There's a good amount of research Jullien 2012 has an excellent (although by no means exhaustive) lit review of extant Wikipedia research including many network analysis papers: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2053597
Welser, et al. 2011 use network analysis approaches to identify and differentiate users social roles: http://www.connectedaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Welser.Cosley.plus_.Wiki_.Roles_.pdf Antin, et al. 2012 use some centrality-like metrics to measure the diversity of editing behavior: http://faculty.poly.edu/~onov/Antin_Chehsire_Nov_WPP_CSCW_2012.pdf Kane 2009 on how network position influences article quality: http://www.profkane.com/uploads/7/9/1/3/79137/kane_2009_ocisa.pdf Kane, et al. 2012 on how membership turnover/retention influences article quality: http://www.samransbotham.com/sites/default/files/RansbothamKane_WikiDemotion_2012_MISQ.pdf <shameless self promotion> Descriptive analysis of Wikipedia's response and networks to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami: http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym11.pdf Developing a statistical model of whether Wikipedia collaborations as a bipartite network of editors and authors are more strongly influenced by features of editors or features of articles: http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/CSCW12.pdf Developing a unipartite network of Wikipedia collaborations as "document passing" network among editors on a single article: http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym12.pdf On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Jeremy Foote <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a brand new Master's student at Purdue. For my Social Network > Analysis class, I'm thinking about doing a project about whether a > Wikipedian's centrality in a network can be used as a predictor of future > participation. I've spent the afternoon looking for relevant literature. I > found the very interesting > > "Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace > Data" by Howison, Wiggins, and Crowston > and > "Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia" by Brandes et > al. > > I'm wondering if there are other papers about how to translate Wikipedia > into a network structure, or even more specifically relating to node-level > centrality measures and participation measures. > > Very many thanks, > Jeremy Foote > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Brian C. Keegan Ph.D. Student - Media, Technology, & Society School of Communication, Northwestern University Science of Networks in Communities, Laboratory for Collaborative Technology
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