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10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job
Richard Littauer, Greg Wilson, Jan Ainali +19
Loss of key personnel has always been a risk for research software projects. Key members of the team may have to step away due to illness or burnout, to care for a family member, f…
Countering underproduction of peer produced goods
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
Peer produced goods such as online knowledge bases and free/libre open source software rely on contributors who often choose their tasks regardless of consumer needs. These goods a…
The Introduction of README and CONTRIBUTING Files in Open Source Software Development
Matthew Gaughan, Kaylea Champion, Sohyeon Hwang +1
README and CONTRIBUTING files can serve as the first point of contact for potential contributors to free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) projects. Prominent open source soft…
Life Histories of Taboo Knowledge Artifacts
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
Communicating about some vital topics -- such as sexuality and health -- is treated as taboo and subjected to censorship. How can we construct knowledge about these topics? Wikiped…
Engineering Formality and Software Risk in Debian Python Packages
Matthew Gaughan, Kaylea Champion, Sohyeon Hwang
While free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) is critical to global computing infrastructure, the maintenance of widely-adopted FLOSS packages is dependent on volunteer develop…
Challenges in Restructuring Community-based Moderation
Chau Tran, Kejsi Take, Kaylea Champion +2
Content moderation practices and technologies need to change over time as requirements and community expectations shift. However, attempts to restructure existing moderation practi…
Sources of Underproduction in Open Source Software
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
Because open source software relies on individuals who select their own tasks, it is often underproduced -- a term used by software engineering researchers to describe when a piece…
Taboo and Collaborative Knowledge Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
By definition, people are reticent or even unwilling to talk about taboo subjects. Because subjects like sexuality, health, and violence are taboo in most cultures, important infor…
The Risks, Benefits, and Consequences of Prepublication Moderation: Evidence from 17 Wikipedia Language Editions
Chau Tran, Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill +1
Many online communities rely on postpublication moderation where contributors, even those that are perceived as being risky, are allowed to publish material immediately and where m…
Qualities of Quality: A Tertiary Review of Software Quality Measurement Research
Kaylea Champion, Sejal Khatri, Benjamin Mako Hill
This paper presents a tertiary review of software quality measurement research. To conduct this review, we examined an initial dataset of 7,811 articles and found 75 relevant and h…
Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
The widespread adoption of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) means that the ongoing maintenance of many widely used software components relies on the collaborative effort…
Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective
Kaylea Champion
What factors influence the decision to vandalize? Although the harm is clear, the benefit to the vandal is less clear. In many cases, the thing being damaged may itself be somethin…
A Forensic Qualitative Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Anonymity Seeking Users
Kaylea Champion, Nora McDonald, Stephanie Bankes +4
By choice or by necessity, some contributors to commons-based peer production sites use privacy-protecting services to remain anonymous. As anonymity seekers, users of the Tor netw…
Are anonymity-seekers just like everybody else? An analysis of contributions to Wikipedia from Tor
Chau Tran, Kaylea Champion, Andrea Forte +2
User-generated content sites routinely block contributions from users of privacy-enhancing proxies like Tor because of a perception that proxies are a source of vandalism, spam, an…