Hi,
Given David's comment about policy wonks, you might be interested in a
paper that we recently presented -- a quantitative account of policy use
on the talk pages. Its linked at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/travis/research-wikipedia.html
Kesava -- in the paper, we explicitly relate that we think that policy
citations are a great indication of hotspots, although we didn't go into
that analysis in the paper.
Cheers!
Travis
p.s. we're University of Washington comp sci grad students
David Gerard wrote:
On 07/04/2008, Kesava Mallela
<kesava(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
We are bunch of grad students at UC
Berkeley's School of Information working
on 'detecting hotspots' on Wikipedia pages. We want to be able to identify
sections of wikipedia articles that are being most talked about in the talk
pages.
We need your help to determine how relevant our detected results are to the
original talk page. We have a selection of '08 Presidential candidate pages
and Computer law articles for your expert evaluation. Please spend a few
minutes and help us find what else is being talked about in these pages:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~ethan/wiki3/<http://people.ischool.b…
I suggest you contact [[User:W3ace]] (Craig Wood), who does
http://wikirage.com/ - he presently detects hotspots of article
editing, but hotspots of talk page editing would be a *marvelously*
useful thing to cover as well. (For example, we can find out just how
big policy wonks we really are collectively.)
- d.
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