rv you're dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History
Submitted by abrandt on Tue, 2009-07-21 11:58.
| Publication Type | | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | | 2009 |
| Authors | | Ekstrand, M.D.; Riedl, J.T. |
| Conference Name | | The Fifth International Symposium on Wiki's and Open Collaboration |
| Conference Location | | Orlando, FL |
| Conference Start Date | | 10/25/2009 |
| Abstract | | Wiki systems typically display article history as a linear sequence of revisions in chronological order. This presentation hides deeper relationships among the revisions, such as which earlier revision provided most of the content for a later revision, or when a revision eectively reverses the changes made by a prior revision. These relationships are valuable in understanding what happened between editors in conflict over article content. We present methods for detecting when a revision discards the work of one or more other revisions, a means of visualizing these relationships in-line with existing history views, and a computational method for detecting discarded work. We show through a series of examples that these tools can aid mediators of wiki content disputes by making salient the structure of the ongoing conflict. Further, the computational tools provide a means of determining whether or not a revision has been accepted by the community of editors surrounding the article.
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