Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:76588, abstract = {The Internet has fostered an unconventional and powerful style of collaboration: "wiki" web sites, where every visitor has the power to become an editor. In this paper we investigate the dynamics of Wikipedia, a prominent, thriving wiki. We make three contributions. First, we introduce a new exploratory data analysis tool, the history flow visualization, which is effective in revealing patterns within the wiki context and which we believe will be useful in other collaborative situations as well. Second, we discuss several collaboration patterns highlighted by this visualization tool and corroborate them with statistical analysis. Third, we discuss the implications of these patterns for the design and governance of online collaborative social spaces. We focus on the relevance of authorship, the value of community surveillance in ameliorating antisocial behavior, and how authors with competing perspectives negotiate their differences.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Vigas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin and Dave, Kushal}, booktitle = {CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {76588}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=985765}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985765}, doi = {10.1145/985692.985765}, isbn = {1-58113-702-8}, keywords = {communities, computer, science}, location = {Vienna, Austria}, pages = {575--582}, posted-at = {2007-07-06 08:34:08}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985765}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:76588 L3 - citeulike-article-id:76588 N2 - The Internet has fostered an unconventional and powerful style of collaboration: "wiki" web sites, where every visitor has the power to become an editor. In this paper we investigate the dynamics of Wikipedia, a prominent, thriving wiki. We make three contributions. First, we introduce a new exploratory data analysis tool, the history flow visualization, which is effective in revealing patterns within the wiki context and which we believe will be useful in other collaborative situations as well. Second, we discuss several collaboration patterns highlighted by this visualization tool and corroborate them with statistical analysis. Third, we discuss the implications of these patterns for the design and governance of online collaborative social spaces. We focus on the relevance of authorship, the value of community surveillance in ameliorating antisocial behavior, and how authors with competing perspectives negotiate their differences. CY - Vienna, Austria SN - 1-58113-702-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 582 TI - Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations PB - ACM T2 - CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 575 KW - communities KW - computer KW - science AU - Vigas, Fernanda AU - Wattenberg, Martin AU - Dave, Kushal PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985765 ER -