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Big in JapanCombating Systemic Bias Through Mobile Editing
Oliver KeyesResearch Analyst
Wikimedia [email protected]
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/WHOIS
● Got editing in 2005, 968 articles/77,787 edits since. ● Traffic analyst at the WMF.● On top of that, the geodata specialist.● ...also The Guy Who Knows Where The Bodies Live.● “Oliver! We have a horrifying dataset. Your problem!”
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Ways of looking at Mobile
● Getting more contributions from people who already edit.
● Dealing with systemic bias.
More contributions from existing people
● If we're getting edits on desktop devices, we're only getting some editor time.
● At work● ..pretending to work.● At home and unwinding in front of the PC
More contributions from existing people
● By reducing the barrier to mobile contributions, we enable edits:
● On the train● In front of the TV● In bed● More opportunities to edit = more edits!
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Take-aways
● I'll have a curry please!● It's working! We get mobile contributions where we don't
get desktop attention.● Most people get really bored of their jobs starting
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Combating systemic bias
● A blocker to contributing to Wikipedia is access.● By enabling more ways of accessing Wikipedia, we
enable more ways of contributing to it.● Mobile is such a way.● How bad is the status quo?
“What is required...
is a citizen of the world...reporting things of the day as if two thousand years in the past and those of the place they live in as if two thousand leagues distant.”
Diderot, Encyclopédie (1751)
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What about combating bias through content?
● The distribution is a problem; we need people from different cultural backgrounds
● But maybe mobile editors edit in different areas and we can make up the difference there?
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Conclusion
● We're doing a good job getting people to edit at different times thanks to mobile.
● We're not doing a good job getting people to edit different things.
● We're definitely not doing a good job getting different people to edit.
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How to help
● Go to mobile-l and tell the Mobile developers about the problems you face trying to contribute on Mobile;
● Write code! Patches, new features, better language support, kitchen.sink()
● Come up with research questions – how can we do this better? What are we missing? What should we be measuring?
● ...email them to me. I'm incredibly tired.
CreditsCodebase, visualisations, datasets: https://github.com/Ironholds/BigInJapan
Polygon venting: Leila ZiaStatistics venting: Adam HylandMetadata venting: Dario Taraborelli
Misc. venting: Kim Bruning, Thomas Fish, James Forrester, David Gerard, Aaron Halfaker, Katie Horn, Daniel Jones, Erica Litrenta, Tom Morris, Rohit Patnaik, that unrepentant reprobate, Emily Temple-Wood, Thehelpfulone, Courtney Thurston, Kat Walsh, Margaret Wander, Molly White.
...I do a lot of venting.
Questions?