When the Levee Breaks: Without Bots, What Happens to Wikipedia's Quality Control Processes?
Authors | R. Stuart Geiger Aaron Halfaker |
|---|---|
Publication date | 2013 |
DOI | 10.1145/2491055.2491061 |
Links | Original |
When the Levee Breaks: Without Bots, What Happens to Wikipedia's Quality Control Processes? - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by R. Stuart Geiger and Aaron Halfaker.
Overview
In the first half of 2011, ClueBot NG -- one of the most prolific counter-vandalism bots in the English-language Wikipedia -- went down for four distinct periods, each period of downtime lasting from days to weeks. In this paper, authors use these periods of breakdown as naturalistic experiments to study Wikipedia's heterogeneous quality control network, which authors analyze as a multi-tiered system in which distinct classes of reviewers use various reviewing technologies to patrol for different kinds of damage at staggered time periods. Authors analysis showed that the overall time-to-revert edits was almost doubled when this software agent was down. Yet while a significantly fewer proportion of edits made during the bot's downtime were reverted, authors found that those edits were later eventually reverted. This suggests that other agents in Wikipedia took over this quality control work, but performed it at a far slower rate.
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Geiger, R. Stuart; Halfaker, Aaron. (2013). "[[When the Levee Breaks: Without Bots, What Happens to Wikipedia's Quality Control Processes?]]".DOI: 10.1145/2491055.2491061.
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Geiger, R. Stuart; Halfaker, Aaron. (2013). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/When_the_Levee_Breaks:_Without_Bots,_What_Happens_to_Wikipedia's_Quality_Control_Processes?">When the Levee Breaks: Without Bots, What Happens to Wikipedia's Quality Control Processes?</a>".DOI: 10.1145/2491055.2491061.
