Staying in the loop: Structure and dynamics of Wikipedia's breaking news collaborations

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Keegan, Brian ^a   Gergle, Darren ^a   Contractor, Noshir ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breaking news; collaboration; high tempo collaboration; multigraph; network analysis; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

BREAKING NEWS; COLLABORATION; HIGH-TEMPO COLLABORATION; MULTIGRAPHS; WIKIPEDIA;

DISASTERS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84877592511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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