Visualizing and Exploring Evolving Information Networks in Wikipedia

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Visualizing and Exploring Evolving Information Networks in Wikipedia
Authors
Ee-Peng Lim
Agus Trisnajaya Kwee
Nelman Lubis Ibrahim
Aixin Sun
Anwitaman Datta
Kuiyu Chang
Maureen Maureen
Publication date
2010
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-13654-2_7
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Visualizing and Exploring Evolving Information Networks in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Ee-Peng Lim, Agus Trisnajaya Kwee, Nelman Lubis Ibrahim, Aixin Sun, Anwitaman Datta, Kuiyu Chang and Maureen Maureen.

Overview

Information networks in Wikipedia evolve as users collaboratively edit articles that embed the networks. These information networks represent both the structure and content of community's knowledge and the networks evolve as the knowledge gets updated. By observing the networks evolve and finding their evolving patterns, one can gain higher order knowledge about the networks and conduct longitudinal network analysis to detect events and summarize trends. In this paper, authors present SSNetViz+, a visual analytic tool to support visualization and exploration of Wikipedia's information networks. SSNetViz+ supports time-based network browsing, content browsing and search. Using a terrorism information network as an example, authors show that different timestamped versions of the network can be interactively explored. As information networks in Wikipedia are created and maintained by collaborative editing efforts, the edit activity data are also shown to help detecting interesting events that may have happened to the network. SSNetViz+ also supports temporal queries that allow other relevant nodes to be added so as to expand the network being analyzed.