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==Career and research== |
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Halfaker is known for his research on [[Wikipedia]]<ref name="HalfakerKittur2011">{{cite |
Halfaker is known for his research on [[Wikipedia]]<ref name="HalfakerKittur2011">{{cite book|last1=Halfaker|first1=Aaron|last2=Kittur|first2=Aniket|last3=Riedl|first3=John|title=Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration |chapter=Don't bite the newbies |date=2011 |year=2011|pages=163–172|doi=10.1145/2038558.2038585|isbn=9781450309097|s2cid=2818300}}</ref><ref name="PancieraHalfaker2009">{{cite book|last1=Panciera|first1=Katherine|last2=Halfaker|first2=Aaron|last3=Terveen|first3=Loren|title=Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work |chapter=Wikipedians are born, not made |date=2009 |year=2009|pages=51–60|doi=10.1145/1531674.1531682|isbn=9781605585000|s2cid=6286454}}</ref> and the decrease in the number of active editors of the site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-01/wikipedia-getting-worse-it-gets-better|title=Wikipedia is getting Worse as it gets Better|last=Nosowitz|first=Dan|date=January 28, 2013|publisher=[[Popular Science]]|access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Halfaker|first1=A.|last2=Geiger|first2=R. S.|last3=Morgan|first3=J. T.|last4=Riedl|first4=J.|title=The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia's Reaction to Popularity Is Causing Its Decline|journal=American Behavioral Scientist|date=28 December 2012|volume=57|issue=5|pages=664–688|doi=10.1177/0002764212469365|s2cid=144208941}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ibtimes.com/wikipedia-reaches-3-billion-monthly-mobile-views-amid-concerns-about-contributor-content-1057556 | title=Wikipedia Reaches 3 Billion Monthly Mobile Views Amid Concerns About Contributor Content | work=International Business Times | date=2 February 2013 | access-date=11 December 2014 | author=LeJacq, Yannick}}</ref> He has said that Wikipedia began a "decline phase" around 2007 and has continued to decline since then.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-shows-wikipedias-huge-participation-problem-2013-11 | title=Wikipedia Could Degenerate If It Can't Fix One Big Problem | work=Business Insider | date=22 November 2013 | access-date=11 December 2014 | author=Jacobs, Harrison}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ | title=The Decline of Wikipedia | website=technologyreview.com | publisher=MIT Technology Review | date=22 October 2013 | access-date=13 March 2015 | author=Simonite, Tom | archive-date=19 June 2015 | archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150619205842/http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> Halfaker has also studied [[software agent]]s (bots) on Wikipedia,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newsweek.com/wikipedia-edited-bots-thats-good-thing-230234 | title=Wikipedia Is Edited by Bots. That's a Good Thing. | website=newsweek.com | date=25 February 2014 | access-date=11 December 2014 | author=Kloc, Joe}}</ref> and the way they affect new contributors to the site.<ref name=verge/> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newsweek.com/2013/11/01/wikipedias-wobbling-citation-needed-243876.html | title=Wikipedia's Wobbling (Cit{{not a typo|ation Nee}}ded) | website=newsweek.com | date=31 October 2013 | access-date=26 December 2014 | author=Baker, Katie}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/the-tragedy-of-the-digital-commons/395129/ | title=The Tragedy of the Digital Commons | publisher=The Atlantic|website=theatlantic.com | date=8 June 2015 | access-date=22 February 2016 | author=Matias, J. Natian}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-expand-the-ranks-of-human-editors/ | title=Wikipedia Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors | magazine=Wired | date=1 December 2015 | access-date=12 January 2016 | author=Metz, Cade}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/544036/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-make-wikipedia-friendlier-and-better/ | title=Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better | work=MIT Technology Review | date=1 December 2015 | access-date=22 February 2016 | author=Simonite, Tom}}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
Aaron Halfaker
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Born | (1983-12-27) December 27, 1983 (age 40) |
Alma mater | The College of St. Scholastica (BS) University of Minnesota (PhD)[5][6] |
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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] |
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Website | halfaker |
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]
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]
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]
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