Just a reminder that the research showcase will be starting shortly. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Sarah R <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, October > 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 (UTC). > > Link for remote presenters to join the Hangout on Air: > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. > And, you can watch our past research showcases here > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#October_2016>. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBImUZ_si5s > > This month's showcase includes. > > Human centered design for using and editing structured data in Wikipedia > infoboxesBy *Charlie Kritschmar > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Charlie_Kritschmar_(WMDE)> UX > Intern, Wikimedia Deutschland > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland>*Wikidata is a > Wikimedia project which stores structured data to be used by other > Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia. Currently, integrating its data in > Wikipedia is difficult for users, since there’s no predefined way to do so > and requires some technical knowledge. To tackle these issues, > human-centered design methods were applied to find needs from which > solutions were generated and evaluated with the help of the community. The > concept may serve as a basis which may be implemented into various Wiki > projects in the future to make editing Wikidata from within another > Wikimedia project more user-friendly and improve the project’s acceptance > in the community. > > > Emergent Work in WikipediaBy *Ofer Arazy > <http://oferarazy.com/> (University of Haifa)*Online production > communities present an exciting opportunity for investigating novel > organizational forms. Extant theoretical accounts of knowledge > co-production point to organizational policies, norms, and communication as > key mechanisms enabling the coordination of work. Yet, in practice > participants in initiatives such as Wikipedia are often occasional > contributors who are unaware of community policies and do not communicate > with other members. How then is work coordinated and how does the > organization maintain stability in the face of dynamics in individuals’ > task enactment? In this study we develop a conceptualization of emergent > roles - the prototypical activity patterns that organically emerge from > individuals’ spontaneous actions – and investigate the temporal dynamics of > emergent role behaviors. Conducing a multi-level large-scale empirical > study stretching over a decade, we tracked co-production of a thousand > Wikipedia articles, logging two hundred thousand distinct participants and > seven hundred thousand co-production activities. Using a combination of > manual tagging and machine learning, we annotated each activity type, and > then clustered participants’ activity profiles to arrive at seven > prototypical emergent roles. Our analysis shows that participants’ behavior > is turbulent, with substantial flow in and out of co-production work and > across roles. Our findings at the organizational level, however, show that > work is organized around a highly stable set of emergent roles, despite the > absence of traditional stabilizing mechanisms such as pre-defined work > procedures or role expectations. We conceptualize this dualism in emergent > work as “Turbulent Stability”. Further analyses suggest that co-production > is artifact-centric, where contributors mutually adjust according to the > artifact’s changing needs. Our study advances the theoretical > understandings of self-organizing knowledge co-production and particularly > the nature of emergent roles. > > Hope to see you there! > > Sarah R. Rodlund > Senior Project Coordinator-Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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