On Ranking Controversies in Wikipedia: Models and Evaluation Export

@article{citeulike:2359333, abstract = {Wikipedia 1 is a very large and successful Web 2.0 example. As the number of Wikipedia articles and contributors grows at a very fast pace, there are also increasing disputes occurring among the contributors. Disputes often happen in articles with controversial content. They also occur frequently among contributors who are ” agressive” or controversial in their personalities. In this paper, we aim to identify controversial articles in Wikipedia. We propose three models, namely the Basic model and two Controversy Rank (CR) models. These models draw clues from collaboration and edit history instead of interpreting the actual article or edited content. While the Basic model only considers the amount of disputes within an article, the two Controversy Rank models extend the former by considering the relationships between articles and contributors. We also derived enhanced versions of these models by considering the age of articles and contributors. Our experiments on a collection of around 20,000 Wikipedia articles shows that the Controversy Rank models can more effectively determine controversial articles compared to the Basic and other baseline models.}, author = {Vuong, Ba-Quy and Lim, Ee-Peng and Sun, Aixin and Le, Minh-Tam and Lauw, Hady W. and Chang, Kuiyu}, citeulike-article-id = {2359333}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~baquy/papers/wsdm08.pdf}, keywords = {controversy, governance, wikipedia}, organization = {Supported in part by A*Star Public Sector}, posted-at = {2008-02-10 10:01:40}, priority = {0}, title = {On Ranking Controversies in Wikipedia: Models and Evaluation}, url = {http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~baquy/papers/wsdm08.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2359333 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2359333 N2 - Wikipedia 1 is a very large and successful Web 2.0 example. As the number of Wikipedia articles and contributors grows at a very fast pace, there are also increasing disputes occurring among the contributors. Disputes often happen in articles with controversial content. They also occur frequently among contributors who are “agressive” or controversial in their personalities. In this paper, we aim to identify controversial articles in Wikipedia. We propose three models, namely the Basic model and two Controversy Rank (CR) models. These models draw clues from collaboration and edit history instead of interpreting the actual article or edited content. While the Basic model only considers the amount of disputes within an article, the two Controversy Rank models extend the former by considering the relationships between articles and contributors. We also derived enhanced versions of these models by considering the age of articles and contributors. Our experiments on a collection of around 20,000 Wikipedia articles shows that the Controversy Rank models can more effectively determine controversial articles compared to the Basic and other baseline models. OR - Supported in part by A*Star Public Sector TI - On Ranking Controversies in Wikipedia: Models and Evaluation KW - controversy KW - governance KW - wikipedia AU - Vuong, Ba-Quy AU - Lim, Ee-Peng AU - Sun, Aixin AU - Le, Minh-Tam AU - Lauw, Hady AU - Chang, Kuiyu PY - 2007/// UR - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~baquy/papers/wsdm08.pdf ER -