08 Jul 2005 - 22:04

Wiki life

More on Martin Wattenberg's work on history flow from Science News:

...most Wikipedia pages, particularly those on controversial topics, have been vandalized at some point in their history. Their visualizations indicate, however, that the vandalism is nearly always repaired very quickly—often so quickly that most users never see the damage.

Wattenberg is interested in using his technique to discover:

• frequency & timing of vandalism

• overall stability in size & content of wiki content

• how anonymity affects likelihood of vandalism

• whether page sections that survive many edits are likely to be high quality

• how design decisions made by Wiki hosts affect authoring patterns

• how this technique can be used to study the evolution of source code
  

Cool.



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