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  | short_descr=Wikipedia is the largest and most known example of wiki. Thousands of users cooperate within it to build a neutral encyclopedia. But not every user interacts equally: there are users who spend much more time on Wikipedia than others and may influence it. With its growing importance in the spread of information some questions are arising: how much can the content of Wikipedia be trusted? Who really writes on it? And what are their aims? Our work tries to study the community of users acting on a generic wiki with an automatic, general and modular process. The first step consists in the extraction of data from the MediaWiki dump. The second calculates the user contribution for each page of the wiki. Then those users who can be considered the "best" contributors for each page are selected and used to build a Social Network. A standard set of analysis is applied to this network, such as macroscopic study and centrality measures.  
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== '''Part 1: project profile''' ==
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=== Project name ===
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''Techniques to analyze the Wikipedia Social Network''
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=== Project short description ===
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Wikipedia is the largest and most known example of wiki. Thousands of users cooperate within it to build a neutral encyclopedia. But not every user interacts equally: there are users who spend much more time on Wikipedia than others and may influence it.
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With its growing importance in the spread of information some questions are arising: how much can the content of Wikipedia be trusted? Who really writes on it? And what are their aims?
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Our work tries to study the community of users acting on a generic wiki with an automatic, general and modular process.
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The first step consists in the extraction of data from the MediaWiki dump. The second calculates the user contribution for each page of the wiki. Then those users who can be considered the "best" contributors for each page are selected and used to build a Social Network. A standard set of analysis is applied to this network, such as macroscopic study and centrality measures.
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[[Image:Schemaprocessi.png]]
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=== Dates ===
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Start date: 2008/07/01
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End date: 2009/04/20
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=== People involved ===
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==== Project Advisor ====
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[[User:DavidLaniado|David Laniado]]
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==== Students ====
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'''Students currently working on the project'''
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[[User:RiccardoTasso|Riccardo Tasso]] - rayman (ta) fastwebnet (tod) it
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== '''Part 2: project description''' ==
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[[Media:Tesi Tasso - 23.03.2009.pdf|Project Documentation (in italian)]]
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[[Media:Presentazione Tasso - 20.04.2009.pdf|Project Presentation (in italian)]]
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= Related resources =
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* [http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ WikiTrust project]
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== Software for Social Network Analysis ==
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* [http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ Pajek: Program for Large Network Analysis]
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* [http://jung.sourceforge.net/ JUNG Java Universal Network/Graph Framework]
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* [http://cneurocvs.rmki.kfki.hu/igraph/ The igraph library]

Revision as of 09:39, 31 May 2009

Techniques to analyze the Wikipedia Social Network
Image of the project Wikipedia Social Network
Short Description: Our work tries to study the community of users acting on a generic wiki with an automatic, general and modular process. The first step consists in the extraction of data from the MediaWiki dump. The second calculates the user contribution for each page of the wiki. Then those users who can be considered the "best" contributors for each page are selected and used to build a Social Network. A standard set of analysis is applied to this network, such as macroscopic study and centrality measures.
Coordinator:
Tutor: DavidLaniado (david.laniado@gmail.com)
Collaborator:
Students: RiccardoTasso (tasso@elet.polimi.it)
Research Area: warning.png"Ontologies and Semantic Web" is not in the list of possible values (Affective Computing, Agents - Multiagent Systems - Agencies, BioSignal Analysis, Computational Intelligence and Games, Computer Vision and Image Analysis, E-Science, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Social Software and Semantic Web) for this property.Ontologies and Semantic Web
Research Topic: Wiki Analysis
Start: 2008/07/01
End: 2009/04/20
Status: finishedwarning.png"finished" is not in the list of possible values (Active, Closed) for this property.
Level: Ms
Type: Thesis

Part 1: project profile

Project name

Techniques to analyze the Wikipedia Social Network

Project short description

Wikipedia is the largest and most known example of wiki. Thousands of users cooperate within it to build a neutral encyclopedia. But not every user interacts equally: there are users who spend much more time on Wikipedia than others and may influence it. With its growing importance in the spread of information some questions are arising: how much can the content of Wikipedia be trusted? Who really writes on it? And what are their aims? Our work tries to study the community of users acting on a generic wiki with an automatic, general and modular process. The first step consists in the extraction of data from the MediaWiki dump. The second calculates the user contribution for each page of the wiki. Then those users who can be considered the "best" contributors for each page are selected and used to build a Social Network. A standard set of analysis is applied to this network, such as macroscopic study and centrality measures.

Schemaprocessi.png

Dates

Start date: 2008/07/01

End date: 2009/04/20

People involved

Project Advisor

David Laniado

Students

Students currently working on the project

Riccardo Tasso - rayman (ta) fastwebnet (tod) it

Part 2: project description

Project Documentation (in italian)

Project Presentation (in italian)

Related resources

Software for Social Network Analysis