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Wikidata: A New Paradigm of Human-Bot Collaboration?

Human-Computer Interaction 2018-10-03 v1 Social and Information Networks

Abstract

Wikidata is a collaborative knowledge graph which has already drawn the attention of practitioners and researchers. It is the work of a community of volunteers, supported by policies, guidelines and automatic programs (bots) which perform a broad range of tasks, doing the lion's share of the work on the platform. In this paper, we highlight some of the most salient aspects of human-bot collaboration in Wikidata. We argue that the combination of automated and semi-automated work produces new challenges with respect to other online collaboration platforms.

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@article{arxiv.1810.00931,
  title  = {Wikidata: A New Paradigm of Human-Bot Collaboration?},
  author = {Alessandro Piscopo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00931},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Submitted to the workshop 'The Changing Contours of "Participation" in Data-driven, Algorithmic Ecosystems: Challenges, Tactics, and an Agenda', at CSCW 2018