Building a standpoints web to support decision-making in wikipedia

  • Authors:
  • Jodi Schneider

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Although the Web enables large-scale collaboration, its potential to support group decision-making has not been fully exploited. My research aims to analyze, extract, and represent disagreement in purposeful social web conversations. This supports decision-making in distributed groups by representing individuals' claims and their justifications in a "Standpoints Web", a hypertext web interlinking the claims and justifications made throughout the social web. The two main contributions of my dissertation are an architecture for the Standpoints Web and a case study implementing the Standpoints Web for Wikipedia's deletion discussions.