Shriram Getc wrote:
Interesting blog post - research guys investigate how
knowledge in Wikipedia organizes itself as the effect of collaborative contributions:
http://mint.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/poster-analysis-of-community-structure…
Yes, interesting. It is good to see the hypertext aspect of WP get
proper analysis - I have felt for a long time that the per-article style
of discussion is tone deaf to some of the more important features of the
encyclopedia. And my intuition is now that much of the basic
organisation of the site runs on units of size 1% or smaller (no one can
really master chunks that are much larger, and in fact 1% is now quite
large for a WikiProject scope). The methodology suggested could
validate this kind of commentary. Further, there seems to be a
foundational debate about the category system that doesn't get much
attention, and what it says suggests one could second-guess the
categories we have, at least working from the root.
Charles