WikiWarMonitor

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WikiWarMonitor is a website that is dedicated to the research of so-called Edit-Wars ( German  editing wars ) of Wikipedia . It was created by a group of researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute , Rutgers University and the Central European University .

background

WikiWarMonitor was part of a project called ICTeCollective (an abbreviation for ICT-enabled Collective Social Behavior) and was implemented from 2009 to 2012 by the research and development information service CORDIS of the European Commission in FP7 (7th Research Framework Program), Research Area Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), of the open-topic program focus for new and future technologies (FET-Open).

According to CORDIS, the aim of ICT research - in FP7 (of which ICTeCollective and WikiWarMonitor are part) of the European Union - is to “improve the competence of European industry as well as enable Europe to master and control future developments in these technologies design so that the requirements of his society and economy are met. "

Investigation results

WikiWarMonitor published a list of the 100 most controversial Wikipedia articles in 13 different language versions of Wikipedia, which was determined using an algorithm . One of the research results was that the editing wars are different in each language version. In the Spanish language Wikipedia are z. For example, football topics are particularly controversial, while the French-language Wikipedia is more about science and philosophy. In general, however, they are religious or political issues. While most of the controversial topics are language-dependent, there are also articles that are controversial in all of the versions examined.

Anselm Spoerri from Rutgers University also illustrated - with the searchCrystal he developed - the edit wars in the different language versions of Wikipedia.

Top 100 of the most controversial articles on German-language Wikipedia

The list of the top 100 most controversial articles on German-language Wikipedia compiled by WikiWarMonitor (as of March 2010):

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c WikiWarMonitor , accessed on July 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ ICTeCollective Research Publications. (No longer available online.) In: Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science BECS, Aalto University . Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia PLOS ONE accessed on July 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ The last word. (No longer available online.) In: C't . Archived from the original on July 27, 2013 ; accessed on August 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Conflicts in Wikipedia now Modeled by statistical physicists Phys.org, accessed on July 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ Wikipedia is editorial warzone, says study (Archived) NBCNews.com, accessed July 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ Mathematical model 'describes' how online conflicts are resolved. (No longer available online.) In: University of Oxford . Archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  8. ↑ ICT in FP7: Objectives and Overview. (No longer available online.) In: CORDIS . Archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Researchers Reveal The World's Most Controversial Wikipedia Articles , Business Insider , accessed July 28, 2014.
  10. ↑ Os 100 artigos que incendeiam guerras na Wikipedia. (No longer available online.) In: Exame. Archived from the original on August 10, 2013 ; accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Las guerras de Wikipedia BBC Mundo, accessed July 28, 2014.
  12. ↑ Wikipedia: Hit parade of the controversial topics science.ORF.at , accessed on August 22, 2018.
  13. ↑ Research - Anselm Spoerri , accessed on August 22, 2018.
  14. ↑ The science of Wikipedia flame wars Washington Post , accessed on 22 August 2018th

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