This is very interesting. Here is the abstract and link to full article.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1565682
In a way there are similarities with Luca de Alfaro's wikitrust work, in that this study also focuses on profiling editors as means to predict quality.
From the article:
We categorized the contributors that belong to cluster 1 as all-round contributors since they were engaged in almost all types of actions. Contributors in cluster 2 were labeled as watchdogs since most of their actions were reverts. Cluster 3 included contributors who created sentences while seldom engaging in other actions and were hence called starters. Contributors that belonged to cluster 4, on the other hand, not only created sentences, but justified them with links and references. They were therefore classified as content justifiers. Both starters and content justifiers, however, rarely modified existing sentences created by themselves or other people. Cluster 4 included copy editors who contributed primarily through modifying existing sentences. Finally, those who primarily focused on removing incorrect sentences, references and links were termed cleaners. Thus, a contributor for a given Wikipedia article could assume one of these 6 roles or could be a casual contributor.
Erik Zachte
I would love to put some names to some of these clusters, but that would be unwise! But as I was reading through this, some names did pop into my head. :-)
Carcharoth
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Erik Zachte erikzachte@infodisiac.com wrote:
This is very interesting. Here is the abstract and link to full article.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1565682
In a way there are similarities with Luca de Alfaro's wikitrust work, in that this study also focuses on profiling editors as means to predict quality.
From the article:
We categorized the contributors that belong to cluster 1 as all-round contributors since they were engaged in almost all types of actions. Contributors in cluster 2 were labeled as watchdogs since most of their actions were reverts. Cluster 3 included contributors who created sentences while seldom engaging in other actions and were hence called starters. Contributors that belonged to cluster 4, on the other hand, not only created sentences, but justified them with links and references. They were therefore classified as content justifiers. Both starters and content justifiers, however, rarely modified existing sentences created by themselves or other people. Cluster 4 included copy editors who contributed primarily through modifying existing sentences. Finally, those who primarily focused on removing incorrect sentences, references and links were termed cleaners. Thus, a contributor for a given Wikipedia article could assume one of these 6 roles or could be a casual contributor.
Erik Zachte
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