There's a good amount of research
Jullien 2012 has an excellent (although by no means exhaustive) lit review
of extant Wikipedia research including many network analysis papers:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2053597
Welser, et al. 2011 use network analysis approaches to identify and
differentiate users social roles:
http://www.connectedaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Welser.Cosley.plu…
Antin, et al. 2012 use some centrality-like metrics to measure the
diversity of editing behavior:
http://faculty.poly.edu/~onov/Antin_Chehsire_Nov_WPP_CSCW_2012.pdf
Kane 2009 on how network position influences article quality:
http://www.profkane.com/uploads/7/9/1/3/79137/kane_2009_ocisa.pdf
Kane, et al. 2012 on how membership turnover/retention influences article
quality:
http://www.samransbotham.com/sites/default/files/RansbothamKane_WikiDemotio…
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Descriptive analysis of Wikipedia's response and networks to the 2011
Tohoku earthquake and tsunami:
http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym11.pdf
Developing a statistical model of whether Wikipedia collaborations as a
bipartite network of editors and authors are more strongly influenced by
features of editors or features of articles:
http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/CSCW12.pdf
Developing a unipartite network of Wikipedia collaborations as "document
passing" network among editors on a single article:
http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym12.pdf
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Jeremy Foote <foote0(a)purdue.edu> wrote:
I am a brand new Master's student at Purdue. For
my Social Network
Analysis class, I'm thinking about doing a project about whether a
Wikipedian's centrality in a network can be used as a predictor of future
participation. I've spent the afternoon looking for relevant literature. I
found the very interesting
"Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace
Data" by Howison, Wiggins, and Crowston
and
"Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia" by Brandes et
al.
I'm wondering if there are other papers about how to translate Wikipedia
into a network structure, or even more specifically relating to node-level
centrality measures and participation measures.
Very many thanks,
Jeremy Foote
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