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Wikibugs: using template messages in open content collections

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Matthijs den Besten,

Alessandro Rossi,

Jean-Michel DalleAuthors Info & Claims

WikiSym '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Article No.: 14, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/1641309.1641330

Published: 25 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

In the paper we investigate an organizational practice meant to increase the quality of commons-based peer production: the use of template messages in wiki-collections to highlight editorial bugs and call for intervention. In the context of SimpleWiki, an online encyclopedia of the Wikipedia family, we focus on {complex}, a template which is used to flag articles disregarding the overall goals of simplicity and readability. We characterize how this template is placed on and removed from articles and we use survival analysis to study the emergence and successful treatment of these bugs in the collection.

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Anderka MStein BCastillo CGyongyi ZJatowt ATanaka K(2012)A breakdown of quality flaws in WikipediaProceedings of the 2nd Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality10.1145/2184305.2184309(11-18)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2012
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Anderka MStein BLipka N(2011)Detection of text quality flaws as a one-class classification problemProceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/2063576.2063954(2313-2316)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2011
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Wikibugs: using template messages in open content collections
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Project management techniques
        Systems development

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Anderka MStein BLipka N(2011)Detection of text quality flaws as a one-class classification problemProceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/2063576.2063954(2313-2316)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2011
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