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The FairCeptron: A Framework for Measuring Human Perceptions of Algorithmic Fairness
Georg Ahnert, Ivan Smirnov, Florian Lemmerich +2
Measures of algorithmic fairness often do not account for human perceptions of fairness that can substantially vary between different sociodemographics and stakeholders. The FairCe…
Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19 mobility restrictions
Thorsten Ruprechter, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tiago Santos +4
Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia ever created, is a global initiative driven by volunteer contributions. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and mobility restrictions ensued ac…
From Asking to Answering: Getting More Involved on Stack Overflow
Timur Bachschi, Aniko Hannak, Florian Lemmerich +1
Online knowledge platforms such as Stack Overflow and Wikipedia rely on a large and diverse contributor community. Despite efforts to facilitate onboarding of new users, relatively…
Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership
Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper +3
Wikipedia represents the largest and most popular source of encyclopedic knowledge in the world today, aiming to provide equal access to information worldwide. From a global online…
Quota-based debiasing can decrease representation of already underrepresented groups
Ivan Smirnov, Florian Lemmerich, Markus Strohmaier
Many important decisions in societies such as school admissions, hiring, or elections are based on the selection of top-ranking individuals from a larger pool of candidates. This p…
Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Maxime Peyrard +3
We study how the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the severe mobility restrictions that ensued, has impacted information access on Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia. A…
The Effects of Gender Signals and Performance in Online Product Reviews
Sandipan Sikdar, Rachneet Singh Sachdeva, Johannes Wachs +2
This work quantifies the effects of signaling and performing gender on the success of reviews written on the popular amazon shopping platform. Highly rated reviews play an importan…
Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers
Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Robert West +1
As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known abou…
Inferring Gender from Names on the Web: A Comparative Evaluation of Gender Detection Methods
Fariba Karimi, Claudia Wagner, Florian Lemmerich +2
Computational social scientists often harness the Web as a "societal observatory" where data about human social behavior is collected. This data enables novel investigations of psy…