That was fun :) Thanks so much for organising, Aaron, Dario, Leila. I totally recommend participating in the showcase for those who haven't done it yet.
Best, Heather. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk> Doctoral Programme http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> On 30 April 2015 at 19:18, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > A reminder that this event will start in 10 minutes. You can watch the > event on YouTube here <http://youtu.be/upQXecRNcdw>. As usual, we will be > in #wikimedia-research for questions and chat. :-) > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Dario Taraborelli < > dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> I am thrilled to announce our speaker lineup for this month’s research >> showcase >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase#April_2015>. >> >> >> *Jeff Nickerson* (Stevens Institute of Technology) will talk about remix >> and reuse in collaborative communities; *Heather Ford* (Oxford Internet >> Institute) will present an overview of the oral citations debate in the >> English Wikipedia. >> >> The showcase will be recorded and publicly streamed at 11.30 PT on *Thursday, >> April 30 *(livestream link will follow). We’ll hold a discussion and >> take questions from remote attendees via the Wikimedia Research IRC channel >> (#wikimedia-research >> <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research> on freenode) >> as usual. >> >> Looking forward to seeing you there. >> >> Dario >> >> >> *Creating, remixing, and planning in open online communities**Jeff >> Nickerson*Paradoxically, users in remixing communities don’t remix very >> much. But an analysis of one remix community, Thingiverse, shows that those >> who actively remix end up producing work that is in turn more likely to >> remixed. What does this suggest about Wikipedia editing? Wikipedia allows >> more types of contribution, because creating and editing pages are done in >> a planning context: plans are discussed on particular loci, including >> project talk pages. Plans on project talk pages lead to both creation and >> editing; some editors specialize in making article changes and others, who >> tend to have more experience, focus on planning rather than acting. >> Contributions can happen at the level of the article and also at a series >> of meta levels. Some patterns of behavior – with respect to creating versus >> editing and acting versus planning – are likely to lead to more sustained >> engagement and to higher quality work. Experiments are proposed to test >> these conjectures.*Authority, power and culture on Wikipedia: The oral >> citations debate**Heather Ford*In 2011, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory >> Board member, Achal Prabhala was funded by the WMF to run a project called >> 'People are knowledge' or the Oral citations project >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations>. The goal of >> the project was to respond to the dearth of published material about topics >> of relevance to communities in the developing world and, although the >> majority of articles in languages other than English remain intact, the >> English editions of these articles have had their oral citations removed. I >> ask why this happened, what the policy implications are for oral citations >> generally, and what steps can be taken in the future to respond to the >> problem that this project (and more recent versions of it >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Indigenous_Knowledge>) set out >> to solve. This talk comes out of an ethnographic project in which I have >> interviewed some of the actors involved in the original oral citations >> project, including the majority of editors of the surr >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/surr> article that I trace in a chapter >> of my PhD[1] <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=286>. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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