Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia

By Ulrike Pfeil, Panayiotis Zaphiris, Chee Siang Ang. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia (2015, unknown): “Content-wise, the study of biographies in Wikipedia enables the identification of cultural differences in content [42] and coverage”
Identifying Semantic Edit Intentions from Revisions in Wikipedia (2017, methodology): “…taxonomy was later extended by Jones (2008) to take into account edit categories such as significant deletion, style, image insertion, revert, etc. Pfeil et al. (2006) proposed a 13-category taxonomy based on the data and performed manual annotation to compare cultural differences in the writing…”
There's No Such Thing as the Perfect Map: Quantifying Bias in Spatial Crowd-sourcing Datasets (2015, background): “The same issue of gender gap also received media attention; for example, in 2011 The New York Times reported that, according to many surveys, less than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors are women [8].”
Sequential Influence Models in Social Networks (2010, background): “Each one also has their own set of cultures, norms, and administrative processes, the differences of which have been studied elsewhere (such as (Pfeil, Zaphiris, and Ang 2006); see also the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elian/comparison by a longtime Wikipedia contributor who…”
Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm (2009, unknown): “However, most of the studies analyze non-random samples (Dimitrova & Neznanski, 2006; Pfeil, Zaphiris, & Ang, 2006; Singh & Baack, 2004; Waseleski, 2005; Young & Foot, 2005), and many invent new coding schemes (e.g., Dimitrova & Neznanski, 2006; Pfeil et al., 2006; Young & Foot, 2005).”
Beyond vandalism: Wikipedia trolls (2010, background): “It is possible that trolling behaviours will be culturally dependent like other user behaviours on Wikipedia [28].”
Cooperation and quality in wikipedia (2007, result): “Other characteristics such asfactual accuracy [13, 12, 10], credibility [6], revert times [31], and formality of language [11] have been used to assess small samples of Wikipedia s articles and in some cases compare them to articles of traditional encyclopedias.”