Year: 2007
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The online encyclopedia Wikipedia gives rise to a multitude of network structures such as the citation network of its pages or the coauthorship network of users. In this paper we analyze another network that arises from the fact that Wikipedia articles undergo perpetual editing. It can be observed that the edit volume of Wikipedia pages varies strongly over time, often triggered by news events related to their content. Furthermore, some pages show remarkably parallel behavior in their edit variance in which case we add a co-revision link connecting them. The goal of this paper is to assess the meaningfulness of the co-revision network. Specific tasks are to understand the influence of normalization (e.g., correlation vs. covariance) and to determine differences between the co-revision network and other relations on Wikipedia pages, such as similarity by author-overlap.
Source: KOPS (University of Konstanz)
Authors: Ulrik Brandes, Jürgen Lerner
Institution: University of Konstanz
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W1495580588