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=== Tuesday, September 24th: Creating Information Goods II === '''Goals for the class''' * Make progress on Wikipedia project. * Case: Quality issues and controversy on Wikipedia '''Assigned Reading''' <div> <blockquote>'''Warning''' We’re going to talk about the Holocaust today. This material is troubling, sensitive, and can be controversial. I think it is important enough that it deserves your attention, but it may also be upsetting. Please contact me if you find it difficult to engage this in a thoughtful and scholarly way. </blockquote> </div> For today’s case we are going to take a look at Wikipedia’s messy side and look deeply at a case that I think about often. You’ll find an enourmous amount of material in today’s assigned readings. Start with the article in Slate by Stephen Harrison. His reporting summarizes the circumstances and the stakes of the case. Next, read the paper by Grabowski and Klein. It is a long and detailed historical research article, so I don’t expect you to closely read the entirely thing. Read the Introduction, quickly skim the next two sections which document a large number of errors in Wikipedia’s coverage and how those errors were introduced and maintained by a rough group of editors. Read closely again in the section titled “Confronting Distortionists”, which argues that Wikipedia’s approaches to regulating behavior fell short in this case. Finally, take a look at the 2 links to pages about the arbitration case on which Stephen reported. You can think of this as an entire legal case taking place in writing on a Wiki. There’s an extremely vast amount of writing on these pages, and even more on other pages related to the case: I’m having you look at the ''Evidence summary'', but the entire ''Evidence'' page has much more. I certainly don’t expect you to read all this, but I do want you to grasp what a Wikipedia arbitration case involves. I want you to spend about 10 minutes each scanning the two pages until you have thought of answers to the case questions included in this week’s reading not. * [Case] Stephen Harrison. (2023) Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to Review Polish-Jewish History During WWII. [https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/how-wikipedia-covers-the-history-of-the-holocaust-in-poland.html Slate] * [Case] Grabowski, J., & Klein, S. (2023). Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust. The Journal of Holocaust Research, 37(2), 133–190. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939 https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939] * [Case] Wikipedia’s arbitration committee main case page for World War II and the history of Jews in Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World_War_II_and_the_history_of_Jews_in_Poland * [Case] Wikipedia’s arbitration committee evidence summary page for World War II and the history of Jews in Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World_War_II_and_the_history_of_Jews_in_Poland/Evidence/Summary '''Optional Reading''' * Stephen Harrison. (2022) How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia. [https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/wikipedia-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-edits-kyiv-kiev.html Slate] * Stephen Harrison. (2020) How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice [https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/wikipedia-george-floyd-neutrality.html Slate] * Zarine Kharazian, Kate Starbird, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2024. Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 61 (April 2024), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637338 * Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, and Tom Wilson. 2019. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3359229 Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operations]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW, Article 127 (November) https://doi.org/10.1145/3359229 <span id="peer-production-iii"></span>
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