Conflict and Coordination in Wikipedia

Date: February 13 2007

Location: Palo Alto, California, USA

Website: http://www.baychi.org

About This Event

B a y C H I monthly program meeting: 7:00-9:30 p.m.
PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road

BayCHI program meetings are free and open to the public.
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Abstract of He Says, She Says: Conflict and Coordination in Wikipedia

Ed will characterize conflicts and coordination costs in Wikipedia, its
tools that increase efficiency and effect social change, and how this
informs the design of new collaborative knowledge systems. This
presentation is based on joint work with Aniket Kittur, Bongwon Suh, and
Bryan Pendleton.

ED H. CHI is a senior research scientist at Palo Alto Research Center's
User Interface Research Group. Ed completed his three degrees, B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D., in six and one-half years at University of Minnesota.
Ed has been doing research on user interface software systems since
1993.

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Abstract of Digitizing Friendship:
Learning From and About Massive On-Line Social Networks

Scott will present results from a study of the behavior of over four
million users of the Facebook, including temporal patterns and insight
into college students' lives. What does it mean to be a friend in a
world where digital tools are woven into the fabric of our social lives?

SCOTT GOLDER is a researcher in the Information Dynamics Lab at Hewlett
Packard. He studies on-line communities, social networks, and
collaborative systems.

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social media, social networks, wikipedia