Re: [Wiki-research-l] E-Learning with wikis…

[Derek Lidster]

I have some interest in Wiki projects and the impacts of education for the
academic field and applied areas of research. There is a recent Online Open
Project from Stanford Artificial
Intelligencethat
has over 100,000 applicants for the 2013 Fall Program. This should
yield some interesting results and good analysis for further wiki projects.
Keep me posted in regards to Wiki E-Learning and project collaboration.
Dylan




On 8 February 2013 13:59, Pierre-Carl Langlais wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am currently writing a chapter on the use of Wiki for learning purposes
> (to be published by the end of the year in E-Learning 2.0, IGI Global). I
> am asked to give some insights on future research (that is, planned and/or
> not yet published).
>
> Do you heard of any ongoing study on this topic?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre-Carl
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Modeling Wikipedia admin elections using multidimensional behavioral social networks

[Tilman Bayer]

There have been quite a few papers analyzing RfAs (mostly) on the
English Wikipedia, see e.g.:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/March#How_editors_evaluate_each_other:_effects_of_status_and_similarity
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/January#Students_predict_connections_between_Wikipedians
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011/September#How_social_ties_influence_admin_votes
- this also contains citations of earlier research on the topic.

And the authors of the present paper already published another one
about Polish Wikipedia RfAs in 2011:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011/October#What_it_takes_to_become_an_admin:_Insights_from_the_Polish_Wikipedia

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
 wrote:
>
> Abstract:
>
> Wikipedia admins are editors entrusted with special privileges and
> duties, responsible for the community management of Wikipedia. They
> are elected using a special procedure defined by the Wikipedia
> community, called Request for Adminship (RfA). Because of the growing
> amount of management work (quality control, coordination, maintenance)
> on the Wikipedia, the importance of admins is growing. At the same
> time, there exists evidence that the admin community is growing more
> slowly than expected. We present an analysis of the RfA procedure in
> the Polish-language Wikipedia, since the procedure’s introduction in
> 2005. With the goal of discovering good candidates for new admins that
> could be accepted by the community, we model the admin elections using
> multidimensional behavioral social networks derived from the Wikipedia
> edit history. We find that we can classify the votes in the RfA
> procedures using this model with an accuracy level that should be
> sufficient to recommend candidates. We also propose and verify
> interpretations of the dimensions of the social network. We find that
> one of the dimensions, based on discussion on Wikipedia talk pages,
> can be validly interpreted as acquaintance among editors, and discuss
> the relevance of this dimension to the admin elections.
>
> Link: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-012-0092-6
>
> From the conclusion:
>
> "[...] We have noticed the decreasing amount of successful admin
> elections and have formulated two hypotheses that could explain this
> phenomenon. Hypothesis A stated that new admins are elected on the
> basis of acquaintance of the voter and candidate. If this would be a
> valid explanation, we could conclude that the community of admins is
> becoming increasingly closed, which would be detrimental to the
> sustainable development of the Wikipedia.
>
> Hypothesis B stated that new admins are elected on the basis of
> similarity of experience in editing various topics of the voter and
> candidate. Since voters are other active admins whose experience
> increases with time, their thresholds of accepting a candidate are
> likely to increase (as has been observed from the simple statistics of
> RfA votings)."
>
> I would love to see this research on other Wikipedias.
>
> Tom
>
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> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
> useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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[Wiki-research-l] Modeling Wikipedia admin elections using multidimensional behavioral social networks

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Abstract:

Wikipedia admins are editors entrusted with special privileges and
duties, responsible for the community management of Wikipedia. They
are elected using a special procedure defined by the Wikipedia
community, called Request for Adminship (RfA). Because of the growing
amount of management work (quality control, coordination, maintenance)
on the Wikipedia, the importance of admins is growing. At the same
time, there exists evidence that the admin community is growing more
slowly than expected. We present an analysis of the RfA procedure in
the Polish-language Wikipedia, since the procedure’s introduction in
2005. With the goal of discovering good candidates for new admins that
could be accepted by the community, we model the admin elections using
multidimensional behavioral social networks derived from the Wikipedia
edit history. We find that we can classify the votes in the RfA
procedures using this model with an accuracy level that should be
sufficient to recommend candidates. We also propose and verify
interpretations of the dimensions of the social network. We find that
one of the dimensions, based on discussion on Wikipedia talk pages,
can be validly interpreted as acquaintance among editors, and discuss
the relevance of this dimension to the admin elections.

Link: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-012-0092-6

From the conclusion:

"[...] We have noticed the decreasing amount of successful admin
elections and have formulated two hypotheses that could explain this
phenomenon. Hypothesis A stated that new admins are elected on the
basis of acquaintance of the voter and candidate. If this would be a
valid explanation, we could conclude that the community of admins is
becoming increasingly closed, which would be detrimental to the
sustainable development of the Wikipedia.

Hypothesis B stated that new admins are elected on the basis of
similarity of experience in editing various topics of the voter and
candidate. Since voters are other active admins whose experience
increases with time, their thresholds of accepting a candidate are
likely to increase (as has been observed from the simple statistics of
RfA votings)."

I would love to see this research on other Wikipedias.

Tom

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."

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[Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia France research award : the choice is yours !

[Carol Ann]

Hi all,

Wikimédia France, a non-profit organization supporting Wikimedia projects
in France, launched a few months ago an international research award aiming
to reward the most influential research work on Wikimedia projects and free
knowledge. After the initial submission of research papers by the wikimedia
community, our jury
membershave
selected among a thirty
proposals,
five finalists.

It's now up to you to choose the most influential. For that, please visit
this page :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award/nominated_papersand
vote. Deadline for vote is early March. The announcement of the winner
is scheduled to end of March.

If you have any questions, please use the project talk page, thanks !

-- 
Carol Ann O'Hare
Chargée de mission recherche et enseignement - Wikimédia France
www.wikimedia.fr
07.62.92.42.03
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