Transitioned Medi

The Wikipedia Revolution: Crowds, Collaboration, Content and Curation Remaking the News Transitioned Media Conference Columbia Business School Andrew Lih May 21, 2010 University of Southern California http://andrewlih.com Twitter: Fuzheado Friday, May 21, 2010 1

Problem with Wikipedia... Works in practice, but not in theory by bored-now@ﬂickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NC License Friday, May 21, 2010 2

Ranking ComScore Top 5 (Nov 2009) Alexa Top 6 (Feb 2009) Since 2006, overtaken NY Times, Amazon, Fox Interactive, eBay, Time Warner sites Photo by: victoriapeckham@ﬂickr, Creative Commons Friday, May 21, 2010 3

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Larry Sanger by SimSullen, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License Friday, May 21, 2010 5

Jimmy Wales By WiLLGT09@ﬂickr, ﬁle is licensed under Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Friday, May 21, 2010 6

Ward Cunningham This ﬁle is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License Friday, May 21, 2010 7

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The Crowd at work Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow Friday, May 21, 2010 9

Wikipedia Lessons How has “the crowd” become part of the news process? Friday, May 21, 2010 10

User generated media Viewer-contributed content or Community-curated works Friday, May 21, 2010 11

Citizen journalists Are bloggers journalists? Some are, most aren’t. Friday, May 21, 2010 12

Pro-Am Journalism? Amateur Professional standards standards Noncommercial Most blogs and (amateur) usergen content Commercial (pro) Friday, May 21, 2010 13

OpenStreetmap Like Wikipedia of maps Contribute GPS “trails” and traces to project Creative Commons license Friday, May 21, 2010 14

OpenStreetmap Friday, May 21, 2010 15

OpenStreetmap - Haiti Using: Yahoo imagery CIA maps AFTER GeoEye BEFORE http://brainoff.com/weblog/2010/01/14/1518 Friday, May 21, 2010 16

Content Creation vs Curation Works Creation Works Curation Friday, May 21, 2010 17

Dan Gillmor Journalism is no longer a lecture. It is a conversation Friday, May 21, 2010 18

Lawrence Lessig “weirdly totalitarian” communications of the 20th century yields to “read/write” Friday, May 21, 2010 19

Leo Laporte, TWiT Mass media is not natural to the human condition... An artifact of a certain technological age Friday, May 21, 2010 20

Jay Rosen The people, formerly known as the audience Friday, May 21, 2010 21

Information Pyramid wisdom knowledge Information data Friday, May 21, 2010 22

Information Pyramid ? wisdom context, historical analysis knowledge press releases, live coverage, photos Information sports stats, weather metrics, ﬁnancial data Friday, May 21, 2010 23

Impact of Internet Media ? wisdom context, historical analysis knowledge commodity press releases, live coverage, photos user generated Information multiple sources sports, weather, ﬁnancial data Friday, May 21, 2010 24

Journalism Values editing fairness ? research accuracy storytelling wisdom balance curation transparency context, historical analysis knowledge commodity press releases, live coverage, photos user generated Information multiple sources sports, weather, ﬁnancial data Friday, May 21, 2010 25

Values What is true, credible? Arbiters, processes, systems Friday, May 21, 2010 26

Working the crowd Content... Creation vs Curation Friday, May 21, 2010 27

Citizen Journalists CNN iReport YouTube, Ustream.tv Flickr, Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 3.0 Wikimedia User:Didoundp Friday, May 21, 2010 28

Crowdsourcing - Discrete tasks Open Streetmap NASA Clickworkers Guardian UK TPM Muckraker Friday, May 21, 2010 29

NASA Clickworkers Volunteers, identifying and classifying the age of craters on Mars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickworkers Friday, May 21, 2010 30

Clickworkers vectorizing craters “accomplished in a week what a single graduate student would have needed a year to complete” The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain Friday, May 21, 2010 31

Crowdsourcing - Document dump UK expenses scandal (Guardian) US DOJ attorneys (TPM Muckraker) Friday, May 21, 2010 32

UK Parliament expenses scandal 20,000 volunteers comb through PDF documents http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/four-crowdsourcing-lessons-from-the-guardians-spectacular-expenses-scandal-experiment/ Friday, May 21, 2010 33

Wisdom of Crowds Online (Derek Powazek, SXSW2009) Small simple tasks Large diverse groups Design for selﬁshness Result aggregation Photo by: iskanderbenamor@ﬂickr, Creative Commons Friday, May 21, 2010 34

Attorneys scandal TPM Muckraker readers combed thru 3,000 emails In hours, crowd ID’ed “compromising passages” Result: MSM news stories, Polk Award http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9083501 Friday, May 21, 2010 35

Robert Niles (Theme Park Insider) “Crowdsouring... will stand along the traditional ‘big three’ of interviews, observation and examining documents” http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070731niles/ Friday, May 21, 2010 36

Journalism Values editing fairness ? research accuracy storytelling wisdom balance curation transparency context, historical analysis knowledge press releases, live coverage, photos Information sports, weather, ﬁnancial data Friday, May 21, 2010 37

Clay Shirky The problem is ﬁlter failure, not information overload Friday, May 21, 2010 38

Understanding Content Curation Crowd/ Audience Content | Curation Corporate/ Govt ? ? ? wisdom context, historical analysis knowledge press releases, live coverage, photos Information Wikipedia CNN iReport sports, weather, ﬁnancial data NASA Open TPM ThemePark Clickworkers Streetmap Muckraker Insider attorneys scandal Credit: Andrew Lih, University of Southern California Friday, May 21, 2010 39

Impact of Internet Media ? wisdom context, historical analysis knowledge press releases, live coverage, photos Information sports, weather, ﬁnancial data Friday, May 21, 2010 40

News industry Journalism not doomed but it is shifting to a permanent beta mode, disrupting legacy media Fortune at the top of the pyramid Friday, May 21, 2010 41

Journalism Values editing fairness ? research accuracy storytelling wisdom balance curation transparency context, historical analysis knowledge press releases, live coverage, photos Information sports, weather, ﬁnancial data Friday, May 21, 2010 42

THE WIKIPEDIA REVOLUTION U.S. $24.99 HOW A BUNCH OF NOBODIES CREATED THE WORLD’S “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of see GREATEST ENCYCLOPEDIA all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” —Jimmy Wales With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on y- e everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to nd Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer n- contributors, Wikipedia is the #8 site on the World Wide Web. Created (and corrected) by anyone with 3] it access to a computer, this impressive assemblage ] of knowledge is growing at an astonishing rate of d more than 30,000,000 words a month. Now for the How a Bunch of Nobodies Greatest Encyclopedia Created the World’s rson ﬁrst time, a Wikipedia insider tells the story of how it all happened—from the ﬁrst glimmer of an idea to the global phenomenon it’s become. Andrew Lih has been an administrator (a trusted user who is granted access to technical features) at Wikipedia for more than four years, as well as a ANDREW LIH regular host of the weekly Wikipedia podcast. In The Andrew Lih Wikipedia Revolution, he details the site’s inception in 2001, its evolution, and its remarkable growth, while also explaining its larger cultural repercussions. Wikipedia is not just a website; it’s a global commu- l ANDREW LIH nity of contributors who have banded together out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. Featuring a Foreword by Wikipedia founder Jimmy andrew@andrewlih.com Wales and an Afterword that is itself a Wikipedia creation. Twitter: Fuzheado Friday, May 21, 2010 43

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