Social Networks of Wikipedia

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Social Networks of Wikipedia
Authors
Paolo Massa
Publication date
2011
DOI
10.1145/1995966.1995996
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Social Networks of Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Paolo Massa.

Overview

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia anyone can edit, is a live social experiment: millions of individuals volunteer their knowledge and time to collective create it. It is hence interesting trying to understand how they do it. While most of the scholar attention focused on article pages, a less investigated share of activities happen on user talk pages, Wikipedia pages where a message can be left for the specific user. This public conversations can be studied from a Social Network Analysis perspective in order to highlight the structure of the "talk" network. In this paper authors focus on this preliminary extraction step by proposing different algorithms. Authors then empirically validate the differences in the networks they generate on the Venetian Wikipedia with the real network of conversations extracted manually by coding every message left on all user talk pages. The comparisons show that both the algorithms and the manual process contain inaccuracies that are intrinsic in the freedom and unpredictability of Wikipedia syntax and practices. Nevertheless, a precise description of the involved issues allows to make informed decisions and to base empirical findings on reproducible evidence. Authors goal is to lay the foundation for a solid computational sociology of wikis. For this reason authors release the scripts encoding algorithms as open source and also some datasets extracted out of Wikipedia conversations, in order to let other researchers replicate and improve initial effort.

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