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OpenSym '21: Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
ACM2021 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
OpenSym 2021: 17th International Symposium on Open Collaboration Online Spain September 15 - 17, 2021
ISBN:
978-1-4503-8500-8
Published:
15 October 2021
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Open Access
The platform belongs to those who work on it! Co-designing worker-centric task distribution models
Article No.: 1, Pages 1–12https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479987

Today, digital platforms are increasingly mediating our day-to-day work and crowdsourced forms of labour are progressively gaining importance (e.g. Amazon Mechanical Turk, Universal Human Relevance System, TaskRabbit). In many popular cases of ...

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Open data in digital strategies against COVID-19: the case of Belgium
Article No.: 2, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479988

COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of digital in the fight against the pandemic (control at the border, automated tracing, creation of databases...). In this research, we analyze the Belgian response in terms of open data. First, we examine the ...

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How makers responded to the PPE shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis focused on the Hauts-de-France region
Article No.: 3, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479989

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the confinement of populations in France on the one hand and to shortages of equipment on the other hand (in particular Personal Protective Equipment). The makers therefore mobilized worldwide to produce this medical ...

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From Open Science to Open Source (and beyond): A Historical Perspective on Open Practices without and with IT
Article No.: 4, Pages 1–11https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479990

Openness as organizational philosophy and theoretical concept has continuously gained importance over the past decades. While the adoption of open practices such as open-source development or crowdsourcing is primarily academically observed in the 20th ...

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Measuring Wikipedia Article Quality in One Dimension by Extending ORES with Ordinal Regression
Article No.: 5, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479991

Organizing complex peer production projects and advancing scientific knowledge of open collaboration each depend on the ability to measure quality. Wikipedia community members and academic researchers have used article quality ratings for purposes like ...

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Public Access
Quantifying the Gap: A Case Study of Wikidata Gender Disparities
Article No.: 6, Pages 1–12https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479992

Much prior research has found gender bias in peer production systems like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. This bias affects both women’s participation in these platforms and content about women on these platforms. We investigated the gender content gap in ...

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Implicit Visual Attention Feedback System for Wikipedia Users
Article No.: 7, Pages 1–11https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479993

The complex collaborative structure of Wikipedia has attracted researchers from various domains, such as social networks, human-computer interaction, and collective intelligence. Yet, a few focus on the readers’ perception of Wikipedia. Readers make up ...

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thons and Editor Experience: Lessons from a Participatory Observation
Article No.: 8, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479994

Wikipedia is one of the most important sources of encyclopedic knowledge and among the most visited websites on the internet. As a peer-produced knowledge repository, Wikipedia is dependent on its community of contributors. A healthy contributor ...

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Extracting and Visualizing User Engagement on Wikipedia Talk Pages
Article No.: 9, Pages 1–12https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479995

As Wikipedia has grown in popularity, it is important to investigate its diverse user community and collaborative editorial base. Although all user data, from traffic to user edits, are available for download under a free and open license, it is ...

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WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties
Article No.: 10, Pages 1–12https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479996

Compared to Wikipedia, Wikidata is a single domain website with the possibility to view information in multiple languages. Translation plays a significant role in Wikidata. Unlike Wikidata items, Wikidata properties are influenced less by translation ...

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Group Formation in a Cross-Classroom Collaborative Project-Based Learning Environment
Article No.: 11, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479997

Cross-Classroom Collaborative Project-Based Learning (C3PjBL) requires the formation of project-groups by pairing student-groups across classrooms. Unfortunately, due to the configuration of these groups, the group formation techniques found in the ...

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A Reference Model for Outside-in Open Innovation Platforms
Article No.: 12, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3479998

The Open Innovation paradigm has spread widely since 2003, and led to the emergence of Open Innovation Platforms as software systems aiming at supporting and facilitating open innovation initiatives and projects. This software domain has matured up to ...

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Open Access
Equal opportunities in the access to quality online health information? A multi-lingual study on Wikipedia
Article No.: 13, Pages 1–13https://doi.org/10.1145/3479986.3480000

Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, and collaborative online encyclopedia. Nowadays, it is one of the largest sources of online knowledge, often appearing at the top of the results of the major search engines, being one of the most sought-after resources ...

Contributors
  • Rey Juan Carlos University
  • Complutense University of Madrid
  • University of Calgary
  • Guru Nanak Dev University
  • University of Bayreuth

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Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 108 of 195 submissions, 55%
YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
OpenSym '20211257%
OpenSym '19231774%
OpenSym '18382771%
OpenSym '16492347%
OpenSym '14642945%
Overall19510855%