posts tagged ‘Wikipedia’

Revamping WikiDashboard

3 September 2010 | Editor

I released WikiDashboard almost three years ago. Believe it or not, the server for WikiDashboard has been running under my desk for three full years (the photo shows the actual server). It was launched in a rush to meet a deadline for an academic pape...

Revamping WikiDashboard

3 September 2010 | Editor

I released WikiDashboard almost three years ago. Believe it or not, the server for WikiDashboard has been running under my desk for three full years (the photo shows the actual server). It was launched in a rush to meet a deadline for an academic pape...

Wikipedia’s People-Ware Problem

8 March 2010 | ed h. chi

Last week, we hosted a visit from the Wikimedia Foundation on issues relating to our work on community analytics, and what it tells us about Wikipedia's problems and possible solutions. Naoko Komura (pictured at right) of the Wikimedia Usabi...

Wikipedia’s People-Ware Problem

8 March 2010 | ed h. chi

Last week, we hosted a visit from the Wikimedia Foundation on issues relating to our work on community analytics, and what it tells us about Wikipedia's problems and possible solutions. Naoko Komura (pictured at right) of the Wikimedia Usabi...

The slowing growth of Wikipedia (part two): resistance from dominant editors

10 August 2009 | Ed Chi

Part one of this post, which shared findings on the slowing growth of Wikipedia, recently received coverage in the New Scientist, Fast Company, Business Insider/ Silicon Alley Insider, and more... In this second part, we share more details on the plateauing, more-linear-than-exponential growth rate of Wikipedia. In a nutshell: the treatment of edits from different editor classes has been widening steadily over the years -- and not in favor to the less-frequent editors. We consider this disparity as evidence of the dominant Wikipedia community's growing resistance to new content, especially when the edits come from occasional editors.

PART 2: More details of changing editor resistance in Wikipedia

7 August 2009 | ed h. chi

In the last week, we have received interesting press coverage in New Scientist (as well as Fast Company, Business Insider, and syndicated elsewhere), on the work done in our team on Wikipedia growth rate, and how it has plateaued, changing from an exp...

PART 2: More details of changing editor resistance in Wikipedia

7 August 2009 | ed h. chi

In the last week, we have received interesting press coverage in New Scientist (as well as Fast Company, Business Insider, and syndicated elsewhere), on the work done in our team on Wikipedia growth rate, and how it has plateaued, changing from an exp...

Social attention and interactions are key to learning processes

20 July 2009 | ed h. chi

I just finished reading a long article in the journal Science on how social factors are increasing recognized as extremely important in a new science on learning [1].Learning is fundamentally a social activity, the article partially argued. "Social cu...

Social attention and interactions are key to learning processes

20 July 2009 | ed h. chi

I just finished reading a long article in the journal Science on how social factors are increasing recognized as extremely important in a new science on learning [1].Learning is fundamentally a social activity, the article partially argued. "Social cu...

Live data again: WikiDashboard visualizes the editing patterns of ‘David Rohde’ case…

29 June 2009 | ed h. chi

Yesterday, NYTimes finally broke the silence on the kidnapping of David S. Rohde by the Taliban. Turns out, Rohde had escaped, and that the news media finally reported the kidnapping since the publicity on the case would no longer be a bargaining chip...