2018/09/02 by Anamika Chhabra, Chhabra, Anamika, S. R. S. Iyengar +2
Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods #Open Source Software Innovations #Wikis in Education and Collaboration #cs.CY
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1809.00349
10 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables (A preliminary version of this paper is available in the proceedings of OpenSym 2018), "Characterizing the Triggering Phenomenon in Wikipedia." Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. ACM, 2018
arxiv created 2018/09/02 · openalex publication_date 2018/09/02 · arxiv updated 2018/09/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In collaborative knowledge building settings, the existing knowledge in the system is perceived to set stage for the manifestation of more knowledge, termed as the phenomenon of triggering. Although the literature points to a few theories supporting the existence of this phenomenon, these have never been validated in real collaborative environments, thus questioning their general prevalence. In this work, we provide a mechanized way to observe the presence of triggering in knowledge building environments. We implement the method on the most-edited articles of Wikipedia and show how the existing factoids lead to the inclusion of more factoids in these articles. The proposed technique may further be used in other collaborative knowledge building settings as well. The insights obtained from the study will help the portal designers to build portals enabling optimal triggering.