Hi Bowen, after reading your project proposal I have a few questions and
concerns.
You mention a perceived tension between protecting newcomers and protecting
the quality of content. I am wondering whether that is a false dichotomy.
In my experience, test edits and blatant vandalism usually look different
from mistakes from good faith editors.
There is a feature that allows users to adjust ORES-supported edit scoring
in our watchlists and Recdent Changes:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edi….
Have you tested this feature? How would your research be useful for that
feature's future development?
I think that ORES is supposed to aid human judgment, not to substitute for
human judgment. How certain are you that "ORES applications will play a
role in drawing a line between acceptable freestyle edits and editing
policies in standard."? There may well be some human patrollers who adjust
their definitions for vandalism based on ORES recommendations, but I think
that you would want to know to what extent ORES has that effect.
I would also like to mention that Wikipedia policies and guidelines, like
offline human laws and customs, may change over time, may have varying
interpretations, and may have varying degrees of adherence among the
populace.
Thanks for your interest in studying ORES. I am glad that you are
collaborating with Aaron.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 7:08 AM Bowen Yu <bowen-yu(a)umn.edu> wrote:
Hello,
ORES has been out and served for the Wikipedia community for a while, for
the purpose such as counter-vandalism. Having seen the wide usage and
effectiveness of ORES in the community, we'd like to continue working on
ORES development. We plan to improve and redesign ORES algorithms by
incorporating feedbacks of all the stakeholders involved in the entire ORES
ecosystem, such as ORES application developers, ORES application operators,
etc. We want to understand their concerns and values, and come up with
effective algorithmic designs that can balance trade-offs and mitigate
potential conflicts of interests (such as edit quality control v.s.
newcomer protection) to further improve ORES performance.
We will work with Aaron Halfaker and his team to make improvements on ORES
quality control models, and identify its limitations. Here is the project
proposal on Meta-Wiki
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Applying_Value-Sensitive_Algorithm…
.
If you are interested or have any
thoughts, please feel free to reach out
to me. Thanks!
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