Bipartite Networks of Wikipediaʼs Articles and Authors: a Meso-level Approach

Rut Jesus; Martin Hansen-Schwartz; Sune Lehmann Jørgensen

doi:10.1145/1641309.1641318

Bipartite Networks of Wikipediaʼs Articles and Authors: a Meso-level Approach

Rut Jesus
, Martin Hansen-Schwartz
, Sune Lehmann Jørgensen

University of Copenhagen
Harvard University

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This exploratory study investigates the bipartite network of articles linked by common editors in Wikipedia, 'The Free Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit'. We use the articles in the categories (to depth three) of Physics and Philosophy and extract and focus on significant editors (at least 7 or 10 edits per each article). We construct a bipartite network, and from it, overlapping cliques of densely connected articles and editors. We cluster these densely connected cliques into larger modules to study examples of larger groups that display how volunteer editors flock around articles driven by interest, real-world controversies, or the result of coordination in WikiProjects. Our results confirm that topics aggregate editors; and show that highly coordinated efforts result in dense clusters.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WikiSym '09 : Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2009
Pages	Article No. 5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-730-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1641309.1641318
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2009) - Orlando, Florida, United States Duration: 25 Oct 2009 → 27 Oct 2009 http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/

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Conference	5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2009)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando, Florida
Period	25/10/2009 → 27/10/2009
Internet address	http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/

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Jesus, R, Hansen-Schwartz, M & Jørgensen, SL 2009, Bipartite Networks of Wikipediaʼs Articles and Authors: a Meso-level Approach. in WikiSym '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. Article No. 5, 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2009), Orlando, Florida, United States, 25/10/2009. https://doi.org/10.1145/1641309.1641318

Bipartite Networks of Wikipediaʼs Articles and Authors: a Meso-level Approach. / Jesus, Rut; Hansen-Schwartz, Martin; Jørgensen, Sune Lehmann.
WikiSym '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Association for Computing Machinery, 2009. p. Article No. 5.

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