Wikipedia Customization through Web

Augmentation Techniques

ONEKIN Research Group

University of the Basque Country (Spain) 27th -29th August, 2012

WikiSym’12, Linz, Austria

Oscar Díaz, Cristóbal Arellano, Gorka Puente

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Augmented Reality vs

Web Augmentation

Motivating Scenarios

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AUGMENTED REALITY

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WEB AUGMENTATION

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Original Augmented

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Augmented Reality vs Augmented Web

Augmented Reality

Live view of a physical real-world

environment

whose elements are augmented by

virtual computer-generated sounds

or graphics

Augmented Web

Live view of a web page

whose elements are augmented by

client-side HTML markup

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WHY WIKIPEDIA AUGMENTATION?

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Why Wikipedia Augmentation?

Editions backed by the community: personalized exploration

Public scrutiny may intimidate: protected setting

Annotation-like mechanism: lowers participation barrier

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HOW WIKIPEDIA AUGMENTATION?

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How Wikipedia Augmentation?

Affordable (open): complexity similar to wikitext

Modular (organic): augmentation can grow or shrink at user’s wish

Shareable (observable): easy to understand, share and install by the rest of the community

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OUR APPROACH: WIKILAYER

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WikiLayer

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Layer

wikinote

wikinote

wikinote

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WikiLayer Mode

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MOTIVATING SCENARIOS

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WikiLayer for Readers

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Layers as entryways to editing

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WikiLayer for Readers

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WikiLayer for Contributors

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Layers as enablers of perspective co-existence

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WikiLayer for Contributors

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EmbedNote as User’s section

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WikiLayer for Editors

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Layers as productivity tools

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WikiLayer for Editors

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WIKILAYER FUNCTIONALITY

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CONCLUSIONS

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Conclusions

WikiLayer: an augmentation tool for wikipedians

Content user-generated or extracted from websites

The wiki way: affordable, modular and shareable

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Conclusions

Next, validate the following hypothesis: • Readers using layers become contributors

• Layers are appropriate to collect content

• Layer-based surveillance leads to frequent

monitoring, improving article quality

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http://webaugmentation.org/wikilayer.xpi

@gorkapuente gorka.puente@ehu.es