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{{Research_Project
|title=WikiFeed: Using information sources to drive contributions to Wikipedia
|contact={{Investigator|[mailto:cooldenny@business.kaist.ac.kr Minn Seok Choi]|KAIST}}
|cis={{Investigator|Ingoo Han|KAIST}}
|start-year=2011
|start-month=06
|end-year=2012
|end-month=12
|status=in progress
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|wmf-contact=[[User:DarTar|Dario Taraborelli]]
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Key Personnel[edit]

• Dave Musicant (Link all of these to our usernames?)
• Rachel Adams
• Alex Kuntz
• Morgan Marks
• Will Martin

Project Summary[edit]

We wish to study how contributions to online collaborative work can be enhanced by supplying relevant source content. Two challenges which member-maintained online communities such as Wikipedia may face include:

1. Acquiring new content
2. Acquiring content from credible sources

In response to these challenges, we have investigated news feeds and their potential application to the process of editing Wikipedia. We are developing a tool which integrates Twitter and RSS, allowing users to input their preferred news sources and receive recommendations for possible contributions to Wikipedia based on their news sources. We hope that this will make it easier for editors to put new content with citations from credible sources into Wikipedia. To test our tool, we will invite Wikipedia editors to participate in a user study and monitor their editing activity facilitated by our tool. We will analyze this data along with participants’ past editing behavior to assess whether the quality, quantity, and diversity of Wikipedia contributions by study participants are affected.

Recruitment Details[edit]

We chose our invitees using the Toolserver database to sample from three pools of Wikipedia contributors:

1. All contributors registered on Wikipedia (randomly)
2. Contributors who have made an edit in the last 30 days on Wikipedia (randomly)
3. Contributors with very recent activity (sequentially from Recent Changes at the time the sample was taken)

We are committed to recruiting participants without being annoying. Once we begin recruitment, we will post an invitation to join our tool on the talk pages of the selected Wikipedia editors. Those who do not respond will not be contacted again. Editors who wish to participate will fill out a consent form before creating a user account in our tool. Additionally, one participant, selected at random, will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.

Benefits for Wikipedia[edit]

We hope that our tool will ultimately benefit Wikipedia by enhancing contributions in terms of quality, quantity, diversity, and credibility. By giving editors news they’re interested in and, in turn, making recommendations for Wikipedia editing based on those news sources, we hope to make editing easier, more effective, and more enjoyable for the Wikipedia community. We would love to see Wikipedia - as both a community and an encyclopedia - continue to thrive, and we hope our tool will only continue to make Wikipedia stronger.

Sharing our Findings[edit]

We intend to present the results of our work at a research conference such as IUI or WikiSym, and publish the results in an associated paper. If the online tool that we create is successful, we would make it available to the Wikipedia community at large.

Wikipedia Policies, Ethics, and Human Subjects Protection[edit]

Our research is approved by the Carleton College Institutional Review Board and follows all IRB ethical guidelines.

Time Line[edit]

• Tool Development until July 16
• Participant recruitment starting July 2
• User study begins July 23

Contact Us[edit]

We welcome your feedback. Please contribute to our Discussion page or feel free to contact us directly via email at dmusican@carleton.edu.