Hello all,
The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
Talk 1 Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada) Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems, contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information networks.
Talk 2 Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing, but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
Hi all,
Just a reminder for our upcoming Research Showcase.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
Talk 1 Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada) Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems, contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information networks.
Talk 2 Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing, but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
Talk 1 Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada) Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems, contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information networks.
Talk 2 Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing, but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting research on almost the same topic :-/
Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-(
Best Z. Blace
On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
Talk 1 Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada) Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems, contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information networks.
Talk 2 Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing, but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hi Z. Blace, you can watch the recording of this showcase on youtube [1]. Also, you can find the recordings of previous Research Showcases in this collection [2].
Best, Martin
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfLQLgwU3oDFiGaU3K7pUVoW
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 7:39 PM Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting research on almost the same topic :-/
Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-(
Best Z. Blace
On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from
McGill
University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
Talk 1 Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada) Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the
way
that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these
systems,
contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty
and
skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately,
we
still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these
systems
and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural
experiment
to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles
affect
the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to
other
articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both
content
consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find
significant
attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total
attention
flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information networks.
Talk 2 Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist
Interventions
Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools,
and
enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a
recent
study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract
digital
knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be
missing,
but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases
that
limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more
granular
and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments
and
identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist
movements
in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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