Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias
Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias
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DOI:
10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500171
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发表时间:
2008-03-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Lerner, Juergen
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作者:
Brandes, Ulrik;Lerner, Juergen
Wikipedia is a large and rapidly growing Web-based collaborative authoring environment, where anyone on the Internet can create, modify, and delete pages about encyclopedic topics. A remarkable property of some Wikipedia pages is that they are written by up to thousands of authors who may have contradicting opinions. In this paper, we show that a visual analysis of the 'who revises whom'-network gives deep insight into controversies. We propose a set of analysis and visualization techniques that reveal the dominant authors of a page, the roles they play, and the alters they confront. Thereby we provide tools to understand how Wikipedia authors collaborate in the presence of controversy. Information Visualization (2008) 7, 34-48. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500171