Drawing a data-driven portrait of Wikipedia editors

WikiSym 2012 Conference Proceedings - 8th Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  West, Robert ^a   Weber, Ingmar ^b   Castillo, Carlos ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

editors; expertise; web usage; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EXPERTISE; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; POPULAR CULTURES; USER'S INTEREST; WEB USAGE; WEB USERS; WIKIPEDIA;

DIGITAL STORAGE; FILE EDITORS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84877589163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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