From 2c4d43edae133ee2d936ebe6fa344f51c2da1bba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 12:23:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Finetune background
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thesis/2-Background.tex | 9 +++------
thesis/references.bib | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/thesis/2-Background.tex b/thesis/2-Background.tex
index ced410d..491f360 100644
--- a/thesis/2-Background.tex
+++ b/thesis/2-Background.tex
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ Time and again, the literature refers also to more ``manual'' forms of quality c
There is one mechanism though that is very ostentatiously missing from all these reports: edit filters.
At first, scientific studies on Wikipedia largely ignored algorithmic quality control mechanisms.
-Their contribution to the encyclopedia and therefore their impact were considered insignificant.
+Their contribution to the encyclopedia and therefore their impact were considered insignificant. %quote?
This has gradually changed since around 2009 when the first papers specifically dedicated to bots (and later semi-automated tools) were published.
In 2010, Geiger and Ribes insistently highlighted that the scientific community could no longer ingore(syn) these mechanisms as insignificant(syn) or noise in the data~\cite{GeiRib2010}.
-For one, their (the mechanisms') relative usage has continued to increase since they were first introduced, and in 2010 (check!) bots made 16.33\% of all edits~\cite{GeiRib2010}.
+For one, their (the mechanisms') relative usage has continued to increase since they were first introduced, and in an observed two-months period in 2009 bots made 16.33\% of all edits~\cite{Geiger2009}.
Others were worried it was getting increasingly intransparent how the encyclopedia functions and not only ``[k]eeping traces obscure help[ed] the powerful to remain in power''~\cite{ForGei2012} but entry barriers for new users were gradually set higher, since they not only had to learn to use/interact with a myriad of technical tools/.. (learn wikisyntax, ..) but also navigate their ground in a complex system with a decentralised mode of governance. %TODO another reference here would be nice
Ford and Geiger even cite a case where an editor was not sure whether a person deleted their articles or a bot~\cite{ForGei2012}.
@@ -90,9 +90,6 @@ is_bot edits Percentage of all edits
%todo also mention bot papers that discuss more general aspects of bots?
According to literature, bots constitute the first line of defence against malicious edits. %TODO quote
They are also undoubtedly the vandal fighting mechanism studied most in depth by the scientific community.
-Following papers study(syn!) bots on Wikipedia (vandal fighting frame):
-~\cite{GeiRib2010},
-...
Geiger and Ribes~\cite{GeiRib2010} define bots as
``fully-automated software
@@ -116,7 +113,7 @@ Very crucial for the current analysis will also be Livingstone's observation in
If these things are not in the software, an external bot could do them. [...]
The main difference is where it runs and who runs it.''~\cite{Livingstone2016}
-This thought/note is also scrutinised by Geiger~\cite{Geiger2014} who examines in detail what the difference and repercussions are of code that is part of the core software and code that run alongside it (such as bots). %TODO more detail: so what are they?
+This thought/note is also scrutinised by Geiger~\cite{Geiger2014} who examines in detail what the difference and repercussions are of code that is part of the core software and code that runs alongside it (such as bots). %TODO more detail: so what are they?
- "inofficial", run and maintained by the community
\cite{GeiRib2010}
diff --git a/thesis/references.bib b/thesis/references.bib
index 92fa607..7be41c4 100644
--- a/thesis/references.bib
+++ b/thesis/references.bib
@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@
note = {\url{http://www.stuartgeiger.com/writing-up-wikisym.pdf}}
}
+@inproceedings{Geiger2009,
+ title = {The social roles of bots and assisted editing programs},
+ author = {Geiger, R Stuart},
+ booktitle = {Int. Sym. Wikis},
+ year = {2009},
+ note = {\url{http://www.stuartgeiger.com/papers/geiger-wikisym-bots.pdf}}
+}
+
@article{Geiger2014,
author = {Geiger, R Stuart},
title = {Bots, bespoke code and the materiality of software platforms},
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