Miglioramenti nella revisione delle modifiche

Group:	Collaboration
Start:	2016-07-05
Team members:	Development team - Stephane Bisson, Benoît Evellin, Matthew Flaschen, Pau Giner, Roan Kattouw, Joe Matazzoni, Moriel Schottlender, Elena Tonkovidova, Nick Wilson, Aaron Halfaker
Management:	Joe Matazzoni (product manager), Roan Kattouw (engineering manager)

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I miglioramenti nella revisione delle modifiche sono un progetto della Squadra di Collaborazione, che sta ricercando modi per ridurre gli effetti negativi che gli attuali processi di revisione delle modifiche possono avere sui nuovi redattori delle wiki. La maggior parte degli strumenti di revisione e ricognizione delle modifiche sono stati progettati per salvaguardare la qualità dei contenuti e allontanare gli autori scorretti, entrambe missioni di importanza vitale. Tuttavia, una serie di ricerche suggerisce che questi processi, particolarmente quando coinvolgono strumenti automatizzati o semiautomatizzati, possono avere la conseguenza imprevista di scoraggiare e perfino allontanare i nuovi redattori che agiscono in buona fede.

Per risolvere questo problema, la squadra di collaborazione sta indagando sui modi per separare i nuovi utenti in buona fede dagli attuali flussi di revisione delle modifiche e, in definitiva, per fornire un processo di revisione di supporto che aiuti i nuovi utenti a diventare contributori produttivi.

Problema

Le ricerche mostrano che, particolarmente per i nuovi editori delle wiki, «avere le modifiche ripristinate preannuncia tanto una diminuzione nell'attività quanto una riduzione della probabilità di sopravvivenza» come redattori.^[1]
Allo stesso tempo, l'uso crescente di strumenti di revisione delle modifiche automatizzati e semiautomatizzati ha comportato un aumento nel rifiuto di nuovi arrivati anche se in buona fede. L'uso di questi strumenti «aumenta significativamente l'effetto negativo del rifiuto sull'auspicabile conservazione dei nuovi utenti».^[2]
Nonostante quanto sopra, gli strumenti di revisione delle modifiche sono essenziali per coloro che combattono il vandalismo e per altri editori che lavorano per mantenere l'integrità e la qualità del wiki. Come possiamo aiutare a conservare i nuovi utenti e contemporaneamente mantenere la produttività di quelli che combattono il vandalismo e degli altri revisori delle modifiche?

Obiettivi

Ensure good-faith new editors have more constructive, less discouraging experiences of edit and article review.
By providing richer data about recent changes, enable patrollers and edit-reviewers of all types to work more efficiently and to pursue diverse interests (e.g., fighting vandalism, supporting new users) in a more effective and targeted way.

Ultimately this project aims to have an effect on editor retention, an objective that aligns well with the overall goals of the Wikimedia Foundation 2016-17 Annual Plan, developed in close consultation with the user community.

The approach tracks in particular with the goals the Annual Plan lays out for the Product Team, which promise, among other things, to “Invest in new types of content…curation and collaboration tools.”

Soluzioni

To begin to address the problems of struggling but good-faith newcomers, a good first step will be to ensure that reviewers can find them. To make this possible, we propose to analyze recent changes using data from a variety of sources, including and most notably the machine-learning program ORES (Objective Revision Evaluation Service). ORES’s good faith model, trained on human judgement, can find 95% of good-faith edits with 98% accuracy. ORES can also predict edits that will be reverted and those that are damaging to the wikis.

While research shows that new editors are particularly vulnerable to rejection, there’s also evidence that edit-review and even rejection can be a powerful learning experience for newcomers.

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For reviewers interested in supporting new users, then, a stream of edits that are a) likely to be reverted but which were b) made in good faith will, we hope, represent a string of teachable moments.

The edit analysis described above will be made available initially to users in two ways^[4]:

On the Special:Recent Changes page, where a suite of new filters will be provided as a beta feature (read a description of the planned new filters for edit review)
In a new machine-readable feed dubbed ReviewStream (ReviewStream Product Description), designed to be ingested by downstream edit-review tools.

Attività attuale

To visualize possible product directions, the Collaboration Team is exploring design concepts while continuing to research the issues.
To better gauge the size of the problem and be able to track progress, we’re working to define and measure new-editor retention.
Design Research is organizing and conducting interviews with users touched by this issue in various ways, to better understand their motivations and workflows. Groups who will be interviewed in the near term include: anti-vandalism patrollers, recent changes patrollers, Teahouse hosts, Welcoming Committee members, and AfC reviewers.
The Research and Data team is working to make predictions better by refining the accuracy of prediction models.
There was a discussion of the project at Wikimania 2016, in June

Improving filtering in Recent Changes page

More information

A single entry point is proposed for filtering recent changes

In order to help reviewers to easily find the contributions they look for, we plan to improve the way filtering works on the Special:Recent Changes page. The goal is to make the list of contributions easy to filter, allow for more filter criteria (especially those relevant for helping newcomers) and facilitate combining multiple filters for different purposes.

This interactive prototype illustrates the filtering concept proposed. For additional context, you can check the supported scenarios.

Before reaching there, this will be done in multiple steps inside a beta feature. More details below.

Passi iniziali

Initially, namespaces and tags won't be integrated into the filtering system. Filters related to ORES will be supported. These filters include:

Review. Filters that allow reviewers to focus on those contributions not reviewed yet, or those already processed by other reviewers.
Contribution quality. Filters that allow to identify contributions that are good or damaging.
User intent. Filters that allow to identify contributions that were made in good or bad faith.
User experience level. Filters that allow to target edits depending on the expertise of their author.

A main entry point for filtering recent changes.
Filters can be selected by typing (autocompletion) or exploring an organised list of filters.
Filters, selected or not, can use a highlight color to facilitate combining multiple criteria.
Filters are presented as part of the search bar to indicate the properties of the listed contributions.

Future plans

Creating the streams/pages of “teachable moments” described above has the potential to establish edit-review as a new space for instructing and supporting new editors.

The mere existence of such a platform, however, won’t in itself ensure that this new practice will take root. To truly have an impact on newcomer retention, interventions may be required at multiple points in the editing and review cycles: before publication, to spot problems and enable authors to seek help; during review, to facilitate a constructive process; and even after review, to help new users overcome rejection and learn from from their experiences.

In addition to exploring ideas for intervening at various points, we’re pursuing answers to questions such as these:

How can we bring reviewers to this new activity?
What would make reviewers most effective in the job of supporting newcomers during edit review?
How can we make the process rewarding for reviewers, so that they stay involved?

The counter-vandalism community also has an important role to play in this arena. Richer data about edits and editors should make patrollers of all types not only more discriminating about which edits might be in good faith, but also more efficient at their job of combating harm. It will be important to work closely with vandalism fighters and others to understand how their processes and tools might best be adapted to realize these potential gains.

Principles

As we pursue this project, the following principles will guide our planning.

Smart but human. Use technology to support rather than replace human interaction. Artificial intelligence can provide analysis, but humans should make decisions.
Cross-community. Find solutions that will work across language groups and projects, rather than building wiki-specific tools.
Platform not feature. Seek solutions that are extensible and reusable by current and future community-created and WMF tools.
Mobile. Although edit-review is not currently popular on mobile, consider mobile users carefully in our plans.
Adoption. In addition to creating new technology, focus on finding ways to encourage reviewers to adopt and continue to use the new tools.
Integration. In seeking new solutions, build on and integrate with existing practices whenever possible.
Incremental approach. As we move into this new area, proceed incrementally to each milestone and then evaluate where to go next.
Participatory design. Collaborate with editors and tool developers already working in this space.

Documenti relazionati

↑ Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., & Riedl, J. (2011, October). Don't bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work. In Proceedings of the 7th international symposium on wikis and open collaboration (pp. 163-172). ACM.
↑ “Several changes the Wikipedia community made to manage quality…have ironically crippled the very growth they were designed to manage. Specifically...the algorithmic tools used to reject contributions are implicated as key causes of decreased newcomer retention.” Halfaker, A., Geiger, R. S., Morgan, J. T., & Riedl, J. (2012). The rise and decline of an open collaboration system: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline. American Behavioral Scientist, 0002764212469365.
↑ “We found that newcomers are particularly likely to decrease their contributions after they are reverted. We also saw some evidence that they can learn the most from being reverted. Newcomers should be reached out to actively to help them become socialized into Wikipedia.” Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., & Riedl, J. Don't bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work.
↑ Collaboration Team Quarter Two FY2016-17 Goals

[1] Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., & Riedl, J. (2011, October). Don't bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work. In Proceedings of the 7th international symposium on wikis and open collaboration (pp. 163-172). ACM.

[2] “Several changes the Wikipedia community made to manage quality…have ironically crippled the very growth they were designed to manage. Specifically...the algorithmic tools used to reject contributions are implicated as key causes of decreased newcomer retention.” Halfaker, A., Geiger, R. S., Morgan, J. T., & Riedl, J. (2012). The rise and decline of an open collaboration system: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline. American Behavioral Scientist, 0002764212469365.

[3] “We found that newcomers are particularly likely to decrease their contributions after they are reverted. We also saw some evidence that they can learn the most from being reverted. Newcomers should be reached out to actively to help them become socialized into Wikipedia.” Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., & Riedl, J. Don't bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work.

[4] Collaboration Team Quarter Two FY2016-17 Goals

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