Saggi & Papers
Viégas Fernanda B., Martin Wattenberg, Kushal Dave, 2004
Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors
with history flow Visualizations
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf
The Internet has fostered an unconventional and powerful
style of collaboration: “wiki” web sites, where every visitor
has the power to become an editor. In this paper we
investigate the dynamics of Wikipedia, a prominent, thriving
wiki. We make three contributions. First, we introduce a new
exploratory data analysis tool, the history flow visualization,
which is effective in revealing patterns within the wiki
context and which we believe will be useful in other
collaborative situations as well. Second, we discuss
several collaboration patterns highlighted by this
visualization tool and corroborate them with statistical
analysis. Third, we discuss the implications of these
patterns for the design and governance of online
collaborative social spaces. We focus on the relevance
of authorship, the value of community surveillance in
ameliorating antisocial behavior, and how authors with
competing perspectives negotiate their differences.
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