Stigmergy in open collaboration: An empirical investigation based on wikipedia

L Zheng, F Mai, B Yan, JV Nickerson - Journal of Management …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Participants in open collaboration communities coproduce knowledge despite minimal
explicit communication to coordinate the efforts. Studying how participants coordinate …

An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata

E Koutsiana, GMR Amaral, N Reeves… - Journal of Web …, 2023 - Elsevier
We study discussions in Wikidata, the world's largest open-source collaborative knowledge
graph (KG). This is important because it helps KG community managers understand how …

" Why do you need 400 photographs of 400 different Lockheed Constellation?": Value Expressions by Contributors and Users of Wikimedia Commons

Y Yu, DW McDonald - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Understanding the values that collaborators bring to a collaboration is important for the
design of new systems. In collaborative systems understanding differing values could help …

Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia

I Smirnov, C Oprea, M Strohmaier - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Wikipedia is one of the most successful collaborative projects in history. It is the largest
encyclopedia ever created, with millions of users worldwide relying on it as the first source of …

Mapping in harmony: Co-designing user interfaces for conflict management on OSM

Y Choe, S Wijenayake, M Tomko, M Kalantari - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Online peer-production communities (OPPCs) have witnessed producer conflicts that
negatively impact their project quality and producer morale. In response to such issues …

Edit-history vis: An interactive visual exploration and analysis on wikipedia edit history

Y Guo, Q Han, Y Lou, Y Wang, C Liu… - 2023 IEEE 16th Pacific …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose Edit-History Vis, a visual analytics system designed to facilitate interactive
exploration on Wikipedia edit history at a fine-grained level. The examination of detailed …

Efficiency of Community-Based Content Moderation Mechanisms: A Discussion Focused on Birdwatch

C Wang, P Lucas - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2024 - Springer
As user-generated online content has been flourishing with both useful information and
misinformation. One of the complexities surrounding such phenomena is its huge amounts …

[HTML][HTML] After all, who invented the airplane? Multilingualism and grassroots knowledge production on Wikipedia

G Fians - Language & Communication, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The English-language Wikipedia article on the airplane states that Clément Ader
'attempted to fly', whereas 'the Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane'. The …

[HTML][HTML] Can you trust Wikidata?

V Santos, D Schwabe, S Lifschitz - Semantic Web, 2024 - content.iospress.com
In order to use a value retrieved from a Knowledge Graph (KG) for some computation, the
user should, in principle, ensure that s/he trusts the veracity of the claim, ie, considers the …

Public Good Superstars: A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia

J Hergueux, Y Algan, Y Benkler… - Center for Law & …, 2024 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Many field public goods are provided by a small number of contributors: the “superstars” of
their respective communities. This paper focuses on Wikipedia, one of the largest online …