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spir-8772	Geiger, R.Stuart; Halfaker, Aaron	Open algorithmic systems: lessons on opening the black box from Wikipedia	2016.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1378	74	39	In  the  English-­language  Wikipedia,  22  of  the  25  most  active  editors  are  bots,  and   in  January  2016,  they  made  28%  of  all  edits  to  pages  in  the  project  and  20%  of  all  edits   to  encyclopedia  articles.1  Bots  and  bot  developers  have  long  been  an  important  part  of   the  volunteer  community  of  editors.   OPEN  ALGORITHMIC  SYSTEMS:  LESSONS  ON  OPENING  THE  BLACK  BOX   FROM  WIKIPEDIA   R.  Stuart  Geiger,  Berkeley  Institute  for  Data  Science   Aaron  Halfaker,  Wikimedia  Foundation       Methodological  and  theoretical  overview   An  ethnography  of  algorithmic  governance     This  paper  reports  from  a  multi-­year  ethnographic  study  of  automated  software  agents   in  Wikipedia,  where  bots  have  fundamentally  transformed  the  nature  of  the  notoriously   decentralized,  ‘anyone  can  edit’  encyclopedia  project. 	cache/spir-8772.pdf	txt/spir-8772.txt