@inproceedings{77f7d2c3a1914a12a7bb1fdb8edd4083,
title = "Not at home on the range: Peer production and the Urban/Rural divide",
abstract = "Wikipedia articles about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and intelligent technologies. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of the peer production model across the rural/urban divide, a divide that has been shown to be an important factor in many online social systems. We find that in both Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, peer-produced content about rural areas is of systematically lower quality, is less likely to have been produced by contributors who focus on the local area, and is more likely to have been generated by automated software agents (i.e. {"}bots{"}). We then codify the systemic challenges inherent to characterizing rural phenomena through peer production and discuss potential solutions.",
keywords = "OpenStreetMap, Peer production, Rural, Urban, Wikipedia",
author = "Johnson, {Isaac L.} and Yilun Lin and Li, {Toby Jia Jun} and Andrew Hall and Aaron Halfaker and Johannes Scheming and Brent Hecht",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016 ; Conference date: 07-05-2016 Through 12-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/2858036.2858123",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "13--25",
booktitle = "CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}