Reading Groups

The Reading Group is a seminar for DERI researchers and other people interested in learning about seminal works in areas relevant to our research. In this weekly held event, scientific papers or textbooks chosen by the speaker are being presented and discussed. The Reading group is meant as a forum where we particularly focus on research done outside of DERI. Topics of the presented articles can vary greatly, and serve the purpose to deepen knowledge on relevant research going on in the fields DERI is involved in. Also, the seminar gives the presenters the chance to present excellent research results in a confined environment to practice their presentation skills and get feedback from a broader audience. Each of the presentations is followed by a discussion about impact and relevance of the presented work on our own research. Reading groups are normally held on Wednesday afternoon at 14:00 in the DERI Conference Room, unless otherwise specified.

On this page upcoming reading groups are listed exclusively. Please see the archive for more on given reading groups.

Crowd-Coordination: 2 Studies of Wikipedia Talk Pages

based on 2 papers by several authors

Jodi Schneider

Abstract

Wikipedia, the 6th most visited website in the world according to Alexa, is a success story in massive collaboration. Despite tremendous growth and high traffic, Wikipedia is resilient to malicious editing. The fastest growing areas of Wikipedia are devoted to coordination and organization. Based on two qualitative and quantitative studies of Wikipedia, we describe the coordination work happening in Talk pages, and how volunteer editors use these pages to plan editing, enforce standards, and ensure the quality of information in this online encyclopedia.

Based on:

[1] F.B. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, J. Kriss, and F.V. Ham, “Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia,” 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. pp. 78-87.
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2007.511

[2] B. Stvilia, M.B. Twidale, L.C. Smith, and L. Gasser, “Information Quality Work Organization in Wikipedia,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 59, 2008, pp. 983-1001.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20813