The Community Data Science Collective is heading to CSCW 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 10–14. Mako Hill, Kaylea Champion, Nate TeBlunthuis, and Yiwei Wu will be there. We hope you’ll join us at any of the sessions below.
Tuesday, October 13, 2:30 pm (Skylight Ballroom, Crowdsourcing & Peer Production)
Nate TeBlunthuis will present “The Relational Origins of Rules in Online Communities,” a paper with an all-CDSC author list of Charles Kiene, Sohyeon Hwang, Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis, Aaron Shaw, and Benjamin Mako Hill. Although Charles Kiene sadly won’t be there to present it, the paper reflects his excellent dissertation work. (full paper)
In the same session, Leah Ajmani will present “Sanctioned by Others: Remediating Knowledge Exclusion on Wikipedia Through Design” by Leah Ajmani, Moyan Zhou, Tanja Andic, Amber Berson, Isaac Johnson, Benjamin Mako Hill, Rebecca Maung, Sneha Narayan, Sarah Severson, Loren Terveen, and Stevie Chancellor. The paper received a DEI Recognition. (full paper)
Wednesday, October 14, 9:00 am (Salon E, Decentralized Social Media)
Yiwei Wu will present “AI Didn’t Start the Fire: Examining the Stack Exchange Moderator and Contributor Strike” by Yiwei Wu, Leah Ajmani, Nathan TeBlunthuis, and Hanlin Li. (blog post, full paper)
The same session will also have “Understanding Community-Level Blocklists in Decentralized Social Media” by Owen Xingjian Zhang, Sohyeon Hwang (CDSC alum and affiliate), Yuhan Liu, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández (CDSC affiliate). (full paper)
Wednesday, October 14, 11:00 am (Salon D, Lasting Impact Award)
Benjamin Mako Hill will give a talk in the Lasting Impact Award session honoring Aniket Kittur and Robert Kraut’s now-classic CSCW 2008 paper, “Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in Wikipedia: Quality through coordination.”
Saturday, October 10, 9:00 am–5:30 pm (Snowbird)
Beyond the main conference, Matt Gaughan, Kaylea Champion, and Benjamin Mako Hill are co-organizing the workshop Beyond Productivity: AI, Community, and Sustainability in Open Source Software with Eli Min, Hana Frluckaj, Kevin Crowston, and James Howison. The workshop looks at how generative AI and agentic coding are changing newcomer participation, maintainer burden, trust, and sustainability in open source communities.
We look forward to meeting you all in person at CSCW!
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