Uncertainty during new disease outbreaks in Wikipedia
Uncertainty during new disease outbreaks in Wikipedia
Wikipedia relies on a community of editors who construct articles related to various topics such as new disease outbreaks. New disease outbreaks are often characterized by emergent and changing information which, in turn, require Wikipedia editors to spend time and effort to retrieve and understand information that is sometimes ambiguous, complex, and contradictory. This makes a good case study for identifying different types of uncertainty, as well as delineating strategies for managing uncertainty. Despite recent research that explores how the general population expresses uncertainty during crisis events on social media platforms, limited work has focused explicitly on how Wikipedia editors express uncertainty while editing articles when knowledge or background information is either incomplete or unknown. Thus, the goals of this study are to identify types of uncertainty expressed by Wikipedia editors during new disease outbreaks, and examine different strategies deployed by Wikipedia editors to manage uncertainty. Our findings may be used to build a theoretically and empirically-driven framework to better understand and manage uncertainty on Wikipedia.
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Al Tamime, Reham, Fares Fayez
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Giordano, Richard
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Hall, Wendy
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7 June 2019
Al Tamime, Reham, Fares Fayez
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Al Tamime, Reham, Fares Fayez, Giordano, Richard and Hall, Wendy
(2019)
Uncertainty during new disease outbreaks in Wikipedia.
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2019).
vol. Vol 13(01),
AAAI Press.
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Abstract
Wikipedia relies on a community of editors who construct articles related to various topics such as new disease outbreaks. New disease outbreaks are often characterized by emergent and changing information which, in turn, require Wikipedia editors to spend time and effort to retrieve and understand information that is sometimes ambiguous, complex, and contradictory. This makes a good case study for identifying different types of uncertainty, as well as delineating strategies for managing uncertainty. Despite recent research that explores how the general population expresses uncertainty during crisis events on social media platforms, limited work has focused explicitly on how Wikipedia editors express uncertainty while editing articles when knowledge or background information is either incomplete or unknown. Thus, the goals of this study are to identify types of uncertainty expressed by Wikipedia editors during new disease outbreaks, and examine different strategies deployed by Wikipedia editors to manage uncertainty. Our findings may be used to build a theoretically and empirically-driven framework to better understand and manage uncertainty on Wikipedia.
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Uncertainty During New Disease Outbreaks inWikipedia
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Accepted/In Press date: 17 March 2019
Published date: 7 June 2019
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ISSN 2334-0770
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