"We Need a Woman in Music": Exploring Wikipedia's Values on Article Priority
Mo Houtti, Isaac Johnson, Joel Cepeda, Soumya Khandelwal, Aviral, Bhatnagar, Loren Terveen

TL;DR
This paper examines how Wikipedia prioritizes articles based on community values, analyzing discussions and comparing prioritization methods to promote balanced representation of gender and geography.
Contribution
It introduces a framework for understanding Wikipedia's article prioritization based on community discussions and evaluates different methods for balancing global representation.
Findings
Priorities depend on article importance and impact on diversity
Different prioritization methods significantly affect gender and geographic balance
Recommender systems should incorporate community values for better prioritization
Abstract
Wikipedia -- like most peer production communities -- suffers from a basic problem: the amount of work that needs to be done (articles to be created and improved) exceeds the available resources (editor effort). Recommender systems have been deployed to address this problem, but they have tended to recommend work tasks that match individuals' personal interests, ignoring more global community values. In English Wikipedia, discussion about Vital articles constitutes a proxy for community values about the types of articles that are most important, and should therefore be prioritized for improvement. We first analyzed these discussions, finding that an article's priority is considered a function of 1) its inherent importance and 2) its effects on Wikipedia's global composition. One important example of the second consideration is balance, including along the dimensions of gender and…
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