Intellectual Interchanges in the History of the Massive Online Open-Editing Encyclopedia, Wikipedia
Authors | Jinhyuk Yun Sang Hoon Lee Hawoong Jeong Hawoong Jeong |
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Publication date | 2016 |
DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012307 |
Links | Original Preprint |
Intellectual Interchanges in the History of the Massive Online Open-Editing Encyclopedia, Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2016, written by Jinhyuk Yun, Sang Hoon Lee, Hawoong Jeong and Hawoong Jeong.
Overview
Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia with an enormous amount of content. This encyclopedia is written by volunteers with various backgrounds in a collective fashion; anyone can access and edit most of the articles. This open-editing nature may give us prejudice that Wikipedia is an unstable and unreliable source; yet many studies suggest that Wikipedia is even more accurate and self-consistent than traditional encyclopedias. Scholars have attempted to understand such extraordinary credibility, but usually used the number of edits as the unit of time, without consideration of real time. In this work, authors probe the formation of such collective intelligence through a systematic analysis using the entire history of 34534110 English Wikipedia articles, between 2001 and 2014. From this massive data set, authors observe the universality of both timewise and lengthwise editing scales, which suggests that it is essential to consider the real-time dynamics. By considering real time, authors find the existence of distinct growth patterns that are unobserved by utilizing the number of edits as the unit of time. To account for these results, authors present a mechanistic model that adopts the article editing dynamics based on both editor-editor andeditor-articleinteractions.ThemodelsuccessfullygeneratesthekeypropertiesofrealWikipediaarticlessuch as distinct types of articles for the editing patterns characterized by the interrelationship between the numbers of edits and editors, and the article size. In addition, the model indicates that infrequently referred articles tend to grow faster than frequently referred ones, and articles attracting a high motivation to edit counterintuitively reduce the number of participants. Authors suggest that this decay of participants eventually brings inequality among the editors, which will become more severe with time.
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Yun, Jinhyuk; Lee, Sang Hoon; Jeong, Hawoong; Jeong, Hawoong. (2016). "[[Intellectual Interchanges in the History of the Massive Online Open-Editing Encyclopedia, Wikipedia]]". Phys Rev E. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012307.
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Yun, Jinhyuk; Lee, Sang Hoon; Jeong, Hawoong; Jeong, Hawoong. (2016). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Intellectual_Interchanges_in_the_History_of_the_Massive_Online_Open-Editing_Encyclopedia,_Wikipedia">Intellectual Interchanges in the History of the Massive Online Open-Editing Encyclopedia, Wikipedia</a>". Phys Rev E. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012307.
