Dalgali, Ayse, and Kevin Crowston. “Factors Influencing Approval of Wikipedia Bots”. Hawai’i International Conference on System Science, 2020, doi:10.24251/HICSS.2020.018.
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Author
Ayse Dalgali
Kevin Crowston
Abstract

<p>Before a Wikipedia bot is allowed to edit, the operator of the bot must get approval. The Bot Approvals Group (BAG), a committee of Wikipedia bot developers, users and editors, discusses each bot request to reach consensus regarding approval or denial. We examine factors related to approval of a bot by analyzing 100 bots’ project pages. The results suggest that usefulness, value-based decision making and the bot’s status (e.g., automatic or manual) are related to approval.

Year of Conference
2020
Conference Name
Hawai'i International Conference on System Science
Conference Location
Wailea, HI
DOI
10.24251/HICSS.2020.018
Refereed Designation
Refereed