[Upd-discuss] Paper: Measuring Wikipedia, Stockholm, 14 April 2005

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

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http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003610/
 
Measuring Wikipedia

Voss, Jakob (2005) Measuring Wikipedia. In Proceedings 10th International
Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and
Informetrics 2005, Stockholm.
	

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Abstract


Wikipedia, an international project that uses Wiki software to
collaboratively create an encyclopaedia, is becoming more and more
popular. Everyone can directly edit articles and every edit is recorded.
The version
history of all articles is freely available and allows a multitude of
examinations. This paper gives an overview on Wikipedia research.
Wikipedia’s fundamental components, i.e. articles, authors, edits, and
links, as well as content and quality are analysed. Possibilities of
research are explored including examples and first results. Several
characteristics that are found in Wikipedia, such as exponential growth
and scale-free networks are already known in other context. However the
Wiki architecture also possesses some intrinsic specialities. General
trends
are measured that are typical for all Wikipedias but vary between
languages in detail.

Keywords:	Wikipedia, Wiki, Statistics, Informetrics, Webometrics,
Cybermetrics
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > IB. Content
analysis (A and I, class.)
B. Information use and sociology of information. > BB. Bibliometric
methods.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources.
I. Information treatment for information services > IG. Information
presentation: hypertext, hypermedia.
ID Code:	3610
Deposited By:	Voss, Jakob
Deposited On:	14 April 2005
All fields: :	Show all fields

ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151


		
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