Pushing Your Point of View: Behavioral Measures of Manipulation in Wikipedia
Authors | Sanmay Das Allen Lavoie Malik Magdon-Ismail |
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Publication date | 2011 |
Links | Original Preprint |
Pushing Your Point of View: Behavioral Measures of Manipulation in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Sanmay Das, Allen Lavoie and Malik Magdon-Ismail.
Overview
As a major source for information on virtually any topic, Wikipedia serves an important role in public dissemination and consumption of knowledge. As a result, it presents tremendous potential for people to promulgate their own points of view; such efforts may be more subtle than typical vandalism. In this paper, authors introduce new behavioral metrics to quantify the level of controversy associated with a particular user: a Controversy Score (C-Score) based on the amount of attention the user focuses on controversial pages, and a Clustered Controversy Score (CC-Score) that also takes into account topical clustering. Authors show that both these measures are useful for identifying people who try to “push” their points of view, by showing that they are good predictors of which editors get blocked. The metrics can be used to triage potential POV pushers. Authors apply this idea to a dataset of users who requested promotion to administrator status and easily identify some editors who significantly changed their behavior upon becoming administrators. At the same time, such behavior is not rampant. Those who are promoted to administrator status tend to have more stable behavior than comparable groups of prolific editors. This suggests that the Adminship process works well, and that the Wikipedia community is not overwhelmed by users who become administrators to promote their own points of view.
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Das, Sanmay; Lavoie, Allen; Magdon-Ismail, Malik. (2011). "[[Pushing Your Point of View: Behavioral Measures of Manipulation in Wikipedia]]".
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{{cite journal |last1=Das |first1=Sanmay |last2=Lavoie |first2=Allen |last3=Magdon-Ismail |first3=Malik |title=Pushing Your Point of View: Behavioral Measures of Manipulation in Wikipedia |date=2011 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Pushing_Your_Point_of_View:_Behavioral_Measures_of_Manipulation_in_Wikipedia}}
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