[Sociam-soton] Re: Wikidata thoughts

[Elena Simperl]

On 26/03/2013 20:36, Dr. Daniel Alexander Smith wrote:
> One thing we are already doing is working with Zooniverse (the team that run the GalaxyZoo and related large-scale crowdsourcing systems), in particular their data about how users interact with their system - they have instrumented highly what they do, the order they do them, how much they contribute etc.
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> So the first thing that comes to mind for me is if WikiData have that data, or could add that kind of instrumentation, then that may be of interest directly to us, in terms of analysing how people use it as a social machine.
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> Dan
The main difference, however, is that in this case we have access to the 
system in a very early stage. Meaningful data can be obtained from them 
starting with April, once they gathered a critical mass of contributions 
and logs. Given the close relationship with Wikipedia but also to 
structured knowledge bases like DBpedia and Freebase, I would expect 
quite a few people from the Semantic Web community to look into this new 
system very soon.
>
> On 26 Mar 2013, at 15:57, Markus Luczak-Rösch <mail at markus-luczak.de> wrote:
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>> Hi all.
>>
>> Just because Wikidata was brought up during the meeting a few minutes ago I
>> want to add some thoughts from my perspective which may stimulate
>> discussions.
>>
>> My first (very concrete) point is that you may take into account that I am
>> around in Berlin (where the Wikidata office is too) for a couple of months
>> regularly and if there is any qualitative study or investigation that needs
>> to be performed in a face to face fashion with the Wikidata team, I would be
>> happy to help.
>>
>> Specifically I think that it is interesting to understand the development
>> process of Wikidata. How do they link the development with the various
>> target groups and users and how do the developers perceive this? Do they
>> follow a dedicated spin-off strategy starting with specific groups or users
>> they communicate with and add further people and groups in an evolutionary
>> fashion? Which user-centric means successfully support the development and
>> outreach which means constrain it? Does the development meet any
>> socio-technical issues already or is it still technology-oriented?
>>
>> In my opinion this can provide insight into the successful or failing
>> actions and decisions as well as decisive points in the development process
>> of a Social Machine.
>>
>> I am happy about any feedback or discussions on this.
>>
>> Best regards from Berlin,
>> Markus
>>
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