Stephanie E Bankes

Vandal, Activist, or Just Here to Help? A Forensic Qualitative Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Anonymity-Seeking Users

By choice or by necessity, some contributors to commons-based peer production sites use privacy-protecting services to remain anonymous. As anonymity seekers, users of the Tor network have been cast both as ill-intentioned vandals and as vulnerable populations concerned with their privacy. In this study, we use a data…