Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms

by: Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas, Katherine Hollenbach

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007 (2007), pp. 272-287.

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Abstract

To investigate how participants in peer production systems allocate their time, we examine editing activity on Wikipedia, the well-known online encyclopedia. To analyze the huge edit histories of the site’s administrators we introduce a visualization technique, the chromogram, that can display very long textual sequences through a simple color coding scheme. Using chromograms we describe a set of characteristic editing patterns. In addition to confirming known patterns, such reacting to vandalism events, we identify a distinct class of organized systematic activities. We discuss how both reactive and systematic strategies shed light on self-allocation of effort in Wikipedia, and how they may pertain to other peer-production systems.

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TY - CHAP ID - Viegas2007d L3 - citeulike-article-id:1825065 TI - Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms JF - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007 SP - 272 EP - 287 N2 - To investigate how participants in peer production systems allocate their time, we examine editing activity on Wikipedia, the well-known online encyclopedia. To analyze the huge edit histories of the site’s administrators we introduce a visualization technique, the chromogram, that can display very long textual sequences through a simple color coding scheme. Using chromograms we describe a set of characteristic editing patterns. In addition to confirming known patterns, such reacting to vandalism events, we identify a distinct class of organized systematic activities. We discuss how both reactive and systematic strategies shed light on self-allocation of effort in Wikipedia, and how they may pertain to other peer-production systems. KW - wikipedia AU - Wattenberg, Martin AU - Viégas, Fernanda AU - Hollenbach, Katherine PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7_23 ER -

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