Archives des mots-clés : wikipedia

“The voluntary process of Wikipedia edition provides an environment where the outcome is clearly a collective product of interactions involving a large number of people. We propose a simple agent-based model, developed from real data, to reproduce the collaborative process of Wikipedia edition. With a small number of simple ingredients, our model mimics several interesting features of real human behaviour, namely in the context of edit wars. We show that the level of conflict is determined by a tolerance parameter, which measures the editors’ capability to accept different opinions and to change their own opinion. We propose to measure conflict with a parameter based on mutual reverts, which increases only in contentious situations. Using this parameter, we find a distribution for the inter-peace periods that is heavy-tailed. The effects of wiki-robots in the conflict levels and in the edition patterns are also studied. Our findings are compared with previous parameters used to measure conflicts in edit wars.”

URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4362

“Hundreds of scholarly studies have investigated various aspects of the immensely popular Wikipedia. Although a number of literature reviews have provided overviews of this vast body of research, none of them has specifically focused on the readers of Wikipedia and issues concerning its readership. In this systematic literature review, we review 99 studies to synthesize current knowledge regarding the readership of Wikipedia and also provide an analysis of research methods employed. The scholarly research has found that Wikipedia is popular not only for lighter topics such as entertainment, but also for more serious topics such as health information and legal background. Scholars, librarians and students are common users of Wikipedia, and it provides a unique opportunity for educating students in digital literacy. We conclude with a summary of key findings, implications for researchers, and implications for the Wikipedia community.”

URL : http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978653/

Evaluer Wikipédia : de l’expertise du produit éditorial à l’analyse des règles et pratiques citationnelles :

“L’originalité du mode d’élaboration de Wikipédia a suscité de nombreuses recherches relatives à la qualité de l’information disponible dans cette source. Leur synthèse, présentée ici, ne prétend pas à l’exhaustivité mais vise plutôt à les catégoriser. Nous différencions ainsi trois approches de l’évaluation de cette encyclopédie collaborative que nous désignons sous les termes d’ “expertise informationnelle”, de “processus éditorial-produit ” et de “point de vue interne”. En lien avec cette dernière approche, nous exposons les enjeux et questions de recherche à propos d’un objet d’étude spécifique : les règles et pratiques citationnelles au sein de Wikipédia.”

URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00959595/fr/

Comparing the usage of global and local Wikipedias with focus on Swedish Wikipedia :

“This report summarizes the results of a short-term student research project focused on the usage of Swedish Wikipedia. It is trying to answer the following question: To what extent (and why) do people from non-English language communities use the English Wikipedia instead of the one in their local language? Article access time series and article edit time series from major Wikipedias including Swedish Wikipedia are analyzed with various tools.”

URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1776