Conflict and Computation on Wikipedia: A Finite-State Machine Analysis of Editor Interactions

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simon DeDeo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-07-01
Series:Future Internet
Subjects:
conflict
cooperation
finite-state machine
tit-for-tat
critical transition
hidden Markov model
memory
social norms
knowledge commons
Wikipedia
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31

Internet

http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/8/3/31

Similar Items