WikiVote!iadis-2012 AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT IMPROVEMENT
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IADIS WBC-CT 2012 An innovative approach to collaborative document improvement Vasiliy Burov, Yevgeny Patarakin, Boris Yarmakhov 1
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The paper describes an innovative approach to lawmaking. A draft of a law is split into segments and is improved by a network community which members can vote for the segments and suggest their own versions. The case of the Russian Law on Education crowdsourcing improvement is discussed.
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IADIS WBC-CT 2012
An innovative approach to collaborative
document improvement
Vasiliy Burov, Yevgeny Patarakin,
Boris Yarmakhov
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Problem
The problem we’re solving is collaborative improvement and evaluation of the structured documents Laws in drafts Concepts of development Strategy descriptions of the companies
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Solution
Wiki Solutions for Wicked Problems. Wiki as a Social Network with object-centered sociality
Elements of wiki-technology, idea-management and reputation systems are in the core of our solution: methodology software
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Related Works
«As we may think» together with Memex – new way of reading – Vannaver Bush - 1941
MetaTransitional Theory and Principia Cybernetica Web – Valentin Turchin - 1991
«WikiWay» of writing and editing – Ward Cunningham
Development of social services has led to emergence of such phenomena as the Wisdom of crowds, Crowdsourcing, Wikinomics, Groundswell, MetaDesign, and Participatory culture.
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WikiVote! on the Crowdsourcing Map
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1. Decomposition of a document is vital for a focused expertise and evaluation
2. Document creation and voting are more important than a discussion
3. The influence of a participant depends only on her effectiveness and community support
Principles of collaborative document improvement
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Principles of collaborative document improvementDecomposition
• Small pieces of text are more likely to provoke constructive feedback
Our approach:• Decompose the document and work
with fragments
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Principles of collaborative document improvementCreate, edit and vote instead of discussing
• Comments are hard to automatically analyse, rank and use
• Comments are more likely to provoke only emotional outburst instead of useful result
Our approach:• Encourage users to create their own
versions of the fragments of the documents
• Allow users to vote for fragments• Discourage users to comment
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Principles of collaborative document improvementInfluence management
Problems of simple voting systems:• Trey are vulnerable to a sock-
puppeting (Sybil attacks)• the voice of a smart minority isn’t
heard
Our approach:• Introduce the vote weight that is
dependent of the quality of participant’s contribution
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The generalized scheme of collaborative document expretise
Ranking and Evaluation
Initial Document Document Decomposition
Block Evaluation
The Document is Split into Blocks
Crowd Expert Community
Own Versions
Negative
Block Ranking
Positive
The Document is Composed of the Graduated
Blocks
Collaborative Editing
Final Version of Document
Conclusion on the ProcessConclusion
Preparation
Active ParticipantsBase
d on Rankin
g and Partic
ipation
Together with the Client
All Blocks can be Evaluated and Ranked
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Motivation and users reward
We improve the documents that will shape the future
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Case studies
Starting in 2010, a number of collaborative projects for the improvement of Russian Federation legislative proposals have taken place, including the following:• Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on
Education• Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on
Fisheries • Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on
Social Services • zakon.government.ru
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Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on Education
A recent case of the described strategy is the Russian Law on Education improvement implemented at http://edu.crowdexpert.ru/
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Scheme of work on the Law draft
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Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on Fisheries
Public consultations on the new Russian Bill on Fisheries (http://r.zakon-fom.ru/). It attracted more than 5 300 Russian Citizens, who made more than 2 000 comments and created about 300 versions of the
Bill items.
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Scheme of work on the Law draft
Users Versions Objects CommentsDraft v.1
5362808
672169
Draft v.2 287 1787
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Collaborative improvement of the Russian Law on Social Services
In September 05 – October 2011 we organized public consultations on the new Russian Law on Social Services draft http://s.zakon-fom.ru/ More than 1100 Russian citizens joined the project. They made more than 1000 comments and created about 400 versions of the items.
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zakon.government.ru
Based on the Wikivote platform, the zakon.government.ru site was launched on March 1st, 2012, providing a system for the public examination of draft laws of the Russian Federation.
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Results of the collaborative document improvement
Improved document
Human capital
Society loyalty
• The most voted versions form the improved document
• The most productive authors are selected for the next projects
• The public expertise give the society a better understanding of the law and increase the loyalty to a government
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Social-political Aspect – Wiki Solutions for Wicked Problems
• Effective conversion of the civic activists’ energy in a constructive collaboration with the government starting with a narrow field.
• Reducing the field of a social or political crisis by improving the social environment consideration.
• Search for the new solutions not noticed by the official experts.
• Expanding the expert network with skillful and knowledgeable experts.
