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Contribution, Social networking, and the Request for Adminship process in Wikipedia
- Source :
- OpenSym 2015 : 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2015 : 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, Aug 2015, San Francisco, United States. ACM, 2015, OpenSym 2015 : 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, Aug 2015, San Francisco, United States, OpenSym
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- International audience; In epistemic communities, people are said to be selected on their contribution in knowledge to the project (articles, codes, etc.). However, the socialization process is an important factor for inclusion, sustainability as a contributor, and promotion. Finally, what matters for being promoted? Being a good contributor? Being a good animator? Knowing the boss? We explore this question by looking at the election process for administrators in the English Wikipedia. We used the candidates' revisions and/or social attributes to construct a predictive model of promotion success, based on the candidates' past behavior and a random forest algorithm. Our model explains 78% of the results, which is better than the former models. It also helps to refine the explanation of the election process.
- Subjects :
- Knowledge management
Process (engineering)
media_common.quotation_subject
Internet privacy
[INFO.INFO-DS]Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS]
050801 communication & media studies
Promotion,Epistemic Community,Random forest,Wikipedia,Request for adminship
0102 computer and information sciences
Epistemic community
01 natural sciences
[ INFO.INFO-LG ] Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG]
0508 media and communications
Promotion (rank)
[INFO.INFO-LG]Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG]
Political science
Promotion
[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and finances
Epistemic Community
[ INFO.INFO-DS ] Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS]
media_common
business.industry
05 social sciences
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Knowledge production
Open source
010201 computation theory & mathematics
Request for adminship
business
Random forest
Wikipedia
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- OpenSym 2015 : 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2015 : 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, Aug 2015, San Francisco, United States. ACM, 2015, OpenSym 2015 : 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, Aug 2015, San Francisco, United States, OpenSym
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....30dc08afc1942594b5c2722af256d0cb