Conference proceeding
rv you're dumb: identifying discarded work in Wiki article history
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on wikis and open collaboration, pp 1-10
25 Oct 2009
Abstract
Wiki systems typically display article history as a linear sequence of revisions in chronological order. This representation hides deeper relationships among the revisions, such as which earlier revision provided most of the content for a later revision, or when a revision effectively reverses the changes made by a prior revision. These relationships are valuable in understanding what happened between editors in conflict over article content. We present methods for detecting when a revision discards the work of one or more other revisions, a means of visualizing these relationships in-line with existing history views, and a computational method for detecting discarded work. We show through a series of examples that these tools can aid mediators of wiki content disputes by making salient the structure of the ongoing conflict. Further, the computational tools provide a means of determining whether or not a revision has been accepted by the community of editors surrounding the article.
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Details
- Title
- rv you're dumb
- Creators
- Michael Ekstrand - University of Minnesota SystemJohn Riedl - University of Minnesota System
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on wikis and open collaboration, pp 1-10
- Series
- WikiSym '09
- Publisher
- ACM
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-74049113727
- Other Identifier
- 991021818386704721