Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia

Kittur, Aniket; Kraut, Robert E.

doi:10.1145/1460563.1460572

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“…Wikipedia) allowed researchers to study evaluation of usergenerated contents [25,26]. A series of studies was conducted to rate wiki pages in a fully manual way [27,28]; more recently, some instruments like Wikipedia's "Article Feedback Tool" [29] try to assess the quality of a page in a e-commerce-like fashion.…”

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A fuzzy methodology to alleviate information overload in eLearning

D’Asaro¹,

Perticone²,

Tabacchi³

2013

Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

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Some aspects of eLearning experience can be enhanced in a very natural way by using the basic tools offered by fuzzy logic. As a matter of example, consider the uncontrolled growth of information produced in a collaborative-oriented context, in which each participant (e.g. students, teachers) is able to insert and share new contents (e.g. comments, texts) concerning a university course. All the incrementally added pieces of information can be evaluated in several ways: by the intervention of a "dictator" (e.g. the teacher), using a rating form, or even according to the frequency of access. As contents rapidly become unusable for the effects of information overload, basic tools of fuzzy logic such as membership functions and measures of fuzziness can help to distinguish between relevant and trivial content, without thereby canceling any contribution. This very same idea can of course also be applied to different contexts.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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A fuzzy methodology to alleviate information overload in eLearning

D’Asaro¹,

Perticone²,

Tabacchi³

2013

Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

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“…The problem of how the number of editors and the coordination method of their work influences the article quality is studied in Kittur and Kraut (2008). Two coordination methods are considered: the explicit one and the implicit one.…”

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Diversity of editors and teams versus quality of cooperative work: experiments on wikipedia

2016

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We study whether and how the diversity of editors and teams affects the quality of work in a virtual cooperative work environment on the Wikipedia example. We propose a measure of interests diversity of an editor and some measures of team diversity in terms of members' interests and experience. Statistical and machine learning methods are used to investigate the dependency between diversity and work quality. The presented experimental results confirm our hypothesis that interest diversity of a single editors and team diversity are positively related to the quality of their work. Interestingly, some of our experiments also indicate that diversity may be more important than such attributes as productivity of an editor or size or experience of the team. Our experimental results demonstrate that it is possible to predict work quality based on diversity which is an additional statistical signal that diversity is correlated with work quality.

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“…As described above, this led us to make different design decisions than if the goal was simply the creation of an ontology. For example, coordination and consensus building have been found to be critical to the effectiveness of large scale collaboration systems such as Wikipedia and open source software [7][8]. Thus designing to support discussion and debate was critical to enable a distributed group of scientists to engage in sensemaking together.…”

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The Cognitive Atlas: Employing Interaction Design Processes to Facilitate Collaborative Ontology Creation

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The Cognitive Atlas is a collaborative knowledge-building project that aims to develop an ontology that characterizes the current conceptual framework among researchers in cognitive science and neuroscience. The project objectives from the beginning focused on usability, simplicity, and utility for end users. Support for Semantic Web technologies was also a priority in order to support interoperability with other neuroscience projects and knowledge bases. Current off-the-shelf semantic web or semantic wiki technologies, however, do not often lend themselves to simple user interaction designs for non-technical researchers and practitioners; the abstract nature and complexity of these systems acts as point of friction for user interaction, inhibiting usability and utility. Instead, we take an alternate interaction design approach driven by user centered design processes rather than a base set of semantic technologies. This paper reviews the initial two rounds of design and development of the Cognitive Atlas system, including interactive design decisions and their implementation as guided by current industry practices for the development of complex interactive systems.

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Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia

Cited by 547 publications

References 22 publications

A fuzzy methodology to alleviate information overload in eLearning

A fuzzy methodology to alleviate information overload in eLearning

Diversity of editors and teams versus quality of cooperative work: experiments on wikipedia

The Cognitive Atlas: Employing Interaction Design Processes to Facilitate Collaborative Ontology Creation

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