Conflict and Computation on Wikipedia: A Finite-State Machine Analysis of Editor Interactions
What is the boundary between a vigorous argument and a breakdown of relations? What drives a group of individuals across it? Taking Wikipedia as a test case, we use a hidden Markov model to approximate the computational structure and social grammar of more than a decade of cooperation and conflict a...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-07-01
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Series: | Future Internet |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31 |