That was fun :) Thanks so much for organising,
Aaron, Dario, Leila.
I totally recommend participating in the showcase for those who haven't
done it yet.
Best,
Heather.
Heather Ford
Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk> Doctoral Programme
| @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
On 30 April 2015 at 19:18, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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