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8/3/2019 Computing & Crowds [IS52026B Social computing - week 7]
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IS52026 Social ComputingWeek 7: computing and crowds
dan mcquillan
http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/results.htm
Computing enables the aggregation of effort.Previously this took institutions.
Jeff Howe, June 2006 (crowd + outsourcing)
Submit, sort: ownership, reward
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Dell IdeaStorm. February 2007. by 2010 'crossed the10,000 idea mark and implemented nearly 400ideas'.
users are able to addarticles,promote them, demotethem and commenton them
QUESTION: guess which was most popular earlysuggestion?
Originally, popular suggestions = FOSS. May 24,2007, Dell started selling ubuntu
EXERCISE: advantages & disadvantagesBeyond the obvious...# By listening to the crowd, organizations gain nsight
on their customers' desires.#brand-building - sense of ownership through
contribution and collaboration.
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Wikipedia. 2001.
QUESTION: guess how many articles?
3,805,042 articles in English. 845.244 artculos enespaol..Albanian 34,854
Nov 2011Wikipedia includes over 20 million freelyusable articles in 282 languages,[2] written by over
31 million registered users and countlessanonymous contributors worldwide.
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"Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretationsof important concepts, were detected in the pairs ofarticles reviewed, four from each encyclopedia,"reported Nature."But reviewers also found manyfactual errors, omissions or misleading statements:162 and 123 in Wikipedia and Britannica,respectively."
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12809944
bbc / andrew...
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SHOWhttp://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/results.htm
The researchers analyzed 25 trillion PWVsattributable to registered users in the intervalSeptember 1, 2002 October 31, 2006. At the endof this period, the top 10% of editors (by edit count)
were credited with 86% of PWVs, the top 1% about70%, and the top 0.1% (4200 users) were attributed44% of PWVs, i.e. nearly half of Wikipedia's "value"as measured in this study.
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SHOW http://notabilia.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Soviet_occupation_denialism
Ironically..."The Wales Rules for Web 2.0". Business 2.0.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0702/gallery.wikia_rules.biz2/index.html.
"I find the term 'crowdsourcing' incredibly irritating,"Wales says. "Any company that thinks it's going tobuild a site by outsourcing all the work to its usersnot only disrespects the users but completelymisunderstands what it should be doing. Your job isto provide a structure for your users to collaborate,and that takes a lot of work."
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armenia; a 1-day Wikipedia hackathonhttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/31/never-too-late-taking-
measures-to-promote-armenian-wikipedia/
1-day Wikipedia hackathon was organized for Wikipediansand their friends to come together in one place andtranslate Wikipedia policies and guidelines. About 50people gathered and 17 guidelines were translated duringthe day.
It all started after Richard Stallmans visit to Armenia. TheWeb2.0 activist shared his enthusiasm about open,interactive and collaborative online platforms andsuggested, Why not have another look at Wikipedia?.
15-year-old Mariam is the head of the student council at theAnania Shirakatsi National Lycee. She is eager to takethe first steps as soon as the schools open in September.
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wikiscanperson coming from a Diebold IP whodeleted paragraphs and paragraphs of Wikipediacontent that highlighted Diebold's ongoing securityproblems. Then there's the Disney employee whotried to pull a link to Cory Doctorow's speech onwhy DRM is bad for business from the DRM entry.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070814/130237.shtml
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Open street map wikipedia for mapping
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Some rights reserved by ItoWorld
OSM 2008: A Year of EditsSHOW http://vimeo.com/2598878
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http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/mapping-crisis-openstreetmap-response.html
SHOWhttp://itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/mapping-crisis-
openstreetmap-response.html
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QUESTION: how could you update these mapswithout a gps?
http://paperwalking-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/scans/twm32r25/walking-paper-twm32r25.jpg
map kibera
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ladies_mapping_party_helps_make_google_maps_strong.php
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ladies_mapping_party_helps_make_google_maps_strong.php
georgia story...
sarajevo story...
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Ushahidi
SHOW http://www.slideshare.net/Ushahidi/volunteer-mappers-building-community-resilience-with-citizen-media
http://www.frontlinesms.com/2011/11/01/two-cities-one-event-sms-to-map-%E2%80%93-using-
frontlinesms-and-ushahidi-to-tell-your-story/
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Ushahidi & frontlinesms at goldsmiths
http://www.frontlinesms.com/2011/11/01/two-cities-one-event-sms-to-map-%E2%80%93-using-frontlinesms-and-ushahidi-to-tell-your-story/
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