I discovered that CHI is not a top-tier HCI conference. Or even 2nd or
3rd. :) Neither is CSCW, Group, etc.
(For those not in CS/HCI, CHI is *the* top tier conference with
acceptance rates lower than most journals in the area and the others I
listed are nearly as competitive. And venues like WikiSym that have
higher acceptance rates attract top-tier work as well - many papers of
equivalent quality have been published there.)
So... I would suggest that, to review the Wikipedia literature, you
need to choose a field (or set of fields) you know and become deeply
knowledgeable about the literature in that field by reading it and
following citations, etc. Searching for every paper ever written that
mentions "Wikipedia" in the title/abstract will catch you lots of
peripheral work that is not *about* Wikipedia, but that uses Wikipedia
as a context for studying something else. Machines aren't good at
literature reviews. :)
That said, it would be incredibly useful to have a common repository
of citations that can be annotated, discussed etc. Reid Priedhorsky,
Phoebe Ayers, Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle, and Mako Hill and I have
been talking about doing a literature review as well and have come to
the conclusions that A) there's too much to cover in just one paper
and B) a place to collaboratively assemble knowledge about the
literature is a prerequisite for such an endeavor. We were thinking a
MediaWiki with templates to structure citation data for export would
be better than any of the bib software out there. But actually... I
remember reading that Tiki Wiki now explicitly supports citation, I
think?
The bottom line is, B) Is something this community could really do a
great job of developing and it would be mutually beneficial. No one of
us is going to cover all the Wikipedia literature alone, unless we
make it a full time job. :)
FYI, we chose Travis's citation filtering method as a starting point
and came up with the list below as our common starter reading list and
planned to divy things up from there.
Andrea
=Top Citations in Goog Scholar ==
* '''449 cites''' Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kushal
Dave. 2004. [
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf
Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow
visualizations]. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human
factors in computing systems (CHI '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA,
575-582.
* '''288 cites''' Bryant, Susan, Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman.
(2005). [
http://www.andreaforte.net/BryantForteBruckBecomingWikipedian.pdf
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a
collaborative online encyclopedia]. Proceedings of GROUP International
Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, FL, pp. 1-10.
** recent counterpoint: Katherine Panciera, Aaron Halfaker, and Loren
Terveen. 2009. [
http://www.grouplens.org/system/files/Group09WikipediansPanciera.pdf
Wikipedians are born, not made: a study of power editors on
Wikipedia]. In Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on
Supporting group work (GROUP '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 51-60.
* '''193 cites''' Voß, J.
[
http://hapticity.net/pdf/nime2006_180-works_cited/MeasuringWikipedia2005.pdf
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia]. In
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting
group work (GROUP '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 259-268.
=Other Significant Papers ==
* '''Best Paper Award''' Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean and David
W. McDonald [
http://www.aaai.org/Papers/ICWSM/2008/ICWSM08-011.pdf
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy
Lens]International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2008.
* '''Honorable Mention''' Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh and David
W. McDonald [
http://dub.washington.edu/djangosite/media/papers/tmpZ77p1r.pdf
Articulations of WikiWork: Uncovering Valued Work in Wikipedia through
Barnstars] Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2008.
=Relevant Scholarly Books ==
Reagle's book, Lih's book, Sunstein, Benkler