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Edit wars in Wikipedia (1107.3689v2)
Published 19 Jul 2011 in stat.ML, cs.DL, physics.data-an, and physics.soc-ph
Abstract: We present a new, efficient method for automatically detecting severe conflicts `edit wars' in Wikipedia and evaluate this method on six different language WPs. We discuss how the number of edits, reverts, the length of discussions, the burstiness of edits and reverts deviate in such pages from those following the general workflow, and argue that earlier work has significantly over-estimated the contentiousness of the Wikipedia editing process.