Designing for care in the Wikipedia community

Abd Alsattar Ardati; Angela Ruth Miguel; Alexander Voss

doi:10.1145/3666094.3666112

Designing for care in the Wikipedia community

Abd Alsattar Ardati, Angela Ruth Miguel, Alexander Voss

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Wikipedia, while being one of the most successful projects for open knowledge curation, faces significant challenges that stem partly from the model for collaboration that is used, in which individual contributions are aggregated into a whole through a bureaucratic process. This process is hierarchical and reflects power relationships that hinder the further evolution of Wikipedia as a community effort by setting up significant barriers to entry for new editors as well as hindering contributions on a range of topics. We employ the frame of “care and efficiency” introduced by Rossitto et al. to describe a distributed participatory design process to introduce synchronous collaboration into parts of the Wikipedia community’s activities, specifically training and projects, two areas in which the care aspect is of particular importance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the participatory design conference 2024 (PDC '24)
Subtitle of host publication	full papers - volume 1
Editors	Vincenzo D'Andrea, Rogério Abreu de Paula, Amanda Anne Geppert, Margot Brereton, Chiara Del Gaudio, Mika Yasuoka Jensen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	75-85
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9798400708084
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3666094.3666112
Publication status	Published - 29 Aug 2024
Event	Participatory Design Conference 2024: Reaching Out: Connecting Beyond Participation - Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia Duration: 12 Aug 2024 → 16 Aug 2024 Conference number: 18th https://pdc2024.org/ https://asset.uts.edu.my/pdc2024/

Conference

Conference	Participatory Design Conference 2024
Abbreviated title	PDC2024
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Sarawak
Period	12/08/24 → 16/08/24
Internet address	https://pdc2024.org/ https://asset.uts.edu.my/pdc2024/

Keywords

Participatory design
Caring practices
Wikipedia
Open knowledge
Collaboration

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Ardati, A. A., Miguel, A. R., & Voss, A. (2024). Designing for care in the Wikipedia community. In V. D'Andrea, R. Abreu de Paula, A. A. Geppert, M. Brereton, C. Del Gaudio, M. Yasuoka Jensen, H. Winschiers-Theophilus, & T. Zaman (Eds.), Proceedings of the participatory design conference 2024 (PDC '24): full papers - volume 1 (pp. 75-85). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3666094.3666112

Ardati, Abd Alsattar ; Miguel, Angela Ruth ; Voss, Alexander. / Designing for care in the Wikipedia community. Proceedings of the participatory design conference 2024 (PDC '24): full papers - volume 1. editor / Vincenzo D'Andrea ; Rogério Abreu de Paula ; Amanda Anne Geppert ; Margot Brereton ; Chiara Del Gaudio ; Mika Yasuoka Jensen ; Heike Winschiers-Theophilus ; Tariq Zaman. New York : ACM, 2024. pp. 75-85

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Ardati, AA , Miguel, AR & Voss, A 2024, Designing for care in the Wikipedia community. in V D'Andrea, R Abreu de Paula, AA Geppert, M Brereton, C Del Gaudio, M Yasuoka Jensen, H Winschiers-Theophilus & T Zaman (eds), Proceedings of the participatory design conference 2024 (PDC '24): full papers - volume 1. ACM, New York, pp. 75-85, Participatory Design Conference 2024, Sarawak, Malaysia, 12/08/24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3666094.3666112

Designing for care in the Wikipedia community. / Ardati, Abd Alsattar ; Miguel, Angela Ruth ; Voss, Alexander.
Proceedings of the participatory design conference 2024 (PDC '24): full papers - volume 1. ed. / Vincenzo D'Andrea; Rogério Abreu de Paula; Amanda Anne Geppert; Margot Brereton; Chiara Del Gaudio; Mika Yasuoka Jensen; Heike Winschiers-Theophilus; Tariq Zaman. New York: ACM, 2024. p. 75-85.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Designing for care in the Wikipedia community

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Ethnographically-informed distributed participatory design framework for sociotechnical change : co-designing a collaborative training tool to support real-time collaborative writing

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