For those interested in "high tempo" editions in Wikipedia or editors behaviour in breaking news articles, I've found an interesting work by Heather Ford.
- http://ethnographymatters.net/2012/07/31/beyond-reliability-an-ethnographic-...
Beside the understanding of how sources are dealed, it's related to the open source plaform Swiftriver ( http://ushahidi.com/index.php/products/swiftriver-platform) and the Ushahidihttp://ushahidi.com/ projects on information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
In her owns word:
Almost a year ago, I was hired by Ushahidi http://ushahidi.com/ to work as an ethnographic researcher on a project to understand how Wikipedians managed sources during breaking news events. Ushahidi cares a great deal about this kind of work because of a new project called SwiftRiverhttp://ushahidi.com/index.php/products/swiftriver-platform that seeks to collect and enable the collaborative curation of streams of data from the real time web about a particular issue or event. If another Haitihttp://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2012/01/12/haiti-and-the-power-of-crowdsourcing/ earthquake happened, for example, would there be a way for us to filter out the irrelevant, the misinformation and build a stream of relevant, meaningful and accurate content about what was happening for those who needed it? And on Wikipedia’s side, could the same tools be used to help editors curate a stream of relevant sources as a team rather than individuals?
__ Tomás Saorín
___ Tomás Saorín / Profesor asociado / Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación. Universidad de Murcia / 868 88 82 32 / tsp@um.es
Tomás Saorín, Ph.D. / Dep. of Information and Documentation / Faculty of Communication and Documentation / University of Murcia