Evaluating authoritative sources using social networks: An insight from wikipedia Export

@article{citeulike:1094045, abstract = {Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring environments and in particular wikis using social network measures. Design / methodology / approach – A social network model for wikipedia has been constructed and metrics of importance such as centrality have been defined. Data have been gathered from articles belonging to the same topic using a web crawler in order to evaluate the outcome of the social network measures in the articles. Originality / Value - This work tries to develop a network approach to the evaluation of wiki contributions and approaches the problem of quality of wikipedia content from a social network point of view. Practical Implications – We believe that the approach presented here could be used to improve the authoritativeness of content found in Wikipedia and similar sources.}, author = {Korfiatis, N. and Poulos, M. and Bokos, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {1094045}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.korfiatis.info/papers/OISJournal_final.pdf}, journal = {Online Information Review}, keywords = {authority, dr\_kim2, social\_networking, wikis}, number = {3}, pages = {252--262}, posted-at = {2007-02-08 02:05:56}, priority = {2}, title = {Evaluating authoritative sources using social networks: An insight from wikipedia}, url = {http://www.korfiatis.info/papers/OISJournal_final.pdf}, volume = {30}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1094045 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1094045 N2 - Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring environments and in particular wikis using social network measures. Design / methodology / approach – A social network model for wikipedia has been constructed and metrics of importance such as centrality have been defined. Data have been gathered from articles belonging to the same topic using a web crawler in order to evaluate the outcome of the social network measures in the articles. Originality / Value - This work tries to develop a network approach to the evaluation of wiki contributions and approaches the problem of quality of wikipedia content from a social network point of view. Practical Implications – We believe that the approach presented here could be used to improve the authoritativeness of content found in Wikipedia and similar sources. IS - 3 JF - Online Information Review EP - 262 TI - Evaluating authoritative sources using social networks: An insight from wikipedia VL - 30 SP - 252 KW - authority KW - dr_kim2 KW - social_networking KW - wikis AU - Korfiatis, N AU - Poulos, M AU - Bokos, G PY - 2006/// UR - http://www.korfiatis.info/papers/OISJournal_final.pdf ER -