members and Contributors |url=https://ourworldindata.org/former-team-members |website=ourworldindata.org |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref> He would remain with OWID until spring 2019.<ref name="history-of-our-world-in-data"/>
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 | 2021 || May || || Team || Lars Yencken joins the team.<ref>{{cite web | title = Lars Yencken's LinkedIn Profile | url = https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsyencken/ | website = LinkedIn | access-date = 2024-07-22}}</ref>
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