Editing Online Communities (UW COM481 Fall 2024) (section)

=== Wednesday October 9: Micro: Commitment ===
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'''Lectures:'''  (watch ''before'' class)

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=71bd64a1-db0e-4da3-9e04-b1ff007c0cb3 Commitment I (1/3): Introduction and Identity] [18m06s] (old version, see announcements)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=df24cc5b-ce1e-4e17-8793-b1ff007c0ce3 Commitment I (2/3): Bonds] [11m20s] (old version, see announcements)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=10e53dca-24a1-44f2-b613-b1ff007c0c7a Commitment I (3/3): Normative and needs-based] [19m01s] (old version, see announcements)

'''Resources:'''

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/124654204/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note #3] (Requires Canvas access)
* [Lecture Slides] (Requires Canvas access)  {{forthcoming}}
* [Case Boards] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}

'''Required Reading:''' (read ''before'' class)

*  [[#Component 1: The Theory and Practice of Online Communities|BSOC]], Chapter 3, pg 77-102 

We're going to be doing our first Wikipedia case. To do so, we'll be looking at five different "WikiProject" communities within English Wikipedia. In some of these cases, there is an enormous amount of material on the pages and subpages. Poke around for 10 minutes or so on each until you get a sense for who is participating and how and why people build commitment to the WikiProject such that you will be comfortable answering the questions in the reading note. Please ''do not'' try to post or disrupt on the project for the purposes of this assignment in any way. We're guests in their communities and you only need to look:

* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red WikiProject Women in Red]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history WikiProject Military History]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun Department of Fun]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors Guild of Copy Editors]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Seattle WikiProject Seattle]

'''Optional Readings:'''

* [Case] Jemielniak, Dariusz, Agnieszka Rychwalska, Szymon Talaga, and Karolina Ziembowicz. 2021. “Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones: The Most Successful Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Project with near Real-Time Coverage of Extreme Weather Phenomena.” ''Weather and Climate Extremes'' 33 (September):100354. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100354}}
* [Case] Morgan, Jonathan T., Michael Gilbert, David W. McDonald, and Mark Zachry. 2013. “Project Talk: Coordination Work and Group Membership in WikiProjects.” In ''Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration'', 1–10. WikiSym ’13. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2491055.2491058}}