%0 Conference Proceedings %B Hawai'i International Conference on System Science %D 2020 %T Factors Influencing Approval of Wikipedia Bots %A Ayse Dalgali %A Kevin Crowston %X

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. This study may contribute to understanding decision making regarding the human-automation boundary and may lead to developing more efficient bots.

%B Hawai'i International Conference on System Science %C Wailea, HI %G eng %R 10.24251/HICSS.2020.018 %> https://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/HICSS_WikipediaPaper_3.9.new%20kc%20%282%29.pdf