Research:Citation Practices
Key Personnel edit
- Timothy Gorichanaz
- Tom Park
- Meen Chul Kim
Project Summary edit
We want to better understand how and why Wikipedians add citations to articles in order to better support both tools and knowledge about citation as a knowledge-building practice, particularly outside of scientific disciplines, which is the context for most citation analysis and theorizing.
Methods edit
Interviews with Wikipedia editors.
Dissemination edit
Interviews will be analyzed and submitted to research venues; any resulting papers will be posted on the PI's website: http://andreaforte.net
Wikimedia Policies, Ethics, and Human Subjects Protection edit
Approved by Drexel University IRB on July 24, 2014.
Benefits for the Wikimedia community edit
We are working on a website to allow people to explore citations that are used on Wikipedia with the dual goals of helping readers think critically about sources and helping editors understand where they and others tend to get their information.
Timeline edit
Interviews - August-Sept 2014
Funding edit
National Science Foundation, Human-Centered Computing, CISE IIS (Division of Information & Intelligent Systems) #1253302
References edit
Results of this research: Andrea Forte, Nazanin Andalibi, Tim Gorichanaz, Meen Chul Kim, Thomas Park, Aaron Halfaker. (2018) Information Fortification: An Online Citation Behavior Proceedings of ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (Group) Sanibel Island, FL, USA. http://andreaforte.net/ForteInformationFortification.pdf
Related work from the PI: Forte, Andrea, Nazanin Andalibi, Thomas Park, Heather Willever-Farr (2014). Designing Information Savvy Societies: An Introduction to Assessability. Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'14), Toronto, Canada.
Forte, Andrea and Thomas Park. (2012). How People Assess Cooperatively Authored Information Resources. Poster. Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '12), Linz, Austria.
External links edit
Contacts edit
aforteATdrexelDOTedu