Comprendre la mondialisation II

Après l'économie, nous continuons à explorer les multiples composants de la mondialisation. Des analystes politiques nous éclairent sur les mutations en cours : le rôle des États face à l'émancipation des forces économiques, le jeu des organisations supranationales, l'avenir de la démocratie à l'ère du global, les formes d'appropriation ou de rejet de la mondialisation par les citoyens... Citoyens du monde, mondialité... L'explosion des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communi..

Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects

In order to counter systemic bias in peer production projects like Wikipedia, a variety of strategies have been used to fill gaps and improve the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in a project aimed at improving articles relating to South Africa’s primary school curriculum and find that many of the predominant strategies are insufficient for filling Wikipedia’s gaps. Notifications that alert users to the existence of gaps including incomplete or missing articles, in particular, are found to be ineffective at improving articles. Only through the process of trust-building and the development of negotiated boundary objects, potential allies (institutional academics in this case) can be enrolled in the task of editing the encyclopaedia. Rather than a simple process of enrolment via notification, this project demonstrated the principles of negotiation required for engaging with new editor groups in the long-term project of filling Wikipedia’s gaps

Broadening African Self-Representation on Wikipedia: A Field Experiment

How can efforts aimed at at broadening African self-representation on Wikipedia increase participation? Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is a Wikipedia community project that hosts an annual photo competition focused on increasing African contributions to imagery that represents African people, places, and culture. In a field experiment with previous 5,905 participants, we randomly assigned past contributors to receive a recruitment message and observed their contributions to the 2020 competition. On average, receiving a message caused a 1.2 percentage point increase in competition entrants (p=0.002). Among those who contributed to the contest in 2019, there was an increase of 2.7 percentage points compared to the control group (p=0.029). We conclude with suggestions for further research aimed at increasing African self-representation on Wikipedia