A Model for Information Growth in Collective Wisdom Processes

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A Model for Information Growth in Collective Wisdom Processes
Authors
Sanmay Das
Malik Magdon-Ismail
Publication date
2012
ISSN
15564681
DOI
10.1145/2297456.2297458
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A Model for Information Growth in Collective Wisdom Processes - scientific work about Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Sanmay Das and Malik Magdon-Ismail.

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Collaborative media such as wikis have become enormously successful venues for information creation. Articles accrue information through the asynchronous editing of users who arrive both seeking information and possibly able to contribute information. Most articles stabilize to high-quality, trusted sources of information representing the collective wisdom of all the users who edited the article. Authors propose a model for information growth which relies on two main observations: (i) as an article's quality improves, it attracts visitors at a faster rate (a rich-get-richer phenomenon); and, simultaneously, (ii) the chances that a new visitor will improve the article drops (there is only so much that can be said about a particular topic). Their model is able to reproduce many features of the edit dynamics observed on Wikipedia; in particular, it captures the observed rise in the edit rate, followed by 1/t decay. Despite differences in the media, authors also document similar features in the comment rates for a segment of the LiveJournal blogosphere.

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Das, Sanmay; Magdon-Ismail, Malik. (2012). "[[A Model for Information Growth in Collective Wisdom Processes]]". ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2012, Article number 6. ISSN: 15564681. DOI: 10.1145/2297456.2297458.

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Das, Sanmay; Magdon-Ismail, Malik. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/A_Model_for_Information_Growth_in_Collective_Wisdom_Processes">A Model for Information Growth in Collective Wisdom Processes</a>&quot;. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2012, Article number 6. ISSN: 15564681. DOI: 10.1145/2297456.2297458.