Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4389870, abstract = {In this paper we give models and algorithms to describe and analyze the collaboration among authors of Wikipedia from a network analytical perspective. The edit network encodes who interacts how with whom when editing an article; it significantly extends previous network models that code author communities in Wikipedia. Several characteristics summarizing some aspects of the organization process and allowing the analyst to identify certain types of authors can be obtained from the edit network. Moreover, we propose several indicators characterizing the global network structure and methods to visualize edit networks. It is shown that the structural network indicators are correlated with quality labels of the associated Wikipedia articles.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Brandes, Ulrik and Kenis, Patrick and Lerner, J\"{u}rgen and van Raaij, Denise}, booktitle = {WWW '09: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web}, citeulike-article-id = {4389870}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1526709.1526808}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1526709.1526808}, doi = {10.1145/1526709.1526808}, isbn = {978-1-60558-487-4}, location = {Madrid, Spain}, pages = {731--740}, posted-at = {2009-07-12 00:42:31}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1526709.1526808}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4389870 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4389870 N2 - In this paper we give models and algorithms to describe and analyze the collaboration among authors of Wikipedia from a network analytical perspective. The edit network encodes who interacts how with whom when editing an article; it significantly extends previous network models that code author communities in Wikipedia. Several characteristics summarizing some aspects of the organization process and allowing the analyst to identify certain types of authors can be obtained from the edit network. Moreover, we propose several indicators characterizing the global network structure and methods to visualize edit networks. It is shown that the structural network indicators are correlated with quality labels of the associated Wikipedia articles. CY - Madrid, Spain SN - 978-1-60558-487-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 740 TI - Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia PB - ACM T2 - WWW '09: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web SP - 731 AU - Brandes, Ulrik AU - Kenis, Patrick AU - Lerner, Jürgen AU - van Raaij, Denise PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1526709.1526808 ER -