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

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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@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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