A Platform for Visually Exploring the Development of Wikipedia Articles

Open Access
Authors
  • G. Magni
  • T. Venturini
  • P. Ciuccarelli
  • R. Rogers ORCID logo
  • A. Kaltenbrunner
Publication date 2015
Book title Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Web and Social Media: ICWSM 2015: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 26-29, 2015
ISBN
  • 9781577357339
Event ICWSM 2015: The 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Pages (from-to) 711-712
Publisher Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract
When looking for information on Wikipedia, Internet users generally just read the latest version of an article. However, in its back-end there is much more: associated to each article are the edit history and talk pages, which together entail its full evolution. These spaces can typically reach thousands of contributions, and it is not trivial to make sense of them by manual inspection. This issue also affects Wikipedians, especially the less experienced ones, and constitutes a barrier for new editor engagement and retention. To address these limitations, Contropedia offers its users unprecedented access to the development of an article, using wiki links as focal points.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM15/paper/view/10565 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.694.8373&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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