[WikiEN-l] Inclusionists vs deletionists

[Dario Taraborelli]

There is a good body research around who participates in deletion discussions (particularlyin the English Wikipedia). These studies mostly looked at the breakdown by tenure [1] or diversity of participants in AfD discussions or the effects of the size of a discussion on its outcome [2])  In [3] we looked specifically at evidence of heterogeneity in AfD discussions indicating participation by deletionists or inclusionists. We found two classes of users who participate in significantly different ways in these discussions (such that their !voting behavior is poorly predicted by the baseline probability of an average AfD participants, but is predicted much more accurately by the typical profile of editors with a "deletion" or "inclusion" tendency). We had no data available to determine whether these AfD participants who consistently voted for keeping or deleting AfD-nominated pages did so because of some kind of !vote stacking via organized action or because of a natural tendency towards one of these two stances on deletion.

Dario

[1] Geiger, R. S., & Ford, H. (2011). Participation in Wikipedia’s article deletion processes. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration - WikiSym  ’11 (p. 201). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038593 - http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/_media/proceedings:p201-geiger.pdf

[2] Lam, S. K., Karim, J., & Riedl, J. (2010). The effects of group composition on decision quality in a social production community. Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work - GROUP  ’10 (p. 55). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1880071.1880083 - http://www.grouplens.org/system/files/Lam+Wikipedia+Group+Discussion.pdf

[3] Taraborelli, D., & Ciampaglia, G. L. (2010). Beyond Notability. Collective Deliberation on Content Inclusion in Wikipedia. 2010 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshop (pp. 122-125). Budapest: IEEE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2010.26 - http://nitens.org/docs/qteso10.pdf

On Mar 22, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Alan Liefting wrote:

> On 23/03/2012 8:20 a.m., Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> 2012/3/22 Alan Liefting<aliefting at ihug.co.nz>:
>>> Does anyone agree with me that the inclusionists are more numerous than the
>>> deletionists around the deletion discussions?
>> If you tell us how you counted, we can try to agree or to disagree.
>> It's pointless to talk about subjective feelings.
> Feelings are by definition subjective. Anyhow, without doing some real in-depth research it will only be subjective.
> 
> Alan
> 
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