A Latent Space Analysis of Editor Lifecycles in Wikipedia

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A Latent Space Analysis of Editor Lifecycles in Wikipedia
Authors
Xiangju Qin
Derek Greene
Pádraig Cunningham
Publication date
2015
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-29009-6_3
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A Latent Space Analysis of Editor Lifecycles in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Xiangju Qin, Derek Greene and Pádraig Cunningham.

Overview

Collaborations such as Wikipedia are a key part of the value of the modern Internet. At the same time there is concern that these collaborations are threatened by high levels of member withdrawal. In this paper authors borrow ideas from topic analysis to study editor activity on Wikipedia over time using latent space analysis, which offers an insight into the evolving patterns of editor behaviour. This latent space representation reveals a number of different categories of editor e.g. Technical Experts, Social Networkers and authors show that it does provide a signal that predicts an editor's departure from the community. Authors also show that long term editors generally have more diversified edit preference and experience relatively soft evolution in their editor profiles, while short term editors generally distribute their contribution at random among the namespaces and categories of articles and experience considerable fluctuation in the evolution of their editor profiles.

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Qin, Xiangju; Greene, Derek; Cunningham, Pádraig. (2015). "[[A Latent Space Analysis of Editor Lifecycles in Wikipedia]]". Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29009-6_3.

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Qin, Xiangju; Greene, Derek; Cunningham, Pádraig. (2015). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/A_Latent_Space_Analysis_of_Editor_Lifecycles_in_Wikipedia">A Latent Space Analysis of Editor Lifecycles in Wikipedia</a>&quot;. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29009-6_3.