This is a nicely competent paper. Thanks for the heads up! SJ On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~lam/papers/lam_group2010_wikipedia-group-decisions.pdf > : > >> "We also found that there have been two bots (computer programs that edit >> Wikipedia)—BJBot and Jayden54Bot—that automatically automatically notified >> article editors about AfD discussions and recruited them to participate per >> the established policy. These bots performed AfD notifications for several >> months, and offer us an opportunity to study the effect of recruitment that >> is purely policy driven. We use a process like one described above to detect >> successful instances of bot-initiated recruitment: if a recruitment bot >> edited a user’s talk page, and that user !voted in an AfD within two days, >> then we consider that user to have been recruited by the bot. >> Using the above processes, we identified 8,464 instances of successful >> recruiting. Table 2 shows a summary of who did the recruiting, and how their >> recruits !voted. We see large differences in !voting behavior, which >> suggests that there is bias in who people choose to recruit. (From these >> data we cannot tell whether the bias is an intentional effort to influence >> consensus, or the result of social network homophily [14].) Participants >> recruited by keep !voters were about four times less likely to support >> deletion as those recruited by delete !voters. The participants that bots >> recruited also appear unlikely to support deletion, which reflects the >> policy bias we observed earlier." > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >
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