Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social Networks: an Insight from Wikipedia
Authors | Nikolaos Th. Korfiatis Marios Poulos George Bokos |
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Publication date | 2006 |
DOI | 10.1108/14684520610675780 |
Links | Original |
Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social Networks: an Insight from Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2006, written by Nikolaos Th. Korfiatis, Marios Poulos and George Bokos.
Overview
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring environments, and in particular, Wikis using social network measures.Design/methodology/approach – A social network model for Wikipedia has been constructed, and metrics of importance such as centrality have been defined. Data has been gathered from articles belonging to the same topic using a web crawler, in order to evaluate the outcome of the social network measures in the articles.Findings – Finds that the question of the reliability regarding Wikipedia content is a challenging one and as Wikipedia grows, the problem becomes more demanding, especially for topics with controversial views such as politics or history.Practical implications – It is believed that the approach presented here could be used to improve the authoritativeness of content found in Wikipedia and similar sources.Originality/value – This work tries to develop a network approach to the evaluation of Wiki contributions, ...
