diff --git a/literature/notes b/literature/notes index ae3ed33958ff58152a60911ccfc31727ae6bc8bd..2f7eeadf2c1302dcc6643c95b4a2c535ac556a39 100644 --- a/literature/notes +++ b/literature/notes @@ -1702,6 +1702,9 @@ 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." +"Hypothesis: Norm formalization & calcification: Formalization of norms has made it more +difficult for newer generations of editors to shape the official rules of Wikipedia." + "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." @@ -1718,3 +1721,45 @@ effective. Previous work has shown that the duration during which vandalism is v 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 + +"As the editor community grew implicit norms were formalized into a +growing corpus of official rules and procedures (Butler 2008), and rule creation and enforcement +became increasingly decentralized" +"Formally documenting +community practices facilitated wider dissemination in the expanding community" +"new rules were created to meet emergent needs." + +". By 2005, three primary types of documented norms had +emerged: policies, guidelines and essays. Formal norms (policies and guidelines) reflect +community consensus, and can be enforced. Informal norms (essays) are not enforceable rules +per se and need not reflect consensus, but do often reflect community concerns" + +"formalization of implicit norms into rules, and the embedding of these rules in technologies +such as bots and templates," //code is law + +"gradual decline in +participation by newer editors in the areas of Wikipedia dedicated to drafting and discussing +policy, indicating that senior Wikipedians may now be more responsible for curating and +interpreting community policy than ever before." + +"decline-era newcomers may face entrenched social practices and +technologically-embedded processes that are no longer open to re-negotiation" +"policy calcification and increasing centralization of policy" + +"This means that rejection was likely to be a demotivator +to newcomers who joined the project long before retention of newcomers became an issue." +"We also found that over the lifetime of Wikipedia the probability that contributions made by +desirable newcomers are rejected has increased." +"these rejections were due to misunderstandings about the norms of the community" +"This result suggests that “unwanted” but +not intentionally damaging contributions may have been handled differently in the past." + +"One such way of dealing with imperfect contributions without sacrificing quality is to “massage” +them into a form that is valuable for an article. Perhaps the increasing use of tools that afford +only two possible reactions – accept or reject – are making it more likely that contributions are +rejected outright." + +"For editors who revert manually, the rate of reciprocation has +dropped slightly, from a peak of 67% in 2005 to 56% in 2010. The overall rate of reciprocation +has dropped dramatically, since none of the major bots are programmed to reciprocate BRD +initiations." //reciprocation = answer to posts on their talk pages initiated by reverted editors