%0 Conference Paper %1 Priedhorsky07creating %A Priedhorsky, Reid %A Chen, Jilin %A Lam, Shyong (Tony) K. %A Panciera, Katherine %A Terveen, Loren %A Riedl, John %B GROUP '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work %C New York, NY, USA %D 2007 %I ACM %K WikipediaSNA contribution edit-longevity edits longevity measure quantitative views wikipedia %P 259--268 %R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1316624.1316663 %T Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1316624.1316663 %X Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is viewed. Using several datasets, including recent logs of all article views, we show that an overwhelming majority of the viewed words were written by frequent editors and that this majority is increasing. Similarly, using the same impact measure, we show that the probability of a typical article view being damaged is small but increasing, and we present empirically grounded classes of damage. Finally, we make policy recommendations for Wikipedia and other wikis in light of these findings. %@ 978-1-59593-845-9

@inproceedings{Priedhorsky07creating, abstract = {Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is viewed. Using several datasets, including recent logs of all article views, we show that an overwhelming majority of the viewed words were written by frequent editors and that this majority is increasing. Similarly, using the same impact measure, we show that the probability of a typical article view being damaged is small but increasing, and we present empirically grounded classes of damage. Finally, we make policy recommendations for Wikipedia and other wikis in light of these findings.}, added-at = {2010-07-06T10:43:06.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Priedhorsky, Reid and Chen, Jilin and Lam, Shyong (Tony) K. and Panciera, Katherine and Terveen, Loren and Riedl, John}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2715f871bc62d3a5dc4fa1b12be000c5f/davids}, booktitle = {GROUP '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work}, description = {Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1316624.1316663}, interhash = {27da36f583697773a419a663622f38e6}, intrahash = {715f871bc62d3a5dc4fa1b12be000c5f}, isbn = {978-1-59593-845-9}, keywords = {WikipediaSNA contribution edit-longevity edits longevity measure quantitative views wikipedia}, location = {Sanibel Island, Florida, USA}, pages = {259--268}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2010-07-21T16:04:29.000+0200}, title = {Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1316624.1316663}, year = 2007 }