G'day folks,
Researchers at IBM's Visual Comnunication Lab have published an interesting paper called "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia" at the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences held recently.
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_40/decisionbp/03_04_07.pdf
It shows an interesting representation of edit wars and looks at a strong growth in talk and user talk pages. It was posted on Chris Lott's blog which is also worth a look.
http://www.chrislott.org/2007/01/15/visualizing-wikipedia-change/
Regards
*Keith Old*
On 16/01/07, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
G'day folks,
Researchers at IBM's Visual Comnunication Lab have published an interesting paper called "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia" at the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences held recently.
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_40/decisionbp/03_04_07.pdf
Very interesting. The most delightful part? We're still apparently at c. three minutes time to revert significant vandalism - this figure was quoted in their earlier study, but there hasn't been one more recent than 2003 to go from until now, and the project has changed a lot since then. A 2005 figure is a lot more comparable to enwp as it stands today, and is a lot more reassuring... I hope we get a third study in a couple of years to see how the results evolve.
It would be interesting to see comparable studies for the other language projects, though as this method relies on manually identifying and characterising text it would need a decent number of native speakers to work on such a thing.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:44:33PM +1100, Keith Old wrote:
G'day folks,
Researchers at IBM's Visual Comnunication Lab have published an interesting paper called "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia" at the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences held recently.
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_40/decisionbp/03_04_07.pdf
This is indeed an interesting study. I wonder - do we have a page that lists all citable academic studies of wikipedia published in journals or conference proceedings? Of course it would not be in article space. It would be a usefull help for anyone writing an article on wikipedia. If we do not have such a page, should we? and what do we call it? [[Wikipedia:Academic studies on Wikipedia]]?
Brian (Bduke)
It shows an interesting representation of edit wars and looks at a strong growth in talk and user talk pages. It was posted on Chris Lott's blog which is also worth a look.
http://www.chrislott.org/2007/01/15/visualizing-wikipedia-change/
Regards
*Keith Old*
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On 1/16/07, Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:44:33PM +1100, Keith Old wrote:
G'day folks,
Researchers at IBM's Visual Comnunication Lab have published an interesting paper called "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia" at the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences held recently.
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_40/decisionbp/03_04_07.pdf
This is indeed an interesting study. I wonder - do we have a page that lists all citable academic studies of wikipedia published in journals or conference proceedings? Of course it would not be in article space. It would be a usefull help for anyone writing an article on wikipedia. If we do not have such a page, should we? and what do we call it? [[Wikipedia:Academic studies on Wikipedia]]?
Hi Brian,
there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_academic_studies, which is, as it says, "incomplete". As for studies including-but-not-limited-to Wikipedia, you can see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Bibliography, as well as an excellent bibliography, using Wikindx (and linked to from that page), but apparently down for some time now. I'm including Jakob Voss in this mail, to see if he can tell us more - generally, that would be my first stop - no question..
Cheers, Cormac
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:21:19AM +0000, Cormac Lawler wrote:
On 1/16/07, Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:44:33PM +1100, Keith Old wrote:
G'day folks,
Researchers at IBM's Visual Comnunication Lab have published an
interesting
paper called "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia" at the
40th
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences held recently.
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_40/decisionbp/03_04_07.pdf
This is indeed an interesting study. I wonder - do we have a page that lists all citable academic studies of wikipedia published in journals or conference proceedings? Of course it would not be in article space. It would be a usefull help for anyone writing an article on wikipedia. If we do not have such a page, should we? and what do we call it? [[Wikipedia:Academic studies on Wikipedia]]?
Hi Brian,
there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_academic_studies, which is, as it says, "incomplete". As for studies including-but-not-limited-to Wikipedia, you can see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Bibliography, as well as an excellent bibliography, using Wikindx (and linked to from that page), but apparently down for some time now. I'm including Jakob Voss in this mail, to see if he can tell us more - generally, that would be my first stop - no question..
Many thanks. I thought the first one was about using wikipedia in studies, not studies of wikipedia, so I did not go there. It needs the artcile that started this (the meta artcile already has it), so I'll add it.
Cheers, Brian.
Cheers, Cormac