IS52026 Social Computing Week 7: computing and crowds dan mcquillan

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Computing enables the aggregation of effort. Previously this took institutions. Jeff Howe, June 2006 (crowd + outsourcing) Submit, sort: ownership, reward

Dell IdeaStorm. February 2007. by 2010 'crossed the 10,000 idea mark and implemented nearly 400 ideas'. users are able to add articles, promote them, demote them and comment on them QUESTION: guess which was most popular early suggestion? Originally, popular suggestions = FOSS. May 24, 2007, Dell started selling ubuntu EXERCISE: advantages & disadvantages Beyond the obvious... # By listening to the crowd, organizations gain nsight on their customers' desires. #brand-building - sense of ownership through contribution and collaboration.

Wikipedia. 2001. QUESTION: guess how many articles? 3,805,042 articles in English. 845.244 artculos en espaol..Albanian 34,854 Nov 2011Wikipedia includes over 20 million freely usable articles in 282 languages,[2] written by over 31 million registered users and countless anonymous contributors worldwide.

"Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from each encyclopedia," reported Nature."But reviewers also found many factual errors, omissions or misleading statements: 162 and 123 in Wikipedia and Britannica, respectively." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/ 438900a.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12809944 bbc / andrew...

SHOW http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history _flow/results.htm The researchers analyzed 25 trillion PWVs attributable to registered users in the interval September 1, 2002 October 31, 2006. At the end of this period, the top 10% of editors (by edit count) were credited with 86% of PWVs, the top 1% about 70%, and the top 0.1% (4200 users) were attributed 44% of PWVs, i.e. nearly half of Wikipedia's "value" as measured in this study.

SHOW http://notabilia.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_del etion/Soviet_occupation_denialism Ironically... "The Wales Rules for Web 2.0". Business 2.0. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0702/gall ery.wikia_rules.biz2/index.html. "I find the term 'crowdsourcing' incredibly irritating," Wales says. "Any company that thinks it's going to build a site by outsourcing all the work to its users not only disrespects the users but completely misunderstands what it should be doing. Your job is to provide a structure for your users to collaborate, and that takes a lot of work."

armenia; a 1-day Wikipedia hackathon http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/31/never-too-late-takingmeasures-to-promote-armenian-wikipedia/ 1-day Wikipedia hackathon was organized for Wikipedians and their friends to come together in one place and translate Wikipedia policies and guidelines. About 50 people gathered and 17 guidelines were translated during the day. It all started after Richard Stallmans visit to Armenia. The Web2.0 activist shared his enthusiasm about open, interactive and collaborative online platforms and suggested, Why not have another look at Wikipedia?. 15-year-old Mariam is the head of the student council at the Anania Shirakatsi National Lycee. She is eager to take the first steps as soon as the schools open in September.

wikiscanperson coming from a Diebold IP who deleted paragraphs and paragraphs of Wikipedia content that highlighted Diebold's ongoing security problems. Then there's the Disney employee who tried to pull a link to Cory Doctorow's speech on why DRM is bad for business from the DRM entry. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070814/130237.sht ml

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OSM 2008: A Year of Edits SHOW http://vimeo.com/2598878

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SHOW http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/mapping-crisisopenstreetmap-response.html

QUESTION: how could you update these maps without a gps? http://paperwalkinguploads.s3.amazonaws.com/scans/twm32r25/walki ng-paper-twm32r25.jpg map kibera

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ladies_mapping_party_helps_make_google_maps_strong.php

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ladies_mappin g_party_helps_make_google_maps_strong.php georgia story... sarajevo story...

Ushahidi SHOW http://www.slideshare.net/Ushahidi/volunteermappers-building-community-resilience-withcitizen-media http://www.frontlinesms.com/2011/11/01/two-citiesone-event-sms-to-map-%E2%80%93-usingfrontlinesms-and-ushahidi-to-tell-your-story/

Ushahidi & frontlinesms at goldsmiths http://www.frontlinesms.com/2011/11/01/two-citiesone-event-sms-to-map-%E2%80%93-usingfrontlinesms-and-ushahidi-to-tell-your-story/