维基百科机器人群体性编纂过程中的知识与话语权研究

Knowledge and Discoursive Power: Group Compilation of Wikipedia Robots

维基百科全书存在着一个群体性、自组织的线上社区。在这个社区中,不仅活跃着众多来自不同国家、民族、文化和语言背景的人类群体,还存在着大量功能、地位、目的和职责彼此不同的机器人群体。这些人类和机器人共同维护着维基社区,通过撰写、修改、讨论、斗争、妥协和配合等一系列编纂行为全面提升维基百科全书条目的质量。在这一过程中,机器人不仅是人类力量的增强器,还是拥有独立账户的行动者。它们一方面被人类用户设置了严格的编辑门槛,另一方面依靠虚拟空间赋予的"生理"权力、维基社区赋予的"身份"权力、维基平台赋予的算法权力,在生产、保存、分类、分配知识的过程中,生成了机器自身独特的认知经验,同时逐渐消解着"人类中心主义"。

There is a collective self-organizing online community in Wikipedia. In this community, not only are there many human groups from different countries, nationalities, cultures and linguistic backgrounds, but also a large number of bots with different functions, status, purposes and responsibilities. These humans and bots work together to maintain the Wiki community and improve the quality of Wikipedia entries through writing, modifying, discussing, fighting, compromising, and cooperating. In the process of entry compilation, these bots are not only enhancers of human power, but also actors with independent accounts. On the one hand, human users set a strict compilation threshold on these bots. On the other hand, these bots rely on the physical power given by virtual space, the identity power given by the Wiki community, and the algorithm power given by Wiki platform. In the process of knowledge production, preservation, classification and distribution, the machines’ unique cognitive experience is gradually generated, and at the same time, "anthropocentrism" is being dispelled.