Profiling wikipedia contributors
Wikipedia is a large web based, free online encyclopedia of various articles where everyone with internet access can contribute and edit articles collaboratively. This community of contributors is known as Wikipedians. Visitors or contributors do not need specialized qualifications to contr...
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| Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39886 |
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| author | Kaushik, Sahil. |
| author2 | Sun Aixin |
| author_facet | Sun Aixin Kaushik, Sahil. |
| author_sort | Kaushik, Sahil. |
| collection | NTU |
| description | Wikipedia is a large web based, free online encyclopedia of various articles where
everyone with internet access can contribute and edit articles collaboratively. This
community of contributors is known as Wikipedians. Visitors or contributors do not need
specialized qualifications to contribute to an article. This means that people of all ages and
cultural and social backgrounds can write Wikipedia articles. As the number of articles and
their contributors are increasingly growing at a fast rate, the number of disputes occurring
among the contributors is also increasing.
This means that articles that are contributed may not be completely accurate and are based
on the contributor’s beliefs which may differ and conflict with the opinions of others. Such
articles with controversial content due to disputes where contributors are not able to come
to a mutual/common conclusion is what this project aims to work on.
This project will identify controversial articles in Wikipedia and study the contribution
behavior of contributors in Wikipedia by trying to understand the possible patterns sharing
among Wikipedia contributors. |
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| format | Final Year Project (FYP) |
| id | ntu-10356/39886 |
| institution | Nanyang Technological University |
| language | English |
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| publishDate | 2010 |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/398862023-03-03T20:46:20Z Profiling wikipedia contributors Kaushik, Sahil. Sun Aixin School of Computer Engineering Centre for Advanced Information Systems DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval Wikipedia is a large web based, free online encyclopedia of various articles where everyone with internet access can contribute and edit articles collaboratively. This community of contributors is known as Wikipedians. Visitors or contributors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute to an article. This means that people of all ages and cultural and social backgrounds can write Wikipedia articles. As the number of articles and their contributors are increasingly growing at a fast rate, the number of disputes occurring among the contributors is also increasing. This means that articles that are contributed may not be completely accurate and are based on the contributor’s beliefs which may differ and conflict with the opinions of others. Such articles with controversial content due to disputes where contributors are not able to come to a mutual/common conclusion is what this project aims to work on. This project will identify controversial articles in Wikipedia and study the contribution behavior of contributors in Wikipedia by trying to understand the possible patterns sharing among Wikipedia contributors. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) 2010-06-07T08:52:10Z 2010-06-07T08:52:10Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39886 en Nanyang Technological University 49 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval Kaushik, Sahil. Profiling wikipedia contributors |
| title | Profiling wikipedia contributors |
| title_full | Profiling wikipedia contributors |
| title_fullStr | Profiling wikipedia contributors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Profiling wikipedia contributors |
| title_short | Profiling wikipedia contributors |
| title_sort | profiling wikipedia contributors |
| topic | DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39886 |
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