[Wikipedia-l] Searching (MIT?) research paper about Wikipedia

Angela beesley at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 11:32:59 UTC 2005


On Wed,  9 Mar 2005 12:25:53 +0100, Nicolas Weeger
<nicolas.weeger at laposte.net> wrote:
> I think there was a research paper (from the MIT?), some months/years ago, that analysed how a specific article on Wikipedia was modified, showing the slow modifications over time and a few big changes.

This was the " history flow" study, and can be seen at
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/

Other studies are listed at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_academic_studies>
and <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Wikipedia-Forschung/Bibliographie>

Angela.



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