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 < [email protected]> 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>. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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