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Fueling Volunteer Growth: the Case of Wikipedia Administrators

Wikipedia administrators are vital to the project's success, performing over a million administrative actions annually. This multi-method study systematically analyzes adminship across 284 Wikipedia languages since 2018, revealing a critical two-sided trend: while over half of all Wikipedias show a net increase in ad…

CSCW '23Participation and Engagement

Increasing Participation in Peer Production Communities with the Newcomer Homepage

For peer production communities to be sustainable, they must attract and retain new contributors. Studies have identified social and technical barriers to entry and discovered some potential solutions, but these solutions have typically focused on a single highly successful community, the English Wikipedia, been teste…

CSCW '22Wikipedia; Wikipedia

“We Need a Woman in Music”: Exploring Wikipedia’s Values on Article Priority

Wikipedia---like most peer production communities---suffers from a basic problem: the amount of work that needs to be done (articles to be created and improved) exceeds the available resources (editor effort). Recommender systems have been deployed to address this problem, but they have tended to recommend work tasks…

CHI '22Content Moderation & Platform Governance +1

Templates and Trust-o-meters: Towards a widely deployable indicator of trust in Wikipedia

The success of Wikipedia and other user-generated content communities has been driven by the openness of recruiting volunteers globally, but this openness has also led to a persistent lack of trust in its content. Despite several attempts at developing trust indicators to help readers more quickly and accurately asses…

DIS '21Explainable AI (XAI) +1

Wikipedia ORES Explorer: Visualizing Trade-offs For Designing Applications With Machine Learning API

With the growing industry applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, pre-trained models and APIs have emerged and greatly lowered the barrier of building AI-powered products. However, novice AI application designers often struggle to recognize the inherent algorithmic trade-offs and evaluate model fairness…

CSCW '20Interpreting and Explaining AI

ORES: Lowering Barriers with Participatory Machine Learning in Wikipedia

Algorithmic systems---from rule-based bots to machine learning classifiers---have a long history of supporting the essential work of content moderation and other curation work in peer production projects. From counter-vandalism to task routing, basic machine prediction has allowed open knowledge projects like Wikiped…

CHI '20Honorable MentionContent Moderation & Platform Governance +3

Keeping Community in the Loop: Understanding Wikipedia Stakeholder Values for Machine Learning-Based Systems

On Wikipedia, sophisticated algorithmic tools are used to assess the quality of edits and take corrective actions. However, algorithms can fail to solve the problems they were designed for if they conflict with the values of communities who use them. In this study, we take a Value-Sensitive Algorithm Design approach t…

CHI '18Geospatial & Map Visualization +1

Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), such as contributions to OpenStreetMap and geotagged Wikipedia articles, is often assumed to be produced locally. However, recent work has found that peer-produced VGI is frequently contributed by non-locals. , in which contributions flow between regions based on distance, pr…

CSCW '18Bots and Online Communities

Bot Detection in Wikidata Using Behavioral and Other Informal Cues

Bots have been important to peer production’s success. Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, and Wikidata all have taken advantage of automation to perform work at a rate and scale exceeding that of human contributors. Understanding the ways in which humans and bots behave in these communities is an important topic, and one that…

CSCW '18Norms and Rules in Online Communities

Welcome' Changes? Descriptive and Injunctive Norms in a Wikipedia Sub-Community

Open online communities rely on social norms for behavior regulation, group cohesion, and sustainability. Research on the role of social norms online has mainly focused on one source of influence at a time, making it difficult to separate different normative influences and understand their interactions. In this study,…

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