But the formula used is flawed as it looks only at 100% reverts of edits, gives weight to those which occur multiple times so what its identifies is not necessarily the most controversial but the most vandalised articles
On 9 June 2013 06:42, Brian Salter-Duke <b_d...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:06:17AM +1000, Kerry Raymond wrote: > > There has been an Hungarian research project into identifying > controversial > > articles in Wikipedia, based on the history of reversions and edit wars. > > They have a website: > > > > http://wwm.phy.bme.hu/ > > > > with their datasets, programs, papers, etc. But the bit you are probably > > most itching to see "the top 100 controversial articles in English" > (ranked > > from most controversial down) is: > > > > http://wwm.phy.bme.hu/Top100/top100_en_wiki.txt > > > > with good ol' "George W. Bush" heading up the list. > > Interesting also that John Howard seems to be the only Australian entry. > > Brian. > > > If you want to know more about the methodology or see the top 10 across > 10 > > languages (article titles translating in English for your viewing > pleasure > > where a corresponding English article is available to provide a > translated > > title), you can access the PDF for the paper via: > > > > > > > > http://ssrn.com/abstract=2269392 > > > > > > > > There is also this nifty real-time visualisation you can view (and play > > with) which enables you understand the relative controversial nature > across > > up to 4 languages. It seems "Jesus" and "Homeopathy" are the most > > controversial across English, French, German and Spanish, while "George W > > Bush" is as controversial for English-speakers as "Falkland Islands" is > for > > Spanish speakers and "Croatia" is for German speakers - the French > meanwhile > > are fighting over the untranslatable "Segolene Royal" (for which no > > corresponding article exists on en.WP -- can any French speaker assist > with > > the translation?). > > > > > > > > > http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~aspoerri/searchCrystal/searchCrystal_editWars_A > > LL.html > > > > > > > > which is mentioned in the paper above but does not appear to be linked > from > > the website. > > > > > > > > There is a "Tour" link in the top left hand corner if you want to know > how > > to drive the visualisation. It looks like hours of fun! > > > > > > > > Kerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Brian Salter-Duke bd...@wikimedia.org.au > Active on English Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki, Wikiversity, and others. > [[User:Bduke]] is single user account with en:Wikipedia main account. > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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