After a break in September, we’re resuming our monthly Research and Data
showcase. The next showcase will be live-streamed tomorrow Wednesday October 15
at 11.30 PT. As usual you can join the conversation via IRC on freenode.net by
joining the #wikimedia-research channel.
We look forward to seeing you there,
Dario
This month:
Emotions under Discussion: Gender, Status and Communication in Wikipedia
By David Laniado: I will present a large-scale analysis of emotional expression
and communication style of editors in Wikipedia discussions. The talk will
focus especially on how emotion and dialogue differ depending on the status,
gender, and the communication network of the about 12000 editors who have
written at least 100 comments on the English Wikipedia's article talk pages.
The analysis is based on three different predefined lexicon-based methods for
quantifying emotions: ANEW, LIWC and SentiStrength. The results unveil
significant differences in the emotional expression and communication style of
editors according to their status and gender, and can help to address issues
such as gender gap and editor stagnation.
Wikipedia as a socio-technical system
By Aaron Halfaker: Wikipedia is a socio-technical system. In this presentation,
I'll explain how the integration of human collective behavior ("social") and
information technology ("technical") has lead to a phenomena that, while being
massively productive, is poorly understood due to lack of precedence. Based on
my work in this area, I'll describe five critical functions that healthy,
Wikipedia-like socio-technical systems must serve in order to continue to
function: allocation, regulation, quality control, community management and
reflection. Next I'll argue the Wikimedia Foundation's analytics strategy
currently focuses on outcomes related to a relatively narrow aspect of system
health and all but completely ignores productivity. Finally, I'll conclude with
an overview of three classes of new projects that should provide critical
opportunities to both practically and academically understand the maintenance
of Wikipedia's socio-technical fitness.
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