Breaking News on Wikipedia: Dynamics, Structures, and Roles in High-Tempo Collaboration

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Breaking News on Wikipedia: Dynamics, Structures, and Roles in High-Tempo Collaboration
Authors
Brian Keegan
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1145/2141512.2141609
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Breaking News on Wikipedia: Dynamics, Structures, and Roles in High-Tempo Collaboration - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Brian Keegan.

Overview

The goal of my research is to evaluate how distributed virtual teams are able to use socio-technical systems like Wikipedia to self-organize and respond to complex tasks. Author examine the roles Wikipedians adopt to synthesize content about breaking news events out of a noisy and complex information space. Using data from Wikipedia's revision histories as well as from other sources like IRC logs, Author employ methods in content analysis, statistical network analysis, and trace ethnography to illuminate the multilevel processes which sustain these temporary collaborations as well as the dynamics of how they emerge and dissolve.