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ORES : Facilitating remediation of Wikipedia ’ s socio-technical problems
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Halfaker, Aaron Geiger, R. Stuart |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Algorithmic systems—from rule-based bots to machine learning classifiers—have a long history of supporting the essential work of content moderation and other curation work in peer production projects. From counter-vandalism to task routing, basic machine prediction has allowed open knowledge projects like Wikipedia to scale to the largest encyclopedia in the world, while maintaining quality and consistency. However, conversations about what quality control should be and what role algorithms should play have generally been led by the expert engineers who have the skills and resources to develop and modify these complex algorithmic systems. In this paper, we describe ORES: an algorithmic scoring service that supports real-time scoring of wiki edits using multiple independent classifiers trained on different datasets. ORES decouples three activities that have typically all been performed by engineers: choosing or curating training data, building models to serve predictions, and developing interfaces or automated agents that act on those predictions. This meta-algorithmic system was designed to open up socio-technical conversations about algorithmic systems in Wikipedia to a broader set of participants. In this paper, we discuss the theoretical mechanisms of social change ORES enables and detail case studies in participatory machine learning around ORES from the 3 years since its deployment. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfaker/files/halfaker18ores.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
