Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social Networks: an Insight from Wikipedia

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Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social Networks: an Insight from Wikipedia
Authors
Nikolaos Th. Korfiatis
Marios Poulos
George Bokos
Publication date
2006
DOI
10.1108/14684520610675780
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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.

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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, ...

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Korfiatis, Nikolaos Th.; Poulos, Marios; Bokos, George. (2006). "[[Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social Networks: an Insight from Wikipedia]]". Emerald Group Publishing Limited. DOI: 10.1108/14684520610675780.

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Korfiatis, Nikolaos Th.; Poulos, Marios; Bokos, George. (2006). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Evaluating_Authoritative_Sources_Using_Social_Networks:_an_Insight_from_Wikipedia">Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social Networks: an Insight from Wikipedia</a>&quot;. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. DOI: 10.1108/14684520610675780.