'software programs' Tag

• Wikisym Poster: The Social Roles of Bots and Assisted Editing Tools

  October 24, 2009

  This project investigates various software programs as non-human social actors in Wikipedia, arguing that their influence must not be overlooked in research of the on-line encyclopedia project. Using statistical and archival methods, the roles of assisted editing programs and bots are examined. First, the proportion of edits made by these non-human actors is significantly more [...]

  posted in Conference Presentations, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger