[WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Quality of Wikipedia entries depends on authors' collaboration

[Carcharoth]

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 at 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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