Hi Jason,
The controvery monitoring engine is an interesting idea, but I wonder if
its effects will be different than you intend.
First, a shortage of volunteers who are willing to intervene in
controversies has limited previous attempts to improve conflict resolution
on English Wikipedia. Without the necessary personnel to intervene
productively in controversies, flagging controversies might have little
effect at actually getting them resolved prior to escalation to ANI or
other venues.
Second, flagging controversies might have the effect of attracting more
people into the fray instead of improving the situation.
Third, I would like to ask of you have you had any feedback from
experienced conflict resolution admins about the proposal?
I will be interested in your responses.
Thanks,
Pine
On Apr 9, 2015 5:59 AM, "Jason Radford" <jsradford(a)uchicago.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to share two projects currently under consideration for IdeaLab
funding and which may be of directly related to engaging new and seasoned
editors. If you are interested or know someone who might be, let me know.
If you have feedback for these projects, please submit it on their
discussion pages.
Thanks,
Jason
*Wiki Controversy Monitoring Engine Call for Developers*
*Purpose*: The controversy monitoring engine maintains a real-time rating
of the controversiality of Wikipedia articles by listening to the live
stream of edits from Wikipedia. We need someone who is interested in
building the web interface and interactive visualizations around these
controversies to enable administrators to monitor, investigate, and, if
need be, intervene to deescalate controversies. The goal is to create a
site like
stats.wikimedia.org editors and admins can use to identify and
deescalate controversies.
*Requirements*: Knowledge of web development, web-based visualization,
and\or data analysis using Wikipedia's API or WikiData.
*For More Information*: see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Controversy_Monitoring_Engine
*Consciousness-Raising Repository Call for Working Group Participants*
*Purpose*: We're putting together a group of diverse Wikipedians to help
put together a repository of stories from users experiencing
marginalization on Wikipedia. Whether first timers or old timers, we're
looking to recruit users interested in engaging the community around
marginalization. The purpose of the repository is to serve as a database of
knowledge about the forms marginalization can take and as an outlet for
users experiencing marginalization.
*Requirements*: Interest in working with marginalization and marginalized
groups. Interest in the Wiki-community. Willing to attend an hour-long
biweekly meeting.
*For more information*:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_Consciousness_Raising_Repo…
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Jason Radford
Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago
Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University
*Connect*: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter
<http://www.twitter.com/jsradford>, University of Chicago
<http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/>
*Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science
<http://www.volunteerscience.com>*
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