Chitu - these are not machine-generated results. :)
It's the work of a human!
I searched for "wikipedia" and "wikipedian" in google scholar and
rejected the ones that I felt were not actually *about* wikipedia itself, then I searched
for fernanda's paper because I know it is one of the top cited papers about wikipedia
(note that it does NOT have wikipedia in the title) to come up with a set of 10-15
readings that our team could all start with.
Andrea
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli(a)concordia.ca
<mailto:Chitu.Okoli@concordia.ca>> wrote:
Hi Andrea,
I can see from yours and others' comments that conference ranking sites are not
that helpful (to put it mildly). I'll respond to the matter of the shared bibliography
in the separate thread on that topic.
I'm leaning towards exploring citation counts more. How did you get the counts
you gave from Google Scholar? Could you give us your exact search keywords? I couldn't
reproduce what you gave us; perhaps I don't know how to use Google Scholar that
flexibly.
One useful tool for citation analysis with Google Scholar is Harzing's Publish or
Perish (freeware, not free software):
. By doing a simple
search on "Wikipedia" in the General Citations keywords, I got the following as
the top ten results:
Cites Authors Title Year Source ArticleURL
913 J Giles Internet encyclopaedias go head to head 2005 Nature
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html?&$NMW_TRANS$=ext>
385 E Gabrilovich… Computing semantic relatedness using wikipedia-based explicit
semantic analysis 2007 Proceedings of the 20th International Joint …
358 M Völkel, M Krötzsch, D Vrandecic… Semantic wikipedia 2006 Proceedings of the
…
260 A Bruns Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and beyond: From production to produsage
2008
228 M Strube… WikiRelate! Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia 2006
Proceedings of the National Conference on …
201 A Lih Wikipedia as participatory journalism: Reliable sources? metrics for
evaluating collaborative media as a news resource 2003 Nature
197 J Voss Measuring wikipedia 2005 International Conference of the International
Society for …
161 SP Ponzetto… Deriving a large scale taxonomy from Wikipedia 2007 Proceedings
of the national conference on …
158 BT Adler… A content-driven reputation system for the Wikipedia 2007 … of the
16th international conference on …
These are pretty different from your results. Could you tell me how you got yours?
Thanks,
Chitu
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Sujet: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia literature review - include or exclude conference
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De : Andrea Forte <andrea.forte(a)gmail.com>
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Date : 18/03/2011 9:33 AM
Hi all, after following these links:
* Top Tier and 2nd tier conferences from
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/htmldocs/ConfRanking.html
<http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Ezaiane/htmldocs/ConfRanking.html>
* A-ranked conferences in Information and Computing Sciences from
http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?pageÏorsel10
<http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page%CForsel10>
I discovered that
CHI is not a top-tier HCI conference. Or even 2nd or 3rd. :) Neither is CSCW, Group, etc.
(For those not in CS/HCI, CHI is *the* top tier conference with acceptance rates lower
than most journals in the area and the others I listed are nearly as competitive. And
venues like WikiSym that have higher acceptance rates attract top-tier work as well - many
papers of equivalent quality have been published there.) So... I would suggest that, to
review the Wikipedia literature, you need to choose a field (or set of fields) you know
and become deeply knowledgeable about the literature in that field by reading it and
following citations, etc. Searching for every paper ever written that mentions
"Wikipedia" in the title/abstract will catch you lots of peripheral work that is
not *about* Wikipedia, but that uses Wikipedia as a context for studying something else.
Machines aren't good at literature reviews. :) That said, it would be incredibly
useful to have a
common repository of citations that can be annotated, discussed etc. Reid
Priedhorsky, Phoebe Ayers, Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle, and Mako Hill and I have been
talking about doing a literature review as well and have come to the conclusions that A)
there's too much to cover in just one paper and B) a place to collaboratively assemble
knowledge about the literature is a prerequisite for such an endeavor. We were thinking a
MediaWiki with templates to structure citation data for export would be better than any of
the bib software out there. But actually... I remember reading that Tiki Wiki now
explicitly supports citation, I think? The bottom line is, B) Is something this community
could really do a great job of developing and it would be mutually beneficial. No one of
us is going to cover all the Wikipedia literature alone, unless we make it a full time
job. :) FYI, we chose Travis's citation filtering method as a starting point and came
up with the list below as our
common starter reading list and planned to divy things up from there. Andrea =Top
Citations in Goog Scholar == * '''449 cites''' Fernanda B. Viegas,
Martin Wattenberg, and Kushal Dave. 2004.
[
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf
<http://alumni.media.mit.edu/%7Efviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf> Studying
cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations]. In Proceedings
of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '04). ACM, New
York, NY, USA, 575-582. * '''288 cites''' Bryant, Susan, Andrea
Forte and Amy Bruckman. (2005).
[
http://www.andreaforte.net/BryantForteBruckBecomingWikipedian.pdf Becoming Wikipedian:
transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia]. Proceedings of
GROUP International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, FL, pp. 1-10. **
recent counterpoint: Katherine Panciera, Aaron Halfaker, and Loren Terveen. 2009.
[
http://www.grouplens.org/system/files/Group09WikipediansPanciera.pdf Wikipedians are
born, not made: a study of power editors on Wikipedia]. In Proceedings of the ACM 2009
international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA,
51-60. * '''193 cites''' Voß, J.
[
http://hapticity.net/pdf/nime2006_180-works_cited/MeasuringWikipedia2005.pdf
Measuring Wikipedia]. Proceedings of 10th International Conference of
the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics,
(Stockholm, Sweden), 2005.
* '''187 cites''' Lih, A.
[
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi
.1.1.117.9104&rep=rep1&type=pdf
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi+.1.1.117.9104&rep=rep1&type=pdf>
Wikipedia as Participatory journalism: reliable sources? metrics for
evaluating collaborative media as a news resource]. Proceedings of
Fifth International Symposium on Online Journalism, April 16-17, 2004,
(Austin, TX), 2004.
* '''145 cites''' Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg,
Jesse Kriss,
Frank van Ham, [
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi
.1.1.84.6907&rep=rep1&type=pdf
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi+.1.1.84.6907&rep=rep1&type=pdf>
Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia] hicss, pp.78a, 40th
Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07),
2007
* '''140 cites''' Kittur, A.; Chi, E. H. ; Pendleton, B. A. ;
Suh, B.
; Mytkowicz, T. Power of the few vs. wisdom of the crowd: Wikipedia
and the rise of the bourgeoisie. Alt.CHI at CHI 2007; 2007 April 28 -
May 3; San Jose, CA.
* '''138 cites''' Aniket Kittur, Bongwon Suh, Bryan A.
Pendleton, and
Ed H. Chi. 2007. He says, she says: conflict and coordination in
Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in
computing systems (CHI '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 453-462. '
* '''101 cites''' Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong (Tony)
K. Lam,
Katherine Panciera, Loren Terveen, and John Riedl. 2007.
[
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi
.1.1.123.7456&rep=rep1&type=pdf
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi+.1.1.123.7456&rep=rep1&type=pdf>
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia]. In Proceedings of the 2007
international ACM conference on Supporting group work (GROUP '07). ACM, New York, NY,
USA, 259-268. =Other Significant Papers == * '''Best Paper
Award''' Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean and David W. McDonald
[
http://www.aaai.org/Papers/ICWSM/2008/ICWSM08-011.pdf Wikipedian Self-Governance in
Action: Motivating the Policy Lens]International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media,
2008. * '''Honorable Mention''' Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh
and David W. McDonald [
http://dub.washington.edu/djangosite/media/papers/tmpZ77p1r.pdf
Articulations of WikiWork: Uncovering Valued Work in Wikipedia through Barnstars] Computer
Supported Cooperative Work, 2008. =Relevant Scholarly Books == Reagle's book,
Lih's book, Sunstein, Benkler
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