Pika: Empowering Non-Programmers to Author Executable Governance Policies in Online Communities
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| author | Wang, Leijie Vincent, Nicolas Rukanskaitė, Julija Zhang, Amy X. |
| author_facet | Wang, Leijie Vincent, Nicolas Rukanskaitė, Julija Zhang, Amy X. |
| contents | Internet users have formed a wide array of online communities with nuanced and diverse community goals and norms. However, most online platforms only offer a limited set of governance models in their software infrastructure and leave little room for customization. Consequently, technical proficiency becomes a prerequisite for online communities to build governance policies in code, excluding non-programmers from participation in designing community governance. In this paper, we present Pika, a system that empowers non-programmers to author a wide range of executable governance policies. At its core, Pika incorporates a declarative language that decomposes governance policies into modular components, thereby facilitating expressive policy authoring through a user-friendly, form-based web interface. Our user studies with 17 participants show that Pika can empower non-programmers to author governance policies approximately 2.5 times faster than programmers who author in code. We also provide insights about Pika's expressivity in supporting diverse policies that online communities want. |
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| spellingShingle | Pika: Empowering Non-Programmers to Author Executable Governance Policies in Online Communities Wang, Leijie Vincent, Nicolas Rukanskaitė, Julija Zhang, Amy X. Human-Computer Interaction Internet users have formed a wide array of online communities with nuanced and diverse community goals and norms. However, most online platforms only offer a limited set of governance models in their software infrastructure and leave little room for customization. Consequently, technical proficiency becomes a prerequisite for online communities to build governance policies in code, excluding non-programmers from participation in designing community governance. In this paper, we present Pika, a system that empowers non-programmers to author a wide range of executable governance policies. At its core, Pika incorporates a declarative language that decomposes governance policies into modular components, thereby facilitating expressive policy authoring through a user-friendly, form-based web interface. Our user studies with 17 participants show that Pika can empower non-programmers to author governance policies approximately 2.5 times faster than programmers who author in code. We also provide insights about Pika's expressivity in supporting diverse policies that online communities want. |
| title | Pika: Empowering Non-Programmers to Author Executable Governance Policies in Online Communities |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04329 |