\o/ Glad to have you present. :) On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Heather Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> > > > > On 30 April 2015 at 19:18, Leila Zia <[email protected]> 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 < >> [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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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