%0 Journal Article %1 Brandes:2008:1473-8716:34 %A Brandes, Ulrik %A Lerner, Jürgen %D 2008 %J Information Visualization %K Wikipedia authoring controversy social-network-analysis visualization %P 34-48(15) %R doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500171 %T Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500171 %V 7 %X Wikipedia is a large and rapidly growing Web-based collaborative authoring environment, where anyone on the Internet can create, modify, and delete pages about encyclopedic topics. A remarkable property of some Wikipedia pages is that they are written by up to thousands of authors who may have contradicting opinions. In this paper, we show that a visual analysis of the 'who revises whom'-network gives deep insight into controversies. We propose a set of analysis and visualization techniques that reveal the dominant authors of a page, the roles they play, and the alters they confront. Thereby we provide tools to understand how Wikipedia authors collaborate in the presence of controversy.

@article{Brandes:2008:1473-8716:34, abstract = {Wikipedia is a large and rapidly growing Web-based collaborative authoring environment, where anyone on the Internet can create, modify, and delete pages about encyclopedic topics. A remarkable property of some Wikipedia pages is that they are written by up to thousands of authors who may have contradicting opinions. In this paper, we show that a visual analysis of the 'who revises whom'-network gives deep insight into controversies. We propose a set of analysis and visualization techniques that reveal the dominant authors of a page, the roles they play, and the alters they confront. Thereby we provide tools to understand how Wikipedia authors collaborate in the presence of controversy.}, added-at = {2009-02-09T18:12:04.000+0100}, author = {Brandes, Ulrik and Lerner, Jürgen}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2abe5f89190676cebb5cb38930a82b6f9/anneba}, description = {IngentaConnect Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias}, doi = {doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500171}, file = {Online PDF Version:http\://www.bibsonomy.org/documents/26e6950a22658dc7898e0c7d46227b0f:PDF;Offline PDF Version:E\:\\Anne\\Eigene Dateien\\Research\\Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias (IVS08).pdf:PDF}, interhash = {362f2dc7956ddfba5e2bdc416c900353}, intrahash = {abe5f89190676cebb5cb38930a82b6f9}, journal = {Information Visualization}, keywords = {Wikipedia authoring controversy social-network-analysis visualization}, pages = {34-48(15)}, timestamp = {2009-02-09T18:14:28.000+0100}, title = {Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500171}, volume = 7, year = 2008 }