Edit wars in Wikipedia

We present a new, efficient method for automatically detecting severe conflicts `edit wars' in Wikipedia and evaluate this method on six different language WPs. We discuss how the number of edits, reverts, the length of discussions, the burstiness of edits and reverts deviate in such pages from...

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Veröffentlicht in:	arXiv.org 2012-02
Hauptverfasser:	Sumi, Róbert, Taha Yasseri, Rung, András, Kornai, András, Kertész, János
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Computer Science - Digital Libraries Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Physics - Physics and Society Statistics - Machine Learning Workflow
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Zusammenfassung:	We present a new, efficient method for automatically detecting severe conflicts `edit wars' in Wikipedia and evaluate this method on six different language WPs. We discuss how the number of edits, reverts, the length of discussions, the burstiness of edits and reverts deviate in such pages from those following the general workflow, and argue that earlier work has significantly over-estimated the contentiousness of the Wikipedia editing process.
ISSN:	2331-8422
DOI:	10.48550/arxiv.1107.3689