Concept

Science is shaped by wikipedia experimental design

  • Wrote new scientific Wikipedia articles for chemistry and econometrics
  • Stratified the 43 chemistry articles into 3 blocks – article author, branch of knowledge, and types of topics. Within each block, half the articles were randomly assigned as treatment and the other half as control
  • Treatment articles uploaded to Wikipedia in January 2015
  • Control articles were not uploaded onto Wikipedia
  • If there is causation, then new articles added to Wikipedia should have a greater impact on the scientific community compared to new articles in the control group

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Updated 2021-01-21

Tags

CSCW (Computer-supported cooperative work)

Computing Sciences