Hi Jeremy,
there are quite a few papers which have done social network analysis of (mostly the English) Wikipedia; e.g. in the "Wikimedia Research Newsletter" we covered two which looked at centrality in different contexts:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-06-25#Briefly ("'Central' users produce higher quality")
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-09-26#How_social_ti... ("Closeness, PageRank, and eigenvector centrality were found to have the largest regression coefficients in predicting the outcome of an RfA")
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:43 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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