diff --git a/literature/notes b/literature/notes index 1dac0e3138530933324413e92153a970b98abb3e..ae3ed33958ff58152a60911ccfc31727ae6bc8bd 100644 --- a/literature/notes +++ b/literature/notes @@ -1671,11 +1671,50 @@ community's goals changed during the period of exponential growth automated quality control systems and are overwhelmed by the complexity of the rule system." contributions of the paper: -1) First, we implicate Wikipedia’s primary quality control mechanism (Stvilia, 2005), the rejection of +"1) we implicate Wikipedia’s primary quality control mechanism (Stvilia, 2005), the rejection of unwanted contributions, as a strong, negative predictor of the retention of high quality newcomers and show that these newcomers’ contributions are being rejected at an increasing -rate. Next, we show how algorithmic tools, which were built to make the work of controlling the +rate +2) we show how algorithmic tools, which were built to make the work of controlling the quality of Wikipedia’s content more efficient, exacerbate the effect of rejection on desirable -newcomer retention and circumvent Wikipedia’s conflict resolution process. Finally, we show -how calcification has made Wikipedia’s policy environment less adaptable and increased the +newcomer retention and circumvent Wikipedia’s conflict resolution process. +3) we show how calcification has made Wikipedia’s policy environment less adaptable and increased the difficulty of contributing to community rules – especially for newcomers." + +"Wikipedia’s open contribution system constitutes an informal +peer review where all contributions are initially accepted;" + +"the definition of “unwanted” contribution has certainly +changed over time. While presenting at Wikimania in 2006, Jimmy Wales urged Wikipedians to +change their focus from quantity to quality." +"shift from Wikipedia as +a catch-all for encyclopedia-like content to a more restrictive project." + +"external pressures for Wikipedia to tighten its review process. After high profile +cases of libel" + +"the length of the article at the time of contribution was a significant predictor of +rejection." + +"Hypothesis: Rejection & retention. Increasing rates of rejection have caused a decrease in +the retention of desirable newcomers." + +"Hypothesis: Tool use & consequences. The use of algorithmic tools to reject newcomer +contributions is exacerbating the decrease in desirable newcomer retention." + +"In 2006, Wikipedia administrator Tawker initiated a new +genre: the vandal fighter bot." //TODO: Would be interesting for timeline; however I cant find which bot it was +"using a simple text pattern matcher." +"After years of iteration, vandal fighter bots are in wide use +in mid-2012. ClueBot NG uses machine learning and neural network approaches to identify and +reject over 40,000 acts of vandalism a month, with a median time to revert of five seconds." +//TODO median time can be used in the funnel diagram + +"Human-computation tools [..] catch the damage the bots miss" +"re-introduce human judgment into the vandal fighting task." + +"These algorithmic tools have apparently made quality control both more efficient and more +effective. Previous work has shown that the duration during which vandalism is visible in an +article has been decreasing (Kittur, 2007; Priedhorsky, 2007). These tools also reduce the +amount of volunteer effort that must be devoted to rejecting unwanted contributions" +//argument in favour of not only a difference of scale, but also of substance