creators_name: Brandes, Ulrik creators_name: Kenis, Patrick creators_name: Lerner, Jürgen creators_name: van Raaij, Denise type: conference_item datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:10:43 lastmod: 2009-04-23 07:36:55 metadata_visibility: show title: Network Analysis of Collaboration Structure in Wikipedia ispublished: pub full_text_status: public pres_type: paper abstract: In this paper we give models and algorithms to describe and analyze the collaboration among authors of Wikipedia from a network analytical perspective. The edit network encodes who interacts how with whom when editing an article; it significantly extends previous network models that code author communities in Wikipedia. Several characteristics summarizing some aspects of the organization process and allowing the analyst to identify certain types of authors can be obtained from the edit network. Moreover, we propose several indicators characterizing the global network structure and methods to visualize edit networks. It is shown that the structural network indicators are correlated with quality labels of the associated Wikipedia articles. date: 2009-04 pagerange: 731-731 event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference event_location: Madrid, Spain event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009 event_type: conference refereed: TRUE citation: Brandes, Ulrik and Kenis, Patrick and Lerner, Jrgen and van Raaij, Denise (2009) Network Analysis of Collaboration Structure in Wikipedia. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain. document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/74/1/p731.pdf document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/74/2/lerner_www.pdf