Submissions/Cognitive biases in wiki communities
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- Submission no. 1019
- Title of the submission
- Cognitive biases in wiki communities
- Type of submission (discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop)
- Presentation
- Author of the submission
- Martin Poulter
- E-mail address
- m.l.poulter
bris.ac.uk
- Username
- User:MartinPoulter
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Employed by the University of Bristol but not speaking for anyone in any official capacity
- Personal homepage or blog
- infobomb.org
- Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
The massive research literature on human judgement and decision-making has given us terms like confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and attribution error. This short talk looks at some psychological biases and errors that can obstruct collaborative work of the type we do in Wikimedia. It assesses how well community policies and processes compensate for or minimise those biases. Some aspects of wiki collaboration minimise common biases, while other features make those biases more of a problem. I want to get the audience thinking in a concrete way about how these biases could be made less damaging.
- Track
- WikiCulture & Community
- Length of session (if other than 30 minutes, specify how long)
- 20 minutes including questions
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- Yes
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Slides not yet
- Special requests
- none
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- Sjgknight (talk) 08:43, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- PatHadley (talk) 11:05, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:29, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- Arunbandana (talk) 06:26, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- the wub "?!" 22:39, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
- Raystorm (talk) 14:51, 19 May 2014 (UTC) Intrigued.
- --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 11:09, 8 August 2014 (UTC) Please leave a message on my discussion page whether the date and time of this course will be decided. Thanks.
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