Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia

WWW'09 - Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 731-740

  Brandes, Ulrik ^a   Kenis, Patrick ^b   Lerner, Jürgen ^a   Van Raaij, Denise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Edit network; Governance; Network visualization; Social network analysis; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL NETWORKS; GOVERNANCE; NETWORK MODELS; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; QUALITY LABELS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL NETWORKS; WIKIPEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70849106743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1526709.1526808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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