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Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action
Motivating the Policy Lens
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Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action
Motivating the Policy Lens
Ivan Beschastnikh
Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Washington
Joint with:
Travis Kriplean
Information SchoolUniversity of Washington
David W. McDonald
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from XKCD
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Motivate the use of socially interesting datasets
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A quantitative account of policy citation practice
Motivate the use of socially interesting datasets
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Consensus-based Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
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Consensus-basedDivision of work
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
qualitative themes
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversion
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
qualitative themes
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article content
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
qualitative themes
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversy
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
qualitative themes
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07
qualitative themes
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07
qualitative themes
quantitative themes
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qualitative themes
Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07quantitative
themes
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Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07quantitative
themes
Challenges: -temporal analysis-generalizability
Affordances:-nuanced data-identify social structures
Qualitative methods-interviews-ethnography-case studies-grounded analysis
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Challenges: -temporal analysis-generalizability
Affordances:-tracking micro-actions-global level analysis
Affordances:-nuanced data-identify social structures
Challenges:-grounded interpretation
Qualitative methods-interviews-ethnography-case studies-grounded analysis
Quantitative methods-data mining-social network analysis-predictive models
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Challenges: -temporal analysis-generalizability
Affordances:-tracking micro-actions-global level analysis
Affordances:-nuanced data-identify social structures
Challenges:-grounded interpretation
Qualitative methods-interviews-ethnography-case studies-grounded analysis
Quantitative methods-data mining-social network analysis-predictive models
Actions of individuals & formation of institutions
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Quantitative studies have been...-focused article editing practices-overly constrained by the format of the database dump
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Quantitative studies have been...-focused article editing practices-overly constrained by the format of the database dump
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Quantitative studies have been...-focused article editing practices-overly constrained by the format of the database dump
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Quantitative studies have been...-focused article editing practices-overly constrained by the format of the database dump
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Quantitative studies have been...-focused article editing practices-overly constrained by the format of the database dump
...but to understand social structure, must:-focus on conditions of production-content-driven, rather than edit-driven-engage with qualitative findings
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07
Beschastnikh et al. ICWSM ‘08
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07
Beschastnikh et al. ICWSM ‘08
Policy citations
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07
Beschastnikh et al. ICWSM ‘08
Policy citations
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Introspective
Consensus-basedDivision of work
Governance
Vandalism reversionNon-article contentAuthor activity predicts quality, controversyUser contributions
Viegas et al. CHI ‘04
Forte et al. GROUP ‘05
Cosley et al. IUI ‘06
Viegas et al. HICSS ‘07Kriplean et al. GROUP ‘07
Viegas et al. INTERACT ‘07
Forte et al. HICSS ‘08
Viegas et al. HCII ’07
Buriol et al. ‘06
Wilkinson et al. WikiSym ‘07
Kittur et al. CHI ‘07
Priedhorsky GROUP ‘07
Kittur et al. AltCHI ‘07
Almeida et al. ICWSM ‘07
Ortega et al. WikiSym ‘07
Policy citations
Beschastnikh et al. ICWSM ‘08
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Coordinated action
Governance
Introspection
Power and authority
Qualitycontrol
Disputeresolution
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Outline
✓Study motivation
• Wikipedia anatomy- namespaces: main, talk, policy
- policy & governance
• Policy citation investigations
• Discussion
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Outline
✓Study motivation
• Wikipedia anatomy- namespaces: main, talk, policy
- policy & governance
• Policy citation investigations
• Discussion
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Anatomy: article pages
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Anatomy: article pages
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Anatomy: article pagesTalk page
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Anatomy: talk pages
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Anatomy: talk pages
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Anatomy: talk pages
conversationthreads
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Anatomy: talk pages
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Anatomy: talk pages
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Anatomy: talk pageshyper-linked policy citations
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Anatomy: talk pages
Structure negotiation of article content [1,2]
- provide a common language and strategies of action
- policies require interpretation
- often enacted in power plays- similar to FAQ citations in Usenet [3]
hyper-linked policy citations
[1] Viegas et al. HICSS ’07[2] Kriplean et al. GROUP ’07[3] Kollock & Smith ‘96
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Anatomy: talk pages
Kriplean, Beschastnikh, McDonald, Golder. Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation.GROUP '07.
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Anatomy: talk pages
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Anatomy: policy environment
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Anatomy: policy environment
Summary
Status
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Anatomy: policy environment
Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a
reliable, published source.
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Anatomy: policy environment
Policy pages elaborate on strategies for applying the policy and possible exceptions
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Anatomy: policy environment
Policy is collectively authored [1,2]
- not imposed top-down
- consensus-driven
- reflective of practice
- repository of experiential knowledge
[1] Forte et al. HICSS ’08[2] Kriplean et al. GROUP ’07[3] Viegas et al. HCII ‘07
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Anatomy: policy environment
Policy environment bounds legitimate activity
- content, behavioral, enforcement, deletion, legal
- ~40 official policies
- hundreds of less strict guidelines
- informal essays
[1] Forte et al. HICSS ’08[2] Kriplean et al. GROUP ’07[3] Viegas et al. HCII ‘07
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Anatomy: policy environment
Embedded in a governance structure [1, 3]
- formal processes, judicial bodies, etc.
- violators of policy may be subject to sanction
[1] Forte et al. HICSS ’08[2] Kriplean et al. GROUP ’07[3] Viegas et al. HCII ‘07
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Self-governance in action
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Policy citations are a micro-macro link between everyday actions and the governance structure
Self-governance in action
CollaborativeEditingActivity
PolicyEnvironment
Enactment, Enforcement
Creation, Deletion, Modification
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Outline
✓Study motivation
✓Wikipedia anatomy
• Policy citation investigations- tracking community concerns
- changes in community attention
• Discussion
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Notes - november 2006 dataset- first policy citation in Jan. 2002- cumulative relative proportion- ordered vertically by total citations- aggregate last 150 policies/guidelines
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Governance connection #1:“stickiness” of policies
[Forte et al. HICSS ‘08]
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Biographies of Living People policyImpact of Sieganthaler Controversy
(12/05)
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Governance connection #2:Shift toward quality control
[Forte et al. HICSS ‘08; Viegas et al. HCII ’07]
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Apply Grounded analysis-interpret policies from the perspective of the community
-classify policies by probable activity surrounding a citation
Method:1. read all policies
2. generate a codebook capturing range of social activity
3. code all policies with the codebook
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But what about aggressive policy citers?
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Factor increase of raw citations
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Factor increase of registered users who
have left a message on the talk page between
1/05 and 11/06
7.5
Factor increase of raw citations
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Unique citers to date1/05 11/06168 1269212 2838241 2963
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175 4060
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138 5231
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Factor increase of raw citations
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Unique citers to date1/05 11/06168 1269212 2838241 2963
294 3811
474 4450
175 4060
118 4088
138 5231
Increase9.2024.0516.93
8.04
15.14
16.85
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Governance connection #3:Wider participation in
normative enforcement[Forte et al. HICSS ‘08]
Factor increase of raw citations
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Conclusions
• The arrangement of institutions structures of a community- protection against from malicious activity (e.g. arbitration committee)
- content evaluation (e.g. featured article process)
- dispute resolution (e.g. requests for comment)
• Quantitative research can bridge social structure & dynamics- how do institutions form, evolve, and dissolve?
- however, need to examine socially meaningful activity...
• We profiled the use of Wikipedian policy by contributors- only scratches the surface
- no predictive models, etc.
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Research opportunities
• Interpreting data about an evolving practice
• Transplantability of policy environment to other communities
• Tracing activities across different social spaces- articles + talk pages
- talk pages + user talk pages
- policy usage + policy authoring
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David W. McDonald
Questions?
Ivan Beschastnikh
Travis Kriplean
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Acknowledgements:
Eytan Adar, HP’s Information Dynamics Lab (esp. Scott Golder and Bernardo Huberman)