TY - GEN
T1 - Hidden gems in the Wikipedia discussions
T2 - 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
AU - Xiao, Lu
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery program.
Publisher Copyright:
©2016, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper presents a series of completed and ongoing studies that are aimed at understanding the role of the Wikipedians' rationales in the Wikipedia discussions. We define a rationale as one's justification of her view-point and suggestion. Our studies demonstrate the potential of leveraging the Wikipedians' rationales in the discussions as resources for future decision-makings and as resources for eliciting knowledge about the community's norms, practices and policies. Viewed as the rich digital traces in these environments, we consider them to be beneficial for the community members, such as helping newcomers familiarize themselves on the commonly accepted justificatory reasoning styles. We call for more research attention to the discussion content from this rationale study perspective.
AB - This paper presents a series of completed and ongoing studies that are aimed at understanding the role of the Wikipedians' rationales in the Wikipedia discussions. We define a rationale as one's justification of her view-point and suggestion. Our studies demonstrate the potential of leveraging the Wikipedians' rationales in the discussions as resources for future decision-makings and as resources for eliciting knowledge about the community's norms, practices and policies. Viewed as the rich digital traces in these environments, we consider them to be beneficial for the community members, such as helping newcomers familiarize themselves on the commonly accepted justificatory reasoning styles. We call for more research attention to the discussion content from this rationale study perspective.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85021916017
T3 - AAAI Workshop - Technical Report
SP - 96
EP - 97
BT - WS-16-16
PB - AI Access Foundation
Y2 - 17 May 2016 through 20 May 2016
ER -