Thanks for the citations, Dario! Your data at Notabilia [1] helped me get started with this project. Your survey data would indeed be quite helpful to me!
I started a page about my general work at [2]. Feedback on how to improve that page would be useful. If you like, I could also share an overview I've written of the goals of my AfD investigations. -Jodi [1] http://notabilia.net/ [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Projects/Understanding_Wikipedia_Coordination_Spaces_and_Costs On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jodi, > > thanks for sharing this, I think it's a very interesting strand of research > and one I have personally worked on in the past. There is a number of papers > recently published or coming out on this topic, including: > > [1] Stvilia, B., Twidale, M. B., Smith, L. C., and Gasser, L. Information > quality work organization in Wikipedia. Journal of the American Society for > Information Science and Technology 59, 6 (2008), > 983–1001. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.163.5109&rep=rep1&type=pdf > > [2] Lam, S. K., Karim, J., and Riedl, J. The Effects of Group Composition on > Decision Quality in a Social Production Community. In GROUP ’10 (November > 2010). http://www.grouplens.org/system/files/Lam+Wikipedia+Group+Discussion.pdf > > [3] Taraborelli, D., and Ciampaglia, G. L. Beyond notability. Collective > deliberation on content inclusion in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the Fourth > IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems > Workshops (SASOW 2010) (September 2010). http://nitens.org/docs/qteso10.pdf > > As part of [3] we conducted a small survey among top participants in AfD > discussions, I can share the data with you if this is of any interest. To > recruit editors for interviews it would be useful if you posted a short > description of the project on Meta (see for example [3]) so the WMF Research > Committee can help you find the best way to do so. > > [4] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Projects/Motivation_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia,_a_Collective_Work > Best, > Dario > On May 11, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Jodi Schneider wrote: > > Hello (and please pardon the crossposting), > > I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in > Galway, Ireland. My Ph.D. topic is online discussions, specifically the > reasoning and arguments people use. I am currently studying Articles for > Deletion in English Wikipedia, to understand how article deletion decisions > are made. > > I am working on a prototype argument assistant to help newcomers understand > what kinds of arguments make sense, much in the way that the Article Wizard > provides guidance for creating an article. From reading discussions, I am > learning what kinds of arguments people use in AfD, especially to see what > comments advance the discussion. Next I need to get some perspectives from > editors! > > I'm looking for Wikipedians to interview about the deletion process. I > envision a 30 minute skype or phone conversation. I'm interested in learning > about what works well in AfD discussions, any frustrations you have with > it, and why you generally do or don't !vote in AfD. > > I hope to talk with Wikipedians with a wide variety of experience editing > (from newcomers to EN-WP, to regular EN-WP editors, to admins, especially > admins who close discussions), with people who spend little time commenting > in deletion discussions, as well as those who do. > > Would you be willing to talk with me? Let me know the best times for you; > you can reach me at [email protected] or with the info below. > > -Jodi Schneider > WP:Jodi.a.schneider > skype:jodi.a.schneider > http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > -- > Dario Taraborelli, PhD > Senior Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > http://wikimediafoundation.org > http://nitens.org/taraborelli > > _______________________________________________ > 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
