Investigation of information behavior in Wikipedia articles

Rösch, Barbara

doi:10.1145/2637002.2637062

Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium 2014

DOI: 10.1145/2637002.2637062

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Investigation of information behavior in Wikipedia articles

Barbara Rösch

Abstract: This work aims to explore information behavior in selected Wikipedia articles. To get insights into users' interaction with pictorial and textual contents eye-tracking experiments are conducted. Spread of information within the articles and the relation between text and images are analyzed.

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Image Wishlist: Context and Images in Commons-Based Peer Production Communities

Menking

McDonald

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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One promise of commons-based peer production systems is that they provide content (e.g., text, images, sounds, lines of code) for anyone to use, edit, and distribute. However, when some kinds of content are stripped of context and made available for reuse, there are several knock-on effects. In this paper, we discuss how these knock-on effects can complicate the illustration of Wikipedia's encyclopedic articles. We focus on the particularly difficult case of illustrating articles about female anatomy and women's health. Through our analysis, we demonstrate several barriers to illustrating these kinds of articles, including a lack of representative images on Wikimedia Commons, complex issues of consent, and editorial disagreements about the intended audiences for such images. We argue that these barriers are, in part, the unanticipated effects of decontextualization and subsequent recontextualization as images are removed from their original contexts and made available in Wikimedia Commons. Drawing on prior work in language acquisition and archival studies, we critique the design of commons-based peer production systems and suggest ways in which they might be re-designed to account better for the nuances of context. Finally, we raise questions about the costs of recontextualization in peer production systems in general.

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Image Wishlist: Context and Images in Commons-Based Peer Production Communities

Menking

McDonald

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

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Investigation of information behavior in Wikipedia articles

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Image Wishlist: Context and Images in Commons-Based Peer Production Communities

Image Wishlist: Context and Images in Commons-Based Peer Production Communities

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