{"id":644,"date":"2020-03-04T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T18:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/?p=644"},"modified":"2020-05-04T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:11:06","slug":"02-26-2020-mohannad-al-ameedi-the-work-of-sustaining-order-in-wikipedia-the-banning-of-a-vandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/2020\/03\/04\/02-26-2020-mohannad-al-ameedi-the-work-of-sustaining-order-in-wikipedia-the-banning-of-a-vandal\/","title":{"rendered":"02\/26\/2020 &#8211; Mohannad Al Ameedi &#8211; The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this paper, the authors study the social roles of editing\ntools in Wikipedia and the way vandalism fighting is addressed. The authors\nfocus on the effected automated tools, like robots, and assisted editing tools\non the distributed editing used by the encyclopedia. Wikipedia allows anyone in\nthe universe to edit the content of its articles, which make keeping the\nquality of the content a difficult task. The platform depends on distributed\nsocial network of volunteers to approve or deny changes. Wikipedia uses a\nsource control system to help the users see the changes. The source control shows\nboth versions of the edited content side by side which allow the editor to see\nthe change history. The authors mention that Wikipedia uses bots and automated scripts\nto help editing some content and fight vandalism. They also mentioned different\ntools used by the platform to assist the editing process. A combination of\nhumans, automated tasks, and assisted edit tools make Wikipedia able to handle\nsuch massive number of edits and fight vandalism attempts. Most research papers\nthat studied the editing process are outdated since they didn\u2019t pay a close\nattention to these tools, while the authors highlights the importance of these\ntools on improving the overall quality of the content and allow more edits to\nbe performed. These technological tools like bots and assisted editing tools changed\nthe way humans interact with system and have a significant social effect on the\ntypes of activities that are made possible in Wikipedia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found the idea of the distributed editing and vandalism fighting\nin Wikipedia interesting. Giving the massive amount of contents in Wikipedia, it\nis very challenging to keep high quality contents giving that anyone in the\nuniverse who has access to the internet can make edit. The internal source\ncontrol and the assisted tools used to help the editing job at a scale are\namazing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also found the usage of the bots to automate the edit for\nsome content interesting. These automated scripts can help expediting the content\nrefresh in Wikipedia, but also cause errors. Some tools mentioned in the paper\ndon\u2019t even show the bots changes, so I am not sure if there some method that\ncan measure the accuracy f these bots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concept of distributed editing is similar to the concept of pull request in GitHub where any one can submit a change to an open source project and only group of system owners or administrator can accept or reject the changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Since millions or billions of\npeople have smart phones nowadays, the amount of anonymous edit might significantly\nincrease. &nbsp;Are these tools still efficient\nin handling such increased volume of edits?<\/li><li>Can we use deep learning or\nmachine learning in fighting vandalism or spams? The number of edits performed\non articles can be treated as a rich training dataset. <\/li><li>Why don\u2019t Wikipedia combine\nall the assisted editing tools in to one too that has the best of each tool? Do\nyou think this a good idea or more tools means more innovation and more\nchoices? <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In this paper, the authors study the social roles of editing tools in Wikipedia and the way vandalism fighting is addressed. The authors focus on the effected automated tools, like robots, and assisted editing tools on the distributed editing used by the encyclopedia. Wikipedia allows anyone in the universe to edit the content of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,59],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class5","tag-orderwikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}