What Did They Do? Deriving High-Level Edit Histories in Wikis

What Did They Do? Deriving High-Level Edit Histories in Wikis
Author(s)	Peter Kin-Fong Fong, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai
Published in	WikiSym
Date	2010
Keyword(s)	Wiki, revision history, text differencing, edit categorization, edit significance
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What Did They Do? Deriving High-Level Edit Histories in Wikis is a 2010 conference paper written in English by Peter Kin-Fong Fong, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai and published in WikiSym.

Abstract

Wikis have become a popular online collaboration platform. Their open nature can, and indeed does, lead to a large number of editors of their articles, who create a large number of revisions. These editors make various types of edits on an article, from minor ones such as spelling correction and text formatting, to major revisions such as new content introduction, whole article re-structuring, etc. Given the enormous number of revisions, it is difficult to identify the type of contributions made in these revisions through human observation alone. Moreover, different types of edits imply different edit significance. A revision that introduces new content is arguably more significant than a revision making a few spelling corrections. By taking edit types into account, better measurements of edit significance can be produced. This paper proposes a method for categorizing and presenting edits in an intuitive way and with a flexible measure of significance of each individual editor’s contributions.

References

This publication has 11 references. Only those references related to wikis are included here:

• "A content-driven reputation system for the Wikipedia"

• "Measuring Author Contributions to the Wikipedia"

• "New method using Wikis and forums to evaluate individual contributions in cooperative work while promoting experiential learning: results from preliminary experience"

• "Wiki: Web Collaboration" (create it!) [search]

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• "Organizing the vision for web 2.0: a study of the evolution of the concept in Wikipedia"

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• "Structuring wiki revision history"

• "A Method for Measuring Co-authorship Relationships in MediaWiki"

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• Visualizing author contribution statistics in Wikis using an edit significance metric
• What We Know About Wikipedia: A Review of the Literature Analyzing the Project(s)

External links

• http://www.slideshare.net/robertba/wiki-sym2010-peterrobert
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/weha/

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