Hi Jeremy, there are quite a few papers which have done social network analysis of (mostly the English) Wikipedia; e.g. in the "Wikimedia Research Newsletter" we covered two which looked at centrality in different contexts:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-06-25#Briefly ("'Central' users produce higher quality") https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-09-26#How_social_ties_influence_admin_votes ("Closeness, PageRank, and eigenvector centrality were found to have the largest regression coefficients in predicting the outcome of an RfA") On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:43 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 > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
