I would also point you toward the (tangentially) related work by Dr. James
Fowler at UCSD - he's done similar work on predictive analysis on Facebook.
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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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/2…
summarized here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-07-25#The_anatomy_…
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.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…
> <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(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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> School of Communication, Northwestern University
> Science of Networks in Communities,
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