The first focuses on Wikipedia:
* Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong (Tony) K. Lam,
Kathering Panciera, Loren Terveen, John Riedl. "Creating,
Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia." To appear in
Proc. GROUP 2007. 10 pages.
* Link:
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf
* Abstract: Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user
can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the
notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of
times the edited version is viewed. Using several datasets,
including recent logs of all article views, we show that an
overwhelming majority of the viewed words were written by
frequent editors and that this majority is increasing.
Similarly, using the same impact measure, we show that the
probability of a typical article view being damaged is small
but increasing, and we present empirically grounded classes
of damage. Finally, we make policy recommendations for
Wikipedia and other wikis in light of these findings.
Really interesting metrics for measuring the actual impact of errors in WikiPedia!
And I am looking forward to seeing your GeoWiki talk at WikiSym. Guys, this is only one of
many excellent talks that will be given at WikiSym. I invite you all to attend it in
Montreal this month:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/index.html
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Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Chair, WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/