you should also check out:

Laniado, David, Riccardo Tasso, Y. Volkovich, and Andreas Kaltenbrunner. When the Wikipedians talk: network and tree structure of Wikipedia discussion pages. In Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM '11), 177-184, 2011.  http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/viewPDFInterstitial/2764/3301

summarized here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-07-25#The_anatomy_of_a_Wikipedia_talk_page

Dario

On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Brian Keegan wrote:

> 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.plus_.Wiki_.Roles_.pdf
>
> 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_WikiDemotion_2012_MISQ.pdf
>
> <shameless self promotion>
> 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@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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