Hi Jason, The controvery monitoring engine is an interesting idea, but I wonder if its effects will be different than you intend.
First, a shortage of volunteers who are willing to intervene in controversies has limited previous attempts to improve conflict resolution on English Wikipedia. Without the necessary personnel to intervene productively in controversies, flagging controversies might have little effect at actually getting them resolved prior to escalation to ANI or other venues. Second, flagging controversies might have the effect of attracting more people into the fray instead of improving the situation. Third, I would like to ask of you have you had any feedback from experienced conflict resolution admins about the proposal? I will be interested in your responses. Thanks, Pine On Apr 9, 2015 5:59 AM, "Jason Radford" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I wanted to share two projects currently under consideration for IdeaLab > funding and which may be of directly related to engaging new and seasoned > editors. If you are interested or know someone who might be, let me know. > If you have feedback for these projects, please submit it on their > discussion pages. > > Thanks, > Jason > > > > *Wiki Controversy Monitoring Engine Call for Developers* > > *Purpose*: The controversy monitoring engine maintains a real-time rating > of the controversiality of Wikipedia articles by listening to the live > stream of edits from Wikipedia. We need someone who is interested in > building the web interface and interactive visualizations around these > controversies to enable administrators to monitor, investigate, and, if > need be, intervene to deescalate controversies. The goal is to create a > site like stats.wikimedia.org editors and admins can use to identify and > deescalate controversies. > > *Requirements*: Knowledge of web development, web-based visualization, > and\or data analysis using Wikipedia's API or WikiData. > > *For More Information*: see > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Controversy_Monitoring_Engine > > > > > *Consciousness-Raising Repository Call for Working Group Participants* > > *Purpose*: We're putting together a group of diverse Wikipedians to help > put together a repository of stories from users experiencing > marginalization on Wikipedia. Whether first timers or old timers, we're > looking to recruit users interested in engaging the community around > marginalization. The purpose of the repository is to serve as a database of > knowledge about the forms marginalization can take and as an outlet for > users experiencing marginalization. > > *Requirements*: Interest in working with marginalization and marginalized > groups. Interest in the Wiki-community. Willing to attend an hour-long > biweekly meeting. > *For more information*: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_Consciousness_Raising_Repository > > -- > Jason Radford > Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago > Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University > *Connect*: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter > <http://www.twitter.com/jsradford>, University of Chicago > <http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/> > *Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science > <http://www.volunteerscience.com>* > > _______________________________________________ > EE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > >
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