Building a standpoints web to support decision-making in wikipedia

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. Keywords Online argumentation, Collaboration, Wikipedia, Decision Rationale, Deliberation, Sensemaking 

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Jodi Schneider
• Keywords: CSCW 2012, Decision Rationale, Scale Collaboration, Social Sciences, Web Conversations