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Aaron Halfaker
Born (1983-12-27) December 27, 1983 (age 40)
Virginia, Minnesota[4]
Alma materThe College of St. Scholastica (BS)
University of Minnesota (PhD)[5][6]
Scientific career
Fields
  • Wikipedia
  • Social Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer-supported cooperative work[1]
    • InstitutionsMicrosoft Research
    Wikimedia Foundation
    Google[2]
    ThesisMaintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: A case study of wikipedia (2013)
    Doctoral advisorJohn T. Riedl[3]
    Halfaker's voice

    recorded January 2017
    Websitehalfaker.info

    Aaron Halfaker (/ˈhæfeɪkər/; born December 27, 1983) is 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 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), used to identify vandalism on Wikipedia and distinguish it from good faith edits.[22][23]

    References

    1. ^ a b Aaron Halfaker publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  • ^ a b "AARON HALFAKER PHD" (PDF). microsoft.com. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  • ^ a 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. Free access icon
  • ^ 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". WikiSym '11: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration: 163–172. doi:10.1145/2038558.2038585. ISBN 9781450309097. S2CID 2818300.
  • ^ Panciera, Katherine; Halfaker, Aaron; Terveen, Loren (2009). "Wikipedians are born, not made". GROUP '09: Proceedings of the ACM 2009 International Conference on Supporting Group Work: 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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