A systematic literature review on the barriers faced by newcomers to open source software projects

I Steinmacher, MAG Silva, MA Gerosa… - Information and Software …, 2015 - Elsevier
Context Numerous open source software projects are based on volunteers collaboration
and require a continuous influx of newcomers for their continuity. Newcomers face barriers …

Quarantined! Examining the effects of a community-wide moderation intervention on Reddit

E Chandrasekharan, S Jhaver, A Bruckman… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Should social media platforms override a community's self-policing when it repeatedly break
rules? What actions can they consider? In light of this debate, platforms have begun …

Does transparency in moderation really matter? User behavior after content removal explanations on reddit

S Jhaver, A Bruckman, E Gilbert - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
When posts are removed on a social media platform, users may or may not receive an
explanation. What kinds of explanations are provided? Do those explanations matter? Using …

Mind the skills gap: the role of Internet know-how and gender in differentiated contributions to Wikipedia

E Hargittai, A Shaw - Information, communication & society, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the egalitarian rhetoric surrounding online cultural production, profound gender
inequalities remain in who contributes to one of the most visited Web sites worldwide …

Fostering public good contributions with symbolic awards: A large-scale natural field experiment at Wikipedia

J Gallus - Management Science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
This natural field experiment tests the effects of purely symbolic awards on volunteer
retention in a public goods context. The experiment is conducted at Wikipedia, which faces …

How did they build the free encyclopedia? a literature review of collaboration and coordination among wikipedia editors

Y Ren, H Zhang, RE Kraut - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Wikipedia has been the poster child for large-scale online open collaboration while few
other online open collaboration initiatives have achieved similar success. How did …

Value-sensitive algorithm design: Method, case study, and lessons

H Zhu, B Yu, A Halfaker, L Terveen - Proceedings of the ACM on human …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Most commonly used approaches to developing automated or artificially intelligent
algorithmic systems are Big Data-driven and machine learning-based. However, these …

Idea rejected, tie formed: Organizations' feedback on crowdsourced ideas

H Piezunka, L Dahlander - Academy of Management Journal, 2019 - journals.aom.org
When organizations crowdsource ideas, they select only a small share of the ideas that
contributors submit for implementation. If a contributor submits an idea to an organization for …

Ores: Lowering barriers with participatory machine learning in wikipedia

A Halfaker, RS Geiger - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Algorithmic systems---from rule-based bots to machine learning classifiers---have a long
history of supporting the essential work of content moderation and other curation work in …

The Wikipedia gender gap revisited: Characterizing survey response bias with propensity score estimation

BM Hill, A Shaw - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Opt-in surveys are the most widespread method used to study participation in online
communities, but produce biased results in the absence of adjustments for non-response. A …