Hello everyone, Friendly reminder that the Showcase on *Rules on Wikipedia *will start in about half an hour. Hope you can join us!
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 6:01 PM Kinneret Gordon <kgor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase, focused on *Rules on Wikipedia*, will be > live-streamed on Wednesday, September 20, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find > your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1695227400>. > > YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/h89l9JWZBCU?feature=share > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtube.com/live/h89l9JWZBCU?feature%3Dshare&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1695134846874404&usg=AOvVaw18JH_4LyknECqPj6uR0CWz>. > As usual, you can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the > showcase goes live. > > This month's presentations: > Variation and overlap in the peer production of community rules: the case > of five WikipediasBy *Sohyeon Hwang, Northwestern University* > In this talk, I present work analyzing the rules and rule-making on > Wikipedia. The governance of many online communities relies on rules > created by participants. However, work predominantly focuses on efforts > within a single community or on a platform as a whole. Here we investigate > the comparative and relational dimensions of online self-governance in a > set of similar communities by looking at the five largest language editions > of Wikipedia. Using exhaustive trace data spanning almost 20 years since > their founding, we examine patterns in rule-making and overlaps in rule > sets. Our findings show that language editions have similar trajectories of > rule-making activity, replicating and extending a rich body of work that > have focused on English-language Wikipedia alone. We also find that the > language editions have increasingly unique rule sets, even as editing > activity concentrates on rules shared between them. The results suggest > that self-governing communities aligned in key ways may share a common core > of rules and rule-making practices even as they develop and sustain > institutional variations. > > > Wikipedia Community Policies and Experiential Epistemology: Critical > Information Literacy, Social Justice, and Inclusive PracticesBy *Zachary > J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago*Drawing from a > meta-analysis of research on learning outcomes in Wikipedia-based > education, this presentation addresses Wikipedia community policies and > practices through the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher > Education from the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL). > Wikipedia-based educational practices, which promote newcomers’ active > engagement in the encyclopedia, have been shown to support experiential > learnings in critical information literacy, communication and research > outcomes, and social justice. Exploring the connections between > participation in Wikipedia and transferable skills for information literacy > in the context of the current new media landscape, this presentation > grapples with new questions for the future of information literacies > alongside the implications of large language models (LLMs), systemic > biases, and the representation and inclusion of non-western and indigenous > knowledge sources. > You can also watch our past research showcases here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Shshowcase > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase> > > Best, > Kinneret > > -- > > Kinneret Gordon > > Lead Research Community Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
