Presentation

Hello - we are Amanda, Bruno, Franny, Hector and Yosuke of the Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems course. Feedback from people who use and are familiar with Wikipedia/Wikimedia is an extremely important part of formulating our proposed solution, and we thank you for your interest and contributions. We only ask that you direct your comments and input to the other Future of Wikipedia pages, and allow us to use this Presentation page to create our final class presentation. We look forward to hearing from you!

Introduction

[Hector to fill in]

- overview of problems considered (e.g. governance, community, etc.)

- participation and interest phenomenon

- community?

Selected Key Problems to Address

[Yosuke to describe these problems]

(1) quality of content

(2) decreasing editor base and motivations

(3) outreach and public relations

Different Perspectives on the Key Problems

[Bruno and Franny]

- Bridgespan

- Wikimedia

- Wikipedia Review

- general public (Mechanical Turk responses)

[INSERT EXCEL RESULTS]

Analysis

[Bruno and Franny]

- must reach user base outside Wikipedia-cosm

- what demographic are we reaching out to? how will we reach that demographic?

- utilizing crowdsourcing techniques to highlight disputed content

- strengthening relationship to secondary school system

Proposed Solution

(1) Create an application plug in for the purposes of:

• highlighting incorrect information and creating an accessible database issues;
• reaching out to readers of Wikipedia and drawing them into the Wikipedia editor community.

[Amanda to fill in] We envision an application plug-in that sits as an icon on the user's browser toolbar. When the user comes across an article they believe to be incorrect, they can open the icon into a simple horizontal toolbar across the bottom of the page.

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(2) Launch a campaign to increase Wikipedia's user base: Donate edits to Wikipedia.

Implementation

1. Name application

2. Reach out to Mozilla community to build proposed FireFox application extension.

3. Work with Wikimedia/Bridgespan to incorporate

Future Steps

- filtering/sorting a landing page -see Community Portal (Help Us Out)

- plug in landing page to something similar to Aardvark

- integration with banner and other promotional techniques on Wikipedia pages

- lesson plan proposal