A reminder that this event will start in 10
minutes. You can watch the
event on YouTube here <http://youtu.be/upQXecRNcdw>. As usual, we will
be in #wikimedia-research for questions and chat. :-)
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I am thrilled to announce our speaker lineup for
this month’s research
showcase
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase#April_2015>.
*Jeff Nickerson* (Stevens Institute of Technology) will talk about
remix and reuse in collaborative communities; *Heather Ford* (Oxford
Internet Institute) will present an overview of the oral citations debate
in the English Wikipedia.
The showcase will be recorded and publicly streamed at 11.30 PT on *Thursday,
April 30 *(livestream link will follow). We’ll hold a discussion and
take questions from remote attendees via the Wikimedia Research IRC channel
(#wikimedia-research
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research> on freenode)
as usual.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Dario
*Creating, remixing, and planning in open online communities**Jeff
Nickerson*Paradoxically, users in remixing communities don’t remix very
much. But an analysis of one remix community, Thingiverse, shows that those
who actively remix end up producing work that is in turn more likely to
remixed. What does this suggest about Wikipedia editing? Wikipedia allows
more types of contribution, because creating and editing pages are done in
a planning context: plans are discussed on particular loci, including
project talk pages. Plans on project talk pages lead to both creation and
editing; some editors specialize in making article changes and others, who
tend to have more experience, focus on planning rather than acting.
Contributions can happen at the level of the article and also at a series
of meta levels. Some patterns of behavior – with respect to creating versus
editing and acting versus planning – are likely to lead to more sustained
engagement and to higher quality work. Experiments are proposed to test
these conjectures.*Authority, power and culture on Wikipedia: The oral
citations debate**Heather Ford*In 2011, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory
Board member, Achal Prabhala was funded by the WMF to run a project called
'People are knowledge' or the Oral citations project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations>. The goal of
the project was to respond to the dearth of published material about topics
of relevance to communities in the developing world and, although the
majority of articles in languages other than English remain intact, the
English editions of these articles have had their oral citations removed. I
ask why this happened, what the policy implications are for oral citations
generally, and what steps can be taken in the future to respond to the
problem that this project (and more recent versions of it
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Indigenous_Knowledge>) set
out to solve. This talk comes out of an ethnographic project in which I
have interviewed some of the actors involved in the original oral citations
project, including the majority of editors of the surr
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/surr> article that I trace in a chapter
of my PhD[1] <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=286>.
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