Hello everyone,
Friendly reminder that the Showcase on *Rules on Wikipedia *will start in
about half an hour. Hope you can join us!
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 6:01 PM Kinneret Gordon <kgordon(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, focused on *Rules on Wikipedia*, will be
live-streamed on Wednesday, September 20, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find
your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1695227400>.
YouTube stream:
https://youtube.com/live/h89l9JWZBCU?feature=share
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtube.com/live/h89l9JWZBCU?feature%3Dshare&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1695134846874404&usg=AOvVaw18JH_4LyknECqPj6uR0CWz>.
As usual, you can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the
showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Variation and overlap in the peer production of community rules: the case
of five WikipediasBy *Sohyeon Hwang, Northwestern University*
In this talk, I present work analyzing the rules and rule-making on
Wikipedia. The governance of many online communities relies on rules
created by participants. However, work predominantly focuses on efforts
within a single community or on a platform as a whole. Here we investigate
the comparative and relational dimensions of online self-governance in a
set of similar communities by looking at the five largest language editions
of Wikipedia. Using exhaustive trace data spanning almost 20 years since
their founding, we examine patterns in rule-making and overlaps in rule
sets. Our findings show that language editions have similar trajectories of
rule-making activity, replicating and extending a rich body of work that
have focused on English-language Wikipedia alone. We also find that the
language editions have increasingly unique rule sets, even as editing
activity concentrates on rules shared between them. The results suggest
that self-governing communities aligned in key ways may share a common core
of rules and rule-making practices even as they develop and sustain
institutional variations.
Wikipedia Community Policies and Experiential Epistemology: Critical
Information Literacy, Social Justice, and Inclusive PracticesBy *Zachary
J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago*Drawing from a
meta-analysis of research on learning outcomes in Wikipedia-based
education, this presentation addresses Wikipedia community policies and
practices through the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher
Education from the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL).
Wikipedia-based educational practices, which promote newcomers’ active
engagement in the encyclopedia, have been shown to support experiential
learnings in critical information literacy, communication and research
outcomes, and social justice. Exploring the connections between
participation in Wikipedia and transferable skills for information literacy
in the context of the current new media landscape, this presentation
grapples with new questions for the future of information literacies
alongside the implications of large language models (LLMs), systemic
biases, and the representation and inclusion of non-western and indigenous
knowledge sources.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Shshowcase
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>
Best,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>