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A Wikipedia Literature Review
This paper was originally designed as a literature review for a doctoral
dissertation focusing on Wikipedia. This exposition gives the structure of
Wikipedia and the latest trends in Wikipedia research
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Trust in the digital world - the return of the kings of old
Drawing principally on examples and literature from the Anglosphere, the author argues that the high salience given to "trust" and "trustworthiness" in recent scholarly literature, and which (notably in Putnam's work) attributes declining trust to a widely mistrusted mass media does not acknowledge the trustbuilding potential (realised in some instances) of interactive "Web 2.0" applications. Drawing on O'Neill's proposal that trust inheres in dialogue and mutual checking and verification, the author argues that "Web 2.0" media provide a variety of instances where the "dialogic" character of "Web 2.0" has established and enhanced trustworthiness. He argues normatively for a combination of "Web 2.0" interactivity and the adoption and implementation of self-regulatory codes in order to enhance the trustworthiness of the media
Privacy in crowdsourcing:a systematic review
The advent of crowdsourcing has brought with it multiple privacy challenges. For example, essential monitoring activities, while necessary and unavoidable, also potentially compromise contributor privacy. We conducted an extensive literature review of the research related to the privacy aspects of crowdsourcing. Our investigation revealed interesting gender differences and also differences in terms of individual perceptions. We conclude by suggesting a number of future research directions.</p
Temporal characterization of the requests to Wikipedia
This paper presents an empirical study about the temporal patterns
characterizing the requests submitted by users to Wikipedia.
The study is based on the analysis of the log lines registered by the
Wikimedia Foundation Squid servers after having sent the appropriate
content in response to users' requests. The
analysis has been conducted regarding the ten most visited editions of
Wikipedia and has involved more than 14,000 million log lines
corresponding to the traffic of the entire year 2009. The conducted methodology
has mainly consisted in the parsing and filtering
of users' requests according to the study directives. As a result, relevant information
fields have been finally stored in a database for persistence and further
characterization. In this way, we, first, assessed, whether the traffic to Wikipedia could serve
as a reliable estimator of the overall traffic to all the Wikimedia Foundation
projects. Our subsequent analysis of the temporal evolutions corresponding to
the different types of requests to Wikipedia revealed interesting differences
and similarities among them that can be related to the users' attention to the Encyclopedia.
In addition, we have performed separated characterizations of each Wikipedia edition
to compare their respective evolutions over time
Building automated vandalism detection tools for Wikidata
Wikidata, like Wikipedia, is a knowledge base that anyone can edit. This open
collaboration model is powerful in that it reduces barriers to participation
and allows a large number of people to contribute. However, it exposes the
knowledge base to the risk of vandalism and low-quality contributions. In this
work, we build on past work detecting vandalism in Wikipedia to detect
vandalism in Wikidata. This work is novel in that identifying damaging changes
in a structured knowledge-base requires substantially different feature
engineering work than in a text-based wiki like Wikipedia. We also discuss the
utility of these classifiers for reducing the overall workload of vandalism
patrollers in Wikidata. We describe a machine classification strategy that is
able to catch 89% of vandalism while reducing patrollers' workload by 98%, by
drawing lightly from contextual features of an edit and heavily from the
characteristics of the user making the edit
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