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Wikipedia Knowledge Community Modeling

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Synonyms

Collective intelligence; Knowledge management; Online collaboration; Online community; Virtual team; Wisdom of crowds

Glossary

Knowledge Community:

A virtual community on the Internet, whose participants exchange, share, create, evaluate, teach, or learn knowledge

Wikipedia:

A free, collaboratively edited, and multilingual Internet encyclopedia supported by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, containing currently 22 million articles (over 4 million in English)

MBSN:

(Multidimensional Behavioral Social Network) A collection of social network that share a subset of nodes but have different edges with various interpretations

Definition

The Wikipedia knowledge community is a knowledge community of Wikipedia editors. The Wikipedia itself is a multilingual project, with over 280 language versions currently available. For this reason, the Wikipedia knowledge community can be thought of as composed by knowledge communities of editors of the various language versions. However, editors...

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Michal Jankowski-Lorek, Piotr Turek & Adam Wierzbicki

  2. Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

    Lukasz Ostrowski

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Jankowski-Lorek, M., Ostrowski, L., Turek, P., Wierzbicki, A. (2014). Wikipedia Knowledge Community Modeling. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_269

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