Aaron Halfaker | |
|---|---|
 Halfaker in 2013 | |
| Born | December 27, 1983 |
| Alma mater |
The College of St. Scholastica (BS) University of Minnesota (PhD) [5] [6] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions |
Microsoft Research Wikimedia Foundation Google [2] |
| Thesis | Maintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: A case study of wikipedia (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | John T. Riedl [3] |
| Website |
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Aaron Halfaker ( /ˈhæfeɪkər/; born December 27, 1983) is a principal applied scientist at Microsoft Research. [1] [7] [2] He previously served as a research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation until 2020. [8] [9] [10]
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. [11] He subsequently earned a PhD in computer science from the GroupLens Research lab at the University of Minnesota in 2013. [3]
Career and research
Halfaker is known for his research on Wikipedia [12] [13] and the decrease in the number of active editors of the site. [14] [15] [16] He has said in autumn 2013 that Wikipedia began a "decline phase" around 2007 and has continued to decline since then. [17] [18] Halfaker has also studied software agents (bots) on Wikipedia, [19] and the way they affect new contributors to the site. [8] While a graduate student he developed a tool for Wikipedia editing called Snuggle with Stuart Geiger. Snuggle tackles vandalism on Wikipedia and highlights constructive contributions by new editors. [20] [21] He has also built an artificial intelligence (AI) service called Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES) in 2015, used to identify vandalism on Wikipedia and distinguish it from good faith edits. [22] [23]
References
- ^ a b Aaron Halfaker publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b "AARON HALFAKER PHD" (PDF). microsoft.com. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
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b Halfaker, Aaron (2013).
Maintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: A case study of wikipedia. umn.edu (PhD thesis). University of Minnesota.
hdl:
11299/162489.
OCLC
1194828572.
ProQuest
3607902.
- ^ Halfaker, Aaron (31 January 2017). "Twitter status". Twitter.
- ^ "Wicked Smart: 5 questions with U of M PhD and Wikipedian Aaron Halfaker". TechMN. 11 December 2013. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ "Aaron Halfaker Curriculum Vitae".
- ^ "Aaron Halfaker at Microsoft Research". Microsoft.
- ^ a b Hicks, Jesse (18 February 2014). "This machine kills trolls". The Verge. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ Simon, Matt (1 March 2017). "Internet Bots Fight Each Other Because They're All Too Human". Wired. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ "Staff and Contractors". Wikimedia Foundation. 12 November 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
- ^ Clark, Valerie. "Computer science alum making headlines through work at Wikipedia". Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ Halfaker, Aaron; Kittur, Aniket; Riedl, John (2011). "Don't bite the newbies". Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. pp. 163–172. doi: 10.1145/2038558.2038585. ISBN 9781450309097. S2CID 2818300.
- ^ Panciera, Katherine; Halfaker, Aaron; Terveen, Loren (2009). "Wikipedians are born, not made". Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. pp. 51–60. doi: 10.1145/1531674.1531682. ISBN 9781605585000. S2CID 6286454.
- ^ Nosowitz, Dan (January 28, 2013). "Wikipedia is getting Worse as it gets Better". Popular Science. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ Halfaker, A.; Geiger, R. S.; Morgan, J. T.; Riedl, J. (28 December 2012). "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia's Reaction to Popularity Is Causing Its Decline". American Behavioral Scientist. 57 (5): 664–688. doi: 10.1177/0002764212469365. S2CID 144208941.
- ^ LeJacq, Yannick (2 February 2013). "Wikipedia Reaches 3 Billion Monthly Mobile Views Amid Concerns About Contributor Content". International Business Times. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ Jacobs, Harrison (22 November 2013). "Wikipedia Could Degenerate If It Can't Fix One Big Problem". Business Insider. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ Simonite, Tom (22 October 2013). "The Decline of Wikipedia". technologyreview.com. MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ Kloc, Joe (25 February 2014). "Wikipedia Is Edited by Bots. That's a Good Thing". newsweek.com. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ Baker, Katie (31 October 2013). "Wikipedia's Wobbling (Citation Needed)". newsweek.com. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ Matias, J. Natian (8 June 2015). "The Tragedy of the Digital Commons". theatlantic.com. The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Metz, Cade (1 December 2015). "Wikipedia Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors". Wired. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ^ Simonite, Tom (1 December 2015). "Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
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