Thank you for sharing your paper. I found
it very interesting that there are good metrics that enable detection of
articles with conflict. I have a couple of questions, which might well go
beyond your current study but I’d welcome your thoughts.
My first question is whether or not you
think this metric or some variant can be used to detect current conflict in
articles (rather than the existence of past conflict). My thinking is that if
conflict can be detected early, it may be possible for the peacemakers to guide
the conflict to a consensus rather than attempt to do so once hostilities are
well-established.
Another question relates to warring
editors. If I read it right, you looked for pairs (or groups) of editors that
were reverting one another’s changes (i.e. an edit war) in an article.
However, is conflict limited to just one article? Is it possible that warring
editors on one article may then engage in conflicts over other articles
simultaneously or later, either because of the same issue that caused the
earlier disagreements or because they had developed a dislike for one another and
were ready to find excuses to be unpleasant to each other. That is, are we just
looking at articles that are controversial (in some way) or are we also looking
at pairs (or groups) of editors who are actively hostile to one another. It
might be interesting to know if editors who have been involved in edit wars go
on to peacefully co-exist with one another on other articles, go to war with
them over other articles, or simply never happen to encounter each other again
(WP being a big place). If they do go on to war again, was it because they are
both active on articles within similar categories (e.g. sexuality) or because one/both
is stalking the other (which you might suspect if they had conflicts across a
range of topics, especially where one of them had no prior edit history in that
category (e.g. start warring over Ben Franklin and then continue it in
Pumpkin).
Kerry
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Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia
Dear Wikipedia researchers!
Our manuscript on is now released by PLoS ONE and available at: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038869
I would delightedly take your comments and remarks.
bests
.Taha
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