TY - GEN
T1 - Automated Decision support for human tasks in a collaborative system
T2 - 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
AU - Gelley, Bluma S.
AU - Suel, Torsten
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Wikipedia's low barriers to participation have the unintended effect of attracting a large number of articles whose topics do not meet Wikipedia's inclusion standards. Many are quickly deleted, often causing their creators to stop contributing to the site. We collect and make available several datasets of deleted articles, heretofore inaccessible, and use them to create a model that can predict with high precision whether or not an article will be deleted. We report precision of 98.6% and recall of 97.5% in the best case and high precision with lower, but still useful, recall, in the most difficult case. We propose to deploy a system utilizing this model on Wikipedia as a set of decision-support tools to help article creators evaluate and improve their articles before posting, and new article patrollers make more informed decisions about which articles to delete and which to improve. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3. Collaborative Computing; Computer Supported Collaborative Work General Terms Measurement, Performance, Human Factors,.
AB - Wikipedia's low barriers to participation have the unintended effect of attracting a large number of articles whose topics do not meet Wikipedia's inclusion standards. Many are quickly deleted, often causing their creators to stop contributing to the site. We collect and make available several datasets of deleted articles, heretofore inaccessible, and use them to create a model that can predict with high precision whether or not an article will be deleted. We report precision of 98.6% and recall of 97.5% in the best case and high precision with lower, but still useful, recall, in the most difficult case. We propose to deploy a system utilizing this model on Wikipedia as a set of decision-support tools to help article creators evaluate and improve their articles before posting, and new article patrollers make more informed decisions about which articles to delete and which to improve. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3. Collaborative Computing; Computer Supported Collaborative Work General Terms Measurement, Performance, Human Factors,.
KW - Automating human tasks
KW - Classification
KW - Collaborative systems
KW - Decision support
KW - Deletion
KW - Wikipedia
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U2 - 10.1145/2491055.2491084
DO - 10.1145/2491055.2491084
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888177423
SN - 9781450318525
T3 - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
Y2 - 5 August 2013 through 7 August 2013
ER -