X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/state_of_wikimedia_research_2013/blobdiff_plain/122dd75e45ccdfd01c795839ede755ffed1a69c2..ba6cb65ce89c04f5222e74a82c93e4f030dd16d3:/outline.org diff --git a/outline.org b/outline.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe21c4c --- /dev/null +++ b/outline.org @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +* DONE Wikipedia in Context +** DONE Reagle and Loveland on "Wikipedia and encyclopedic production" +* How Wikipedia is Organized +** Butler et al: Eyes on the prize: officially sanctioned rule breaking in mass collaboration systems +* Motivating Editors +** Haiyi on Effects of Peer Feedback on Contribution: A Field Experiment in Wikipedia + +One of the most significant challenges for many online communities is +increasing members' contributions over time. Prior studies on peer +feedback in online communities have suggested its impact on +contribution, but have been limited by their correlational nature. In +this paper, we conducted a field experiment on Wikipedia to test the +effects of different feedback types (positive feedback, negative +feedback, directive feedback, and social feedback) on members' +contribution. Our results characterize the effects of different +feedback types, and suggest trade-offs in the effects of feedback +between the focal task and general motivation, as well as differences +in how newcomers and experienced editors respond to peer +feedback. This research provides insights into the mechanisms +underlying peer feedback in online communities and practical guidance +to design more effective peer feedback systems. + +* DONE Tool Development for Wikipedia +** DONE A Case Study of Sockpuppet Detection in Wikipedia +* DONE Wikipedia as Data Source +** DONE Dbnary: Wiktionary as a LMF based Multilingual RDF network +* DONE Evaluating Wikipedia's Quality +** DONE Quality of Internet information in pediatric otolaryngology: A comparison of three most referenced websites +** Presence and adequacy of pharmaceutical preparations in the Spanish edition of Wikipedia +* DONE Judging Quality of Wikipedia +** DONE Your process is showing: controversy management and perceived quality in wikipedia + +Nikki et al. + +** Understanding trust formation in digital information sources: The case of Wikipedia + +An article[5] in the Journal of Information Science, titled +"Understanding trust formation in digital information sources: The +case of Wikipedia", explores the criteria used by students to evaluate +the credibility of Wikipedia articles. It contains an overview of +various earlier studies about credibility judgments of Wikipedia +articles (some of them reviewed previously in this space, example: +"Quality of featured articles doesn't always impress readers"). + +The authors asked "20 second-year undergraduate students and 30 +Master’s students" in information studies to first spend 20 minutes +reading "a copy of a two-page Wikipedia article on Generation Z, a +topic with which students were expected to have some familiarity", and +answer an open-ended question explaining how they would judge its +trustworthiness. In a subsequent part, the respondents were asked to +rank a list of factors for trustworthiness in case of "either (a) the +topic of an assignment, or (b) a minor medical condition from which +they were suffering". One of the first findings was a "low +pre-disposition to use [Wikipedia], possibly suggesting a propensity +to distrust, grounded on debates and comments on the trustworthiness +of Wikipedia" – possibly to the fact that the example article +contained an example of vandalism, a fact highlighted by several +respondents (e.g. "started off as a valid entry ... due to citations +strengthening this ... however came to the last paragraph and the +whole document was marred by the insert of 'writing articles on +Wikipedia while on amphetamines' [as purported hobby of Generation Z +members]... just feels that you can't trust anything now"). + +Among the given trustworthiness factors, the following were ranked +most highly: + + authorship, currency, references, expert recommendation and + triangulation/verification, with usefulness just below this + threshold. + +In other words, participants valued having articles that were written +by experts on the subject, that were up to date, and that they +perceived to be useful (content factors). ... Interestingly these +factors all seemed more or less equally important for both contexts, +with the exception of references, which for predictable reasons were +seen as having greater importance in the context of assignments. + +* Viewership +** "Science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than on the English Wikipedia" +* Not Presenting +** Ayelet Oz Paper