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Enhancing Collaboration on Wikipedia: Insights from 'Talk Before You Type' by Chris Luce

This presentation by Chris Luce explores the coordination and collaboration efforts within Wikipedia. It examines how the platform's structure has evolved, including the growth of its contributor base and the shift toward more structured policies over the years. Key topics include changes in content contributions from 2003 to 2005, the impact of vandalism, and the emergence of guidelines for editing. The discussion also highlights the importance of 'Talk' pages and various namespaces, emphasizing the community's reliance on coordination for effective information sharing.

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Enhancing Collaboration on Wikipedia: Insights from 'Talk Before You Type' by Chris Luce

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  1. Interaction: Collaboration Presented by Chris Luce

  2. Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia • What is the structure? • How big is it and how much has it grown? • How many people contribute? • Have contributions changed over the years?

  3. Wikipedia • Evolution • Administrative and Coordinating elements • Growing at a faster pace • Becoming less anarchic • More driven by policies and guidelines • “Talk” pages

  4. Comparing 2003 to 2005 • History Flow (“Abortion”)

  5. Comparing 2003 to 2005 • History Flow (“Chocolate”)

  6. Vandalism • Fast repair in 2003 • First page protected in 2004 • 0.09% pages marked as protected in 2005 • Light restriction on creation in 2006 • Still fast repair in 2006

  7. Vandalism Repair Comparison 2003 2005

  8. Namespaces • More than just encyclopedia articles • Divided into 20 sections

  9. Namespaces (Growth)

  10. Talk Pages (“George W. Bush”)

  11. Talk Pages (Statistics/Content)

  12. Classification of Posts • Requests/suggestions for editing coordination • Requests for information • References to vandalism • References to guidelines and policies • References to internal resources • Off-topic remarks • Polls • Requests for peer review • Information boxes • Images • Other

  13. Results • Requests for coordination • Most common kind of posting • Over half of the contributions • Requests for information • 1 in 10 posts • Gain expert knowledge of specific topics • Requests answered/supportive community • References to guidelines • 7.9% activity • Policies and guidelines actively used • References to internal resources • 5.4% • Importance to refer to existing content

  14. Casual Information Visualization: Depiction of Data in Everyday Life “Infovis is the use of computers to interactively amplify cognition, using visual representations” (S. K. Card)

  15. Infovis at the Edges • Ambient Infovis • Social Infovis • Artistic Infovis • Other Infovis Cases

  16. Ambient Infovis

  17. Social Infovis

  18. Artistic Infovis

  19. Other Infovis Edge Cases

  20. Casual Infovis • User population • Usage pattern • Data type • Insight

  21. User Population and Usage Pattern • Doesn’t require users to be analysts • Modify small amount of attributes • Brief exploration

  22. Data • Personal domain

  23. Insight • Analytic • Awareness • Social • Reflective

  24. Challenges • Design • Broader set of design goals • Does not focus on episodes of work • Evaluation • Less productivity focussed • Multiple varieties of insights • Casual usage patterns

  25. References • Talk Before You Type: Coordination in WikipediaFernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss, Frank van Ham. HICSS-40, 2007. • Zachary Pousman, John T. Stasko and Michael Mateas, "Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, November/December 2007, pp. 1145-1152.

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