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A Characterization of Wikipedia Content Based on Motifs in the Edit Graph
Date Issued
2011-02
Date Available
2021-08-09T11:46:16Z
Abstract
Wikipedia works because of the many eyes idea. Good Wikipedia pages are authoritative sources because a number of knowledgeable contributors have collaborated to produce an authoritative article on a topic. In this paper we explore the hypothesis that the extent to which the many eyes idea is true for a specific article can be assessed by looking at the edit graph associated with that article, i.e. the network of contributors and articles. As a first step in this direction we show that different parts of Wikipedia have very different edit graph motif profiles. We show that articles on sociologists (a well-curated part of Wikipedia) are very different to articles on footballers in the English Premiership.
Sponsorship
Science Foundation Ireland
Type of Material
Technical Report
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Computer Science and Informatics
Series
UCD CSI Technical Reports
ucd-csi-2011-02
Copyright (Published Version)
2011 the Authors
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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