From 10463fabeab4400b02b1cfa7bf06aea96214e621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: aaronshaw Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:43:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] added my slides to the year in review talk for wikimania. --- 20150717-wikimania_research.tex | 213 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 184 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/20150717-wikimania_research.tex b/20150717-wikimania_research.tex index 2c6f528..854624e 100644 --- a/20150717-wikimania_research.tex +++ b/20150717-wikimania_research.tex @@ -505,10 +505,194 @@ % \end{frame} +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\subsection{Gender on Wikipedia} +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\begin{frame} + \centertext{6em}{Gender Beyond the Gap} + + + \note{Aaron: + + Research focused on understanding gender dynamics in Wikipedia + and their impact is another area of research that has continued + to expand this year. A number of high quality papers came out, + several of which analyzed how gender figures in the content of + the encyclopedias. + } + \end{frame} + + \begin{frame} + \frametitle{It's a Man's Wikipedia?} + \larger \larger Wagner, Claudia; David Garcia; Mohsen Jadidi; and Markus +Strohmaier. 2015. \href{https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM15/paper/view/10585}{``\e{It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing + Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia}.''} Ninth International +AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). + + \end{frame} + + \begin{frame} + + \frametitle{It's a Man's Wikipedia: Motivation} + + \begin{itemize} + \larger \larger \larger + \item We know there's a gender gap. + \item Need for more multidimensional analysis of \e{how gender is + represented in content of articles across Wikipedias}. + \end{itemize} + + \note{ +} + \end{frame} + + \begin{frame} + + \frametitle{It's a Man's Wikipedia: Methods} + + \begin{itemize} + \larger \larger \larger + \item Use data from three sources (Freebase, ``Human + Accomplishment,'' and Pantheon) as baselines for comparison with + six Wikipedias (EN, ES, DE, FR, IT, RU). + \item Examine multiple potential forms of bias: coverage, + structure, lexical characteristics, visibility. + \end{itemize} + + \end{frame} + + \begin{frame} + \frametitle{It's a Man's Wikipedia: Results} + + \centering + \visible<2->{ + \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/mans_wikipedia_fig.pdf} + } + \note{ + \e{Some key findings:} + \begin{itemize} + \larger \larger + \item 1: Coverage of women (\# articles, length) in WPs is generally + better than other sources. + \item 2: Articles about women tend to be less centrally connected in + the network of articles than articles about men (Smurfette!) + \item 3: (\e{viz}) Content of articles about women uses different words + than those about men. Much igher incidence of language related to + family, gender, and relationships. + \end{itemize} +} + \end{frame} + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\subsection{Using Wikipedia in Education} % TODO Fix title +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\begin{frame} + \centertext{6em}{Adopting Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool} + + \note{Aaron: + + Research focused on understanding how Wikipedia and related + resources are adopted for classroom teaching. Growing area of + work, still somewhat preliminary findings. Nonetheless, some of + the papers in this domain make for entertaining reading... + } + \end{frame} + + \begin{frame} + \frametitle{WP and the Wisdom of Crowds} + + \larger \larger Barnhisel, Greg and Marcia + Rapchak. 2014. \href{http://ur1.ca/n5919}{``\e{Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Crowds: A Student + Project}.''} Communications in Information Literacy 8(1): + 145-159. doi:10.7548/cil.v8i1.249. +\end{frame} + + +\begin{frame} + \frametitle{WP and the Wisdom of Crowds: Motivation} + \begin{itemize} + \larger \larger + \item Students use Wikipedia uncritically. Don't understand how low + quality much of the information may be or how it may be + manipulated. + \item Professor (author) believes that WP is full of dubious + information. Wants to unmask that for his students. + \item Through more in-depth exposure, students may understand the + limitations of collaborative, open systems of knowledge production. + \end{itemize} +\end{frame} + + +\begin{frame} + \frametitle{WP and the Wisdom of Crowds: Methods} + + \begin{itemize} + \larger \larger + \item Require a Senior (college) composition class to work on + editing WP articles (together and individually) throughout the + semester. + \item Incorporate assignments to help students learn about the + history of WP as well as how to use it. + \item Require students to reflect on their experiences in writing. + \item Require students to analyze the pros/cons of open + collaborative writing in their final projects. + \end{itemize} + +\note{ + This is all sort of fabulously in-line with exactly what the WikiEd + Foundation recommends instructors do (!). +} +\end{frame} + + +\begin{frame} + \frametitle{WP and the Wisdom of Crowds: Results} + +\centering +\begin{quote} + \e{Both sources [crowds and experts] have different merits... My + life experience since class pulls me in favor of the wisdom of the + crowd. In my recent studies, I have found that I can learn much + more from a group of my peers than from a single expert.\\ \hfill + --- Student 1} +\end{quote} + +\note{ Not exactly what the instructor expected. Essentially, both he + and the students came away with much more nuanced, and positive, + views of the relative merits, possibilities, and limitations of open + collaborative knowledge production. A happy ending :) } +\end{frame} +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + + + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \section{Conclusion} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\subsection{Meta-Analyses} + +\begin{frame} + + \frametitle{Meta-Analyses} + + \begin{itemize} + + \larger \larger + \item Mesgari, Mostafa and Okoli, Chitu and Mehdi, Mohamad and Nielsen, Finn Årup and Lanamäki, Arto. 2014. \href{http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978652/}{``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. + + \item Miquel-Ribé, + Marc. 2015. \href{https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM15/paper/view/10645}{``User + Engagement on Wikipedia, A Review of Studies of Readers and + Editors.''} Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and + Social Media (ICWSM). + + \end{itemize} + +\end{frame} + %% SLIDE: Other Resources %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame}{More Resources} @@ -541,35 +725,6 @@ \end{frame} -\subsection{Meta-Analyses} - -\begin{frame} - - \frametitle{Meta-Analyses} - - \begin{itemize} - - \larger \larger - - \item Okoli et al., - \href{https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978618/}{``The sum of - all human knowledge'': a systematic review of scholarly research - on the content of Wikipedia}. - - \item Bar-Ilan and Aharony, - \href{http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2615569.2615643}{Twelve - years of Wikipedia research}. - - \item Taraborelli. \href{https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/August\#Keynote\_on\_applicable\_Wikipedia\_research}{Keynote - on Wikipedia Research}. OpenSym 2013. Hong Kong. - - \item Benkler, Shaw, and Hill, - \href{http://mako.cc/academic/benkler\_shaw\_hill-peer\_production\_ci.pdf}{Peer - Production: A Modality of Collective Intelligence}. - - \end{itemize} - -\end{frame} \end{document} -- 2.39.5