Aaron Halfaker
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aaron Halfaker is a principal applied scientist at Microsoft Research. He previously served as a research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation until 2020. Education Halfaker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the College of St. Scholastica in 2006, where he started off as a physical therapy major but switched to computer science after taking a programming class with Diana Johnson. He subsequently earned a PhD in computer science from the GroupLens Research lab at the University of Minnesota in 2013.
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- Wikipedians are born, not made: a study of power editors on Wikipedia (2009) (279)
- The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System (2013) (248)
- Don't bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work (2011) (211)
- The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s Reaction to Popularity Is Causing Its Decline (2013) (125)
- A jury of your peers: quality, experience and ownership in Wikipedia (2009) (106)
- Using edit sessions to measure participation in wikipedia (2013) (87)
- Value-Sensitive Algorithm Design (2018) (76)
- When the levee breaks: without bots, what happens to Wikipedia's quality control processes? (2013) (70)
- Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide (2016) (65)
- User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-activity Time (2014) (65)
- ORES: Lowering Barriers with Participatory Machine Learning in Wikipedia (2019) (61)
- Identifying Semantic Edit Intentions from Revisions in Wikipedia (2017) (59)
- Bots and Cyborgs: Wikipedia's Immune System (2012) (56)
- Who Did What: Editor Role Identification in Wikipedia (2021) (55)
- Making peripheral participation legitimate: reader engagement experiments in wikipedia (2013) (53)
- Snuggle: designing for efficient socialization and ideological critique (2014) (44)
- Building Automated Vandalism Detection Tools for Wikidata (2017) (40)
- Keeping Community in the Loop: Understanding Wikipedia Stakeholder Values for Machine Learning-Based Systems (2020) (37)
- Interpolating Quality Dynamics in Wikipedia and Demonstrating the Keilana Effect (2017) (33)
- Defense Mechanism or Socialization Tactic? Improving Wikipedia's Notifications to Rejected Contributors (2012) (31)
- Operationalizing Conflict and Cooperation between Automated Software Agents in Wikipedia (2017) (29)
- Mapping Out Human-Centered Data Science: Methods, Approaches, and Best Practices (2020) (28)
- Bot Detection in Wikidata Using Behavioral and Other Informal Cues (2018) (25)
- Evaluating the impact of the Wikipedia Teahouse on newcomer socialization and retention (2018) (22)
- Simulation Experiments on (the Absence of) Ratings Bias in Reputation Systems (2017) (19)
- With Few Eyes, All Hoaxes are Deep (2018) (18)
- NICE: social translucence through UI intervention (2011) (15)
- Accept, decline, postpone: How newcomer productivity is reduced in English Wikipedia by pre-publication review (2014) (14)
- Edit Categories and Editor Role Identification in Wikipedia (2016) (10)
- Information Fortification: An Online Citation Behavior (2018) (9)
- ORES : Facilitating remediation of Wikipedia ’ s socio-technical problems (2018) (9)
- Defense Mechanism or Socialization Tactic? Improving (2012) (5)
- Advancing an Industry/Academic Partnership Model for Open Collaboration Research (2015) (5)
- Distance and Attraction: Gravity Models for Geographic Content Production (2018) (5)
- ORES (2020) (4)
- The effects of algorithmic flagging on fairness: quasi-experimental evidence from Wikipedia (2020) (4)
- Wikipedia ORES Explorer: Visualizing Trade-offs For Designing Applications With Machine Learning API (2021) (3)
- Open algorithmic systems: lessons on opening the black box from Wikipedia (2016) (2)
- Breaking into new Data-Spaces: Infrastructure for Open Community Science (2016) (2)
- Community, impact and credit: where should i submit my papers? (2013) (2)
- PreCall: A Visual Interface for Threshold Optimization in ML Model Selection (2019) (2)
- Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness (2021) (2)
- Snuggle (2014) (1)
- Maintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: a case study of wikipedia (2013) (1)
- On Improving Summarization Factual Consistency from Natural Language Feedback (2022) (1)
- Automatically Labeling Low Quality Content on Wikipedia By Leveraging Patterns in Editing Behaviors (2021) (0)
- Activity Sessions datasets (2015) (0)
- OPEN COMMUNITY HEALTH: WORKSHOP REPORT (2018) (0)
- Citations with contexts in Wikipedia (2017) (0)
- Mediawiki-Utilities: v0.4.11 (2015) (0)
- Mediawiki-Utilities: v0.4.12 (2015) (0)
- Wikimedia App View (2015) (0)
- WikiProjects Machine Readable Dataset (2017) (0)
- Mediawiki-Utilities: v0.4.16 (2015) (0)
- What aren't we measuring?: methods for quantifying wiki-work (2012) (0)
- Halfak/Are-The-Bots-Really-Fighting: Photo Ready (2017) (0)
- Advancing the OCDX: Building Social Computing Infrastructure (2017) (0)
- Session details: Newcomers in Peer Production (2016) (0)
- Session details: Paper Session: Metadata, Sensemaking and Depersonalization (2018) (0)
- Deltas -- Experimental Difference Algorithms (v0.0.2) (2014) (0)
- Halfak/Are-The-Bots-Really-Fighting: Prerelease (By Halfak) (2017) (0)
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