@misc{citeulike:525472, title = {Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia}, author = {A. Capocci and V. D. P. Servedio and F. Colaiori and L. S. Buriol and D. Donato and S. Leonardi and G. Caldarelli}, month = {Feb}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602026}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/277e4e6c1601e81ae88d3dff90a483b86/brightbyte}, description = {stuff from citeyoulike}, abstract = {We present an analysis of the statistical properties and growth of the free on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. By describing topics by vertices and hyperlinks between them as edges, we can represent this encyclopedia as a directed graph. The topological properties of this graph are in close analogy with that of the World Wide Web, despite the very different growth mechanism. In particular we measure a scale--invariant distribution of the in-- and out-- degree and we are able to reproduce these features by means of a simple statistical model. As a major consequence, Wikipedia growth can be described by local rules such as the preferential attachment mechanism, though users can act globally on the network.}, eprint = {physics/0602026}, priority = {2}, citeulike-article-id = {2162756}, keywords = {link-mining small-world web wikipedia } } @article{journals/corr/abs-physics-0602026, title = {Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia}, author = {Andrea Capocci and Vito Domenico Pietro Servedio and Francesca Colaiori and Luciana S. Buriol and Debora Donato and Stefano Leonardi and Guido Caldarelli}, journal = {CoRR}, note = {informal publication}, url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/corr/corr0602.html#abs-physics-0602026}, volume = {abs/physics/0602026}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23c16ad257c21304d02f1d108571d9c8c/hotho}, ee = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602026}, date = {2008-01-02}, keywords = {kdubiq network sna social summerschool wikipedia } } @article{journals/corr/abs-physics-0602026, title = {Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia}, author = {Andrea Capocci and Vito Domenico Pietro Servedio and Francesca Colaiori and Luciana S. Buriol and Debora Donato and Stefano Leonardi and Guido Caldarelli}, journal = {CoRR}, note = {informal publication}, url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/corr/corr0602.html#abs-physics-0602026}, volume = {abs/physics/0602026}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23c16ad257c21304d02f1d108571d9c8c/dblp}, description = {dblp}, ee = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602026}, date = {2008-01-02}, keywords = {dblp } } @misc{cappoca:06, title = {Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia}, author = {A. Capocci and V. D. P. Servedio and F. Colaiori and L. S. Buriol and D. Donato and S. Leonardi and G. Caldarelli}, month = {Feb}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602026}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/277e4e6c1601e81ae88d3dff90a483b86/schaal}, abstract = {We present an analysis of the statistical properties and growth of the free on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. By describing topics by vertices and hyperlinks between them as edges, we can represent this encyclopedia as a directed graph. The topological properties of this graph are in close analogy with that of the World Wide Web, despite the very different growth mechanism. In particular we measure a scale--invariant distribution of the in-- and out-- degree and we are able to reproduce these features by means of a simple statistical model. As a major consequence, Wikipedia growth can be described by local rules such as the preferential attachment mechanism, though users can act globally on the network.}, eprint = {physics/0602026}, priority = {2}, citeulike-article-id = {525472}, keywords = {collaborative-communities social-networks } } @misc{capocci-2006-, title = {Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia}, author = {A. Capocci and V. D. P. Servedio and F. Colaiori and L. S. Buriol and D. Donato and S. Leonardi and G. Caldarelli}, url = {http://www.citebase.org/abstract?id=oai:arXiv.org:physics/0602026}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/277e4e6c1601e81ae88d3dff90a483b86/vitelot}, keywords = {WikiPedia complex network } }