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Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work table of contents

Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

SESSION: Wikis and information seeking table of contents

Pages 259-268

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-845-9

Authors

Reid Priedhorsky	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Jilin Chen	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Shyong (Tony) K. Lam	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Katherine Panciera	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Loren Terveen	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
John Riedl	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is viewed. Using several datasets, including recent logs of all article views, we show that an overwhelming majority of the viewed words were written by frequent editors and that this majority is increasing. Similarly, using the same impact measure, we show that the probability of a typical article view being damaged is small but increasing, and we present empirically grounded classes of damage. Finally, we make policy recommendations for Wikipedia and other wikis in light of these findings.

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