Managing Conflicts Between Users in Wikipedia

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Managing Conflicts Between Users in Wikipedia
Authors
Bernard Jacquemin
Aurélien Lauf
Céline Poudat
Martine Hurault-Plantet
Nicolas Auray
Publication date
2008
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Managing Conflicts Between Users in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2008, written by Bernard Jacquemin, Aurélien Lauf, Céline Poudat, Martine Hurault-Plantet and Nicolas Auray.

Overview

Wikipedia is nowadays a widely used encyclopedia, and one of the most visible sites on the Internet. Its strong principle of collaborative work and free editing sometimes generates disputes due to disagreements between users. In this article authors study how the wikipedian community resolves the conflicts and which roles do wikipedian choose in this process. Authors observed the users behavior both in the article talk pages, and in the Arbitration Committee pages specifically dedicated to serious disputes. Authors first set up a users typology according to their involvement in conflicts and their publishing and management activity in the encyclopedia. Authors then used those user types to describe users behavior in contributing to articles that are tagged by the wikipedian community as being in conflict with the official guidelines of Wikipedia, or conversely as being well featured.

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Jacquemin, Bernard; Lauf, Aurélien; Poudat, Céline; Hurault-Plantet, Martine; Auray, Nicolas. (2008). "[[Managing Conflicts Between Users in Wikipedia]]".

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Jacquemin, Bernard; Lauf, Aurélien; Poudat, Céline; Hurault-Plantet, Martine; Auray, Nicolas. (2008). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Managing_Conflicts_Between_Users_in_Wikipedia">Managing Conflicts Between Users in Wikipedia</a>&quot;.