Research on Social Dynamics in Wikipedia
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The document summarizes research on Wikipedia editing and participation. It finds that over time, coordination costs are increasing as direct editing decreases and more time is spent on procedures, discussions, and reverting vandalism. A model is developed to characterize article conflict based on editing metrics. The research also shows a long tail of participation follows a power law distribution and most highly active editors do not remain so long term. A proposed "WikiDashboard" aims to surface social context and metrics to help readers and writers.
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- 8. The first step in solving any interesting problem is to get some paper and pencil. John Tukey (not a direct quote) 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 9. Increasing Coordination Cost in Wikipedia (joint work with Niki Kittur, Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton) Published in CHI2007 conference: Aniket Kittur, Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton, Ed H. ChiHe Says, She Says: Conflict and Coordination in Wikipedia. In Proc. of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2007), pp. 453--462, April 2007. ACM Press. San Jose, CA 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 10. What is Wikipedia? 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia? “ Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you’re getting the best possible information.” – Steve Carell, The Office
- 25. Who edits Wikipedia? % of edits made by administrators 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 26. % of edits by 10k+ editors 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 27. Word changes made by admins 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 28. Shifting user population in Wikipedia (more and more bottom driven!) 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 29. Proportion of edits made by top editors in Wikipedia 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 30. Long tail of participation in Wikipedia 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 31. The participation architecture is a power law 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 32. Only 60% of top 1% editors stay around month to month! 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 33. Living Laboratory: Prototyping Social Applications on the Internet Create a Living Laboratory as a platform to develop, test, and market our innovations, and as a vehicle for creating collaborations and thought leadership. 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 34. WikiDashboard Joint work with Bongwon Suh, Aniket Kittur, Bryan Pendleton 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 38. Article Dashboard 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?
- 39. User Dashboard 2007-06-17 Ed H. Chi - Who writes Wikipedia?