Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia

By R. Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong K. Lam, Katherine A. Panciera, Loreen Terveen, John Riedl. 2007

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Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior (2016, background): “Keywords user behavior; cohorts; computational social science; Reddit; temporal”
Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks (2015, background): “These findings repre- sent a significant step toward scalable computational fact-checking methods that may one day mitigate the spread of harmful misinformation.”
MOOCs and the funnel of participation (2013, background): “It has been long noted as a feature of open networks [3, 44, 49], and is also seen in formal education where the activity is online [47].”
There's No Such Thing as the Perfect Map: Quantifying Bias in Spatial Crowd-sourcing Datasets (2015, background): “Wikipedia, as many online user-generated content platforms, exhibits a highly skewed user base, with a small fraction of less than 20% of users (often called power users) being responsible for the creation of 80% or more of available content [33, 25, 35].”
Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia (2008, background): “In a realistic detection scenario only 5% of all edits in a given time period are from the target class “vandalism” [5].”
Avoiding Imposters and Delinquents: Adversarial Crowdsourcing and Peer Prediction (2016, background): “Versions of this question arise in crowdsourcing (Vuurens et al., 2011), collaborative knowledge generation (Priedhorsky et al., 2007), peer grading in online classrooms (Piech et al., 2013; Kulkarni et al., 2015), aggregation of customer reviews (Harmon, 2004), and the generation/curation of large…”
Alternative and Activist New Media (2011, neutral): “The authors also found that 42 percent of damage incidents across all Wikipedia page views were “repaired essentially immediately” (Priedhorsky et al., 2007, p. 265).”
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination (2008, background): “Studies have found that its content is of comparable quality to traditional encyclopedias [8], and that vandalism and inaccuracies are often reverted within a matter of minutes [19][36][27].”
Motivations to participate in online communities (2010, background): “Studies of Wikipedia have shown that the majority of contributions are made by a small percentage of the users who have contributed anything to the site [11, 24].”
Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia (2020, neutral): “Wikipedia content quality relies on the work of editors and their gradual improvement of articles [9, 46].”
Wikipedians are born, not made: a study of power editors on Wikipedia (2009, methodology): “By this time, it has become established that a small proportion of editors account for most of the work done (for example, see [19, 21]) and the value produced [28].”
WP:clubhouse?: an exploration of Wikipedia's gender imbalance (2011, methodology): “In the current work, we present a scienti.c exploration of the gender imbalance in the English Wikipedia s population of editors.”
Lurking? cyclopaths?: a quantitative lifecycle analysis of user behavior in a geowiki (2010, methodology): “In Wikipedia, a small group of elite editors does the majority of the work [15] and produces the majority of value [22].”
Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability (2019, background): “Multiple studies have shown that Wikipedia’s content across topics is of a generally high quality[21, 34], that the vast majority of vandalism contributions are quickly corrected [20, 33, 42], and that Wikipedia’s decentralizedprocess for vetting information works effectively even under conditions w”
Widespread underprovision on Reddit (2013, background): “Studies of Wikipedia [21], Slashdot [16] and eBay [25], for example, all depict ﬂourishing communities that experience some underprovision, yet don’t allow it overwhelm the community.”