Hi Everyone, The second abstract was cut short in the first email. Here is the full version:
Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants' interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these findings, we developed a model that predicts whether an RfC will go stale with 75.3% accuracy, a level that is approached as early as one week after dispute initiation. On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, > September 19 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8vZ6wES9o > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. > And, you can watch our past research showcases here. > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase> > > Hope to see you there! > > This month's presentations is: > > The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States > during the 2016 Zika epidemicBy *Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, Daniela > Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto*In recent years, many studies have drawn attention > to the important role of collective awareness and human behaviour during > epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts have investigated the > interaction between the disease transmission dynamics and human behaviour > change mediated by news coverage and by information spreading in the > population. Yet, given the scarcity of data on public awareness during an > epidemic, few studies have relied on empirical data. Here, we use > fine-grained, geo-referenced data from three online sources - Wikipedia, > the GDELT Project and the Internet Archive - to quantify population-scale > information seeking about the 2016 Zika virus epidemic in the U.S., > explicitly linking such behavioural signal to epidemiological data. > Geo-localized Wikipedia pageview data reveal that visiting patterns of > Zika-related pages in Wikipedia were highly synchronized across the United > States and largely explained by exposure to national television broadcast. > Contrary to the assumption of some theoretical models, news volume and > Wikipedia visiting patterns were not significantly correlated with the > magnitude or the extent of the epidemic. Attention to Zika, in terms of > Zika-related Wikipedia pageviews, was high at the beginning of the > outbreak, when public health agencies raised an international alert and > triggered media coverage, but subsequently exhibited an activity profile > that suggests nonlinear dependencies and memory effects in the relationship > between information seeking, media pressure, and disease dynamics. This > calls for a new and more general modelling framework to describe the > interaction between media exposure, public awareness, and disease dynamics > during epidemic outbreaks. > > > Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for > commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is > crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests > for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally > resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset > of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted > a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC > process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC > closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the > prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that > linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants' > interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these > findings, we developed a model that predicts whether > > -- > Sarah R. Rodlund > Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> > srodl...@wikimedia.org > > > > > -- Sarah R. 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